I had my first punishment session last night. She ordered me to go down with one of the house elves to the kitchens and do what it told me to do.
Thing is, don't think she had exactly thought it through. They got me down there and told me I had to scrape all the food off the plates from dinner. Which is just mad, because the house elves just do that with magic in a split second, and they just kept coming by and wringing their hands and pulling their ears and hopping from one foot to another at the sight of me scraping off that garbage. They HATED seeing me do it. It was almost kind of funny.
So finally I persuaded them that what the Headmistress didn't know didn't need to hurt, and couldn't they just finish the dishes the way they ordinarily do? I mean, I was obviously slowing down their cleanup routine. And then one of them said that she wasn't even the Headmistress, and the castle knew it. She wasn't even a Hogwarts Professor. Which was dead interesting, and would have cheered me up a lot, except he sort of undercut this by banging his head almost to smithereens with a broom handle.
So there was some excitement for a bit, but eventually the other elves calmed him down and sorted him out. And they agreed and magically cleaned the dishes and made 'em disappear. Then I convinced 'em to give me a tour of the kitchens, and I learned loads of useful stuff.
Uh, maybe it's not too clever to explain how I got out of doing a detention on a post that has some Hogwarts staff reading it. But I reckon you probably agree she's not really the true Headmistress either.
Another detention tonight. Apparently I'll be working in the castle laundry.
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Date: 2013-02-08 11:16 pm (UTC)Thing is, don't think she had exactly thought it through. They got me down there and told me I had to scrape all the food off the plates from dinner. Which is just mad, because the house elves just do that with magic in a split second, and they just kept coming by and wringing their hands and pulling their ears and hopping from one foot to another at the sight of me scraping off that garbage. They HATED seeing me do it. It was almost kind of funny.
So finally I persuaded them that what the Headmistress didn't know didn't need to hurt, and couldn't they just finish the dishes the way they ordinarily do? I mean, I was obviously slowing down their cleanup routine. And then one of them said that she wasn't even the Headmistress, and the castle knew it. She wasn't even a Hogwarts Professor. Which was dead interesting, and would have cheered me up a lot, except he sort of undercut this by banging his head almost to smithereens with a broom handle.
So there was some excitement for a bit, but eventually the other elves calmed him down and sorted him out. And they agreed and magically cleaned the dishes and made 'em disappear. Then I convinced 'em to give me a tour of the kitchens, and I learned loads of useful stuff.
Uh, maybe it's not too clever to explain how I got out of doing a detention on a post that has some Hogwarts staff reading it. But I reckon you probably agree she's not really the true Headmistress either.
Another detention tonight. Apparently I'll be working in the castle laundry.