you can hear the sound of the quiet now
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 10:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_hydraThe castle's very different when there aren't many people in it.
It's quieter and bigger than ever, and the common room stays tidier for longer.
Instead of eating at the Slytherin table, everyone eats in the same place, one long table in the centre of the room, but still a bit spread out, with Slytherins and Ravenclaws and the other houses on their own sides, but talking more to each other than they usually would at mealtime.
The food seems better, too, I wonder if that's because there are fewer people for the elves to cook for?
A lot of the other children who've stayed behind are people I don't know.
I saw a ginger haired boy, though, he must've have been a Weasley, and then I thought I saw another one, too, but I didn't see all of them.
I wonder why some would stay at the castle and not the others?
Maybe they were ordered to stay, but I wonder why.
Just wondering, not asking.
It was nice to read about the Malfoy party, it was always the best part of the year.
Last year there was a gingerbread house big enough to walk in, and a fountain of hot cocoa to drink from.
I wonder how hard it is to make a fountain of hot cocoa?
I wouldn't mind trying.
Harry, did you notice how many owls have come for Draco?
He hasn't opened any of the parcels yet, though, I'm not sure that he wants to.
Maybe if we said we would help him, he'd open them?
Because it still doesn't feel like Christmas yet at all, and there's only a few days left to feel it.
It's quieter and bigger than ever, and the common room stays tidier for longer.
Instead of eating at the Slytherin table, everyone eats in the same place, one long table in the centre of the room, but still a bit spread out, with Slytherins and Ravenclaws and the other houses on their own sides, but talking more to each other than they usually would at mealtime.
The food seems better, too, I wonder if that's because there are fewer people for the elves to cook for?
A lot of the other children who've stayed behind are people I don't know.
I saw a ginger haired boy, though, he must've have been a Weasley, and then I thought I saw another one, too, but I didn't see all of them.
I wonder why some would stay at the castle and not the others?
Maybe they were ordered to stay, but I wonder why.
Just wondering, not asking.
It was nice to read about the Malfoy party, it was always the best part of the year.
Last year there was a gingerbread house big enough to walk in, and a fountain of hot cocoa to drink from.
I wonder how hard it is to make a fountain of hot cocoa?
I wouldn't mind trying.
Harry, did you notice how many owls have come for Draco?
He hasn't opened any of the parcels yet, though, I'm not sure that he wants to.
Maybe if we said we would help him, he'd open them?
Because it still doesn't feel like Christmas yet at all, and there's only a few days left to feel it.
