[HPFGU-OTChatter] Iggy, the hired Elf

[Iggy McSnurd]

> Carol:
> Does Iggy wear a tea cozy (or "cosy," I guess, in the British
> editions)? Also, if he'll forgive my asking, does he wear a tea towel
> under the vest and shoes with the socks? And what is his idea of fun?
>
> Carol, who thanks Iggy for the laugh and hopes he will tell her what a
> tea cozy is
>

Iggy here:

Well, to answer the last question there, Miss, a tea cosy is a quilted cover
shaped much like a hood that Elvses put over a tea pot to keep the tea
inside for their employers, and that the Wizardses and Witch ladies uses to
keep their tea pots warm.

Iggy does not wear a tea cosy, since that would look silly in Iggy's
opinion.  He does, though, wear he uniform of a tea towel draped over
hisself under the other clothes Iggy wears.  Hats and tea cosies are not
something Iggy enjoys since they hold his ears in too tight and pinch them
even when they don't need pinching.  Iggy is happy enough, and warm enough,
with his vests and socks, Miss, and only occasionally wears an old scarf or
two when he must go out into the snow for some reason.

For what Iggy does for fun, Miss, after he has made his new vests and socks,
Iggy likes to read (the Great Professor Flitwick lends Iggy books from his
own collection or gets them from the library for him) and is being taught
Wizard's Chess by a boy named Nicholas who is new to Ravenclaw.  Iggy also
enjoys visiting Haggrid to learn about other magical creatures, and
occasionally is asked by one of the Professorses to run an errand down to
Hogsmeade.  (The Great Flitwick likes many things from Honeydukes, as does
the Powerful Professor Dumbledore, so Iggy is allowed to sometimes go there
before the store opens and buy stuff for them, and even is given a sweet
from the kind Honeyduke's themselves, generous humans they is.  He is even
allowed to buy some sweets for himself if Iggy has money left from buying
vests and socks.)

Iggy Elf
(aka: Iggy McSnurd)