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I am trying to find a story or book from my childhood and I am hoping someone might remember what it was!?

I know it had a character named Maeve (there were many characters) and I believe (this is going to sound crazy) that they were miniature and/or lived in a garden like gnomes. I have no idea whether it was a story, a book, or otherwise. I just know that it made a huge impression on me and I really liked it. I do remember that it was quite detailed and that the characters could speak to each other but I’m not sure they could speak to anyone else. It has been bugging me for years that I can’t figure it out. A children’s librarian made me feel like I’d hallucinated the whole thing! I would really love to find this and share it with my own children/grandchildren so, if anyone knows what I’m talking about it, please let me know. I will be forever grateful!
Okay, I remembered another character’s name: It was either Felicia or Felicity (I believe they were all female which makes me think that, possibly, they were talking flowers.) Also, I have searched vintage books and the publication date is important: It had to be before 1977. Thanks a lot.

RA/DA & All Harry Potter Fans! 83 Way To Annoy, Harass, and Generally Scare The Dursleys!?

83 ways to annoy, harass, and generally scare the Dursleys!
Sorry! It’s quite long! You don’t have to read the whole thing!

1. Should Dudley be backing up for any reason, go “beep, beep, beep…”

2. Egg their house. Don’t feel confined to chicken eggs.

3. Coat their entire kitchen with butter.

4. Get a cheap Muggle cell phone. Give it a very annoying ring tone, and set it to ring every hour on the hour. Make it invisible. Hide it in the air vent of their house.

5. Charm their garden hose to come to life and spray them down.

6. Charm their lawn to sprout large purple mushrooms. When stepped on, these mushrooms should squeak loudly.

7. Replace any flowers in their garden with the ever popular water squirting flowers.

8. Sneak some particularly eerie-looking gnomes into their garden. Partially hide them behind bushes and such, so that they appear to be spying on those nearby.

9. If there’s any room left in the garden, plant them a particularly sensitive Mimbulus Mimbletonia.

10. Slip a doxy into their mailbox…

11. …And a gnome in their pantry…

12. …And Kreacher under one of their beds…

13. …And a boggart into the refrigerator. Tell Dudley its a new dieting technique.

14. Offer them foot rubs.

15. Gather a large group of people together, and surround the Dursley’s house. Have everyone press their faces against the windows. When Mr. Dursley charges out to confront the group, tell him that you are there to eavesdrop, and ask if its a good time.

16. Paint the Hogwarts crest on their front door.

17. Use a permanent sticking charm to attach a wizards cape and hat to their front door, beneath the painted crest.

18. On New Year’s Eve, anonymously send them a box of well-disguised wizard crackers.

19. On Valentine’s Day, send each Dursley about sevent-five valentines by owl, signing them all from “their secret, magical admirer.”

20. On St. Patrick’s Day, gather some particularly jolly leprechauns and persuade them to do a jig merrily on the Dursley’s front lawn for the entire day. Ring the front doorbell, and Disapparate.

21. On Bonfire Night/Independence day, send them a box of Weasley’s Wild Fire Whizbangs.

22. If Petunia sould ever inquire of you an idea for a Halloween costume, suggest a witch.

23. If Dudley should ever ask the same question, suggest a pig.

24. For Christmas, get all of your Hogwarts friends together. Show up at the Dursley house, and sing christmas carols loudly, for as long as possible.

25. Replace any hard sweets that may be in the house, with the Weasley “effects” sweets.

26. Grind several Ton-Tongue toffees into a fine powder, and add it to any and all of the flour and sugar canisters.

27. Put a charm on Dudley that will make him crawl and walk on walls and cielings, Spider-Man style.

28. Wake the whole family up at five in the morning to lead them in a peppy exercise routine. Include lots of Jumping Jacks.

29. Offer to read their tea-leaves.

30. Should they accept, tell them you see three figures, two fat, one thin, all very bad tempered. Go on to say that these people will never find happiness and are best avoided.

31. Infest their home with Pygmy Puffs.

32. Tell them they don’t exist.

33. Find the most “un-Dursleyish” person you know, and set them up on a blind date with Dudley.

34. Write “Aunt Marge” on a bunch of inflated balloons. Fill the Dursley’s kitchen with them.

35. Find a way to magically change the color of their outfits, making each outfit a different lurid color depending on the day of the week (hot pink for Monday, Neon Green for Tuesday).

36. Switch Dudley’s homework with Harry‘s.

37. Make all the doors in their house require passwords. Try to make these passwords either sickeningly cute, or magic-loving.

38. Shave off Uncle Vernon’s mustache under the cover of darkness.

39. Transfer this mustache onto Petunia.

40. Leave a bundle of fake wands from Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes tied up with a ribbon on their coffee table.

41. Try this dialogue with Dudley: “Hey Dudley, guess what?” “What?” “Nothing.” Repeat this several times daily.

42. Get a stuffed rabbit and wrap it in swaddling clothes like a baby. PIn a note saying that they must care for this precious child, and guard it with their lives. Add a post script saying that should the rabbit government find that they are mistreating it in anyway, they will be dealt with. Ring their doorbell, and Dissaparate.

43. Suggest to Petunia a new nickname for her son: Milk Dudsley.

44. Offer them peppermint humbugs.

45. sing “I know a song that gets on everbody’s nerves.”

46. Should Dudley ever be on a diet, back some rich, chocolate cupcakes, topped with cream and candy sprinkles. Charm them so that they disappear when touched and reappear after a few minutes. Place them everywhere Dudley might see them.

47. Buy Petunia and Vernon a book on ch

The Cat that Hermione has in the Harry Potter books/movies what kind is it?

I don’t mean in real life I meant in character.
F.Y.I.
Although in real life to make crooshanks look more messed up then she really was, you know for the movies they brushed her and saved her hair that fell out. Then rolled that into balls, and for the filming cliped it onto her, with hair clips.