I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

So, honestly? I don't know what we should do.

We've got Potions this afternoon. With Ravenclaw. And I haven't heard if Professor Slughorn is going to make us move tables or not. Or change partners, or whatever. I sort of don't think he will, but I dunno.

But this morning in Transfiguration, I thought Carrow was going to hex us for sitting where we usually sit well, where I usually sit in the back. He said we knew before we came in where we were supposed to sit, and we got another detention for not wanting to just let them tell half our class they aren't good enough to sit with the rest of us.

I mean, I'm trying to let Seamus think it's more about me not liking to sit up front like a girl, 'cause he's really

he agrees with

that some people are better

only, of course, he thinks he's in the better group, but even with the Carrows, who're making him sit in the back, he doesn't want us--Nev and me--standing up for him. He's really

I dunno

And Dean just shrugs and won't talk about it, but he's really hacked off, you can tell. And also scared expecting, I dunno, but he knows it's not going to stop with making him sit away from the rest of us. He's seen what happens, and I think he's getting ready for that. But he won't say anything to us, and I don't know if he thinks we're making it worse for him by showing we don't think this stuff is right. And Bundy. She never says anything to anyone, anyway. She just kind of flinches if you even look at her.

So I don't know what we should do, y'know? And we've got both Charms and Transfiguration again tomorrow.

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[alt_ron]

I mean, look, just writing that sounds mental. You're as good at magic as any witch. Or wizard, too. And it's got cod's all to do with whether you're a halfblood. I mean, I reckon that maybe if one of your parents was really ace at Charms, you might get that from them, and if one of your parents was really dire at Potions, say, it wouldn't be too surprising if you were, too.

But that's got nothing to do with whether you've ever had any Muggles somewhere up your family tree. Does it?

I mean, I know it's not the same, but I kind of can't explain it.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well Finnigan's father was a muggle! so he didn't get his Potions ability from his dad.

And my mum is a muggleborn so she didn't get any of it from her parents.

My mum was really good at Transfiguration back when she had her wand. My father was better at Charms. It was a real problem when all we had to eat was turnips since he was the one with the wand.

She must have been good though because she was a Ravenclaw Prefect when she was a student.

[alt_ron]

Whoa.

That's really--

I don't know. About your Mum.

It's not right, for one thing. I mean, it makes no sense that the Ministry'd take away wands from some of the best witches and wizards we've got. People like your Mum.

But, yeah. What you're good at can't all come from your parents. I mean, look at my family. Bill's really good at Charms, and the twins, too. And that comes from Mum, definitely. She's ace at spellwork.

But what about Charlie? I mean, my dad's pretty good at making stuff and figuring out how stuff works, and Charlie is, too. But working with dragons? I don't know anybody in our family who really liked creatures the way he does. I mean, Mum keeps chickens and bees and things, but that's not the same at all. So where'd that come from? No where. It's just Charlie, and he's dead good at it.

And nobody knows where they got Percy from. The twins'll tell you Mum and Dad got him on the bargain table at the goblin market. 'Course they also told me that Mum found me under a cabbage leaf, so there you go.