I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Professor Sinistra's there, and she says that they're being told it's all fake. Or at least the deaths are supposed to be fake.

From the way she said it I'm pretty sure she thinks it's real.

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[alt_neville]

Are you lot all listening to the wireless in your Common Room? Everyone's gathered around it here.

Nobody's talking much.

[alt_lee]

Yeah.

It's as if even the commentator isn't sure quite what to say.

[alt_sally_anne]

Teddy and Milli got into it over whether the deaths were real or fake and the prefect threatened to use petrificus totallis on both of them if they didn't shut it.

Since then no one's said much.

[alt_ron]

We're all reading everything we can find in the journals.

Did you know Towler's brother's there? So far, no one's said anything about him.

Have you seen anything?

[alt_sally_anne]

I haven't seen anything in the journals about anyone named Towler.

The wireless is on here, too. If they mentioned someone named Towler it was while I was in the loo.

[alt_ron]

His brothers We're all going spare up here about it.

[alt_terry]

Well whatever's going on, it's snagged the git's attention.

I saw him looking at his journal, and he just switched on the wireless.

[alt_gredforge]

You'd better stay out of his way tonight, Professor. As much as you can.

Dunno how he's going to take all this.

[alt_terry]

But what is going on?

[alt_gredforge]

Near as we can tell, people are getting killed in the arena at the Frost Faire.

It's not real clear, but it sounds like the Lord Protector is ordering some of the deaths.

[alt_sally_anne]

Duelling.

At the Frost Faire.

Like Roman Gladiators. Some of them are just duelling for show but some of them are fighting to the death -- unless it's all staged, which is what they're saying officially.

[alt_sally_anne]

How cross will he be when he finds out some of the pureblood vs. half-blood rounds were won by the half-blood?

You might want to get out of his sight, if you can.

[alt_terry]

Shit.

All right. Thanks for the warning.

Uh, I can't get away from him. But maybe...I'll try to get him as drunk as I can. And when he's drunk, I'll pull out my wand when he's not looking and try a distraction charm. Or a cheering charm. Or something.

[alt_neville]

Be careful!

[alt_sally_anne]

That sounds like a good idea, so long as you can get him drunk enough that it's too much effort to hurt you.

The good thing is, the wireless announcer thinks people have been listening all along, I guess, or at least he doesn't really want to recap. So for now he'll probably assume all the half-bloods were duelling other half-bloods so far. But if one of them wins...

[alt_justin]

What's happening now?

Sorry, no wireless here.

-Justin

[alt_sally_anne]

The quarter-finals just started.

[alt_pansy]

I don't know if they are pretending or real or what but I can't listen any more.