Hogsmeade!

[alt_seamus]

Who's looking forward to Sunday???

Dean, do you want to walk there together? I want to go to Zonko's first, Honeydukes is brilliant and all but I can always ask Mr Rosier to send me sweets, he's not as likely to send me dungbombs jokes.

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Re: Private message to Padma

[alt_padma]

I'm glad you remembered to make this private! For a minute I thought you'd said all that flat out, and while who cares about Weasley or Longbottom seeing it, Thomas can be so prickly. And nevermind Carrow!! He'd probably Cruciate you if you criticised him like that where he might see it.

But as for what's going on...well, I mean, I think having the Azkaban guards nearby is sort of unsettling everyone, isn't it? But Professor Carrow especially. He was actually held in Azkaban last year, for a while, anyways. Bobolis says she thinks Mr Malfoy arranged that especially because he doesn't care for Professor Carrow, but if he doesn't, he's hardly alone, is he? And anyway I know Mr Malfoy's powerful but I don't think the Minister would put someone in Azkaban just because Mr Malfoy told him to do.

So I guess he's having trouble - Professor Carrow, I mean - and he's more fractious than usual. In Ravenclaw we just hop to whatever he says to do, without giving him any reason to fuss. But sometimes I think he actually wants the excuse to be vicious, you know? So once in a while I'll Confound Brocklehurst or Capper when Professor Carrow's back's turned, so they'll give a wrong answer and let him fume a bit and then he's all right for the rest of the lesson.

Really it's all a question of knowing how to handle people, I think, don't you?

Re: Private message to Padma

[alt_seamus]

Weasley already knows what I think of him but I'm hardly going to say a word about Carrow where he can see.

I wonder why wrong answers settle him in the Ravenclaw lessons and wind him up worse in Gryffindor? I don't need to Confund anyone, Longbottom hardly ever answers things right.

Re: Private message to Padma

[alt_padma]

Oh? Even after all the extra help he gets from Perks??

Shocking.

I don't know why but I've asked Parvati why she and you and Lav have to be in Gryffindor. It's such trouble sometimes, really, and it'd be so much easier if you were here in Ravenclaw or even in Hufflepuff! Why do we even need Gryffindor at all, d'you reckon? I mean, just because he was a founder? But he was wrong about so much!

Hey - maybe we ought to talk about the Founders some night soon, for History Club. What do you think?

Re: Private message to Padma

[alt_seamus]

There's nothing wrong with courage if it's courage in the service of the right things.

The problem is that if you're brave AND a traitor at heart, your fear isn't going to be enough keep you in line.

I mean all the houses have their issues. Hufflepuffs are easy to lead and if they get the wrong leader they'll follow them over a cliff. Ravenclaws sometimes get curious about something and damn the consequences. Even Slytherins can go wrong, it happens, and they're better at hiding it. You know?

I think a History Club meeting on the founders would be brilliant.

Re: Private message to Padma

[alt_padma]

I suppose, but so many of you lot in Gryffindor are not just brave, you're thick-headed as well. And it seems like everyone lumps the good Gryffindors in with the bad ones, so sometimes it seems like it would just be a whole lot less trouble if one could say you weren't Gryffindors at all. But I suppose there are Ravenclaws who are slimy gits, too, like Stretton and I guess Sandoval, now, too.

What if you were to talk about Godric Gryffindor and I'll take Rowena Ravenclaw. And I'll ask Parkinson if she wants to talk about Salazar Slytherin and maybe MacMillan or Bones will cover Helga Hufflepuff.

Oh, and let me know if you decide to meet Hooper tomorrow instead. It's so much easier to have Thomas in the group if you're there as well.

Re: Private message to Padma

[alt_seamus]

Courage doesn't pair well with stupidity, I'm not going to argue with that! And not EVERYONE lumps the good Gryffindors in with the bad ones. Mr Rosier doesn't, and I don't think Mr Malfoy does, or most of the teachers other than possibly Carrow.

I could definitely talk about Godric Gryffindor, there are some excellent biographies of him in the library, and I think Parkinson would be an excellent person to talk about Salazar Slytherin.

It's just as well Hooper turned out to be busy tonight, as I really needed the Transfiguration practice. Ugh. I'd be happy if I never saw furry anything, ever again.