departmentsofmysteries: [x] Agent Sparrow Field Report: October 26th, 2000  Lady Patricia S

departmentsofmysteries: [x] Agent Sparrow Field Report: October 26th, 2000  Lady Patricia Shafiq of Essex, matronly figurehead of the Ladies’ Snidget Preservation Committee of 1894, was widely known to despise humankind. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she did not discriminate between Muggles and Wixenkind: she simply disliked the company of everyone she met. When all of her children were grown and her husband (mercifully, she wrote in her journals) had died of a painful illness, Lady Patricia made a curious request of her eldest son, who was a renowned spellcaster. She asked to be transfigured into a ship. The sea, she claimed, was the only thing that understood her and the only thing in the world she could abide, apart from the Snidgets in her garden (but one does not transfigure onself into a bird, which is poor form). Lady Patricia’s son, understandably, refused. But under pressure from his exasperated siblings and what he described as “constant nagging” from his mother, he eventually relented. Lady Patricia spent the rest of her days adrift at sea, lending her services to one unsuspecting crew after another. It was reported one day that she capsized in a storm, and the ship’s remains were discovered shortly afterward, badly damaged. Inheritors of the Shafiq estate have often claimed that on stormy nights a ghost ship (specifically the spectral imprint of a ship, and not a real ship populated by ghosts) is in the habit of appearing quite suddenly in the drawing room with a flock of Snidgets roosting upon its sails. The Department has received countless requests to investigate. But some claims are simply too ridiculous to be entertained. [1] Addendum: For more on the series of Department cases related to the Shafiq estate, see the Ministry’s genealogical archives. …what weird relative of mine ended up in England way back in 1894?! And apparently married some crochety lady that preferred boats to people?! Then again, from what I can tell, we do seem to have a thing for boats… was she the dainee my mother always talked about? – Ayesha -- source link
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