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26/11/06
DRABBLE: Better Than New
26/11/06 19:34150 words, for
severity_softly, as a 40K carrot to her NaNo haulalong. Her prompt was "used book(s)." Harry/Ron, Snape/Lupin, G.
"Oi, what’s that bloody noise?" Ron groaned and muffled his ears with his pillow.
Harry blearily checked the clock. "Ten past five. Figures. Same as every year." He padded over to the window, flung it open, and accepted the plain-wrapped bundle all but hurled at his midsection by the impatient vulture that had been hovering there.
Upon Harry leaving the bed, Ron looked up in time to recognise the bird. "That wake-up call was from Snape? What’s he doing sending you birthday presents?"
"Joint gifts from him and Remus." Harry unwrapped the package, which turned out to consist of a half-dozen hefty tomes.
Ron ran a finger along the ratty edge of 101 Antidotes to Advanced Love Potions. "I thought their shop was doing well? Seems to me they could afford to buy you new instead of secondhand."
Harry murmured, "Snape is a great believer in the power of annotation."
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"Oi, what’s that bloody noise?" Ron groaned and muffled his ears with his pillow.
Harry blearily checked the clock. "Ten past five. Figures. Same as every year." He padded over to the window, flung it open, and accepted the plain-wrapped bundle all but hurled at his midsection by the impatient vulture that had been hovering there.
Upon Harry leaving the bed, Ron looked up in time to recognise the bird. "That wake-up call was from Snape? What’s he doing sending you birthday presents?"
"Joint gifts from him and Remus." Harry unwrapped the package, which turned out to consist of a half-dozen hefty tomes.
Ron ran a finger along the ratty edge of 101 Antidotes to Advanced Love Potions. "I thought their shop was doing well? Seems to me they could afford to buy you new instead of secondhand."
Harry murmured, "Snape is a great believer in the power of annotation."
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For the meditation, I read John Betjeman's Advent 1955. The title of the homily (and some of the allusions within) is from Eleanor Farjeon's People, Look East, which was also the text of this morning's closing hymn.
( assignment: Advent )
( assignment: Advent )
Because I promised
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