Private message to Justin

[alt_hydra]

Hi,

I thought you might want to know that I finally found an arithmancy study group today. I didn't ask the Ravenclaws, either, I asked Corey Whitacre, and then he asked Marjoram Montague, and it's only a group of three so far but we were in the library most of the day and I think it will help a lot with exams. Or I hope so, anyway.

And I don't know if you spent all day studying, too, but I know that I definitely needed it. Even though yesterday was a wonderful day, I didn't think about arithmancy even once.

So, I used the French book you gave me to look up some of the things that Coty and Toubon were saying to us. I don't know what to think now. I've heard some Hogwarts students talk that way to each other, but no one's ever said things like that to me... Especially that kind of insinuating talk.

I suppose it's probably too much to hope that my spell will make them stop anytime soon, isn't it?

From,
Hydra

Comments

[alt_hydra]

Cassandra Calderwood, she's in sixth year in my house. Melinda Pennifold made an announcement before breakfast this morning about how students must never, ever use the magic they learn to try to hurt a Professor, so I wonder if it's something to do with that? And I haven't seen Cassandra anywhere...

I don't know what a "pink parchment affair" is, though.

From,
Hydra

[alt_justin]

No, nor I. It sounds like the title of a pennydreadful or one of those ripping detective stories my mum reads. Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, that sort of thing. They've all got titles like that, what? The Mysterious Diamond Affair or The Singing Stone Caper and such. But perhaps you don't have private detectives here, either?

-Justin

[alt_hydra]

I think I've heard of Sherlock Holmes before, but I don't know if those books are still available anywhere. There are some popular detective stories, though, like the Edward Moongallow mysteries, or the Goblin Market series. I haven't read any of them. Maybe I should, but I've got other reading to get to first.

The Pink Parchment Affair sounds rather more like a romance, than a detective story.

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Hydra