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alt_ronHow do you stand Acton's arse kissing? She's laying it on with a trowel today, isn't she?
And, y'know, it's really impossible to concentrate for wondering if MLE are about to turn up and ask the lot of us about Tea Appreciation and the Ponds.
And, y'know, it's really impossible to concentrate for wondering if MLE are about to turn up and ask the lot of us about Tea Appreciation and the Ponds.
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Date: 2014-10-27 06:17 pm (UTC)It's working pretty well.
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Date: 2014-10-27 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-27 06:29 pm (UTC)It wasn't like Tea Appreciation was the only thing that happened there, though, there were loads of regulars. And only some of them were traitors, most of them were just regular people looking for a cheap place to have a pint.
It might take them a while to get to us, anyway.
And we've all been working on occlumency.
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Date: 2014-10-27 06:42 pm (UTC)Anywiz. You're right about us. We're not going to be first priority, but I bet they get to us. Auror Lestrange is going to be thorough like we've never seen thorough. People in the department talk about it, how mad she is on the subject of Sirius Black.
If we're lucky, they'll send some Enforcers to question us up here instead of bringing us all down to the Ministry. If that's what they do, they might not send a Legilimens, y'know? But we can't count on it. We really can't. And if it happens to be Lestrange herself? We're dead. None of us could block her out. Or, well, I guess I could now, but y'know what I mean.
I just hope they don't get Ginny on their list. I mean, she didn't ever come along for tea, but they could get her from questioning some of the rest of us and, well, she's really pants at occluding. I think it runs in our family. I mean, I was absolutely useless at it.
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Date: 2014-10-27 06:46 pm (UTC)The thing about Bellatrix is I think most of us could keep her out, at least for a while, but she'd notice we were doing it. And that would just make her more suspicious.
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Date: 2014-10-27 07:20 pm (UTC)Anywiz.
Do you think all of us are good enough Lestrange wouldn't just barge on through? I'm not sure about Sue, y'know? I reckon Evelyn and Nev are solid. They've been protecting secrets forever, yeah? And are bloody good at it. And Luna, well. I dunno, but my guess is she'd manage. What about Daphs?
I don't know about Ginny. Maybe so. I should talk to her about it for sure. Only, that does no good if they're coming to question a load of us this week. Ugh.
Did you ever want to be an animagus? There were loads of kids stories about them, of course, but I never really seriously thought about trying it. Not until it started look like the only option I had if I'm going to make a real run at Auror training.
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Date: 2014-10-27 07:27 pm (UTC)About Bellatrix -- Draco kept her out. And he's brilliant at occlumency actually, but she wasn't just legilimising him, either, she used crucio and had Mulciber beat him.
I think most of us could keep her out for a little while. But yeah, I don't know about Ginny. Or Daphs either, for that matter. They're so new, they haven't had much time to learn.
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Date: 2014-10-27 07:41 pm (UTC)Is Daphne worried, d'you know? Someone should talk to her. Make sure she's okay. I doubt this is what she bargained for, joining us, y'know?
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Date: 2014-10-27 07:44 pm (UTC)I mean
What did you think you were signing up for? Did you think you were signing up to learn to be an animagus and join MLE?
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Date: 2014-10-27 07:47 pm (UTC)I mean, I didn't know, but then... then everything clicked together and I realised I'd sort of known for a long time. And yeah, I wanted to join because I knew what kind of risks my parents had been taking. But then, I was doing it because I really believe all of this has got to change. And it won't unless we take some serious risks, yeah?
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Date: 2014-10-27 07:59 pm (UTC)Ugh. I'll tell you when we get to Potions. Hang on.
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Date: 2014-10-27 08:16 pm (UTC)Dumbledore's got me running 'errands' for him. Snakeform. Listening in on people. And taking things around for him and leaving them in odd spots. Stuff he can't do himself or doesn't want anyone connecting him with.
Oh, this is interesting: yesterday afternoon when I was there, Dumbledore said he's pretty sure Dolohov has a thing, a device, that let's him know where people are in the castle. Don't know how it works, but yeah. That's... awkward. Said he's not sure, but he's been trying to test the notion. That Dolohov has this thing. Anywiz, he's assuming Dolohov does have it, so there are places he won't go because he doesn't want Dolohov knowing he did. Some odd rooms tucked away in places I didn't know about. And Dumbledore wants to know if Dolohov ever goes into those rooms.
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Date: 2014-10-27 08:18 pm (UTC)Also, how does that even work? I mean is it like that map your brothers gave Hermione?
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Date: 2014-10-27 08:37 pm (UTC)He was talking like Dolohov might have a device. Something complicated and technical, I think, because when he told me he wanted me to put these pebbles around, he sort of laughed and said they were the unsophisticated kind of spying device. But he seemed to think they could serve his purpose well enough.
I don't know what either thing can tell them. Names like on the map? Or just if they want information about particular people, a kind of yes or no. Not sure. I don't even know what Dolohov's is supposed to be. I'll ask Dumbledore next time I go.
Anywiz. I've taken them to the Potion's supply cupboard and the laboratory, to the Salle, each of the House common rooms, and some teacher's private rooms. Hooch's. Gimlet's. Marwick's. Oh, and the secret room. Only, it was the room with all the things in when I went in to drop the stone there. That's what he wanted.
I think he's got some more for me to do next time.
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Date: 2014-10-27 08:41 pm (UTC)How are you carrying pebbles while you're a snake?
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Date: 2014-10-27 08:49 pm (UTC)Then gacking them up.
Did you know snakes can sick up? I didn't. Dumbledore says he's heard of pythons that've been seen 'disingesting' antelopes or something. Something ginormous.
Makes my jaw hurt to think about that.
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Date: 2014-10-27 08:50 pm (UTC)Does Sally-Anne know? About what you've been up to with Dumbledore, I mean.
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Date: 2014-10-27 09:36 pm (UTC)He took me along in his robe pocket one time when he went to talk to Desai. Wanted to know what I could taste on the air in her office. Dumbledore said all he could smell in there was incense, but I smelled loads of different things. Or, y'know, tasted them. The one he was interested in, though, was a lot like the smell that comes after someone casts one of those creepy hallucination hexes. (Those are really distinctive, the way the afterburn tastes.)
I expect he's going to ask me to go snoop on her again sometime on my own. Probably when she talks to Dolohov.
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Date: 2014-10-28 03:20 am (UTC)Sometimes I can tell supper's going to be horrendous before I even get all the way down the tower stairs.
Oh, and here's a weird fact--Dark spells? Smell really, really good. I mean, sometimes all of a sudden I realise I'm standing there with my mouth open because I'm trying to taste them and I didn't know I was doing it.
I told you it was weird.
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Date: 2014-10-28 03:22 am (UTC)Never imagined tasting Dark spells when I was pretending to be an animagus as a kid.
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Date: 2014-10-28 03:42 am (UTC)So. You wanted Malfoy to be a dragon. What did you want to be?
I always thought I'd be a lion or a panther or something that could run and hunt and had sharp teeth. Maybe a lynx or a fox, even. Though now I think about it, a fox is probably as likely to be hunted as to hunt, yeah? And that's definitely not what I was thinking when I imagined it as a kid!
And I reckon at least I turned out to be a hunter. Did I tell you I tried to eat Sally Anne's rat the first time I changed? Sebastian still acts like he's terrified of me.
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Date: 2014-10-28 03:49 am (UTC)Was Sally-Anne cross that you tried to eat Sebastian?
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Date: 2014-10-28 04:02 am (UTC)I thought a lot about that when I was trying to learn the transformation. Dumbledore had me imagining what it would be like to be different types of animal--a fish, a hippo, an elephant, a bird, y'know. I do think it could be nift to be a bird. And an owl could've been dead useful to the Order. That's what I was sort of hoping for, and there was this one time that I woke up with a feather on my pillow and I thought... yeah, it was probably Pig's. But I was sort of hoping.
It was dead surprising when I turned out to be a snake.
Certainly surprised Sebastian!
Actually, I don't think Sally Anne was cross at all. She was more worried for me because I disappeared down a hole and didn't come back for hours. And then everything happened with Hermione and Draco and McGonagall, so she didn't really get a chance to be cross about her rat. I mean, she takes the mickey about it sometimes. When he acts like he's having a coronary because I'm in the room.
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Date: 2014-10-28 04:12 am (UTC)You're right though, that would be dead useful.
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Date: 2014-10-28 04:40 am (UTC)I mean, what do his parents send him, anywiz? I should ask F-F whether he shares with the rest of the Puffs. He doesn't look like he's stuffing himself, so maybe it's all monogrammed handkerchiefs and new socks and pants for every day of the year? Or gourmet cat food?
Anywiz, you're right. Guess I'm glad I'm not an owl after all.
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Date: 2014-10-27 07:28 pm (UTC)I remember trying to convince Draco to pretend to be an animagus who could turn into a dragon (because his name means dragon). He never wanted to pretend at being an animagus, though.
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