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alt_justin) wrote2014-01-02 11:05 am
alt_justin) wrote2014-01-02 11:05 am
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Sally-Anne,
I say, I ought to have asked before: How is your visit with your father going? I just realised last night that last year you were worried about using your journal, what, and this year you've been posting and commenting, so I hope that means it's better this time round.
Of course, I'm sure you could decamp to the Burrow if you needed, or Pansy's, but I'm sure if either weren't available we could make other arrangements if necessary.
One of the chaps here has charmed the window in his office to produce sunshine all the time. He says that if he doesn't get enough sun he feels peaky and depressed so he's fixed it to get something like natural light. I say, I think that's bally well clever.
Oh, I forgot: I told everyone at tea yesterday about the answer I got to my question regarding the wards. I asked, you see, in the most innocent way possible, because we had some Floo calls with Dover and with the secretaries of trade in Belgium and also the Netherlands, so it was perfectly natural to ask why we couldn't open more routes or why it was so dashed difficult to arrange for large shipments to come in through just the one or two gates that are there all the time. And of course, I asked why other countries didn't devise the same sort of protections, to make sure their wizard populations could remain safe.
Mr Pontner came over quite queer at first, what, as if he thought he might have to ask someone else if he could even answer my questions. But then he chuckled and simply said that his office has nothing to do with the wards. He went on to mumble that the new ward lines are even worse than the old ones. I asked why that was and he talked about how at least with the dragons, the effects were 'natural' but now with the new focusing lenses, the wards are too straight and too powerful where they overlap, what. I say, I told the others and we think that's why they've found so many areas where they can't fly well or where they feel that tingling Sirius and Tonks described. When the group go flying next, I think they'll start with one of the stones we've found and follow it as straight as possible.
I could only get him to say a little bit more before he realised he was probably speaking out of turn. Still, it was a good deal more information than we had, what.
There was also some interesting discussion with the Belgians but to explain that I'm afraid I shall have to imitate Miss Lamont and look for holes in the patterns and that all that rot.
-Justin
I say, I ought to have asked before: How is your visit with your father going? I just realised last night that last year you were worried about using your journal, what, and this year you've been posting and commenting, so I hope that means it's better this time round.
Of course, I'm sure you could decamp to the Burrow if you needed, or Pansy's, but I'm sure if either weren't available we could make other arrangements if necessary.
One of the chaps here has charmed the window in his office to produce sunshine all the time. He says that if he doesn't get enough sun he feels peaky and depressed so he's fixed it to get something like natural light. I say, I think that's bally well clever.
Oh, I forgot: I told everyone at tea yesterday about the answer I got to my question regarding the wards. I asked, you see, in the most innocent way possible, because we had some Floo calls with Dover and with the secretaries of trade in Belgium and also the Netherlands, so it was perfectly natural to ask why we couldn't open more routes or why it was so dashed difficult to arrange for large shipments to come in through just the one or two gates that are there all the time. And of course, I asked why other countries didn't devise the same sort of protections, to make sure their wizard populations could remain safe.
Mr Pontner came over quite queer at first, what, as if he thought he might have to ask someone else if he could even answer my questions. But then he chuckled and simply said that his office has nothing to do with the wards. He went on to mumble that the new ward lines are even worse than the old ones. I asked why that was and he talked about how at least with the dragons, the effects were 'natural' but now with the new focusing lenses, the wards are too straight and too powerful where they overlap, what. I say, I told the others and we think that's why they've found so many areas where they can't fly well or where they feel that tingling Sirius and Tonks described. When the group go flying next, I think they'll start with one of the stones we've found and follow it as straight as possible.
I could only get him to say a little bit more before he realised he was probably speaking out of turn. Still, it was a good deal more information than we had, what.
There was also some interesting discussion with the Belgians but to explain that I'm afraid I shall have to imitate Miss Lamont and look for holes in the patterns and that all that rot.
-Justin
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afterand I don't want to complain.He went out a little while ago for a job. And when he comes home he'll probably
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Sunday's not a very long way off. I've been lucky that the Jugsons have been in no hurry to tell me I've got to make my own way but I can imagine you're well anxious to be free to go wherever you like. I'd have preferred to spend Christmas with everyone at Grimmauld, myself, but had to pretend to enjoy the Jugsons' when all the while I was wondering how jolly you all must have been.
-J
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That's brilliant you got them talking about the wards. What do you mean about finding the holes in the patterns?
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For example, Mr Pontner mentioned grain allotments and then the Belgian trade minister said something like 'If you would lower the tariff on wine, we could shift more barley' and of course, what he meant was that if they could export more wine, they would import more beer. Things like that. And loads was in the way they were talking to one another, how friendly they were (or weren't), and so on.
-Justin