I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

That is NOT GREGORY.

There is no way. Gregory wouldn't know what half those words meant, let alone how to spell them.

I hope he doesn't get in horrible trouble. Not that I especially like him, but -- do you suppose he dropped his journal as he was getting off the train?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Though I'm thinking about it and he can't possibly have done. I mean only people who USE their journals carry them on the train ride, and I'd have thought Goyle's would be at the bottom of his trunk.

Except

Hermione. Did YOU take it? You live in Slytherin and you go in that dorm sometimes and he'd never have missed it.

[alt_pansy]

Well, of course someone else has it. Do you suppose it's someone like that one person? The Charlotte person?

I mean, this one looks different, and the Charlotte person didn't have any drawings or anything, but I think it's like that.

[alt_sally_anne]

You know it just occurred to me we might be worried over nothing.

Maybe MLE had Mr Goyle hand over Greg's journal so they could pretend it was stolen and write this. Maybe the magic they talk about doesn't work at ALL but they reckon since they said 'don't try to use a stolen wand! BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN!' they'll blunt the effects of any muggleborns who DO try to rebel. Instead they'll have people practicing these spells and maybe they'll catch them at it.

Smith thinks it's all a laugh, like the world's most complicated April Fool's joke ever.

I suppose we could try out the wandless magic -- there's no rule against a wizard or witch learning to do 'Accio' without a wand. And then think how easy it would be to learn it next year with one! If it works, at all, we'll know this wasn't MLE because they'd never give useful information out like this. If they did write something like this, it would all be rot.

[alt_neville]

Blimey. I wouldn't want to be in Goyle's shoes now for anything.

But...is the information real? I mean, does wandless magic really work like that? Whoever wrote it sounds like they know what they're talking about. Um, not that I've ever studied wandless magic, though...