I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

I've ruined everything.

Pansy knows about the lock. Or -- not the lock, but she knows that I have a way to talk to Ron that she doesn't know about, and she's pretty sure it has something to do with the journals, and she's pretty sure that Neville is in on it too and she's furious and hurt because we've been keeping it a secret from her. And it's a HUGE secret.

She doesn't know who else is involved, and she doesn't know how it works. But she caught me writing today something that didn't appear in her journal, and she burst in on me like that because she was TRYING to catch me, because she suspected, and she suspected because of today, because of the distraction that I asked for and Ron made.

And it didn't even matter, or if it DID matter it made things worse, I was starting to say that I heard a rumour the MLE didn't find Snape or Macnair but they did find a muggleborn servant who'd run off. If we hadn't tried to help her maybe she'd have made it out alright, but --

But I thought a distraction would help, and that meant Pansy guessed, and it turns out she's suspected for MONTHS, I feel so stupid that I thought I was getting away with it.

She wanted me to tell her what was going on and I told her that I couldn't. Or at least I said that I couldn't tell her now, but I would tell her later. So that I could talk to you, and tell you what happened.

Either you have to let me tell Pansy, or Fred and George have to obliviate her. Because right now she knows I'm keeping a secret but she doesn't REALLY know how much trouble I'd be in if she told, even though I tried to give her some idea of that much. And if you obliviate Pansy I think you should obliviate me, too, because I'm the one who got her into this by not being more careful. Got all of us into this.

I hate that I'm putting all of you in this position.

Pansy would never tell. She wouldn't.

At least, she would never tell if she knew what was at stake. If we leave her hanging, if she doesn't KNOW what's going on or how many people or how much trouble -- I don't know what she'll do if she knows half of it but not all of it. What I know is that she would never betray ME, not to Lucius, not to anybody. She knows that I've exchanged messages with my mum, and she kept that secret, and she knows the truth about what I think about things and she's kept that secret too.

Please let me tell her. Please.

Comments

[alt_ron]

No. Of course, she doesn't need to make an unbreakable vow and then break it. Don't be daft.

And Pansy can't even read it, either, so nobody's going to read the MLE what we've written. And anywiz, she wouldn't ever. Pansy wouldn't.

She just totally wouldn't do that to us.

And she's not mental. Nor Sally Anne, neither. So you can just stop with that bit.

[alt_lee]

So Perks could tell Parkinson she's made the Unbreakable Vow, only not do it. But tell her she has.

[alt_gredforge]

Right, brilliant. Which means if we let Parkinson in on the lock, she'll read all this anyway and know we're trying to pull one on her.

(Hi, Parkinson. If you're reading this someday.)

[alt_lee]

You are SO not helping.

So what do YOU think we should do?

[alt_gredforge]

Neville's right, we need to hear from Hermione. It's her and the Professor's necks on the line more than anybody else's. Other than that, well, guess Perks knows her best, and the Professor thinks it'll be all right. Hope you're right about that, Professor.

We do think the protections on the lock would help to keep her from passing on whatever she might learn here.

Don't like it a bit, though. It would help a lot if she could give us a secret of her own.