Private Message to Padma
Jan. 28th, 2013 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_linusUm. If you go into my satchel to borrow quills or parchment or anything, be extra-careful not to touch any of my revisions notebooks. There's a charm on them. I've figured out how to not set it off myself, but not how to make it so you won't.
It's this wiz-nift charm that I learned from Professor Siz. If anyone touches the item in question, their hair turns bright purple for a number of hours. Anyone but myself, that is, so far. I'm told that it's brilliantly useful as a method of detecting whether someone's been poking around at one's belongings or rattling one's doorknob. And with Inglebee and that lot still cross about getting their magic bound, some manner of safeguarding seems only prudent. I have to renew it every day, because I don't know how to set it permanently, but it's not terribly difficult once one knows the trick of it.
I just didn't want you to be surprised, though.
It's this wiz-nift charm that I learned from Professor Siz. If anyone touches the item in question, their hair turns bright purple for a number of hours. Anyone but myself, that is, so far. I'm told that it's brilliantly useful as a method of detecting whether someone's been poking around at one's belongings or rattling one's doorknob. And with Inglebee and that lot still cross about getting their magic bound, some manner of safeguarding seems only prudent. I have to renew it every day, because I don't know how to set it permanently, but it's not terribly difficult once one knows the trick of it.
I just didn't want you to be surprised, though.
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on 2013-01-28 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2013-01-28 11:43 pm (UTC)Seriously, you know that I carry a few extra of those quills you like, ever since the day yours broke and you didn't have a spare. I do try to be a gentleman, and my Father taught me that a gentleman always has a spare clean handkerchief and a few other things that might be of use to the ladies with whom he has the good fortune to be acquainted.
I would be happy to teach you the charm as
longsoon as Professor Dolohov approves of the endeavour. You know that I don't want to make my string of detentions last past the end of the school year, and usurping the prerogatives of instruction is something I should be very hesitant to appear to do. He continues to improve, from what I have heard, and no doubt there will be an opportunity to ask him soon enough.And for all that it is, as you say, unlikely that you would need to fish about in my satchel for something, it seemed remiss not to warn you just in case. I hardly think that surprise purple hair is the sort of unexpected present I'd want to give you, after all.