#owlettes

Dear mom, 

    I know it’s been a long time since I’ve written to you. I wish I could give you a plausible excuse for not writing sooner, but really there’s no good reason for delaying an owl to my mother. You gave birth to me and yet I can’t manage to write on time. Women, especially mothers, are the true oddities and wonders of this world. I hope you can forgive me for failing at writing mother, but you know that in my mind you’re always my top priority. 

   Either way, how have you been mother? You don’t have to worry about me, everything’s been going great so far. As you know I’ve been chosen as one of the champions to represent Hogwarts. I’m pretty sure father has already giving you more than enough news on that. I wish I had you here so we could speak. It’s all exciting to be honest, we never know what challenge awaits us next. But in all honesty, I’m nervous. Even though I hate to admit it to myself, I’m nervous that I might not live up to the expectations that everyone suddenly expects from me. Maybe that’s what Potter is here for. It’s easy to put on a brave face in front of my Hufflepuff companions, but it’s still frightening looking in the mirror at night and wondering if I’ll see the same image again. Which of course is an idiotic thought since the challenges are assured to be safe. I promise I’m not writing just to scare you mother, but I guess that’s why I’ve been delaying so much. Because there’s so much on my mind that I wish you would know.

  I rather avoid more talk about the tournament, I have something I’m sure you’ve been curious about. Yes, I have someone I’m interested in. Her name is Cho Chang. She’s a rather pretty girl one year underneath me. Cho is of Asian decent, quite good in her classes, and has the prettiest smiles and laughs I’ve seen/heard. We’ve talked many times before but she has just recently shown interested in me. I never really thought I’d care for her in any way, especially because of the rumors about her interest in Harry Potter. Actually I’ve seen her quirky reactions when I speak of him, but I think I’m just doubting myself and her good character. But yess.. your long awaited answer…yes I’m planning on asking her to the Yule Ball.  I promise to send you pictures and everything on the dot. 

Anyways, I have another bit of good news. Because of the publicity I’m getting over the tournament, I apparently caught the eye of a professional quidditch coach. He owled me saying that as soon as the tournament was over, whether I won or not, he wanted to scout me and see if I was good enough to be in a professional quidditch team. I won’t tell you which team just yet, let’s leave it a surprise for father. But if it all works out, your son is going to make you proud mother! I’ll be able to properly pay all our families’ debts and fully take care of the house. The future if looking bright. Once I get enough money for everything, I’ll take you to France. I know you’ve always wanted to go there, and I’ll make sure father gets his fun too. 

By the way, talking about fun, I recently had the oddest of experiences. I met this girl named Vie. Someway, somehow, she managed to burn one of the curtains in an empty classroom. I had to help put it out, but that was an interesting experience as it was since the flames didn’t seem to want to put out. I had stopped her blonde friend from sneaking into the kitchens before, but I never expected this from their group! While I think you’ll respect Cho, I’m sure you’ll love Vie. Actually the stunt kind of reminded me of you and your Hogwarts stories. 

I’m sorry if this turned into more of a ramble, but you’re really the only person I have confidence in to share this rambles to. But I don’t want you to worry mother. I promise I’ll be alright, you don’t have to strain yourself over anything. After this year, everything will turn up for our family and we’ll be living great. By now my burn is healed up and the scar is fading. Nothing can be worse than a dragon’s burn, so you can rest easily. Say hello to father on my behalf. Also tell him that I got an autographed picture of Krum for him, even if he protests that he suddenly dislikes him as a player.

“That’s alright. No one’s going to force you to speak unless you want to.”

go away | no | rather not | I dunno | I guess | sure | yes | FUCK yes | oh god you don’t even know | right here, right now

“Yeah, no. That’s a bit too much for an act of love.”

Yeh! I’m Sheldon!          -whispers back-             Who is Sheldon?

It takes all the will power he has not to laugh. Sadly, his will power failed in certain aspects of his personality and Cedric ended up chuckling. His chuckle wasn’t aimed at the girl of course, but more towards the comedy of the situation.         “No, you don’t have to be scarred Hannah.          It’s not a dangerous plant, but it does have a mind          of it’s own. Think of it almost like a creatures of it’s          own with a desire to cause mischief to whoever          touches it. While it’s just a plant, it has a defense          mechanism of spitting and mimicking what it hears.         Just don’t try to stick your fingers near it and it won’t         spit or say vulgarities at you.”