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_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.