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[alt_sally_anne]

I just wanted to mention that while I was in Hogsmeade yesterday Avery tracked me down while I was by myself to tell me I ought to break things off with Ron because he'll never get on the Council with a half-blood girlfriend, and I'm holding him back, and when I didn't seem properly impressed he said that everyone knows Lucius Malfoy is out of favour with Our Lord and if He wants to punish Mr Malfoy for something, Avery could see to it that it was Pansy who got hurt. Because she's more expendable than Draco, or Mrs Malfoy.

He didn't say who he'd tell them to hurt instead, if I went along with it and broke things off with Ron. I'm sorry I didn't think to ask.

Anyway

I thought I should tell, well, enough people that I didn't make this a PM to Mrs Longbottom (though I did tell Ron and Pansy last night).

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Re: Private Message to Sally Anne

[alt_ron]

Yeah.

I don't even know.

I wish some of the would say something. Because I want to know if they think Malfoy's right. Because the way they're not saying anything, I think they do.

And if they'd just say, then I could tell them to all get bludgered.

Except.

I don't want anything to happen to Pansy, either. And I don't want it sound like I don't care if something does.

This really reeks, y'know?

Re: Private Message to Sally Anne

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah.

Re: Private Message to Sally Anne

[alt_sally_anne]

I mean, Draco's right that we could continue to see each other secretly and things wouldn't actually change all that much, we already live so much of our lives in secret -- and you know, we get to have our mothers in the secret with us, and Draco doesn't; the cost he pays for keeping the secret is different than for us.

But you're also right that giving in to a blackmailer shows that you can be manipulated.

But of course, we wouldn't REALLY be giving in; we'd be sending a signal that we could be manipulated but it would be a lie, one that would give us some information, maybe, later on.

And you know, I still don't know who Avery thinks he'd push as a sacrificial lamb, instead. I hadn't thought about how vulnerable Pansy is, I'd always thought about how her friendship with Mr Malfoy keeps her safe but he's right it cuts both ways. Draco's always been the one at wandpoint, you know, they threatened him to keep Harry in line and they punished him when Harry misbehaved (and they made Mr Malfoy do it) but no one really paid that much attention to Pansy.

It would probably be Mrs Malfoy. That they'd use instead.

Re: Private Message to Sally Anne

[alt_ron]

Okay, yeah. I just don't believe Avery can be sure who Voldemort would go after or that Voldemort would listen to what Avery says about which of them to hurt.

But I don't know he can't.

I mean, really, what do I know?