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This 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?

Date: 2012-05-23 07:21 pm (UTC)
alt_sally_anne: (someday I will be taller)
From: [personal profile] alt_sally_anne
Aurelia's the Slytherin who's his cousin. She's a year ahead of me and if she ever talks about it, it's not to me.

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.

Date: 2012-05-23 07:43 pm (UTC)
alt_sally_anne: (I know better than to meet your eyes)
From: [personal profile] alt_sally_anne
Anyway -- why did Gareth think his father would be angry at him? Because he's loyal? Or because he told MLE that he was glad his father was dead?

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?

Date: 2012-05-23 07:49 pm (UTC)
alt_sally_anne: (This conversation is making me nervous)
From: [personal profile] alt_sally_anne
Well, he probably was, honestly. A traitor, I mean.

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 08:10 pm (UTC)
alt_sally_anne: (Meh.)
From: [personal profile] alt_sally_anne
Bugger.

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?

Re: Private Message to Sally Anne

Date: 2012-05-23 08:30 pm (UTC)
alt_sally_anne: (Meh.)
From: [personal profile] alt_sally_anne
No.

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!'

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Date: 2012-05-24 12:55 am (UTC)
alt_sally_anne: (just go away)
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Bugger bugger bugger.

I tried to catch him at supper but he avoided me. Or didn't see me. I'm not sure.

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