After finishing breakfast and dressing, Hooch sits herself down at her writing table and stares out across the grounds. A pale September sun is just breaking through the clouds, dappling the Quidditch pitch with light, throwing the eastern end of it into deep shadow as the stands at that end block the light ( Read more... )

Stretching lazily as she wakes, Hooch decides that breakfast in bed might be very pleasant. She has no duties all weekend; she might as well pamper herself ( Read more... )

Andromeda is woken early by an impatient tapping on the bedroom window. She rolls over, clutching the covers to her, and forces bleary eyes open just enough to check the luminous digits of the clock on Ted's bedside table. 06:00 it says. She groans, and pulls the covers up a little higher. Perhaps if she pulls it above her ears she'll be able to ( Read more... )

Roger dressed in sweats, t-shirt and jacket - clothes that were easily transfigurable- and carried only his heirloom wand and a bit of money. He made his way toward the Leaky Cauldron in the late morning air. Before he reached it, he stepped into a shadowed alley and changed the appearance of his clothes, and face, and hands, and hair ( Read more... )

He tossed and turned. He dreamed of rough yet gentle hands trailing down his back, of soft kisses pressed against his neck, of a deep moan, of being pushed against the bed...he sighed, "Harry". The dream changed, so now the hands were smaller, the kisses were hestiant and there was a girlish laugh behind those kisses. Neville smiled and reached out ( Read more... )

Home again shortly before eight o'clock, Andromeda heads for the kitchen, carrying the small pizza she bought on the way out of the gym. She nibbles on a slice of it while feeding her swimming costume into the washing machine, and then takes the box back out into the lounge to continue eating ( Read more... )

Hooch has learned from Minerva's example. Last weekend's patrolling in Hogsmeade had led to the purchase of a souvenir, a nice bottle of cherry brandy, now decanted from its original bulbous dark brown bottle into a tall thin bottle with a label on it which reads "Vitalise Potion. Ease those tired muscles. Apply after vigorous exercise ( Read more... )

Almost 9 pm. One more hour until - hopefully - a couple of interested students will show up for the announced moon watch ( Read more... )

Tonks enters the restaurant she has owled Kingsley about a few minutes after eight. She has slung her bag over her shoulder, removed her wand and the pencils from her hair and tied it into a plain ponytail.

Once her eyes get accustomed to the light in the room, she starts looking around to see whether Kingsley has already arrived.

Once lessons were over for the day, Hooch begins to pay some thought to the evening ahead of her, and in particular the detention she has meted out to Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom. She visits her office and surveys it with a thoughtful eye. As always, it's a little small and cramped, but if she shuffles that bookcase there along a little bit ( Read more... )