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[hsg]

Christmas was very pleasant. I gave various useful presents (Japanese bowls for my mother, white hat and mittens for my grandfather, etc.) and received all sorts of objects for the flat, as well as a brown skirt and tweedy pullover that make me look positively professorial. (Pity I'll be wearing robes over them.) My grandfather told me all about

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[anonymous]

Of course this begs the question of how your parents feel about Harry, you know.

[hsg]

My parents are very modern people and don't mind about Harry in my bed, if that's what you're asking. My mother never quite approved of Viktor-- she told me once that he didn't know how to be happy-- but Harry has by and large won the stamp of approval from everyone except possibly my grandfather. In truth, though, I've been worrying more about what I think about Ginny and Draco than about what anyone else thinks about me.

[anonymous]

Actually, I thought it begged the question of how on earth a sweater could be tweedy? Jacket, skirt or cap; certainly, but a tweed jumper sounds rather stiff, and although tweedy as an adjective can have wider meanings, one assumes the straightforward 'made of tweed' one applies when it's being used to describe a piece of clothing.

[hsg]

To a person who knits, tweed is not the (often twilled) fabric, but a wool yarn dyed in one colour with flecks of another; such a person might describe a yarn which imitates tweed but is not entirely wool as tweedy.