I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

I found a rat. Well Pansy did really, I suppose; Pyewacket brought it up to the dorm. Milli and Daphne weren't here, they were down in the common room, but Pansy hasn't wanted to be down there much.

He seemed really pleased with himself. Pyewacket, I mean. The rat's dazed but otherwise seems alright. It's a magical rat, not a common rat, I can tell because I made it a spot to sleep in my bed and it settled right down, it didn't try to run away like a regular rat would.

It must be someone else's pet. I'll try to figure out who to return it to in the morning, I guess. It's nice to pretend it's mine though, for now. Maybe the Strettons would let me have a rat, it really wouldn't be extra trouble for them, and Finnigan has an owl so I think halfbloods in fostering MUST be allowed to have pets if their foster parents give permission.

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[alt_sally_anne]

It is. I think you're right.

[alt_ron]

Has it done anything queer yet?

Tried to eat you alive or anything?

[alt_sally_anne]

Well he licked my ear while he was sitting on my shoulder. Maybe he was testing me out to see if I tasted good?

I got him a biscuit from down in the common room, he seemed to like that pretty well.

[alt_ron]

Heh.

Sandoval just told Percy he couldn't bait the rats with cockroach clusters cause they're on a special diet for the project or something. So you've probably messed him up for being in the experiment. I think means you should definitely keep him.

[alt_sally_anne]

I saw that too.

It was meant to be!

[alt_sally_anne]

I wish I could remember the exact regulations about halfbloods and familiars.

My family DEFINITELY couldn't keep them. I wish I could remember if there's an explicit exception made for halfbloods in fostering or if they're just not enforcing the rules on Finnigan because his foster father is important. I can look it up tomorrow in the library but the Ministry's book of regulations for halfbloods and blood-traitor families is not the sort of thing that gets left lying around in Slytherin House.

[alt_sally_anne]

Because I think the Strettons would let me keep him if I told him he was a gift from Harry. I just need to make sure Harry will back me up, which means

well I don't THINK he'll care that I'm keeping a rat from Carrow's experiment. He doesn't like Carrow any more than anyone else does. But I'd have to tell him now, I think, so that he could back up my story if he had to. Or at least before I went to the Strettons for the summer.

[alt_ron]

Would you even have to tell them, really? I mean, it's just a rat and that's not very big. You could sneak pealings and scraps from the kitchen when they make you cook, right? They might not ever find out.

[alt_sally_anne]

Maybe you're right.

I want to be able to pretend I got him over the summer, though, next year. It's going to be hard to keep him hidden from Milli and Daphne.

[alt_ron]

Well, they'd believe you found him while you were at the Strettons.

Um. D'you think you could get Stretton--Jeremy, I mean--to say it's his if his parents find out and get upset? And if they don't find out, then he wouldn't have to do anything.

I mean, it doesn't seem like he'd want to help Sandoval get her rats back.

[alt_sally_anne]

That's not a bad idea. He can't stand Sandoval.