I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Uh.

Fred? or George?

Are you at Quidditch or the library or somewhere?

If you're coming back to the tower soon, I could use your help with something.

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

I was thinking as soon as you described what your feet looked like, that was a really impressive bit of magic. I bet you could become an animagus someday if you wanted. It would probably help if you didn't have an utterly rubbish Transfiguration professor, though.

[alt_ron]

Oh, well.

It was mostly an accident how that spell turned out. I mean, I was just really trying to get my shoes to stop going all gooey and stay, y'know, shoes.

You know. I always wanted to be an animagus when I was a kid. I thought I'd make a nift panther. Now I think I might want to be a badger if I could choose what I'd be.

But the twins always said I'd be more likely to turn into a flobberworm or a newt or something. And get eaten by a gnome or stepped on or something.

Anywiz, I guess I can't see worrying too much about that. Almost nobody can really do that transformation. And it'd be useless to spend loads of time trying and not have it ever work.

[alt_sally_anne]

I wanted to be an animagus, too. I wanted to be a merlin -- I mean the bird, but partly because, well, MERLIN, you know? But also they can fly a really long way.

Although I remember thinking I'd settle for being a squirrel or a weasel. As if it would be 'settling' to be able to do it at all.

Do you know if maybe you had an ancestor who was an animagus? That might explain where your last name came from, if he was a weasel.

[alt_ron]

D'you think?

I dunno, actually. I guess I could ask Dad when we go home.

That'd be nift, wouldn't it?

[alt_sally_anne]

It would be nift!

And it probably means you could do it if you worked on it, don't you think? Being good at certain kinds of magic sometimes runs in families.

[alt_terry]

It's really hard, you know. The animagus spell. Because I've been studying it and working on it for months and months and MONTHS, and I haven't seen any sign that I'm getting it at all.

[alt_ron]

Really? You're still trying to learn it?

I guess you really want to do it!

[alt_sally_anne]

Maybe you two should compare notes.