Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Harry Marvolo

[alt_ron]

Ugh.

Tamblyn looks better this morning, but honestly. What was he thinking? Hope he's done sicking up.

Between him and the ones who couldn't sleep after meeting the Tower ghosts... I'm done for this morning.

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[alt_harry]

He's a prefect. And a Ravenclaw. He ought to know better than to bring firewhiskey on a boat. Or, you know, on the trip at all.

I think Cho Chang is worried we're going to tell. But she shouldn't be, I mean, if we were going to we would've already, wouldn't we?

[alt_ron]

Do you think we should have? Told, I mean.

Only he was being such a tit last night, and I didn't want Professor Siz thinking the rest of us were doing that, too. Or thinking we knew he had it or whatever.

So, yeah. Why does Chang care if we tell?

I heard she broke things off with Diggory. Maybe she likes Tamblyn now? Which would be perfectly daft, but whatever. I mean, girls. They're totally in loooove with one bloke at breakfast, and then by dinner they've got a mad crush on someone different.

[alt_harry]

Really? I mean, I hadn't heard that.

Girls.

They can be really hard to sort out sometimes, can't they? I mean, even the nice ones. Maybe she just cares because he's in her house. Or something.

And he was being a tit, and if he does it again, we're definitely telling. Maybe we ought to tell him that, so he knows.

[alt_pansy]

Thanks for that.

And we don't want to get Professor Siz in trouble with that awful Umbridge, either. It's not her fault he was being irresponsible, but she's been looking a bit stressed out lately, and I'd hate to add to it because someone was being stupid.

No harm done. This time.

And I have no idea about Chang either way. It's hard to tell when people aren't around one another, you know, but she hasn't written him any PMs lately, if that means anything.

[alt_harry]

Um.

Well.

I mean girls in general. You know.

And yeah, it was sort of gross cleaning up after, but I guess that's why there's more than one counsellor.

[alt_pansy]

Ta.

Honestly, I think most of the mystery would clear right up if you lot actually sat down and listened to us every now and again. You know. Boys. In general.

[alt_ron]

Well, I mean. You're always talking, aren't you. Girls, I mean. In general.

Hard not to have to listen.

[alt_pansy]

What a hardship!

[alt_ron]

Heh.

[alt_ron]

Yeah. Ken Towler was talking about it when we were at Avebury. Said he'd talked to Chang and she was fuming about how Diggory was all up in his own head this summer and had got all dull and serious about everything and wasn't sending her letters or wanting to meet up at all. Stuff like that. We could ask Bell. She might know if it's true.

And, yeah. Girls. Can't make heads or tails of 'em, mostly.

That's a good idea. Let's talk to him at lunch if we can get him alone. I mean, that was so not on, what he did.

[alt_harry]

And you'd think they'd be used to ghosts after seeing the ones at Hogwarts. But re-creating your mad cat dying scene was a good idea to get their mind off things. I think Frobisher nearly woke up the others, he was laughing so hard. And Mackrell seemed to like it well enough. At least he went to sleep after.

[alt_ron]

I mean to say!

Frobisher's spent all year with your hideous Baron down there in the dungeons, and Mackrell's always just laughed at Sir Nick and the way his head flops about sometimes. I don't see why they were wetting themselves about Queen Anne. I mean, sure, she was in a bit of a mood last night, and it was dead grim when she started shouting. I mean, the way she was waving her head around, and all.

I don't know. Maybe something happened to the two of them when we weren't looking. Did they go off to find the loo or something? Maybe some of the ghosts gave them a bad turn then.

[alt_harry]

Yeah, good point. Maybe we could ask.

At least they're getting on better today.

[alt_ron]

Sheesh. This Miss Robins talks a lot! She's what, undersecretary to the secretary under the Minister or something?

I wish we'd just get started on the tour. She's telling us way too much about stuff that happened yonks ago.

[alt_pansy]

Well, you know how us ladies like to talk. And yes, she's the undersecretary to Fudge or something.

The few times I've met her I found her rather annoying. And overly familiar. In an annoying way.

Ugh.

She does go on.