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[alt_ron]

Did you see what happened to Althea Deverill? I thought she was going to flip her nut when she found out why everyone was staring at her at lunch. She nearly took off Towler's head when he told her what was on her face!!

I wouldn't have thought anybody'd hex her. And anyway, I heard it happened to her boyfriend, too, that Frobisher bloke from Ravenclaw.

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[alt_padma]

Yes, I heard Frobisher's hiding in his dorms.

Maybe that's why Stretton wanted to send a note to Spinx.

Do you think maybe he's behind all the hexing and someone got him back?

[alt_neville]

Frobisher behind the hexing? No, I don't think so. And I should know. I never see the bloke, but I get hexed plenty when he's not around.

[alt_padma]

Well, not by himself, obviously. I mean, didn't the Weasley who's a prefect say that its happened in people's lessons?

[alt_neville]

Yeah. But he's not in any of the classes of any of the first and second years who are getting hexed at all. He's a sixth year. How come someone like him would want to pick on firsties, anyway?

[alt_padma]

Well I dunno, do I? I mean, how should I know, Wrongbuttocks? And haven't you ever heard of a... a kingpin?

Anyway, it would be a good thing to look guilty about. If someone was going about looking guilty.

[alt_ron]

So what does the note say?

You read it, right?

[alt_padma]

I thought Gryffindors were honourable.

Besides, I cant while hes looking right at me.

[alt_ron]

So go take it to Slytherin, already. And take a look while your on your way. If it's a big secret, Stretton should take it down there himself. Serves the lazy git right if you read it.

[alt_neville]

I wouldn't have thought she'd have gotten hexed, either.

What d'ye suppose it means? I mean, a 'T?'

[alt_ron]

I don't know. I heard somebody say there's another Ravenclaw sixth year who's got the same big red T on his face. So there's at least three of them.

[alt_ron]

Maybe it means like 'threesome' or 'trio' or something. Like maybe they got caught together doing, um yknow.

[alt_neville]

Caught together doing . . . wha?

[alt_ron]

Yeah, it's kinda gross.

Don't ask me. It was Lee's idea.

[alt_ron]

Maybe they're joining some kind of club and you have to get that mark on your forehead to join.

I dunno. What do you think it means?

[alt_sally_anne]

That can't be it, they looked really unhappy about it. Furious even. I thought at first maybe it was something like AK, but they didn't look paranoid enough to start with. And they didn't look like they thought it was funny at all, nearly everyone who got hexed in AK laughed after they got over being cross.

[alt_ron]

Yeah. You're right. Althea Deverill went totally spare when she found out what had happened to her face. I thought at first it was because everybody was looking at her and talking about her, but the more I think about it, she looked really scared, too. And then she rushed off and nobody's seen her since lunch.

I mean, I guess I might be scared, too, if I found out I had an enormous red blotch all over my face that I didn't know how it had got there.

[alt_sally_anne]

Trouble?

[alt_seamus]

Maybe THIEF it goes with the red hands. Dyou remember when someone tried to nick Malfoy's tea and his hands swelled up? I reckon it was some jinx like that. Maybe they nicked something from a seventh year.

[alt_ron]

Ooh! Like caught red handed!

I bet your right!

Who's really good at hexes? Maybe they stole something from the Head Boy.

[alt_seamus]

Maybe! Theyll be sorry if they did. Pennifolds allowed to use crucio on them.

[alt_percy]

Frobisher, for one, is a Prefect. I certainly hope that isn't it, Ronald.

[alt_seamus]

It wasnt just the T mate. I heard from someone who saw Calderwood washing up that he had red hands when he woke up this morning. BRIGHT red. Tried to wash it off but it didnt come off and tried to spell it off and scorched himself and finally hurried out and did you notice he was in gloves all day? The lot of them were.

[alt_ron]

So that's why Deverill had gloves on at lunch? I thought she was just being girly.

Hah.

I really wonder what they've gone and done. Or what's been done to them! It doesn't sound like they're joining some kind of secret society if he scorched himself trying to get the red off, does it?

Huh. That's too bad, really. I was just thinking it would be kind of fun to make up some sort of secret club and have a sign you have to wear when you join it. I mean it wouldn't be much fun when you had to go through it and have red hands for a day or whatever, but then you could make new people do it when they join and itd be something you all did to become members. Like an inishi

[alt_seamus]

That would be wizard. Red hands seems kind of naff though. Anyway if it were a secret club it ought to be an ordeal youd go through like a biting hex for a day and you couldnt let anyone know about it. Not something everyone could see like red hands.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, if its a secret club, that's right. But if it's the kind of club that only lets in some people and not others, then you kind of want other people to know you've got in it. And they haven't.