I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Madam Pomfrey finally let Pansy and Ron come in to visit me for a while.

I'm okay, really. I mean I got a broken arm and a knock on the head but I'm okay now, I'm feeling a lot better. Madam Pomfrey said I have to spend the night in the hospital wing because she wants to keep an eye on me, I don't know why, I'd be fine in Slytherin and I'd rather be in my own dorm but whatever.

I've been going over the accident in my head. Miss Professor Carrow said we were going to practice this thing we've been learning, only she wanted to see how we could do while being distracted, and then she made me and Draco come up (I never raise my hands in her class. Most people don't.) Supposedly she was going to distract both of us but mostly she just hexed me, I think, she was using stinging hexes or something. I backed across the classroom defending myself -- well I don't want you to think it was Draco's fault, it WASN'T. He was following the same instructions I was.

Anyway when I got into the far corner she'd had her eyes on me but I saw her turn to Draco and I saw Draco flinch, I think she hexed him right then to make his spell go wild. So yeah, I DO think she made it happen on purpose. There's no use saying so, though. I'm not going to let her make me sound like a whinger, lots of people get hurt in classes and it wasn't anything Madam Pomfrey couldn't fix.

I don't know if she went after me because it would upset Pansy, or if it had something to do with Draco or Harry (Harry looked utterly horrified, that was one of the things I noticed when people were helping me up), or if it was just because I'm a half-blood. I'm one of the only half-bloods in Dark Arts and Finnigan has a powerful foster-father so she's not likely to pick on him. I saw the other Professor Carrow's comment, maybe they think half-bloods shouldn't be in Dark Arts and she was trying to make me look like I don't know what I'm doing? Only I wasn't the one who mis-aimed the hex. I suppose my mistake was thinking the bookcase wasn't like to fall over. Also, she's the one who put me in the class. I tried for it because Professor Slughorn thought it would be valuable but if she didn't want me in the class no one was going to MAKE her let me in.

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[alt_pansy]

I'm glad you're feeling better.

I can be back first thing in the morning so we can walk back to the common room. I was so worried. I thought

Well, it could have been loads worse than a bump on the head.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah.

I napped earlier and now I'm awake and not tired and I can't sleep and it's after curfew and what I really want to do is have some toast and a cup of tea in the common room and hear about your day and maybe listen to some music or read one of Teddy's comics.

Instead I'm stuck here. and I feel FINE.

[alt_pansy]

Well, after double potions I started work on my Arithmancy homework, because I've got to write ten inches about significant dates in wizarding history and use this formula to see if it turns out to mean anything. And I've only got a few, because my notes from Binn's history classes are really, really bad and full of doodles. And I do want something other than the whole Goblin War thing anyways, and everyone else is going to do The Day the Ministry Fell or something like that, so I ended up picking the day the Bloody Baron died, and guess what? Nothing came up at all except for "death." And it came up twice. So that's sort of painfully obvious, but I figured, at least it sort of worked.

And Daphs and Milli are sitting on the couch in front of the fire, so that means they made up at least a little, which is good because Merlin, no-one can pout like Milli can.

[alt_sally_anne]

TOO TRUE about Milli.

Someone brought my books while I was napping earlier and I really ought to do my homework while I'm sitting here awake. I'm just glad I'd finished Charms and Ancient Runes already.

[alt_pansy]

Well, and if you get poor marks, you can just look up with those enormous eyes you can make, and say, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I guess my head injury made it hard for me to concentrate.'

Not that you'd get poor marks in anything. But it'd be a fantastic excuse.

[alt_sally_anne]

I don't know if it would fly with Professor Acton.

It wouldn't fly with Binns but I don't much care about my History marks.

Professor Babbling would practically run get me a pillow, I think. She doesn't like the Carrows at all. But I've already done her homework. I think Professor Brutka would let me get away with it, though, so that's decided: I will skive off on Professor Brutka's homework unless I'm still awake after everyone else has gone to sleep and do his homework out of sheer boredom.