stories written by Phoebe

Monsieur Dupont sat drinking coffee and eating his morning croissant in his London flat that had all the designs and furniture from around 1750. He pressed a small silver bell and a pretty English maid entered in the dress of a flower seller but her strongly English accent ruined all the careful French costume. "I have brought your tray in, Monsieur" she said staggering under a large tray of butter and jam and yet more croissants.
"Thank-you Emilie. I will send for you to take my tray away. Any post?"
"No Monsieur."
Monsieur Dupont began refilling his slightly rounded body again. Dring, dring, dring trilled the doorbell. Emily left the room and led in Mr Homes.
"Ah. Bonjour Monsieur Homes."
"Hello Dupont. Mind if I smoke?" replied Mr Homes
"Not at all. Not at all my dear Homes" replied Monsieur Dupont brightly.
"Thank-you," proceeded Mr Homes, "We have a matter that you might be able to help us in..."
"...Scotland Yard is having trouble then? You call upon moi, to help you?" cut in Monsieur Dupont.
"Well, Yes. An emerald cigarette case with three rubies in the middle has gone missing. It belongs to the Earl of Sordingham. You may have heard of him?" continued Mr Homes.
"I have heard of him yes, a story in the papers maybe." answered Monsieur Dupont.
" His wife was recently abducted and soon after commited suicide." answered Homes.
"Ah yes. That story interested me greatly. Suspicious do you not think? I didn't know about the cigarette case however." said Monsieur Dupont.
"Well, anyway, will you come with us? We may need you, my friend." requested Homes.
" Certainly, my dear Homes. Monsieur Dupont is at your service." replied Dupont.
They leave and get into Homes's car.
"Here we are, Sordingham hall. Let's go in shall we?" questioned Homes.

Harry, Ron and Hermione have left Hogwarts, missing out their last year.
Voldemort has taken over the Ministry for Magic and Harry's dreams are getting more and more common.
Will they find the Horcruxes?
Will Harry or Voledemort or both die?
And do you want to know what the bad sides to Dumbledore?
What are the good sides to Snape?
Will all muggles die?
Read the book to find out!

Bad: Bad ending
Good:find out lots of answers about Dumbledore's youth and "wisdom"
Overall:Quite a good read possibly one of J. K. Rowlings best.

Stars: ***1/2

Wolverhampton Art Gallery is the best museum ever.

There is a show by a Korean artist who has several galleries to himself. His name is Choi Jeong Hwa and the exhibition ends on 1st September. He at an unusual side of art for example in one room against a wall is a pile of tiny circle and broken pieces of circle magnets and you can go and touch them and "play" with them. There are also his welcome strips. In these he puts together a selection of things like shoes into a long collection of this one object and on one side is a piece of paper saying welcome and on the other it is in Japanese. There is also a collection of mad things including vases sculpted from soap and a bead headress.

Other exhibitions that I loved were permanent. One was Georgian and Victorian with a box of dressing up clothes to show you what Georgian theatre was like and you can dress in the clothes. There is a piece of foam that you tie around and then put on a dress with lots of embroidery and where the foam is there is the bump that a bustle would have given you. Then on top you add a wig and a hat made by the lady on reception downstairs.

Want to see their website? Go to http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/