Perenelle Ballycastle

Quidditch Round 1

It came!  It came It came!  My fantastic partner sent me wonderful stuff!  I hope to post pics tomorrow!

School will be over for the year soon, and I have to confess that I have not been blogging the way I should. I sit down most everyday to write something, and I think, well they won't believe me! I mean, my MOM reads this blog and she's already written several emails concerned about my mental state.....

 It will be very hard going back to my ordinary muggle life over the summer. it isn't as if magic has become something I use all the time; my physical klutziness has translated into a magical klutziness that is quite frankly *dangerous*!  Hopefully, I'll be allowed back for next year.

I got this from my prefect's blog: the completely amazing seeker extraordinaire Cassandra Puddlemere!

You use the first letter of your name for all these things. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question

What is your name....................Perenelle Ballycastle
4 Letter Word........................poot
Vehicle..............................pram

City.................................Plymouth
Boy Name.............................Peter
Girl Name............................Priscilla
Alcoholic Drink......................Perrier and Gin? (I don't drink)

Occupation...........................printer
Something you wear...................panties
Celebrity............................Parker Posey(double P's double the points)
Food.................................pasta
Something found in a bathroom........Pantene
Reason for Being Late................paralyzed legs
Cartoon Character....................Pink Panther
Something You Shout..................Punk Rock Rules!
Animal...............................pig
Body part............................yep you thought I'd do something slighty dirty but I'll say phalanges

SO I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks....because I've been in the Infirmary with a mysterious case of something. About 2 weeks ago, right after lunch, my nose started to grow into a pink elephant's trunk.  Prof. McGonagall was summoned and she tried all kinds of things because she and everyone else thought somekind of curse or potion was involved.  Nothing was working, so I was sent to the Infirmary.

Believe me, this is the kind of experience you would like to miss.  For 2 weeks, I have been given every kind of nasty, foul tasting kind of medicine Madame Pomfrey could think of with all kinds of embarassing results.  Last week, my nose changed from a pink elephant's trunk to a purple flamingo beak, a bright orange anteater's snout, a bilious green butterfly probiscus and a zebra-striped rhino horn.  I wish I could say that these transformations of my nose weren't painful....

Don't get me wrong, the nose I was born with is not exactly gorgeous, but I was definitely missing it in a big way. Finally, after mucgh trial and error, we figured out that I have a magical allergy to mint.  Can you believe it?  Apparently, this is very rare, and mint is in lots and lots of things, especially potions and herbal teas.  I can be around it so long as I don't ingest it or smell it strongly.  Goodbye to my favorite toothpaste!

Now I'm back to studying and I'm so swamped with work, I think I'll have to stay all summer just to catch up! 

And the answer to HSKS 4 Gryffindor quiz #1 is:

HOGWARTS, HOGWARTS, HOGGY WARTY, HOGWARTS. TEACH US SOMETHING PLEASE, WHETHER WE BE OLD AND BALD OR YOUNG WITH SCABBY KNEES, OUR HEADS COULD DO WITH FILLING WITH SOME INTERESTING STUFF. FOR NOW THEY’RE BARE AND FULL OF AIR. DEAD FLIES AND BITS OF FLUFF. SO TEACH US THINGS WORTH KNOWING. BRING BACK WHAT WE’VE FORGOT. JUST DO YOUR BEST. WE’LL DO THE REST, AND LEARN UNTIL OUR BRAINS ALL ROT.

...and told me I was accepted into Hogwarts. I could see that this wasn't the usual junk mail; I mean I'd never heard of anyone ever receving mail by owl! And we'd never heard of Hogwarts; was this some kind of pocine skni condition?

As it turns out, the reason I wear black all the time has nothing to do with dressing like a Goth and the reason we have snowstorms in the living room whenever I get a head cold is a simple one; I'm a witch.

I've been trying to learn several new spells, mainly to speed up my knitting. I know there are spells so that the needles will do it all on their own....but I still love to knit so I want to get faster. SO far, I've managed to speed up my typing, speed up my talking, slow down my walk (how I managed that, I'll never know!) and create many balls of yarn from one ball, but nothing even close to what I want to do.::::sigh:::::

Hopefully, I'll get it right and then all those WiP's will disappear into FO'S!

I think I made somebody in Slytherin mad.....now my iPod only plays Frank Sinatra!  I took it to Professor McGonagall, but I couldn't seem to make her understand 1) what an iPod was and 2) why I would want to listen to it.  There don't seem to be any music classes here - no choir, no band - and I really miss it.  AT least in my Muggle school, where they do have band and chorus, I was good at *something*.  ::sigh::

 So we've been in school for a little over a week, and I have so much homework that, even if I understood it, will take me a hundred years to complete.  I don't know anything that everyone else seems to know and I've stopped asking all of my stupid questions so I don't get all of the strange looks. I can't tell if everyone thinks I'm weird because I'm from an all-muggle family, or if it's because I'm from the US.

Still, it's fascinating. SO much of what I've seen of magic is pure fun.  I know there is dark magic, but I haven't seen any and I'm delighted to stay that way.  Even the music that everyoine listens to is really different.  Sometimes I think I didn't land in a different culture; I landed on a different planet.