Telephones

I never felt nervous ringing Malcolm before.  It wasn't a big deal.  

Now I'm nervous.  

I kept picking up the phone this morning, and then I would hang it up again.

Finally, I was brave enough and dialed his whole number.

No one answered except an operator.

It's been disconnected!  

They had been talking about disconnecting it before, because you know they hate using Muggle technology.    But they have Muggleborn/Muggle friends, and it's the easiest way to talk to us.   Plus, Malcolm liked watching our Muggle telly, and he also had fun playing with our Nintendo 64.   I thought he had changed and liked the Muggle world more.

Oh well.

Maybe they didn't mean to disconnect the phone.   Maybe they just forgot to pay the bill or something.