The Hog's Head

The Hog's Head is another pub, which often attracts a more unusual and private clientele than the Three Broomsticks, and many of the customers hide their faces. The hanging sign on the front of the pub has a severed boar's head, leaking blood onto the white cloth around it. The pub itself is filthy, with the floor covered with layers of dirt, and the windows smeared with so much grime that little light gets through. The main floor is a single room, but there are additional rooms on the upper floors. That the pub smells strongly of goats. The bartender is Aberforth Dumbledore, the brother of former Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

With a loud *CRACK* Artemis apparates onto the road next to the Hog's Head scaring the ancient goat grazing outside into a dither.

The haggard, old pub owner comes out mumbling curses under his breath. Artemis notices that he is looking much older and worn-out than she remembers. While calming his pet, the old man looks up at Artemis through bleary eyes. Recognition dawns within those eyes.

<aberforth> Artemis, how many times do I have to tell you to not to just apparate here without letting us know ahead of time? I don't think that Eddie here can take much more stress. One of these days a scare like that is going to be the death of him.

Artemis, unaffected by his normal harsh growling tone, blushes from her mistake in frightening the goat. When will she learn to think before she does things like this?

<Artemis> I'm sorry! I forgot . . .

<Aberforth> Well don't forget again.

<Artemis> I won't.

<Aberforth> Of course, you will. You always forget. You've got the attention span of a cornish pixie.

Taking one last, careful stoke aloung his goats back, Aberforth turns and stalks into The Hog's Head.

A minute later, Artemis follows -- thinking about how good a buttbeer sounds right about now . . .

Mildred returns to the hogs head and packs her things, she waits outside for the courtesy carriage for professors to hogwarts and will strike up a conversation with the others as they arrive.