I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Well Hogsmeade was a blast and a half, I thought. Pansy do you think maybe we can go shopping in London sometime on holiday? Because wandering around shops with you was SO MUCH FUN and New London's much bigger than Hogsmeade.

I found some nift yarn, it sort of shifts around colours and glitters when the light is right, I'm going to try knitting with it. And I got sugar quills and chocolate frogs and some other sweets.

Ron and Nev, what were you lot talking to Finnigan and Thomas about when we came into Three Broomsticks? I hope you appreciated the way they cleared out all of a sudden and made space for us. It's a dead useful spell, it's not even technically a HEX, can you guess what we used?

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[alt_sally_anne]

I'll give you a hint about the spell: you can cast it on YOURSELF and normally that's what people use it for.

[alt_ron]

Oh.

It was a memory jogger spell? Y'know, not everyone can get that to work on themselves. Neville, for instance. We tried to teach it to him, but you have to remember the spell in order to use it!

[alt_sally_anne]

Yes, it was the memory jogger spell! It's a shame Neville can't make it work, I expect he'd find it awfully useful. I wonder if it would work if I cast it on him?

Anyway, Finnigan must have forgot something he was supposed to do today because he certainly dragged Thomas off in an awful hurry, didn't he? And I don't think he even had any idea he'd been jinxed, because sometimes that just happens, you're sitting somewhere with a butterbeer and you think OH NO I WAS SUPPOSED TO MEET SO-AND-SO AT ZONKO'S FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO or whatever.

Did you go to Zonko's today? Get anything horrible?

[alt_ron]

I bet it made him think 'Oh! That's right! I'm meant to be off licking Patil's boots just now. Come on, Tosspot, we've got places to be!'

Good job they cleared out, though. I don't think there were any other tables in there. You'd have had to queue up and wait. Or go to that other place. What was it called? The tea shop that smelled of gingerbread and had the frilly curtains.

Of course, I went to Zonko's. And you'll just have to wait to find out, won't you?

[alt_pansy]

Puddifoot's. All the sixth and seventh year couples go there to snog. It's terribly uninventive of them.

And just so you're aware, Ron, if it smells or looks like poo, I don't want it to come anywhere close to me.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, that place. I mean, who wants to sit around holding hands and eating marzipan? Or drinking tea that smells like flowers?

That's just daft.

And I've no idea what you're talking about!

[alt_pansy]

Well, fair warning.

Besides, I think there are so many other people that would appreciate it so much more than I ever would.

[alt_sally_anne]

...Patil, for instance.

When she's sitting far, far away from us.

[alt_pansy]

Agreed!

[alt_gredforge]

Like us! Except we'd rather be on the giving end rather than the receiving end.

[alt_sally_anne]

There weren't any other tables. If it hadn't worked on Finnigan we were going to have to try it on someone else (after all, it's a public service, helping people to remember things they've forgotten, don't you think?)

[alt_ron]

You haven't ever used that on me, have you?

[alt_sally_anne]

Not yet.

[alt_neville]

Well, maybe I had the wand movements, wrong or something. Maybe I might try it again.

[alt_sally_anne]

I'll cast it on you at lunch and see if that makes you suddenly remember something you left in Gryffindor and couldn't go get on account of all the excitement!