Back with the family
Jun. 13th, 2010 07:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_ernieIt's nice being home again. Everything's a bit different, like things have moved and I wasn't here to see them, so it's a surprise to me, but to everyone else it happened ages ago.
Mum and Dad are starting to get everything ready for when the babies come, so there's stuff everywhere in boxes and just flying around as it gets moved from one room to another. Dad keeps saying Mum's only allowed to help if she does all the lifting with her wand, and Mum says, "I'm not an invalid, I'm just pregnant, I can still lift things!" But then she gets tired and has to have a sit down, so I think Dad's got a point. Sorry Mum!
She's really huge too! We're not supposed to say that, but I don't see why when it's true. It's not a bad thing, it's just because there are babies in there, two of them as well so they take up a lot of space. They did the charm to tell what they are yesterday - they waited until I was home so we could all be together for it. It's one boy and one girl, so we're all really happy about that. I want to name them Helga and Hufflepuff, but Mum and Dad both said NO at exactly the same time, so I'll have to think of something else.
The last few weeks of school were okay, and I'm glad obviously that everyone's okay again and that Marvolo killed the monster, but it's a bit annoying that we didn't get to do the exams. I mean, I know everyone else is happy about it, mostly, but I worked really hard for ages and ages to get a good score, and then in the end they just gave us an overall sort of mark based on the whole year, so I was in pretty much the same place as last year. I know being in the top 10 is good and I shouldn't complain, but I was hoping to do a bit better than before, by putting loads of work into the exams themselves. And then they didn't even happen.
Oh well.
My brother Pip is coming up to school in September. I can't believe it! He's quite excited, but I think he's also a bit unhappy that the babies being born around the same time will mean Mum might not be able to see us off at the station, because she'll probably be at home or in the hospital with them, if they've been born by then. I'll have a chat with him later, I reckon.
Mum and Dad are starting to get everything ready for when the babies come, so there's stuff everywhere in boxes and just flying around as it gets moved from one room to another. Dad keeps saying Mum's only allowed to help if she does all the lifting with her wand, and Mum says, "I'm not an invalid, I'm just pregnant, I can still lift things!" But then she gets tired and has to have a sit down, so I think Dad's got a point. Sorry Mum!
She's really huge too! We're not supposed to say that, but I don't see why when it's true. It's not a bad thing, it's just because there are babies in there, two of them as well so they take up a lot of space. They did the charm to tell what they are yesterday - they waited until I was home so we could all be together for it. It's one boy and one girl, so we're all really happy about that. I want to name them Helga and Hufflepuff, but Mum and Dad both said NO at exactly the same time, so I'll have to think of something else.
The last few weeks of school were okay, and I'm glad obviously that everyone's okay again and that Marvolo killed the monster, but it's a bit annoying that we didn't get to do the exams. I mean, I know everyone else is happy about it, mostly, but I worked really hard for ages and ages to get a good score, and then in the end they just gave us an overall sort of mark based on the whole year, so I was in pretty much the same place as last year. I know being in the top 10 is good and I shouldn't complain, but I was hoping to do a bit better than before, by putting loads of work into the exams themselves. And then they didn't even happen.
Oh well.
My brother Pip is coming up to school in September. I can't believe it! He's quite excited, but I think he's also a bit unhappy that the babies being born around the same time will mean Mum might not be able to see us off at the station, because she'll probably be at home or in the hospital with them, if they've been born by then. I'll have a chat with him later, I reckon.
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Date: 2010-06-13 02:27 pm (UTC)I can tell you it'll be odd having your little brother at school next year. I mean, we spent all this year worrying all the time about Ginny, trying to be sure she didn't get hurt or lost or whatever. And even so, she got herself in a pretty terrible mess. But maybe you'll be lucky and nothing like that'll happen to Pip.
Anywiz, I've got to go now. Mum and Dad are taking me to Ollivander's today to buy a wand. I can't wait to see what I can do with a wand that actually works! I'm taking the old one along cause Dad thinks the wandmakers might want to have a look at it. I don't reckon they can fix it, though. None of the teachers thought it could be fixed when I asked.
So, yeah. Have fun being home!
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Date: 2010-06-13 05:36 pm (UTC)I think Pip will be okay. He usually just gets on with stuff on his own, without having to be looked after much. I'll keep an eye out for him though, of course.
Good luck with your wand!
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Date: 2010-06-14 03:26 am (UTC)I don't know if it was more odd or less odd being in different houses than if we'd been in the same one. In some ways more, I guess, because all of a sudden I didn't really know any of his friends, when we'd always sort of played with the same people when we were little.
On the other hand, it was sort of, well, restful, having him in a different House--and as he's in your House you probably know what I mean!
And you've got to admit that what happened with your sister was sort of unusual, so I don't think Ernie really needs to worry. Well, unless something as mad as what happened with the Chamber happens again next term.