Order Only: Private message to Ron
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alt_sally_anneThis is sort of funny, and sort of not.
Day before yesterday I was out shopping. Because for that emergency Healing course I'm doing at St Mungo's, the one Dolohov got me into, I needed this very specialised Healer's kit and also a set of robes. They're done up to keep the weather out if you're outside and also they resist stains even if people bleed all over you, and if you spill one of the nastier potions on yourself it's supposed to just roll off. The kit's got potions in it and self-wrapping bandages and all sorts of other extremely useful things.
Pansy wanted to pay for it for me but I hate taking money from her if I don't absolutely have to and I had some saved. I keep it in her vault, because paying for a vault from Gringott's is expensive (especially if it's not some vault your family wrote the contract for 500 years ago) and Pansy wants me to be able to get at the money in there anyway -- I just keep track of what I put in and make sure not to take out any more than that. Anyway. They have three different versions of the kit, cheap, middling and dear, and I'd figured I'd just get the cheap one. The extra cost is mostly the case, not what's in it; the most expensive one is charmed to be extremely light plus you don't have to actually CARRY it in your hand, it'll just sort of follow you around. Plus I think you can whip it around in front of you to ward off some curses, though probably not anything all that dire, I'm sure it doesn't do anything a shield charm can't do.
Anyway.
So, I go to the shop. I'd looked up the cost of the kits and the cheapest (with the robes) I could just afford, but then they didn't have any of the cheap kits out, and when I asked about them the woman in the shop was really rude about it, said she didn't know how I was going to pay for the course if I couldn't afford the kit (I could afford it, I just needed the cheap one, I don't know what her problem was) and just in general acted like, I don't know. Like Padma Patil on a bad day.
Finally she gets one out from the back and I fill out the slip to transfer money out of the bank vault. She takes it with this enormous sigh, like I'm HUGELY inconveniencing her, and then she looks at it and her eyes get really wide.
Because, it turns out, Antonin Dolohov already paid for my kit (he bought me one of the really nice ones) and it was waiting for me behind the counter and they were supposed to be watching for me and somehow, they'd thought that anyone Antonin Dolohov was sponsoring would ... well, they probably thought I KNEW he'd paid for the kidt. He's paying for the course, but I assumed I would pay for the kit. Anyway. She was so VERY embarrassed at being rude that to make up for it she offered me a substantial discount on my robes. Like, she didn't ACTUALLY say, 'please don't tell your immensely powerful patron that we were nasty to you!' but ... that's why.
Anyway, I thought, 'I will have to tell Ron about this, because he'll find it hilarious, sort of!' (I can't tell Pansy, she'd be cross I was going to buy myself a cheap kit instead of letting her get me a nice one for Christmas) But of course it sort of went out of my head, after I got home.
Dolohov really wants me to be in his debt. He wants to be sure that I know I'm in his debt.
I should probably write to him, too, tonight.
Day before yesterday I was out shopping. Because for that emergency Healing course I'm doing at St Mungo's, the one Dolohov got me into, I needed this very specialised Healer's kit and also a set of robes. They're done up to keep the weather out if you're outside and also they resist stains even if people bleed all over you, and if you spill one of the nastier potions on yourself it's supposed to just roll off. The kit's got potions in it and self-wrapping bandages and all sorts of other extremely useful things.
Pansy wanted to pay for it for me but I hate taking money from her if I don't absolutely have to and I had some saved. I keep it in her vault, because paying for a vault from Gringott's is expensive (especially if it's not some vault your family wrote the contract for 500 years ago) and Pansy wants me to be able to get at the money in there anyway -- I just keep track of what I put in and make sure not to take out any more than that. Anyway. They have three different versions of the kit, cheap, middling and dear, and I'd figured I'd just get the cheap one. The extra cost is mostly the case, not what's in it; the most expensive one is charmed to be extremely light plus you don't have to actually CARRY it in your hand, it'll just sort of follow you around. Plus I think you can whip it around in front of you to ward off some curses, though probably not anything all that dire, I'm sure it doesn't do anything a shield charm can't do.
Anyway.
So, I go to the shop. I'd looked up the cost of the kits and the cheapest (with the robes) I could just afford, but then they didn't have any of the cheap kits out, and when I asked about them the woman in the shop was really rude about it, said she didn't know how I was going to pay for the course if I couldn't afford the kit (I could afford it, I just needed the cheap one, I don't know what her problem was) and just in general acted like, I don't know. Like Padma Patil on a bad day.
Finally she gets one out from the back and I fill out the slip to transfer money out of the bank vault. She takes it with this enormous sigh, like I'm HUGELY inconveniencing her, and then she looks at it and her eyes get really wide.
Because, it turns out, Antonin Dolohov already paid for my kit (he bought me one of the really nice ones) and it was waiting for me behind the counter and they were supposed to be watching for me and somehow, they'd thought that anyone Antonin Dolohov was sponsoring would ... well, they probably thought I KNEW he'd paid for the kidt. He's paying for the course, but I assumed I would pay for the kit. Anyway. She was so VERY embarrassed at being rude that to make up for it she offered me a substantial discount on my robes. Like, she didn't ACTUALLY say, 'please don't tell your immensely powerful patron that we were nasty to you!' but ... that's why.
Anyway, I thought, 'I will have to tell Ron about this, because he'll find it hilarious, sort of!' (I can't tell Pansy, she'd be cross I was going to buy myself a cheap kit instead of letting her get me a nice one for Christmas) But of course it sort of went out of my head, after I got home.
Dolohov really wants me to be in his debt. He wants to be sure that I know I'm in his debt.
I should probably write to him, too, tonight.
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Date: 2014-12-26 04:53 am (UTC)Ugh.
Everything is just--
Ugh.
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Date: 2014-12-26 05:19 am (UTC)I still wear my ring, you know, even though it didn't work for Hermione (which turned out to be a good thing, but still). And Neville didn't, because it didn't work for Hermione so he reckoned it wouldn't work if he needed it to, either.
I just
I guess I will go with 'believe that I will never get caught' because otherwise I'd run screaming into the woods. (I'm in New London at Pansy's townhouse so 'running screaming into the woods' would require a rather long jog.)
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Date: 2014-12-26 05:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-26 05:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-26 05:52 am (UTC)I mean, at least it was obvious that if she was asking me to look at the stuff she'd said we needed to go through, she probably already knew what was in it. And if she did know, then it was too late for sending signals.
I've been thinking about that. If it ever happens again like that--if it really happens--then I'd have to just trust that Charlie or Mum or Bill or the twins--or even Gin, I suppose--that they would know what to do and would stand a chance, fighting their way out. Because, if I'm in the department and that happens, chances are it would be suicide to try warning them.
At least Mum's got the clock. If she's home. And they all know something like that could happen.
Anywiz, I told Desai what I'd found and then she said it was just a test to see what I'd do. And then she wanted to know what I thought about Neville, and I had to say he'd always been odd. Nice chap, but hard to get to know, and always just odd. At least she expected I'd be spinning from the thing about Charlie and from the news about Nev, but it was dead dangerous, having to talk through all that with her.
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Date: 2014-12-26 05:58 am (UTC)Did you talk to your family about it, after? I mean
you're right. You couldn't warn them. Or at least, you couldn't count on being able to warn them.
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Date: 2014-12-26 06:01 am (UTC)I know I have to.
Ugh. Mum's still up. Maybe I should do it now. I mean, this Christmas can't get any worse, right?
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Date: 2014-12-26 06:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-26 06:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-26 06:12 am (UTC)You know, when I wrote to Dolohov I asked him about Evelyn and I think he was trying really hard to reassure me -- without actually saying, 'let me reassure you' -- that Evelyn had got clean away.
Here's what he said: 'Miss Longbottom has not been seen since that day. MLE are trying to find her, of course, to determine the truth of what happened, but they don't have many useful leads, and to my regret I believe we must consider her lost to us as well.'
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Date: 2014-12-26 06:26 am (UTC)But he's as dangerous as the rest of them together. With Auror Lestrange, you know she'd kill you in an instant and like it. With him, you never quite know. I mean, he might, but he might not, and then there's the thing that tells you he wouldn't want to if he did decide to kill you.
In the end it doesn't matter that he wouldn't want to, but somehow it makes it harder to stay on guard with him. It shouldn't, but it does.
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Date: 2014-12-26 06:32 am (UTC)I know what you mean.
Siz said that he sent her a message that was exactly the sort of thing he'd have said if nothing were wrong and he was just held up with some annoying meeting. Exactly like.
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Date: 2014-12-26 06:05 am (UTC)Thanks for the box. It's really-- it's beautiful, how it's made. And it'll be dead useful. With a blood lock on it.
Shame Nev hadn't
I want to break things when I think about it. You know?
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Date: 2014-12-26 06:08 am (UTC)Anyway
Yeah.
He didn't need a box, though. I don't know what he needed. Not to have Seamus Finnigan as a roommate.
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Date: 2014-12-26 06:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-26 06:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-26 05:38 am (UTC)I think I'm going to do what Brodie said and make an unbreakable vow not to say some really particular thing that I'd never say otherwise, y'know? That way if I ever had to, I could suicide. As long as I could talk.
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Date: 2014-12-26 05:59 am (UTC)Well, and here's the thing. If they wanted information from you they'd have to let you talk. They'll never be able to see into your head no matter what they do.
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Date: 2014-12-26 06:07 am (UTC)Want to witness a vow for me?
You can help me decide what it should be. The thing I can never say again after.
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Date: 2014-12-26 06:08 am (UTC)Okay.