Dear Ben,
It is quite an amazing feat on her part, that much is true, but still, could you imagine if she had failed the ritual?! I hear her animagus form is a cat, so she might aswell have grown whiskers or a cat's tail! While the image of Rachel with either of these features is quite amusing, I still can't help but be terrified of her bravery. Her family, by the way, appears in Witch Weekly quite often, and her and her brother Handsome (who I haven't yet spoken to) are prominent figures in Hogwarts' rumour mill aswell. I don't know if you read Witch Weekly, but I picked up a copy not so long ago to try and distract myself from all the schoolwork, and some of the things you find in there are quite intriguing!
I didn't even know Professor Valerius had a brother! How unfortunate - but it is also very curious that the oddity in question appeared only after he had become an animagus, and even more so the fact that his transformation is permanent. I imagine that, if he had simply grown a beak or something of the sort, the healers at Saint Mungo's would've been quite swift in returning him to his human state, but to be permanently trapped in a bird's body...? That seems like a horrible fate.
Oh, I am overjoyed by your success! I mean no harm by this, but who would've thought that a florist shop would see expansion this quickly? I must order some flowers to send to Mother when I'm in Hogsmeade again... It's been quite a while since I've seen her, and she misses me dearly.
Love,
Ara
It is quite an amazing feat on her part, that much is true, but still, could you imagine if she had failed the ritual?! I hear her animagus form is a cat, so she might aswell have grown whiskers or a cat's tail! While the image of Rachel with either of these features is quite amusing, I still can't help but be terrified of her bravery. Her family, by the way, appears in Witch Weekly quite often, and her and her brother Handsome (who I haven't yet spoken to) are prominent figures in Hogwarts' rumour mill aswell. I don't know if you read Witch Weekly, but I picked up a copy not so long ago to try and distract myself from all the schoolwork, and some of the things you find in there are quite intriguing!
I didn't even know Professor Valerius had a brother! How unfortunate - but it is also very curious that the oddity in question appeared only after he had become an animagus, and even more so the fact that his transformation is permanent. I imagine that, if he had simply grown a beak or something of the sort, the healers at Saint Mungo's would've been quite swift in returning him to his human state, but to be permanently trapped in a bird's body...? That seems like a horrible fate.
Oh, I am overjoyed by your success! I mean no harm by this, but who would've thought that a florist shop would see expansion this quickly? I must order some flowers to send to Mother when I'm in Hogsmeade again... It's been quite a while since I've seen her, and she misses me dearly.
Love,
Ara
@"Benevolence Montague"