I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Jeremy and I went flying today and


I saw something today I

Jeremy counted, he's such a Ravenclaw, there were 134

It's true what Sirius Black said about the sickness.

I have to go make dinner now. I washed Neville I wish I just want to leave, I want to get out of here, floo myself to Pansy's or Hogwarts or anywhere, and Gemma's coming

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[alt_sally_anne]

I didn't go down close enough to get infected so don't worry. Jeremy and I rode our brooms and he also showed me how to cast the bubblehead charm and we just looked down from the air.

There were 134 bodies lying in a field. Lined up in rows. Jeremy counted. There were more the next field over but he decided not to count those. And we didn't go to any of the other farms.

We saw people out trying to dig graves only they couldn't the ground was too hard and I saw one of them fall down right where he was digging.

If I'd been a Gryffindor I would've gone down to try

[alt_ron]

Do you really have to stay there? Do you think if you asked the Headmistress you could come back here? Or if you asked Professor Slughorn?

134 is a lot.

[alt_ron]

Did Stretton tell his parents?

[alt_sally_anne]

No. We agreed before we set out it would be a secret, he doesn't want to get in trouble any more than I do. And then after we got back he made me promise him I wouldn't breathe a word to them, and he promised me too without me asking.

I think he just wants to forget everything he saw.

[alt_sally_anne]

It's alright Ron, I'm not as upset as I was earlier.

I can just stay in the house, like the Strettons want me to anyway.

[alt_neville]

Blimey, I don't even know what to say.

Do you . . . do you think that's why they're making Harry Marvolo stay at school? Because they know? But they let all the rest of us kids go home?

[alt_sally_anne]

You're cleverer than your marks make you look, Nev.

I think you're dead on. I mean yesterday I wanted more than anything to go back to Hogwarts, no matter if Carrow or some never-aging thousand-year-old monster is going around petrifying people.

Mr Malfoy has to know how bad it is. The Lord Protector too.

Though surely Ron's father knows too, doesn't he work in Muggle Domestication? And they let Fred and George go home, and Ginny, instead of making them stay at school with Ron. Maybe Mr Malfoy was afraid Draco would slip away like Jeremy and I did to go look, I don't think there's a muggle camp near Malfoy Manor but there might be muggles working on an estate nearby.

[alt_sally_anne]

DID YOU SEE what Mr Malfoy wrote in his journal tonight? About Mr Avery?

They ARE afraid of getting sick. They know wizards aren't immune to whatever it is, and they don't know if St Mungo's can cure it if they catch it.