Thank you for the advice.

I'm sure it was well intentioned, but honestly, that was perhaps the most painful hour of my life. He looked at me as if I was some kind of social leper.

I think I may have made things worse.

Ernest Macmillan.

Anthony. Or do you prefer Goldstein? I'm not sure, and apologise profusely for any offence I've caused already. At any rate, well, you're a Ravenclaw. You know Michael Corner, and considerably better than I do. You may have heard I've been partnered with him - for NEWTs - and although I have no interest in hearing whatever he says about me, be ( Read more... )

How's it hanging?. Well, beyond my lack of cliche as a means of conversation - is that how you manage to be 'socially advantageous'? - I've been working because, you know, that's what some of us do around here.

And it's good to know that even after six years of being a Ravenclaw, you only have a slightly better understanding of academic ( Read more... )

Corner ( Read more... )

Oh.

I couldn't possibly You must be mistaken It's certainly not something I would everHow would you know, anyway? You don't have rounds, and I highly doubt either of your Prefects is liable to gossip about where my gaze lingers. At any rate, even if I did - which I do not - it's hardly any of your business, and besides, Hogwarts has some very ( Read more... )

Language, Michael, please.

I apologise for any upset I may have caused, but honestly, if you're going to make those sorts of accusations about Goldstein, it probably won't help any chance of reconcilliation between you.

You really should calm down a little; I'm sure he's not that bad.

Mr. CornerI do believe we are to be partnered for the NEWT-level project this year. If I am incorrect in this assumption, please do disabuse me of it! At any rate, I have done some preliminary research in the subject area (wizarding history has always been a hobby of mine), and if you wish to discuss our approach, as we rightly should, by all ( Read more... )

JustinI do hope you never refer to his business as 'boring' around my father; but then I rather hope you never have to meet my father. I'm sorry for not providing fodder for your rampant social life, but I'm sure you managed to survive ( Read more... )

My dear boyI was, amazingly enough, at home for all of summer. At least, that was my base of operations, as it were: Father employed me a lot of the time in one or another of his busineses, so I spent most days in shops or offices or travelling - getting a head for the way the world works, as Father put it ( Read more... )

My dear girlI can hardly be seen to be playing favourites. Not that I wish to do so, of course, nor even if I was going to, would it necessarily be yourself, nor even would I be able to tell you if indeed it was ( Read more... )