Private message to Padma Patil and Blaise Zabini

[alt_seamus]

Zabini, did you even know they were engaged? Also, what did they say to each other when he came over to your table?

I hope F-F isn't completely distracted by this.

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[alt_padma]

I couldn't hear it either but Bulstrode said that when he saw F-F coming over, Remy Jugson cast a auditory enhancing charm so he could hear it, and she was right there.

F-F told her that 'In light of recent events'--well, we all know what those are, right?--the 'only honourable action' was to release her from their engagement if that's what she wanted. (Honestly, he really does think it's still the 19^th century!) And she said yes, she thought it best and she gave him that ring. Which I've never even seen before, have you? And then he walked away without another word.

But the strange thing is that Hydra's not even upset about it. Did you notice? She just went back to her toast like it was nothing. I mean, I can understand wanting to be shut of him but that was cold even for Bellatrix Lestrange's daughter.

I don't think they were engaged at all. I think they put on a show so everyone will think they're done.

Anyway, he'd best not be. Distracted, I mean. But if I know that Hufflepuff, and he really did break up with her, then he'll want loads of work to keep him occupied. The more Noble Arts work we give him, the better.

[alt_seamus]

She had a ring?!? No, I'd never seen it, though I can't say I've scrutinized her hands looking for one. I would have expected to notice, though.

You're probably right about him wanting more Noble Arts work. Fine with me, I've got plenty else to do.

[alt_padma]

Anyway, I'm more concerned with our latest challenge. I mean, Jacobson's inappropriate feelings for her uncle aren't the sort of thing she'd want widely known, but I can't think of anything she'd find more embarrassing to blackmail her.

[alt_seamus]

Well, you could threaten to make it sound like she'd watched him wanking loads of times. She probably did, after all.

I think Archer would do just about anything to keep people knowing her secret. I mean it's not a secret she was in the camps but she acts like it is, you know? I don't know what to have her do, though.

[alt_padma]

I suppose... what I'm trying to decide is if we're meant to succeed in getting them to humiliate themselves (which is what I'm assuming we're supposed to do) or the whole point is that mostly they won't agree so we have to reveal their secrets, and it's a test of what we're willing to do. You know?

Maybe I'm over-thinking it. But it seems to me that the perfect execution here is to bring each person right to the edge of what they'd do to themselves publicly to save their secret becoming known.

I wonder if Jacobson would snog someone gross in front of the school.