I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Do any of you lot know whether they've found out anything about the Patils' little brother? Parvati looks really awful, so I don't want to ask her about it. And obviously I'm not going to go up and ask Padma.

Anywiz, I just wondered 'cause, y'know, it's really

I keep thinking what it would be like if one of us

and how it would be for Mum

or how it would feel to, y'know, just never see the twins again or even Ginny

yeah

it'd be awful

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[alt_neville]

I want to know what's wrong with Seamus. Is there some reason for him to be really upset about the Patil kid, other than being friends with Padma and Parvati, I mean? Because he's acting like this is driving him around the twist or something.

He's been bolting for the shower first thing in the morning when he gets up. Usually he waits until the last possible second to get dressed. And did you know he threw up in the loo after Muggle Studies this morning? I know that Miss Professor Carrow was telling lots of gory stories about the terrible stuff that Muggles used to do to kids when they kidnapped them but...I took him to the Hospital Wing. And he asked me the strangest question while we were waiting for Madam Pomfrey.

He asked what I'd have for my last meal if I knew I was going to die. And did I think I could act normal?

[alt_sally_anne]

He asked you what? Was he saying you don't act normal?

[alt_sally_anne]

Or wait, he was asking if you thought YOU could act normal if you were going to

Does he think the person who killed Sanji is after him next? WHY?

[alt_neville]

I think he was thinking of himself. But he was asking me about myself like--like, uh what's that word? Hpertheticle. But then it was like he thought he had said too much, and he shut it after that.

He looked so scared and sick. Well, maybe just because he felt like he was going spew again.

I haven't seen him come back to classes after lunch.

[alt_ron]

I don't see what he's got to worry about with Mr Rosier as his guardian. He's safe as houses.

I think it was just something he ate didn't agree with him.

[alt_neville]

I dunno, Ron. I can't quite explain it, but...it seemed like there's something going on with him and we have no idea what it is.

[alt_ron]

Well, I agree he's been acting dodgy today.

I guess I just thought it was, well, never mind because, yeah. There's definitely something odd going on now. He just came through the common room and looked like--I dunno, not like he usually looks.

Not smug and all, like everyone should see how special he is. He actually looked like he just really wanted for no one to say anything to him, and he was really odd with Lavender when she cornered him before he could go upstairs. Anywiz, he got away fast and practically ran upstairs. But with him, who knows, really?

[alt_sally_anne]

Padma suggested last night that maybe it was the Irish muggles who took her brother. And then he threw up after Muggle Studies.

Maybe he thinks his father's the one who did it? I mean, so far as I know he doesn't know his father, but I can say for a fact that plenty of halfbloods learn to tell lies about their family from a young age. Maybe he thinks it's his father, and his father's going to come for him next? That really seems like a leap, though.

[alt_ron]

D'you think that's it?

I mean, we asked him one time about his parents, and he was really odd about his father. I'm not sure he's even still alive, his dad. But then he went on and on about how he lived in castles and all, and made it sound like his family's really so important and of course that's why he got such an important man to foster him. At the time I thought it was pretty interesting, but now. Well, it gets old, doesn't it, being told your family's nothing and you smell bad and you're stupid and a mugglelover and all. I mean, honestly. If we don't get to go home after exams, I may seriously lose it with him.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, his mother's family is quite important over in Ireland. If you look at Chronicles of the Protectorate: A Modern History they take sort of a geographical view and they have a whole section on Ireland. Technically his family works under the Ministry but no one here really wants to go over there because it's so dangerous.

It's funny, Padma thinks she's so clever but she had no idea. She thought he grew up poor like I did.

It probably is why he's being fostered by someone so important but now that I think about it, it is a bit strange they're treating him like a half-blood. He's got loads of cousins who aren't at school at Hogwarts; they're schooled at home in Ireland, and I'd have thought Finnigan's mother would want to keep him there and have him educated with the rest of his family. But instead he came here, and the Protectorate has him living in fostering like -- well, like me. Susan Bones is a quarter-blood and she doesn't have to live in fostering. Milli, she's not in fostering. Seamus is truly half, I mean his dad wasn't even a muggleborn wizard, he was a MUGGLE.

Anyway Padma says it wasn't a muggle who did it, so you can watch and see if he acts all relieved now.