I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Nov. 5th, 2011 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sally_anneAlso, I meant to tell all of you about this conversation I had with Justin, the English boy from Beauxbatons. Ron got up a little card party on Monday, before the Feast, and Justin wanted to play Spite and Malice with me, so we were off in a corner and could talk without being overheard.
He wanted to talk about Sirius Black. We'd discussed him in the journals, privately, just a little, but this made both of us nervous so we'd put it off until he got here and we could talk in person. He wanted to know if Sirius was dead -- only he didn't expect me to know, precisely, so he wanted to know if people BELIEVED he was dead or if, after seeing the picture in the press and that journal entry they thought he was actually alive. I told him as clearly as I thought I could get away with that anyone clever knew perfectly well Black was alive but would never say so publicly.
And then he talked about how he thought Black was rather dashing. I mean, he was clever about it because he didn't precisely SAY this but he talked about how he was like some character from a book (a muggle book) about the French Revolution.
Anyway. Here's the thing. Justin has a secret. And it's not that he's sympathetic to Sirius Black, he was quite willing to tell me that (in a very careful sort of way -- he's clever, I don't think he'll get himself in trouble). I don't know what it is, he wouldn't tell me but he is HIDING SOMETHING.
And it's been driving me just a little bit batty trying to work out what it is. I thought maybe it was that he was a half-blood and the other Frenchies thought he was pure, and MAYBE that's it but we talked a little about blood purity and I did my best to lay down an engraved invitation to tell me if that's all it was and he didn't.
He's very chatty but he's also very good at talking about nothing at all. Which is probably just as well, actually, because whatever his secret is there are quite a few people here he'd best not share it with.
Anyway I'd meant to write about this on Monday night but after what happened with the Goblet I was a little distracted.
He wanted to talk about Sirius Black. We'd discussed him in the journals, privately, just a little, but this made both of us nervous so we'd put it off until he got here and we could talk in person. He wanted to know if Sirius was dead -- only he didn't expect me to know, precisely, so he wanted to know if people BELIEVED he was dead or if, after seeing the picture in the press and that journal entry they thought he was actually alive. I told him as clearly as I thought I could get away with that anyone clever knew perfectly well Black was alive but would never say so publicly.
And then he talked about how he thought Black was rather dashing. I mean, he was clever about it because he didn't precisely SAY this but he talked about how he was like some character from a book (a muggle book) about the French Revolution.
Anyway. Here's the thing. Justin has a secret. And it's not that he's sympathetic to Sirius Black, he was quite willing to tell me that (in a very careful sort of way -- he's clever, I don't think he'll get himself in trouble). I don't know what it is, he wouldn't tell me but he is HIDING SOMETHING.
And it's been driving me just a little bit batty trying to work out what it is. I thought maybe it was that he was a half-blood and the other Frenchies thought he was pure, and MAYBE that's it but we talked a little about blood purity and I did my best to lay down an engraved invitation to tell me if that's all it was and he didn't.
He's very chatty but he's also very good at talking about nothing at all. Which is probably just as well, actually, because whatever his secret is there are quite a few people here he'd best not share it with.
Anyway I'd meant to write about this on Monday night but after what happened with the Goblet I was a little distracted.