I hope everyone is having a safe, relaxing winter holiday, despite its being not at all what we would have expected a year ago. If you're looking for an excellent way to pass some time, hoggywartyxmas is now posting and once again the stories are a true delight -- original, creative, well-written, and jolly good fun. Madam Malkin has a starring role in several of the offerings posted thus far, including a lovely exchange of letters with Madam Pince in which both young witches are finding their professional feet, as it were. The description of the National Library of Magic is bewitching :) If you haven't yet visited, now is the time!