Private Message to Hydra

[alt_ron]

D'you know whether Finnigan and Montague are staying tonight at the castle again? Lunch was interesting. Suppose it's not nice, turning the tables on him like that, but it did make the sarnies taste better.

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[alt_ron]

Yeah, nervous.

Don't kid yourself. He was scared to death of you!

[alt_hydra]

Why? I wasn't going to do anything.

He thinks everyone hates him, I think. Which is sensible of him.

I don't know if I actually do hate him, myself. Even though I did have a conversation with Justin about killing him. But that was mostly because he kept making bad decisions with even worse results.

[alt_ron]

Wish you had done.

Not sure what they've promised him. I mean, if he makes himself too much of a liability, surely we can do whatever makes sense at the time, yeah? I mean amnesty's for what he did in the past. It shouldn't be forever, d'you think?

[alt_hydra]

Well he did take an Unbreakable Vow, so there's that.

Padma and Seamus were both always making decisions without even thinking about the harm that they caused. Or rarely, anyway. It drove me mad when I was on the castle.

But everyone around them encouraged them to be exactly the way that they were. I know that you and Neville didn't always, but sometimes you still had to put on a mask, like you did with Professor Desai.

What if you depended on Desai for everything? Or someone like her?

I'm not making excuses for Seamus, but he's a far, far cry from someone like Teddy Nott. I don't think he'll cause trouble on his own. He might if Montague decides to, though.

[alt_ron]

True, but those are only as good as the phrasing. I mean, you hear about people finding wiggle room in UVs.

Not that I'm saying Brodie or whoever wrote it would've left him enough room to wriggle out of it, but...

Maybe I can get him hacked off at me enough to try throwing AK my way. Then he'd fall down dead, and it wouldn't take me breaking his amnesty guarantees, at all.

[alt_hydra]

You could try. What would you do?