I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Ron were you with Harry and Draco last night? What happened?  Did Harry, well I mean I would have thought Harry would be the Heir of Slytherin because he's the Lord Protector's son, so -- but I wouldn't think he'd do something awful to Hermione's cat.

And Hermione I'm so sorry something happened to your kitty, will he be alright? If he was just petrified? I mean everyone's talking about it but no one seems to know anything.

I need to stop writing Pansy's coming

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[alt_ron]

Yeah. I don't know. We went down to the Deathday party--I thought we weren't going to, but then Lockhart saw Harry in the Entrance Hall and was trying to get him to take a bunch of pictures and give interviews and whatever with all those reporters that came for the Feast, so Harry grabbed me and Draco and said we had to go to Nick's party 'cause he'd promised! Anyway, it was really bloody awful. The music was thirty ghosts playing saws that sounded like three hundred people scraping their fingers on a really big blackboard. Ugh! And the food... it was good it was so freezing cold, otherwise it would have stunk us right out. You should have seen the haggis: it was loaded with maggots, so it looked like the whole surface of it was moving.

But, yeah. When we left, we were going to come up for pudding but Harry heard something, so we went tearing up three flights of stairs and found the cat. Or kneazle. Whichever it is.

I actually figured that the writing meant Harry, too. He's the Protector's Heir, right? I'd never heard any of that stuff about Slytherin that Malfoy was telling everybody. So who knows? Harry didn't act like he knew.

[alt_sally_anne]

Harry must know SOMETHING about the Heir of Slytherin surely. Although Pansy didn't know. Maybe I paid a little more attention to that sort of thing because I was the first in my family to be Sorted into Slytherin so I did a little extra reading.

But anyway Slytherin's heir was supposed to get rid of all the mudggleborns and the Lord Protector DID that so why would anyone

I don't understand but it makes me worried. Actually everyone in Slytherin seems a little worried right now even though most of them are pretending they think it's excellent and they don't mind at all, kind of the way everyone acts when Draco talks about his Aunt Bella.

[alt_ron]

Well, Harry may know all about that. It's just we didn't talk about it then and I was busy assuming it was about HIM as the Protector's heir and he didn't seem to know anything about the cat or about why anyone would have written that sort of stuff about him.

That doesn't make a load of sense, does it. Okay, I don't know what I'm talking about.

It makes me worried that you say the Slytherins are worried. That sounds really bad.

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh but even if Harry knows about the heir of Slytherin he might not have opened the secret chambre chamber, people do strange things all the time to impress him you know? I mean like what happened with Lockhart, most of the time it makes him very uncomfortable. He usually wants people to not talk about his father and he hates it when people make some sort of fuss over him, like Acton did that first week, UGH.

Anyway it doesn't say 'the heir opened this' it says 'enemies of the heir beware' or at least that's what I heard. I haven't gone to look I kind of don't

[alt_ron]

Yeah, I don't blame Harry about that. It is creepy the way people get sort of goo-goo about him. I mean, even my mum and my sister read all about him whenever there're articles in any of the magazines or the Prophet, but there're loads worse people who follow him about. I heard someone tried to pay off Flint to get a pair of Harry's socks after a Quidditch game last year. That's just-- yeah. Creepy doesn't begin to cover it.

And I totally don't get the part about the secrets chamber or whatever. I mean that's supposed to be somewhere in the school? I was talking about it with the twins and they seem to think they know ALL the secret places in the castle (yeah, I'd bet they're wrong about that, too, but you know them) and they've never heard of it. But they said they have ways to check on it.

I dunno.

Anywiz, I'm kind of hoping it does mean Harry, one way or the other, 'cause I'm definitely not his enemy, right?

[alt_neville]

It is all really weird.

Who does Harry have as enemies, though?

[alt_ron]

Well, there was Macnair, wasn't there? And whoever attacked him at the train when we came back to school. I mean, who knows who might think that hurting Harry or kidnapping him would be a good way to get back at his father?

[alt_hermione]

I don't know if he'll be all right, I mean Madam Pomfrey said it would be all right, that as soon as some ingredients have grown she'd be able to fix him, but that she'd have to be careful, because it isn't really right to dose a cat with ingredients that were supposed to be for real students who aren't slaves or animals. But she said she'd do it, so I think she will, only it might take awhile.

[alt_terry]

Hermione, I'm ever so sorry about Crookshanks, but I'm glad Madam Pomfrey thinks she can help him. How long will it take before she can do whatever she needs to do to fix him?

[alt_ron]

Yeah, I'm really sorry, too.

I remember seeing him around the castle sometimes. He seemed sort of, well, smart? Like he knew what he thought about you when he looked at you. I could never decide if he thought I was okay. And he seemed pretty wary of the twins, but that's understandable, y'know?

Anyway, I'm sorry he got hurt and that it hurts you. It was pretty awful to see him hanging there like that last night. I couldn't blame you being upset.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Did you see what Professor McGonagall wrote to Mr Malfoy? If the Chamber had been opened, something more dramatic would have happened than just a petrified cat?!!!

So there IS a Chamber. And bad stuff happens when it opens!

Did you lot find out anything more from Binns than we did?

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah I saw that, and it was lucky I did because we did get Binns to talk about it some. I think I'll do a separate entry but not put it under the lock so if Pan anyone sees me writing it won't matter if they look over my shoulder.