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alt_ron

Get it? Tri Wizard!

Heh.

It's going to be the most amazingly snitch thing ever!!!

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From:

alt_justin

Nice one!

Yes, I think I'll be allowed. At least I hope so. No more explosions, though, what?

Oh, I say. Sorry, that was probably not as funny as it sounded in my head.

From:

alt_ron

I think NO EXPLOSIONS is pretty much at the top of the list for this tournament.

Also. NO DEMENTORS. And NO BASILISKS.

Oh, and NO PLAGUES.

Other than that, anything could happen.

From:

alt_ron

So. Who wants to lay wagers the Champion is anyone other than Harry Marvolo?

From:

alt_justin

Basilisks? Dementors?

Blimey. They don't half expose you lot to real-world applications, then, eh?

From:

alt_susan

You have no idea--

--well, now I guess you do. After what happened at the QWC and all.

Weasley, that was the lamest pun ever but it made me laugh.

From:

alt_ron

Yeah. We're looking forward to a nice quiet year here.

Just a huge, giant tournament with visitors from overseas!

I can't really believe it, y'know? I mean. It was such a huge surprise when they let people from outside in for the Quidditch Cup. And, well, after that, I'd've thought they'd've kept us closed up for another dozen years at least. But this is totally, completely, absolutely wizard!

From:

alt_ron

Thanks, Bones.

From:

alt_justin

No, I've not any idea. I suppose I've a lot of catching up to do!

By the way, hullo, I'm Justin Finch-Fletchley. Pleased to 'meet' you.

From:

alt_susan

I know! And it's not as if we really got to meet a lot of the people who were here for the QWC (well, except for the people that met Justin earlier), but now they'll be right here at school!

I'd love to learn more about continental Quidditch!

From:

alt_susan

I'm Susan Bones. Nice to meet you too!

From:

alt_sally_anne

A giant tournament with visitors from overseas will be quiet and relaxing compared to plagues, basilisks, and dementors, yeah?

From:

alt_justin

Wait, wait, Perks...I still want to hear about plagues, basilisks and dementors!

From:

alt_susan

Well, when you put it that way...

I dunno, Perks, you and Weasley are making me nervous.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I don't know, he's only a fourth year, same as us. We haven't even taken our OWLs yet. And frankly Harry's not that good a student!

So it'll be Harry if they want it to be Harry but it'll be someone else if they actually want the Hogwarts person to be the champion, I think.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Well, it's really not that funny, honestly.

Second year, there was a basilisk inside the school, and a bunch of people got petrified and Draco's servant died. At the same time this was going on, there was a horrible illness happening outside the school so no one could leave, we were all quarantined for spring hols.

The Dementors were last year, they were looking for some dangerous criminals who'd escaped from Azkaban. They were supposed to be guarding the school but a few times they came onto the grounds. It's horrid having Dementors anywhere near you, so we're all quite glad they're gone this year.

From:

alt_zacharias

Got your eye on that prize money, then, Weasley?

Never happen. The champion's certain to be a seventh-year, innit?

From:

alt_gredforge

Well, we can see your point with no dementors, basilisks or plagues.

But NO EXPLOSIONS?

THEN WHERE'S ALL THE FUN?!

From:

alt_gredforge

Don't count your basilisks before they're hatched. We Weasleys are going to give the champions a run for the galleons.

From:

alt_ron

Nah. It'll be great, you'll see. It'll be dead amazing to have the school full of people from other schools.

And they say the competitions are really amazing. I mean, sometimes Champions have died even.

Or that's what the twins are saying, so, y'know, it might be rubbish.

From:

alt_justin

I should jolly well hope your explosions don't kill anyone, though.

From:

alt_susan

Zach!? Do you have to wind people up?

From:

alt_zacharias

Wot?

He's a Weasley, Sue. So are those idiot twin brothers of his. Everyone knows they're pure as snow but poor as field mice.

From:

alt_susan

Can we not talk about people dying, okay?

From:

alt_sally_anne

Bloody hell, you two. Joking about explosions is usually fine but maybe not this week!

From:

alt_justin

Yes, champions have died before. But Mme Maxime said they were fixing the challenges this year so that they're safe. Relatively, of course.

From:

alt_susan

The twins are mad, true--which is maybe a good reason not to wind them up actually. Who knows what colour they might turn you?

Ron doesn't seem too bad though.

Or is this part of that whole "No More Mr. Hufflepuff Nice Bloke" thing that I heard some of the 5th years talking about at lunch yesterday?

From:

alt_ron

Sorry, Bones.

From:

alt_draco

Seriously. I mean, when you think about it, you could die in this school any day of the week if you weren't looking right when you took a rotating staircase.

Well, you'll see, if you get to come here.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Just so you know, there was a student in our year who died last year. She was murdered by a professor.

He's not at the school anymore, but his sister still teaches here (Professor Carrow).

Anyway, the student who died was named Hannah Abbot and she was in Hufflepuff. Which is why the Hufflepuffs are maybe a little extra touchy about this sort of thing.

From:

alt_ron

Of course they'll want it to be Harry. He's famous. Everyone in the Protectorate will want it to be him.

D'you see what Justin's saying about them 'fixing' the challenges so they're not so dangerous?

From:

alt_sally_anne

Sure they could make it less dangerous.

He'd still get bludgered if he were up against a couple of seventh years. Or whatever they are at Durmstrang and Beauxbatons.

From:

alt_justin

Oh, we've a few niches like that, as well. My first year I simply could not remember that at a certain time of day the most direct passage between our Transfiguration classroom and our Potions Tower closed itself off. Got myself rather stuck more than once!

But, if what Perks says is true, about monsters in the castle and such, then I should say you've all had much more experience with the sorts of things in this bally old TriWizard Tournament than anyone we'll be bringing!

I wonder what the students at Durmstrang are like, what?

From:

alt_justin

Oh, I say.

Thank you for telling me, Perks. Jolly kind.

How awful, as well. I can't imagine being murdered by one of my profs. Well, I mean to say, there are one or two who don't care for me much because I'm--because I didn't know I was a wizard for a long time.

But I don't think he'd up and kill me, either. Blimey.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I wish I could say none of us could have imagined it until it happened, but -- it wasn't really as much a surprise as it ought to have been.

Did you show your magic late, then? That seems like an odd thing to hold against someone.

How much do Professors at Beauxbatons care about blood purity? Some of my professors hold it against me that I'm a half-blood.

From:

alt_gredforge

Er...very good point, Perks.

Sorry.

From:

alt_zacharias

Too right, it's about that. We're tired of being thought of as completely naff.

Besides, I shouldn't worry about getting chummy--or not--with Ronald Weasley, of all blokes. For my money, Weasley's not worth bothering about. And no one who pays any attention would bother about him, at that.

From:

alt_justin

Oh, no, I showed my magic--well, round about the usual time, I expect. I ~~just didn't know~~ wasn't very healthy when I was younger, do you see, so my mother held me back a year. I had tutors, though. I started a bit behind everyone but I caught up quickly enough.

Draco tells me you've a classmate with a similar situation. Thompkins, I think? Anyway, it rather sounded like the same sort of, well, track, I suppose one might call it.

Most of the Professors here care more about it than they did two years ago, I can bally well tell you that.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Oh -- I see. ~~Wait, but why~~

It's Dean Thomas, and he started late because people didn't realise that he had a wizard parent; they thought he was a muggleborn, a mudblood. So he was in the camps, first year. Then someone was going through some old records and realised that actually his father, his real father, was a wizard. So he was taken out, assigned a foster father, and he came to Hogwarts.

From:

alt_susan

Eh, I can see where you're coming from a bit on that. We aren't a lot of pushovers like some seem to think.

It's not like I'm queuing up to spend time with the Weasleys, but I don't see why people have to jarvey them down all the time either.

Well, except the twins--I caught some firsties crying in the corridor the other day because the twins had sold them some sweet that made their tongues swell up.