I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
May. 23rd, 2012 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_ronThis is the longest day ever. Runes went on forever, and now it's Double Potions. Oi! I'm dying over here.
If my head falls into my cauldron, duck!
Only I was up almost all night because of Gareth Archer. Heard him shouting in the middle of the night. Ours is the closest room to theirs, so I was the one who got there first. Well, except for his mates, but they're a useless lot. Ed Bones and Jimmy Peakes were both sitting up, staring at him, but they seemed like they were still sound asleep, really. I swear Peakes was snoring. And soon as I got there, they both flopped over and were out again.
But Archer wasn't going back to sleep. No way. He didn't want to go see Madam Pomfrey, and I don't blame him, so we went downstairs and played chess. All the way til breakfast.
I didn't mind. I mean, McLaggen came in right after I did, but he's got OWLs this week and looked a wreck. And really, even on a good day, no one wants to spend time with McLaggen. And Archer was a bit of a mess, too.
Said he'd had a dream about his father coming back--you know about his dad, right?
Anywiz, last night he had this dream his father came back and was going to kill him. He figures it's because he read what those Dogstar people wrote in the journals yesterday. Thing is, I guess Archer really hated his dad. For leaving him and his mum and for being a traitor. Did you know MLE questioned him and his cousin--watshername, the Slytherin one--only Archer couldn't tell them anything because he hadn't talked to his father in years. Well, I guess he did tell them something--last night he told me he told MLE he was glad his father was dead.
I mean, yeah. That's dead awful, innit?
If my head falls into my cauldron, duck!
Only I was up almost all night because of Gareth Archer. Heard him shouting in the middle of the night. Ours is the closest room to theirs, so I was the one who got there first. Well, except for his mates, but they're a useless lot. Ed Bones and Jimmy Peakes were both sitting up, staring at him, but they seemed like they were still sound asleep, really. I swear Peakes was snoring. And soon as I got there, they both flopped over and were out again.
But Archer wasn't going back to sleep. No way. He didn't want to go see Madam Pomfrey, and I don't blame him, so we went downstairs and played chess. All the way til breakfast.
I didn't mind. I mean, McLaggen came in right after I did, but he's got OWLs this week and looked a wreck. And really, even on a good day, no one wants to spend time with McLaggen. And Archer was a bit of a mess, too.
Said he'd had a dream about his father coming back--you know about his dad, right?
Anywiz, last night he had this dream his father came back and was going to kill him. He figures it's because he read what those Dogstar people wrote in the journals yesterday. Thing is, I guess Archer really hated his dad. For leaving him and his mum and for being a traitor. Did you know MLE questioned him and his cousin--watshername, the Slytherin one--only Archer couldn't tell them anything because he hadn't talked to his father in years. Well, I guess he did tell them something--last night he told me he told MLE he was glad his father was dead.
I mean, yeah. That's dead awful, innit?
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Date: 2012-05-23 07:21 pm (UTC)But I do know she was close to him, because they shared a House -- neither of her parents are Slytherins, you see (and obviously his children didn't grow up to be Slytherins, so.) They'd exchanged a lot of owls. When he died she gave all of his letters to MLE and I don't know if she ever got them back.
He wasn't exactly a traitor, you know. He died under suspicious circumstances while MLE was interviewing him but they didn't know anything for sure because he died so suddenly. People talked -- when Aurelia wasn't around -- and what everyone thought was that he WAS a traitor and killed himself somehow, you know? So that he wouldn't tell them anything no matter what. Because the other possibility was MLE killing him by accident and that didn't seem likely.
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Date: 2012-05-23 07:43 pm (UTC)If he thinks his father's angry because he told MLE that he hated him, tell him his father would have been cheering him on. His father was a SLYTHERIN. He'd have been saying 'right on, son, defame my name and spit on my grave, whatever it takes.' I mean, unless his father was just a miserable git, which he might have been. Does Gareth think he was in DogStar?
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Date: 2012-05-23 07:43 pm (UTC)Course, he also thinks he was a prick for leaving his mum. He wasn't too happy about her having to take him back to her family's place outside some tiny country town on a farm. I guess they'd lived someplace else first and he'd had friends and all, and then they moved.
Didn't have much to say about it, really. And I didn't ask too much because, I mean, we live on a farm outside a village, don't we. Guess we won't invite Archer to the Burrow ever. Like we would, anywiz. Don't think he'd like my parents much, y'know?
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Date: 2012-05-23 07:49 pm (UTC)As far as being a prick -- well.
If he was a traitor, maybe he left to try to keep the rest of them safe. Neville's parents left him and Evelyn with their Gran, you know? Even if they are exactly as awful in real life as they were in the play last year, I'm sure they left Neville and Evelyn behind to keep them safe, not because they hate children.
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Date: 2012-05-23 08:07 pm (UTC)But I bet you're right that they did leave Neville and Evelyn to keep them safe. Only that's not what Archer thinks his dad did. He said he figures his dad was giving secrets to Dogstar to help them kill the Lord Protector.
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Date: 2012-05-23 08:10 pm (UTC)I'm putting my foot in it all over today, aren't I?
Where did Archer's father work, anyway? I know he was at the Ministry but was he in a department that would even HAVE any secrets that would help Dogstar kill the Lord Protector?
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Date: 2012-05-23 08:23 pm (UTC)No worries.
I don't know what department he was in. Archer didn't say, and I wasn't really asking him a lot of questions. Just letting him talk when he wanted to. I mean, maybe I should've asked more, but I was thinking his dad was sort of like mine, maybe, only if that's so, then Archer's not like me. And I didn't want him to realise.
Only, see. Here's the thing. I wouldn't want my dad to be working for Dogstar, either. I mean, they want things to change, but they've killed loads of people--regular people--and they haven't changed anything. And then they write stuff like they did yesterday that's just horrible. And, what's that even about?
Re: Private Message to Sally Anne
Date: 2012-05-23 08:30 pm (UTC)I know.
But he might not have been working for Dogstar. He might have been working for the wand smugglers. Or some other group. Not that you could tell that to Archer, 'oi, there are actually LOADS of traitors out there who AREN'T in Dogstar!'
Re: Private Message to Sally Anne
Date: 2012-05-23 09:20 pm (UTC)Did you see Nev leave Potions?
He definitely read this. Right at the end of the lesson. I tried to say something, but he wouldn't look at me.
And he's not back here in the room.
If you see him at supper, maybe try talking to him? I know you didn't mean to upset him, and he'll know it, too. Soon as he sees you.
Re: Private Message to Sally Anne
Date: 2012-05-24 12:55 am (UTC)I tried to catch him at supper but he avoided me. Or didn't see me. I'm not sure.