alt_ron | Good show, Lav

alt_ron

Now no one can firechat with their parents. Because you couldn't just talk.

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From:

alt_draco

Oh leave off, Measley. She just wanted to write in her journal, as she rightly should, seeing as its the Lord Protector himself who gifted us with them.

From:

alt_ron

Well, you'd think she'd have taken better care to not lose it since the Lord Protector gave our journals to us.

Then she wouldn't have needed her Mum to hand it through the fire when the Ministry's trying so hard to keep us safe here at school.

From:

alt_draco

Maybe she should have done, but she still had to try to get it back, didn't she?

You're awfully critical for someone whose own brother buggered up with his owl. Trying to deflect, I suppose.

From:

alt_lavender

Really, Weasley. It's not as if I did anything that was against the rules then. Just because they changed them, because someone somewhere might use the firechat to bring in something Dangerous, does not mean that I did anything wrong!

From:

alt_hydra

But I speak with Daddy in the fire every week.
Now I don't know who I'll talk to.
Maybe Professor Slughorn will be in his office when I'm in the mood for a chat.

From,
Hydra

From:

alt_sally_anne

Oh, Weasley. It wasn't even her idea, it was her mum's idea, and Professor Lockhart said it was fine. I don't think Brown did anything wrong and I don't expect Bundy's worried she'll get sick from Brown's diary. It's just that Director Selwyn and the Headmistress realised something dangerous could come through, since Brown's diary did.

From:

alt_sally_anne

And really it WASN'T her fault, I'm not just saying that.

Though she's a nitwit all the same. Do she and Parvati do anything but brush each other's hair all day?

From:

alt_ron

Doesn't change that it was you, doing something that they didn't think anyone would do, that made the Ministry clarify their rules and take away one more way for us to get in touch with our parents. (Because, honestly, if your Mum wasn't allowed to send it by owl, then it's obvious to anyone with a brain that you shouldn't have taken the journal through the fire.)

From:

alt_sally_anne

Don't say that Ron, they'll think you're saying Lockhart has no brain! You already got in trouble once this week for saying something bad about a professor.

I mean Lockhart's safer than the Carrows but STILL.

From:

alt_ron

Not during an epidemic that the Ministry and the Lord Protector are taking so seriously they've said we can't get parcels with things like that journal by post. You're being as daft as Lav.

And who's deflecting? Change the subject much?

From:

alt_draco

They didn't say anything about parcels through firechat until just now, correct? You actually ought to thank your housemate for alerting the Ministry to a danger they hadn't yet thought of, since you're apparently taking the epidemic so seriously now yourself.

From:

alt_ron

Oh, please. You think he does have a brain? I mean, all he expects us to learn is his favourite colour and what flavour Bertie Botts he said he likes best in the advert he did for the company.

I didn't know you were as googly about him as all the other girls.

From:

alt_ron

Yeah, it's really awful we won't be able to talk to our parents by fire now.

I'm sure you can find people to talk to, though. You've got loads of friends.

From:

alt_ron

Right, and it should have been obvious they meant us not to hand stuff through the fires. I mean, her Mum must have known she couldn't send it by post. Why would she think it was okay to hand it through the fire? That's the point. Perks.

From:

alt_hydra

Oh yes, you're right of course.

From,
Hydra

From:

alt_ron

Of course it was her fault. It doesn't take a genius to see they shouldn't have been passing stuff through the fires. I mean, if they'd meant us to pass stuff through the fires, they'd have said 'No parcels by post, but feel free to pass care packages to your children through the fires.' But they didn't say that, did they?

And, yeah, the only person who spends more time doing their hair is Lockhart.

From:

alt_lavender

Did you not see where I said before that no one had touched my journal except Mummy and our house elf?! I understand what the Headmistress is saying, that someone could possibly pass something dangerous through firechat, but I didn't!

And are you saying my Mummy doesn't have half a brain? Because I might have to come find you and hex you.

From:

alt_lavender

Thanks, Perks. That's just what I was trying to tell him!

From:

alt_ron

Malfoy, it's obvious. If they'd meant us to get stuff from outside the school through the fires, they'd have said, 'No parcels will be allowed by post, but by all means, feel free to hand your children care packages through the fires.' I mean, did your Mum send you stuff through the Floo? No. She knows that's not okay. Did Hydra's father? No. Same reason. And now none of us can talk to our parents because Lav's got no more brains than a newt.

But do go on taking her part. It shows how brilliant you are.

From:

alt_lavender

Draco, you're so nice sometimes, like a true gentleman defending a lady.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Did I say I thought he had a brain?

No. I said you're going to get in trouble again for being disrespectful!

From:

alt_ron

Is your Mum staying inside your house under quarantine? What about your elves?

I mean, there's a reason they're not letting your Mum or anyone else's come here. Or send us parcels by owl. It's because they want to keep everything that's not already inside the school out. So nothing that's outside, like the disease, can get in. Even by accident.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Her MUM and A PROFESSOR handed it to her, was she supposed to say 'oh no thank you! what if mummy has the disease'?

I mean you're right but you're wrong. You're right it's obvious it was against the rules but you're wrong for blaming Brown. It was her mum and Professor Lockhart who are at fault but for Merlin's sake don't say THAT in the diary either.

From:

alt_ron

Oh, yerk.

I think I'm going to be ill.

From:

alt_harry

I dont think it was obvious at all Weasley. Father sends me things through the fire all the time.

I mean I think it was good that they thought of it. Because like Lav said someone COULD HAVE had a problem. Like maybe if your father handed you something. His work means he meets all kinds of people. So he could give you something infected.

From:

alt_sally_anne

And I think Lavvy's mum must be just as much of an airhead as Lavender.

Parvati's Padma's sister though, I think she must have to really WORK at being such a dimwit.

From:

alt_ron

Oh, thanks, Perks. That's just what I was trying to tell him!

From:

alt_draco

With all those parents you've listed it sounds to me like you're insulting Mrs Brown, Measley - and maybe Professor Lockhart, too. You really don't have any respect for adults, do you? I suppose that's just what happens when one grows up as the spare in some unkempt brood of ginger savages.

From:

alt_draco

I thought Gryffindors were supposed to be chivalrous, but you certainly wouldn't know it by that one.

From:

alt_ron

Oi!

Obviously, your father can make that decision, but I don't think he'd think it's okay for the rest of us to decide it's sometimes okay to send stuff into the school. Isn't that the whole point of this quarrentine thing?

And obviously my parents haven't broken the quarrentine. Because they get that your father and the Ministry want to keep us safe--and they do, too.

From:

alt_ron

Hahahahahaha.

Yeah, I think you're right.

From:

alt_harry

What d'you think Father would put a quarantine in effect if he didn't mean to follow it himself? Thanks Weasley.

From:

alt_ron

Huh?

You just said--

From:

alt_lavender

I'm sure Mummy would never observe anything less the the proper sanitation, and she'd make sure the elves did the same.

And I think this is a silly conversation and am going off to find something more interesting to do, like my revising for Transfiguration.

From:

alt_lavender

Being brave isn't the same as having manners. Unfortunately.

From:

alt_ron

At least my parents like each other enough to have a big family.

From:

alt_ron

I'm sure Mummy knows what sanitation means. Not so much.

And good luck with that.

From:

alt_hermione

I solemnly swear I am up to no good

Oh RON!!

Harry says he's so sorry, it's just that it's been ever so bad in the Slytherin common room and he had to do something, they all hate you and they were going to hate him too even if he is the Lord Protector's son, and he had to! So I told him I could give you this message, and I'm just sitting outside the Slytherin common room writing this really, so I'll have to go back in a second, should I tell him I gave you anything in particular??

From:

alt_padma

I thought you weren't supposed to talk to Weasel anymore?

But I'm sure you'd be welcome in Ravenclaw Corner if you liked. I could ask Sandoval for you if you want.

From:

alt_padma

That's really rich, Weasel. (You may not be familiar with the meaning of that word, but in this case it means ironic.) I mean, Parvati told me how you completely ignored your parents and practically all your family last term, but now that we've been told no more fire chats, NOW you're all upset.

Why don't you just go walk up to the Whomping Willow so it can finish what started when you flew that car into it?

From:

alt_ron

That a death threat, Patil?

Nice.

From:

alt_ron

He what?!

From:

alt_hermione

Are you thick?? He said he didn't really mean it, only he felt like he had to.

He's kind of trying to apologise, Ron, I think.

From:

alt_ron

He thinks he can hex me in the back in front of everyone and then send you to tell me secretly that he doesn't really mean it?

What a git!

Tell him--

No forget it. Tell him I don't have anything to say to him.

From:

alt_neville

Not to mention he's going to have every Prefect in Gryffindor wanting to hex him into the ground. And not just Percy.

What's gotten into you, Ron? Things are tense enough without everybody getting hacked off at you. Maybe it makes you feel better to run off at the mouth at people, but do you really want to get everyone from Draco Malfoy to the Head Girl telling everybody you're a blood traitor or something?

From:

alt_hermione

Ron, I don't think you really understand, honestly you don't, but I'll tell him, I'm just - I think you should think about it, really I do. He doesn't mean it.

From:

alt_percy

Ronald. As lively and no doubt interesting to you as this conversation is, how would you like to break it off and play a game of chess with me instead?