I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Did you hear about what happened to Michael Corner? I think it's true, because he looked really tense today.

I've been thinking about the stuff parents don't tell kids. I wish they wouldn't do that. Keep secrets, I mean, and think they're protecting us when really it means that anytime something can happen where you really needed to know.

Anywiz, I feel sort of awful for Corner. I mean, Patil was already all over him for being soft. And, y'know, for talking to me. What's it going to be like now for him?

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[alt_neville]

Michael Corner?

No, I hadn't heard anything. Why, what are people saying about him?

[alt_ron]

Katrina heard it from Lav and Parvati. I mean, I wouldn't trust either of them to tell the truth about something like this, but Corner looked really upset. And like Katrina said, there's that private message he sent his parents yesterday. Did you see that? The way he addressed to Mr and Mrs Corner?

Oh, anywiz. He's just found out he's really a halfblood, and the Ministry's found out about it, too.

[alt_neville]

But how can that be? There's no doubt his parents are purebloods, both of them.

[alt_terry]

Not if one of them turns out not to be really his parent.

His father, I'd guess. That's easier to fake than Mrs Corner not being really his mother, if there are witnesses at the birth.

[alt_neville]

Ohhhhh.

That means....he found out he's a half-blood AND that Mr Corner's not his real dad at the same time?

[alt_terry]

Most likely, yeah.

[alt_neville]

Wow. Poor bloke.

[alt_terry]

I suppose. It has to be more of a shock for him since he used to be a bit of a snob about it, too. His blood status, I mean.

[alt_lee]

Yeah. That'll knock him off his pedastal a bit won't it?

[alt_terry]

He may find that his good friends Padma Patil and Lavender Brown and the rest aren't quite as good friends as he thought they were.

[alt_lee]

That'll make my heart bleed for him. Believe me.

[alt_ron]

Well, he's not a bad sort. But, yeah, it'd be kind of what he's got coming if they turn on him. I mean he went pretty much out of his way to show Patil he doesn't really like me.

Though that's not so unusual right now, is it? And he never did anything as awful as Thomas has.

[alt_sally_anne]

Patil likes Finnigan well enough. As long as Corner acts like he knows his place I doubt she'll go out of her way to make him miserable.

It sounds like he told Patil FIRST. Which was clever.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, see that's the thing. Katrina says that Lav said his dad was a Muggle, but I bet it's not as bad as that. I mean, it's totally like Lav and Parvati to make it as horrible a story as they can think of. Katrina thinks he was probably a Muggleborn wizard and lost his job when the trouble started and so he didn't marry Corner's mum. And now I suppose he's in the camps somewhere. Whoever he was.

[alt_sally_anne]

That's pretty awful, honestly, that he found out the man he always called 'Dad' wasn't.

[alt_sally_anne]

This was the first I heard about it but after dinner I heard Daphne going on about it to someone so it's officially all over the school.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, it would be if Greengrass has got hold of it.