I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

You lot are not going to believe this.

I heard from Leander Rosier that last night, when Mr Malfoy went round to Miss Professor Carrow's office, she tried to cast cruciatus on him. In fact I heard that she DID cast it on him. But he fought back and then cast it on HER and kept it on her for eons and only stopped because Ptolemy Baddock and Professor Sinistra came along.

I didn't believe a word of it because -- really? a duel? between Mr Malfoy and one of the teachers? EVEN ONE OF THE CARROWS, it's too mad to have actually happened. And Mr Malfoy seemed perfectly alright when he came by Pansy's party. Well -- although he may have been a little pale and he had a bit of tea but no cake. Maybe she DID -- but -- even if she has the proper permissions to use cruciatus (which of course she does, she's the Dark Arts teacher) that doesn't mean she's allowed to use it on someone else from the COUNCIL for Merlin's sake. On LUCIUS MALFOY.

Anyway like I said I didn't believe a word of it but when someone asked Ptolemy he didn't confirm it but he got all tight-lipped and scowled and said we shouldn't be gossiping. And when someone enquired about Mr Malfoy he said, 'Mr Malfoy can take care of himself, he doesn't need you to be concerned,' and when Alfr someone wouldn't drop it he took points and told everyone to quit talking about it.

So everyone stopped until he was gone but now they're talking about it again.

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[alt_ron]

Wait. Hang on.

Why'd he go see her to begin with? Supposing he did. And she did. And, y'now, it happened like you said.

[alt_sally_anne]

According to what people are saying, he went to see her because he was furious with Mr Professor Carrow but Madam Pomfrey wouldn't let him in to see him because he was too ill. So he went to leave a message for Mr Prof Amycus with Alecto. Which doesn't really explain why she would have attacked him if he was really JUST there to leave a message.

Unless it was a 'message.' You know, like sending Harry a message by hurting Hermione. Leander thinks that's what it was about, Mr Malfoy was furious with Carrow because of that, not because he cares about Hermione but because she's Harry's, not Carrow's, and he shouldn't be messing with her. Someone else thought it had to do with Pansy.

[alt_ron]

Well somebody was giving somebody a 'message', I guess.

But if she jumped him, what 'message' do you reckon she was trying to send?

[alt_sally_anne]

'Don't you mess with me,' maybe?

It doesn't sound like she delivered it very effectively.

[alt_ron]

Heh.

It's sort of impossible to feel very sorry for her, innit?

[alt_sally_anne]

Completely.

I almost wish I'd been there to see it. Almost.

[alt_sally_anne]

Because Carrow was horrid to her after that article about her father came out.

Actually I just went back and read in her journal that entry from earlier in the month. Mr Malfoy told Carrow to watch his step and Carrow kept right on yapping.

This is the first time this month Mr Malfoy's been to the school, unless I'm forgetting something. Awfully convenient Carrow was in the hospital wing and Mr Malfoy couldn't see him I imagine Mr Malfoy thought so, too.

[alt_ron]

Well, they both were, weren't they? Miss Professor Carrow, too. Were horrid to Pansy about it, I mean.

[alt_sally_anne]

Did she say anything to Pansy directly, though? I thought it was just that Terry overheard her once.

[alt_ron]

I dunno. Does it matter? Whether she said it right to Pansy or not, I mean.

It's not just Terry I've heard saying that Alecto Carrow's been going around talking about Mr Parkinson. I heard she's been saying stuff in the upper-level Dark Arts lessons. Using him as an example of someone who never understood this thing or never mastered that spell or was totally naff at something else.

[alt_pansy]

Yes. She did. It was when we were leaving class after she made that announcement about her replaicing Professor Acton for dueling club, and as I was walking out, she looked down at me and said

"I expect you'll be slow on the draw, just like Tony, so I can't expect you'll be any good. It's best that you didn't ask to be in my Dark Arts class, because I really don't think you'd have the disposition for it. it's not in your blood." And she was smiling at me the whole time.

She's the coward, and the sloppy duelist, for not admitting her part and for being so careless that she didn't care who she hit when she made that wall fall down, and it's just been torture to sit there in her class knowing what she did, and I've said that I don't wish death on anybody, but if I made two exceptions, it would be for her and her horrible brother. I hope she is sacked and I never have to see her face again for the rest of my life. And I hope whatever hexes Lucius used on her HURT. LOTS.