Taking a bit of a break from this canvas thing. I've begun restoring bits and pieces of it, similar to the way Muggle paintings are done. The charmwork's very confusing and doesn't make much sense, since when restoring a Wizard painting you generally don't have a reference and there is much more involved in it than simply paint; you've got not only ( Read more... )

The past few days several portraits were taken down for repair, from stray jinxes and basic disembowelment via fist-and-foot. One of them was actually quite interesting, but he's now got a rather large hole through his chest and isn't much for chatting. Professor Flitwick is going to see what he can do to patch them up before sending them out to be ( Read more... )

This past week and a half has been murder. Ever since the last few days of the hols, it was like the beginning some sort of anxiety fest, starting with the waking up one morning with a newt sunbathing off of my cheek (some at my house saw it fit to populate the area with wildlife. This realisation began that same morning with a bowl of oatmeal, ( Read more... )

This week is going to be about getting back into the habit of getting out of bed at a decent hour again. Over the hols I started waking up before it was light outside, and wouldn't be able to get any rest until around midnight at the earliest. Michael mentioned something about anxiety, but that's doesn't seem right somehow. In any case, that left ( Read more... )

On my way down to the Great Hall this morning, I got rather distracted watching a Slytherin-Peeves bribery gone astray and ran right into one of the Prefects attempting the impossible with the poltergeist. Now, it's either me, or her, because for whatever reason, her mouth (which was hanging open ready to duct a couple points from me no doubt) ( Read more... )

I signed up for some free-of-charge Wizard Psychology newsletter last trip to Hogsmeade, mostly out of curiosity. They occasionally send texts along with an edition, since there isn't much you can go over in a Psychology newsletter without rabbiting. The half of it's rubbish. Most of the critics listed on the backs of the books I've gotten either ( Read more... )

It's a chore even to fight for room to pen a bit about this, but someone has got to give light to how it is over in the Ravenclaw end. Anthony looks about glued to Cho off to the left, Michael hasn't been seen since this morning, Morag is subtly rebelling I think and I don't know where Amanda, Lisa or Luna are (don't see any lion heads, either, but ( Read more... )

For a long time, I wasn't aware of what old people smelt like ( Read more... )

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Apparently it's someone who hasn't got a clue what a broomstick is used for. Or the value of a Firebolt.

I vote off the lot of Quidditch-enthusiasts.