Private message to Jason Montague

Look, I -- I'm sorry.

I don't want to make our friendship impossibly awkward. Friendship is fine. If you don't I promise I won't try to kiss you again. (I think it was me who kissed you, last night. I know I told you this morning you kissed me but once I'd had the hangover potion and slept again I was a lot less sure.)

I find you attractive. Not much point in lying about that. But I find a lot of people attractive, and a good portion of the time they're not interested in lads, and I manage. The fact that you fancy some lads doesn't mean you fancy me; I'll manage.

I hope you'll still train with me. Duelling, I mean.

Private message to Draco Malfoy

Many happy returns, Draco.

I was just thinking, tomorrow's going to be your first birthday without Harry. It's probably the first time you even remember a birthday without Harry. You were even together last year; it wasn't until the day afterward that everything went to hell and you ran.

I saw you flirting with that mudblood in Hydra's journal entry yesterday. You make such an adorable couple. I'm sure she'll be there to comfort you tomorrow when you're thinking about Harry. You can cry on her shoulder.

But you know, now that we know about the two of you, she'll be even more of a target. You're not the only one who can cast the Black Curse. If Bellatrix casts it on your mudblood, will you hold her in your arms as she dies from it and think about how now you know exactly how much Harry suffered? Or will you mercy-kill her to spare her the part where all her insides disintegrate and she pukes the decaying bits out of her mouth?

Then you'll have murdered two people you love.