Private Message to Sue Bones

Say. I've been thinking about what you did yesterday, Apparating for the first time just when we needed you to. That was terrific.

I told D&D we'd used Apparition, by the way. I figured MLE knew it the second time, so it was probably going to come out.

It'll be nice not to have to pretend I can't. I really thought I was going to splinch myself earlier this week, trying to avoid doing it!

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

Um.

Sue. I'm sorry I got you into this mess.

So I did a stupid thing this morning. I wrote Sue a private message about stuff we'd done yesterday, and I needed to write it so Thomas and Finnigan could see I was sending a PM because they were around and could see I was writing.

Anywiz, I didn't even think... and I was writing about Apparating because Sue did it yesterday for the first time while we were paired up for an evasion exercise, and I wanted her to know I reported to Dolohov that we'd both used it during the exercise since neither of us had done it in lessons yet. But I said something about that meaning that we could go ahead and do it in lessons today and not have to try not to...

And long story short, we got back to camp tonight and both of us had got notified by Magical Malfeasance that our private messages revealed we'd confessed 'self-tutoring an age-restricted magical skill without benefit of permit or proper instruction'.

And. It's worse than that because the notices were delivered in the afternoon direct to Professor Dolohov and Auror Desai, so they called us in and gave them to us. Well, Desai talked to Sue and Dolohov took me aside.

He wasn't cross. Actually, he said he was impressed I'd been trying to learn magic above my level--he said it showed I was taking initiative. And he told me not to worry because he wrote the office of Magical Malfeasance for me and told them I'd had his permission to study Apparition independently during the summer. So it should all be taken care of.

Only, that makes me worry a bit. If you know what I mean.

And it really was stupid.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.