I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

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What the merry flip?

I mean. Really.

'Hello, my name is Ronald Weasley, so good to meet you, ma'am. May I offer you my seat? Could I bring you a glass of punch? Hang up your fur stole? What did you say? Could I take your terrier outside for a whizz? Oh, certainly. No bleedin trouble at all.' smile ... smile

'Good evening, sir. My name is Ronald Weasley. Oh, quite right, sir, you do outrank me. You should certainly go before me in the queue.'

At least Greengrass and Macmillan were sporting about it. We were next to Dunstan and Nott--and they were not playing nicely with Fawcett. At all.

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Yeah. I think she wanted you there to show how it's done.

Umbritch came round to Fawcett's group and told her she ought to pay more attention to how you comport yourself. When she got to them, Fawcett was sort of standing off by herself, not really taking part, y'know? But that's because Nott had just been telling her to shine his shoes. I was trying not to pay attention, but the way he said that, you probably could have heard him on your side of the room. And I think Dunstan had a card that said she was a Department Head at the Ministry interviewing candidates, because I heard her ask Fawcett what had made her think she'd possibly deserve a job in Dunstan's office.

We had sort of a laugh with it in our group, actually. But mostly we just laughed at what Madam Hem-hem said. Greengrass can really imitate her, too. Of course, she was really quiet about it. But it was dead hilarious! The hardest part was not falling out laughing when Umbritch came round and started talking at us.

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Our group was pretty funny, too. Morag was supposed to be somebody's great aunt, and she put on this creaky old lady voice and asked a bunch of questions about whether we'd been studying 'Intra Profundis' in Dark Arts class and then she went on and on about what a good book it was, so educational, so detailed, you know.

It livened things up a bit. She said that even if Madam Umbridge overheard, well, not falling down laughing when an old lady says something she doesn't know is funny? that's an important etiquette skill.