I am an excellent gift-giver.

[pure_nobility]

YES, it's a platypus, and YES, it is pink. And NO, I cannot procure you one, Brown and Patil of Gryffindor. Nor can I tell you where I procured the creature. It's a secret, if you want to know the truth. Some of us have connections and would take care not to lose them

Comments

[twerpin]

Why, Malfoy, are you writing about platypi and animagi and other pluralisations when there are NEWTs to be revising for?

[pure_nobility]

Yes, I know there are NEWTs. I am reminded of NEWTs every time I open up this book and see someone like you fretting over them. What is your point?

[twerpin]

Don't you need to fret over them like everyone else?

[pure_nobility]

No. I have no plans to expend more energy, fretting or time towards NEWTs than any other exams.

[purepansy]

DRACO MALFOY, I SWEAR I SHALL LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER!!!!

OOO, I LOVE MY PLATYPUS, AND I'VE DECIDED TO NAME HIM PING!!!! PING THE PLATYPUS!!!! YOU ARE RIGHT, HE IS EVER SO FETCHING!!!! AND I DON'T THINK PING'S DUCKBILL IS USELESS -- WHY, HE CAN FLIP HOTCAKES BETTER THAN ANY ELF IN THE KITCHENS!!!!

DRACO, I'VE DECIDED SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT, AND I'VE YOU TO THANK FOR GIVING ME THE IDEA. I'VE DECIDED THAT, LIKE THE PLATYPUS, I SHALL BEAR OUR CHILDREN IN EGG FORM, TO LATER BE NURSED BY MYSELF AFTER THEY HATCH!!!! ISN'T THAT BRILLIANT?!?! I THINK PREGNANT WOMEN SEEM SO OFTEN MISERABLE AND THEY WADDLE A LOT, AND I'D RATHER NOT, SO I'M RESEARCHING HOW I MIGHT DO AS THE PLATYPI, AND OPT FOR THE EGG!!!! AREN'T YOU EXCITED?!?!

[pure_nobility]

Well, I'm glad you like the platypus. Ping, I mean. Though I had a very strong suspicion that you would, of course.

Eggs?

[purepansy]

DON'T YOU THINK WE WOULD MAKE BEAUTIFUL, CLEVER, AND MARVELOUS PLATYPUS EGGS?!?!

[pure_nobility]

Since I am a boy, and not a platypus, I do not believe I play a part in the egg-making process. However, I am quite aware of how things go when you set your mind to something, and I am sure that yes, you will make beautiful, clever, marvelous Pansy eggs.

[shutterbugaboo]

I would be a gigantic bear. Like a Kodiak or a North American Grizzly. Nobody would see that coming I don't think.

[seventhdaughter]

Alternately, if you were a Kodiak bear, people would see you coming for miles around.

[shutterbugaboo]

I would sneak up on them.... or change at the last second. What would you be?

[seventhdaughter]

You would have to change at the last second. If you snuck up on them as a bear they might at least feel the ground move.

And I don't know. Perhaps a bird of some sort.