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[wormtail_petey]

How often to you have to lose things before it's considered a habit? You know, when someone says 'that fellow has a habit of losing things'. Like, if you lost things once, it wouldn't be a habit, but if you lost things twenty times, then that's a habit, but what about in between that?

Mum got me a new old broom and it's pretty good. The varnish

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[prongs_deer]

She stripped the varnish off? What?

[wormtail_petey]

I know, it's pants, but it still flies mostly alright. Not much I could do, really, you know my Mum when it comes to getting things clean.

[prongs_deer]

That's criminal. Does she realize you spend ten months a year in a thousand-year-old building with draughts and other people and shared loos? That isn't sanitary? I mean, she does realize you live with me and Padfoot, yeah? Moony's clean, but come-bloody-on, mate.

[wormtail_petey]

In Mum's eyes you can do no wrong, so I'm all set there. She's got this idea that you're a good influence on me, and she always talks about 'that nice Potter boy'.

And yeah, she's always going on about how Dumbledore should do something about the hygiene in Hogwarts, but I said to her once that no one had died of bad hygiene at Hogwarts ever and she about took my eyebrows off, so I just let her get on with it. I can probably re-varnish the broom maybe.

[kinnamon]

Well - I suppose it depends on what kind of things you're losing. What are you losing?

[wormtail_petey]

I lost my jeans, but then I found them and then I lost my shirt, but Mum had it and I lost part of the servicing kit for my broomstick. Does that count as a habit, do you think?