Well, now he's in the Cruciatus Club, too. Imagine having Stretton fancy one, ugh.
I dunno about her paying Parkinson, though. I mean, if I were looking for someone who's more the thing, I'd not choose Parkinson. Even if she is friendly with Mr Malfoy and Mr Black (the good one, I mean, not the nasty one), she's got some funny ideas, y'know? I think if she hadn't been from so important a family she'd have got herself into a lot more trouble last year.
Dames told me that when she was a first-year, there was a girl in her dormitory who thought that being pureblood meant she could say anything she liked. She took a fancy to start a whole salon where people read essays and poems and such about the 'injustice' of the mudblood camps and they told stories about how muggles used to live, and how nice they were. The prefects told her to stop it or they'd tell the Headmistress about it, but she kept on. Finally the Head Boy brought her up before the Governors and they said that if she sympathised with mudbloods so much, she ought to go and live like one. And they sent her and her family to the camps.
But Dames said that even though she was a pureblood, this girl, she wasn't well-connected. I mean, her family didn't have any money and they weren't anyone important, her father was a plumber at the Ministry and her mum was just a clerk in a shop. So when she started what Dames called 'activism' she didn't really have anyone important to defend her.
I mean, I've never heard Perks say anything right out that's plain daft, but Parkinson sure has. If Parkinson was a nobody like Perks, and been as idiotic as she was last year, she'd have never been fostered with Mrs Black, right, and given all those second chances? But if Perks is the one keeping Parkinson in line, well, it sort of makes sense, because no one else would bother. Because they all figure that Parkinson's got enough protection already. Maybe Perks feels the same about Weasley, too, like she has to make sure they don't slip up. I mean, she needs pureblood friends to protect her, but she can't actually make any pureblood friends apart from the likes of Weasley and Stretton and all.
And yeah, I'm just as happy that the Ravenclaw Corner lot are all nice. We've only got one or two like Towler. Whereas you've got Towler and also Wood and of course Weasleys all over the place. Parvati says she wishes she'd been Sorted into Ravenclaw, our blokes are much more fanciable. (But she knows she'd never feel right here, her marks are too low.)
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I dunno about her paying Parkinson, though. I mean, if I were looking for someone who's more the thing, I'd not choose Parkinson. Even if she is friendly with Mr Malfoy and Mr Black (the good one, I mean, not the nasty one), she's got some funny ideas, y'know? I think if she hadn't been from so important a family she'd have got herself into a lot more trouble last year.
Dames told me that when she was a first-year, there was a girl in her dormitory who thought that being pureblood meant she could say anything she liked. She took a fancy to start a whole salon where people read essays and poems and such about the 'injustice' of the mudblood camps and they told stories about how muggles used to live, and how nice they were. The prefects told her to stop it or they'd tell the Headmistress about it, but she kept on. Finally the Head Boy brought her up before the Governors and they said that if she sympathised with mudbloods so much, she ought to go and live like one. And they sent her and her family to the camps.
But Dames said that even though she was a pureblood, this girl, she wasn't well-connected. I mean, her family didn't have any money and they weren't anyone important, her father was a plumber at the Ministry and her mum was just a clerk in a shop. So when she started what Dames called 'activism' she didn't really have anyone important to defend her.
I mean, I've never heard Perks say anything right out that's plain daft, but Parkinson sure has. If Parkinson was a nobody like Perks, and been as idiotic as she was last year, she'd have never been fostered with Mrs Black, right, and given all those second chances? But if Perks is the one keeping Parkinson in line, well, it sort of makes sense, because no one else would bother. Because they all figure that Parkinson's got enough protection already. Maybe Perks feels the same about Weasley, too, like she has to make sure they don't slip up. I mean, she needs pureblood friends to protect her, but she can't actually make any pureblood friends apart from the likes of Weasley and Stretton and all.
And yeah, I'm just as happy that the Ravenclaw Corner lot are all nice. We've only got one or two like Towler. Whereas you've got Towler and also Wood and of course Weasleys all over the place. Parvati says she wishes she'd been Sorted into Ravenclaw, our blokes are much more fanciable. (But she knows she'd never feel right here, her marks are too low.)