I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Just so you know.

I told Percy that if he ever messes with me again, I'll make him wish he'd never held a wand.

Going to Defence now, though I don't know why. What good is it if the things you really need to defend yourself against, you can't? What a laugh that I'm turning in ten inches on shielding spells.

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[alt_pansy]

Well, you were under it at the time.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yes, exactly. The whole point of spells like this is you don't notice (well, you noticed with the hex that made you spend all day answering everyone who wrote anything in their journal. But even there you didn't notice right away.)

[alt_ron]

Yeah.

But this time's different. I mean, then it was someone who hates me that did it.

But Percy? Doing a spell like that to try to keep me

a spell that made me do stuff I wouldn't ever?

He wanted to make me do what he wanted

they both did--Nev and him

cause they thought they knew better than I do what I should do

or who I shouldn't talk to

And, y'know, I'm not Marvolo's friend anymore, but

he'll never have real friends if the people who

if people can't say what they think to him

if people can't even get hacked off when he acts like a berk

nothing was going to happen from my answering him back

did you even see what I said?

Percy didn't wait to see

neither did Nev

they just decided for me what I could do

I mean, maybe it was worth it to me to get a detention if that's what would've happened.

Just to tell him


whatever

[alt_neville]

I didn't decide anything for you. I had no idea Percy was going to do...whatever he did.

And I didn't do what I did because I thought I knew better than you. Maybe Percy did, but not me.

I did it because I was scared for you. Can't you see that?

[alt_ron]

Why were you scared, Nev?

Did you think I was going to threaten to kill him? Get myself arrested?

The most that was going to happen was I was going to get dumped on some more by Zabini and Malfoy and Patil. Or y'know, maybe they'd've decided to jump me in the corridor later like they did to Pansy and Sally Anne that time last year, but honestly? You were worried I'd say something daft in my journal to Marvolo? So you exploded feathers all over Transfiguration so I'd quit writing. And that's not thinking you know better than me what I should do?

[alt_sally_anne]

You know what I really can't believe is that BOTH of you were reading and writing in your journals during CARROW'S class. For Merlin's sake. Never mind what Patil and Zabini and Malfoy were going to do to you. Remember how Carrow cruciated Wayne Hopkins that time? You're both purebloods but he hates you both, he'd might have grabbed the opportunity to cruciate you for the pure fun of it if he'd noticed you had your journals out.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, well.

He was not really paying attention yesterday. Didn't seem like he was going to notice.

'Course, I've got Muggle Studies now, and she would notice, so, yeah.

[alt_neville]

I...I dunno. I'm not sure if I can explain it. It wasn't like I had all the time in the world to reason it out.

Maybe it's just that I've been flinching at everything lately. Since the news came out last summer, and with what happened to Evelyn's cat. And I expect you'll say that means I did what I did because I was thinking more of me than of you, but maybe I wasn't thinking at all. I just reacted.

Anyway, I already apologised. Don't know what else I can do. Sometimes friends just muck it up even when they're trying to help, all right? Anyone who knows me expects that of me anyway.

[alt_ron]

It's all right, Nev. Really.

I shouldn't have got so hacked off at you.

It's Percy and that spell I'm angry about. I keep feeling like someone's made my hair run the wrong way. All over. Even now. Ugh.