A R I S T A

[alt_selwyn]

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I LIK PI
I LIK SWETS
I LIK MI POFSKEN
I LIK BONES

HULLO

ARISTA VIOLET SELWYN

Comments

[alt_lucius]

I think you should give this book back to your daddy, sweeting. Can you do that?

[alt_selwyn]

HELLO!!!!!!
!!!!

I LIK U

[alt_selwyn]

AR U MI DADDYZ
FRND?

[alt_lucius]

Yes, I am. Is he with you now?

[alt_selwyn]

NO

[alt_lucius]

Go and get him, will you?

[alt_selwyn]

MUMMY SED
DADDY IS BUSY DONT BODDER HIM

[alt_lucius]

In that case, tell your mummy that one of daddy's friends wants him to read his book, please.

[alt_selwyn]

Thank you for your attempts to remedy the situation.

[alt_lucius]

Not at all.

But do keep them away from your journal. If she's terribly fascinated by writing to a book that writes back, perhaps Chloe will oblige her.

[alt_selwyn]

Now there's a good thought. Though Chloe does a great deal of shopping by journal these days; she might be concerned that Arista might accidentally order us a crate of imported pineapples and we'd find ourselves stuck with the bill.

It's a shame they don't get them until they start at Hogwarts -- naturally that seems eons away when you're six.

[alt_lucius]

Indeed. To say nothing of the injustice of not having one's own journal when one's father is in charge of the departments that issue and monitor them.

[alt_selwyn]

'I can hardly bend the rules when I'm the one who's supposed to enforce them properly' is a singularly unconvincing argument to a six-year-old. Alas.

[alt_pansy]

You have beautiful printing, Arista!

[alt_lucius]

Don't encourage her.

[alt_pansy]

Oh, I have the feeling she doesn't need any.

Encouragement, I mean.

[alt_selwyn]

Oh for heaven's sake.

[alt_lucius]

Ah, you've recovered your borrowed property, then?

[alt_selwyn]

Indeed.

How utterly embarrassing.

[alt_lucius]

Could have been worse.

There's been an incident at the Quidditch match this afternoon. I've informed the other Governors and Our Lord but you were apparently otherwise occupied. The Dementors encroached upon the pitch and had to be subdued.

Marx is on his way - he wasn't on shift to-day - but the creatures are being immediately removed to Crieff for the time being.

[alt_selwyn]

I was meeting with Hopkirk. Rather appalling to hear about the Dementors, who is it who's there managing them? And who or what will be protecting the school if they're being removed? Not that they've done a particularly effective job, considering what happened on Halloween.

Private Message to Dominic Selwyn

[alt_lucius]

Marx is the team leader, but the enforcer on-call to-day was named Fraser.

Marx's theory is that the creatures were grown too hungry. He's sending them to Crieff to fatten them up. With Fraser as a taster. Believe me, Raz, Minerva and I were all livid.

He'll switch out the rest of the team to other assignments and remind the replacements that the Dementors are to be monitored at all times. He's also moving them back from Hogsmeade when they return: It's unlikely Snape is still in the area, but if he is, he's likely in the surrounding countryside, which they are to scour for signs. Well past time, if you ask me.

I don't mind saying we're lucky the boy didn't die. Even with twenty wands - mine and Narcissa's included - trying to catch him and get him safely to ground, the strong winds made for a bad landing.

Razzer is beside himself. And no wonder. At least there's no question of Harry's returning to Quidditch. His broom was quite destroyed by the Whomping Willow. Something of a blessing in disguise, I think. I've already taken care of making sure Cumulus does not immediately volunteer to replace it.

Remains to be seen whether Draco will be allowed to continue if Harry does not.

Re: Private Message to Dominic Selwyn

[alt_selwyn]

I imagine he'll be dismayed about the quidditch. Most boys his age would be. But it's no joke, protecting a boy on a broom sixty feet up. And I don't like to imagine the fallout if anything of a permanent nature happened to young Marvolo.

Re: Private Message to Dominic Selwyn

[alt_lucius]

Yes, he'll be sullen, no doubt. When he wakes up, that is. It's the sort of thing that's important to a teenager.

I remember Tony, Ari and I certainly never expected to play professionally, but it was still a wrench when I had to resign from the side my final year. But there was no way round it, in the end. Something had to give, after my father's death - and it wasn't going to be resigning as Head Boy or suspending any of the family's interests.

Harry may resent this decision now, but he'll survive. And that, of course, is the point.

[alt_selwyn]

And bones. I can make sense of the one where she's talking about her puffskein but bones? What on earth did she --

BUNNIES

Merlin.

[alt_lucius]

It was patently obvious she was simply scribbling. Keep her away from your walls, and if Draco's example is anything typical, any first-edition grimoires heavy on illumination.

She's six now, isn't that so?

[alt_selwyn]

Yes, she's six. Keeping her away from the walls will be quite a trick. Fortunately our nanny is very good with the 'scourgify' spell. Your point about illuminated grimoires is well-taken, I'll have the housekeeper find some high shelves for those tomorrow.