I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Pansy, are you okay?

Teddy's gone, one of the prefects took him off to see Madam Pomfrey. So if you come back down from the dorm you won't have to see him, at least not at the moment.

I didn't even realise how much it was upsetting you until Harry cast that hex. He was really steamed. Harry, I mean.

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[alt_pansy]

I thought I could sit there and not let it show, and I tried really really hard, but he just kept talking and talking and wouldn't stop.

Who thinks like that?

Who is happy about seeing something that horrible?

And even if it isn't really him, it's somebody else who also really died, and it's just awful and sad

I'm sorry. I'm not being very smart about the whole thing. If I was being smart, I'd be crowing about it like everybody else, but I just can't.

[alt_sally_anne]

Everyone will just think you were feeling squeamish, anyway. Girls are allowed to be squeamish, and Teddy was being DISGUSTING.

[alt_pansy]

Yeah.

I'm just glad he didn't start during dinner. As it is, I don't feel like I'm ever going to want to eat anything ever again.

[alt_sally_anne]

If he'd started during dinner I think Harry would've had to stand in line to hex him.

[alt_pansy]

Do you think so?

I mean, he was being awful, but he's supposed to be pleased about it. Not that pleased, but...

Is everybody pretending to be happy about it? Or actually happy? I just don't know. I caught a little of the Prophet that was being passed around at breakfast, and everyone in it was saying how wonderful it was, and it's hard to tell if that's what they're expected to do, or if they really truly feel that way.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well during dinner everyone would have been disgusted -- or at least Daphne for sure and then Blaise would have told Teddy to knock it off and hexed him when he didn't shut it (it would've been WHEN not IF, I think). Or Milli. Or even Draco. Not because they're secretly unhappy about Sirius Black, but because he'd be putting them off their food.

I'm sure some of the people are just pretending. Probably some of the people being loudest.

[alt_pansy]

You're probably right.

[alt_neville]

Some boys are squeamish about some things, too. Trust me.

I wonder if Gran is going to take me to see it. I wonder if that's what she was hinting at in her last letter. She might, you know, because she thinks we have to put on a show, because of my parents, but I'm sure she wouldn't insist on Evelyn coming along.

But if she did, I bet she'd tell me we'd go through the line but that doesn't mean she expects me to exactly look at it.

Anyway...I'm sorry, Pansy.

[alt_ron]

What did he say that got you that upset?

[alt_pansy]

He just kept talking about Si the body. What the papers were showing and what they should do to it after and

ugh.

honestly, I really don't want to rehash it.

[alt_sally_anne]

And then Harry put a hex on him that made his face and tongue sprout these things that were like a cross between fur and tentacles. It stopped him talking because his tongue wasn't working properly. The prefect couldn't undo it so he took him to Madam Pomfrey.

[alt_pansy]

It was rather brilliant. I wonder if Professor Rabastan taught it to him.

[alt_ron]

I bet she won't be in a hurry to heal him.

Maybe she'll make him drink something really, really horrible tasting to put it right.

Or, oh! Maybe she'll have to cut all the tentacles off one by one. And shave the fur off his tongue! I bet it'll hurt a lot!

[alt_sally_anne]

Unfortunately she'll probably heal him right away because I think it might have been making it a little hard for him to breathe.

HOWEVER it might involve a horrid and disgusting tasting potion. That would be excellent.

And maybe he'll be stuck in the hospital wing until end of term and that would also be brilliant.

[alt_pansy]

I'll be happy if he keeps his stupid gross mouth shut until then.

[alt_sally_anne]

Clearly we need to learn more hexes so we can shut it for him next time.

You would THINK we would learn things like this in Dark Arts but no luck so far.

[alt_ron]

I don't think you really want to get into a Dark duel with Nott, do you? I mean, he probably knows a bunch of curses that make people's guts fall out.

He's not just your average berk.

[alt_sally_anne]

That's a good point.