I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Whoa! I just missed having my head taken off by Vaisey up the Charms corridor!

Anyone know why he and Capper are getting into it with McLaggen? Capper's got cauliflower ears and McLaggen's nose is bleeding like anything. I don't want to get anyone in trouble, but it looked pretty serious.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Does anyone NEED a reason to get into it with McLaggen? It's like getting into it with Blaise, he's always done SOMETHING.

[alt_ron]

Did you see how Zabini lit into Corner this morning about his telescope?

Well, I suppose he opened himself up to it when he said it looks through walls--which is really wizard if it's true, I mean, I wish I'd ever had a telescope. It would've been dead useful against the twins. And pretty funny for getting under Ginny's skin!

Er. Anywiz. I feel sort of bad for Corner, but I don't think he wants me to. I mean, I think he fancies he's better than me, and yeah. Whatever.

[alt_sally_anne]

I did. It's a bit creepy thinking of Corner looking through the walls into the girls' loo or something but Blaise only cared enough to make a fuss because Corner's a half-blood.

And I can't decide whether Corner thinks he's better than everyone, or better than the people who aren't Ravenclaws, or better than people in fostering or from dubious families, or ... what. I mean he's a snob but he's not a CONSISTENT snob. Blaise is very consistent. He think he's better than everyone except Harry, Draco, and Teddy, and I think secretly he thinks he's better than Harry. And it's not as if he thinks Draco or Teddy are better than he is, it's more that he considers them equals.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, the best you can say about Zabini is you always know where you stand with him. I mean with Malfoy, you know exactly what he thinks, but then he'll turn up and act all polite just when you don't expect it, and then he pretends you started it when you fall out with him.

When I do, I mean. Not you.

And Marvolo. Yeah. Whatever. I don't even know.

But I think Corner could be all right if he'd just get over himself. And settle down about this whole thing with his parents.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah, I don't know about Corner. He might be one of those people who likes to always have someone to look down at.

[alt_sally_anne]

Though to be fair he's been better lately. I mean, since he found out about his parents. Though sometimes I think he acts like he thinks a half-blood is SUPPOSED to act and that's just as annoying (in a different way).

[alt_ron]

What's that meant to be like?

Honestly. I wish people would just let people be people and leave off.

[alt_pansy]

Well, he's not, honestly. Patil is rubbing off on him, I'd bet.

[alt_sally_anne]

Though come to think of it I heard people talking today about McLaggen's brother, how he got kicked out of the Auror programme. Maybe that's what it's about? Apparently his family tried to put it about he quit on his own but Sandoval said he got the boot in her diary. Not that I think she's exactly reliable.

[alt_ron]

Whoa. Really?

I mean McLaggen's been going on all term about how his brother's top of the standings and was the first one chosen and is so dead amazing. And then, yeah. Last week he says his brother's decided to quit the programme to take a totally wizard job doing some sort of enforcement stuff for that bloke who puts on all those parties and festivals and public stuff in New London.

But if he got thrown out--

I bet he hasn't even got a job like that!

[alt_sally_anne]

Well I went and checked and in Sandoval's entry (which I don't blame you for not reading, she's worse than Blaise) she said he was 'given the boot' which certainly doesn't SOUND like he quit on his own for some excellent job.

I heard from Belinda that Padma's acting like she knows what McLaggen did and it was something horrible. The theory I heard (from Morag, I'm not sure if she heard it from Padma or from someone else or if she just made it up) was that McLaggen was overheard having an argument about Sirius Black where it sounded like he thought maybe Black was actually alive.

[alt_pansy]

They wouldn't have kicked him off for that, would they?

I mean, I guess if he was indiscreet...

Do you think

Well, I mean it's not like they've found anything.

[alt_sally_anne]

Do you remember how cross Mrs Lestrange was with Luna? All she said was she'd heard a rumour that Sirius Black was alive. If they thought McLaggen had said something that gave those rumours credit, they'd have kicked him out for that.

I also heard a rumour about him snogging the wrong girl, though, maybe that was it?

[alt_pansy]

It's more likely it'd be about Black than snogging.

Maybe Auror Lestrange got angry, because it reflects badly on her.

And making her angry? Well, he deserves what he got.

[alt_ron]

I agree.

That's like spitting into the wind. If he doesn't know enough to keep upwind of her, I don't think he'd make a very good Auror.

Daft.

[alt_sally_anne]

True enough.

The way she treats her own daughter, I don't know why anyone in their right mind wants to work with her. You can go work at the Ministry and have all sorts of power and it doesn't HAVE to be in MLE.

I wouldn't want to work for Barty Crouch either. He's just as bad.

[alt_ron]

Oh, talk about the stuff people write in their books! Did you see what he wrote to his Mum today?

I wouldn't be able to sit for a week if I ever tried to talk to my Mum that way.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, he is a grownup. Your mum can't hex Bill and Charlie if they cross her, can they? Not that they'd ever talk to her like that.

[alt_ron]

Well, no, they wouldn't. Now the twins...

But the twins just take the piss sometimes, and she acts likes she's cross, but really she thinks it's as funny as the rest of us do. At least after she's done shouting.

But it's not like they'd ever call her out in public for something she'd said or done. And then call her friends out, too.

I mean.

Well.

[alt_ron]

Well, I doubt it was that. They'd have arrested him if he'd said something like that about Black.

I heard they keep arresting people who say they've seen him. Maybe they were just questioning them, I dunno, but when we were in the Broomsticks before you and Pansy turned up, Nev and I heard some blokes talking about it.

I mean, Black's supposed to be dead or anywiz MLE want everybody to think they think he is, but if they really thought that would they get in such a twist every time someone so much as mentions him? Makes you wonder, really.

[alt_sally_anne]

That's a good point but the rumour I heard wasn't so much that he was saying 'Black's alive!' but more that he was treating the possibility as ... well, I don't know.

I agree it makes you wonder.

[alt_pansy]

as well what?

[alt_sally_anne]

More that he was taking it too seriously. Like treating someone else's statements about Black as a point that two people might argue about. Rather than either too absurd for words, or evidence of disloyalty.

[alt_pansy]

Do you think he's really dead?

[alt_pansy]

Because I sure don't.

[alt_sally_anne]

No.

I don't either.

But sometimes I wonder if it's just wishful thinking. I mean he hasn't SAID anything. But maybe he just lost his journal.

[alt_ron]

What good is it, hoping he's alive?

I mean, it's not like he's DONE anything. Let alone written.

And what COULD he do? Even if he is alive. Bloody nothing, that's what.

I dunno.

[alt_sally_anne]

In that same entry Sandoval mostly went on and on and ON about how some! lucky! people! would be invited to join the St Mungo's Junior Auxiliary for LUNCHEON.

Did they invite Percy? I think usually they do invite the Head Boy and Head Girl so if they didn't it would have been quite a snub.

[alt_ron]

Oh. That's probably what he got yesterday morning, then.

He looked all smug about something, but y'know with Percy it could be anything.

[alt_sally_anne]

Percy looked smug?

How on EARTH could you tell the difference between that an his normal expression?

[alt_ron]

Heh.