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[alt_ron]

Well, tea with Professor Brutka was interesting. And his office is totally wizard!


But, yeah. Malfoy. You'd better keep totally out of my road tomorrow. You and your lousy gob. Dean Thomas is loads better than you can ever hope to be.

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[alt_draco]

Oh, I plan on it. Don't want to be burped, belched, or slugged on, you see.

[alt_ron]

Get bent, Malfoy.

[alt_hydra]

Excuse me!
Will you be belching slugs at dinner so that I can see?
Norma wants to see, too.

From,
Hydra

[alt_ron]

I don't plan to be, no.

[alt_hydra]

Oh too bad.

From,
Hydra

[alt_molly]

Burping up slugs? What on earth?

[alt_ron]

Oh, hi, Mum.

It's better now. Don't worry.

[alt_harry]

Glad you're all right, Weasley. Even if you shouldn't fight with Draco.

[alt_ron]

...

the heck?

Did you hear what he said to Thomas? And that's okay with you?

Nice.

[alt_harry]

Well, you shouldn't get in any more trouble. I owe you for the car. But I don't think if you fight with Draco again the professors won't get in you in trouble. Even if I tell them it isn't a big problem.

[alt_ron]

Look, it's not like I started anything. Just keep him away from me and my mates. Especially Dean.

[alt_ron]

How would you like to be the only Slytherin in one of our lessons? Ask Malfoy how he'd like it. It's not right what he said today. And you know he was laughing at him all through that lesson yesterday. I know he was. I heard all about it.

[alt_ron]

That's just not Quidditch, mate. And I don't really care if I get in trouble because he shouldn't be able to go around doing that.

Rubbishing people like that.

[alt_ron]

Oh, whatever.

[alt_harry]

I'm trying to do you a favour, mate.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, well.

[alt_ron]

It was nice you sent Granger along to help me.

[alt_neville]

Yeah, it was nice, Marvolo, thanks. Seamus had his hands full with Dean, and it was all I could do to help Ron along--he was feeling a bit too sick to walk real well. And I was a bit too busy propping him up to, uh, deal with the slugs.

She kept them from dropping all down his front. I mean she caught them in her hands until Professor Brutka gave us a cauldron. Ugh. I reckon she was brave as a Gryffindor to do that

Braver than me, anyway.

[alt_ron]

Yeah. You didn't seem to want to get too close to them.

Now you mention it!

Heh.

[alt_ron]

I guess you know we didn't make it all the way to the hospital wing. Professor Brutka stopped us and told us we should come to his office.

I think he was interested in the slugs.

He said if I was still sicking them up tomorrow, I could come to one of his lessons and demonstrate.

I mean, I don't think there's anything magical about the slugs, just that you can make them by magic. I dunno.

[alt_sally_anne]

You know I am really looking forward to taking Care of Magical Creatures next year.

But I could do without vomit slugs. I hope they aren't a regular part of the curriculum.

[alt_ron]

Not if I can help it.

Where are you, anyway?

Doesn't matter. See you tomorrow maybe.

[alt_sally_anne]

I've been in the library for most of the evening. You should try it sometime, your marks might improve. Though maybe not if you're still belching up slugs.

[alt_ron]

Yeah. Patil might scream and then Madam Pince would toss everyone out.

And we know how that ends up.

[alt_sally_anne]

You shouldn't go to the library while belching up slugs, I mean.

[alt_neville]

I don't think they are. Still, Professor Brutka seemed interested in them. Sorta profesionally curious.

I bet his classes are interesting.

[alt_sally_anne]

Where's he from anyway? Does he speak with a foreign accent? I heard the story about him helping Draco when he got lost in France but I wasn't sure if he was FROM France or if he came from somewhere else.

[alt_neville]

He said that his family's from Eastern Europe, but they left there with all the troubles with Grindelwald, moved to Canada. To Kw Qebec. I guess they speak French there? So he has a French accent.

[alt_pansy]

So, what happened?

[alt_ron]

What didn't?

You know what happened in your Transfig class yesterday. To Thomas.

So today we told him we should go watch the first Quidditch practice. Get his mind off all of it. And then Malfoy and all his brooms show up and try to take over the pitch, and things got sort of, well, edgy with Wood and Flint and everybody shouting and whatever.

And then Malfoy asks Dean if he's having a hard time crawling up out of the mud.

He called him a bleeding mudblood right there in front of both teams and me and Seamus and Nev. And then things went sorta pear-shaped.

[alt_percy]

I heard a report about the incident from Wood and the twins. I think you've been punished enough for your part in the fracas, and in a rather thorough way, too--and with your own wand, no less. (Which is probably good--hopefully it might keep Mum from sending you another Howler.) And I will say in all fairness that it sounds as though the provocation was quite extreme. I'll do my best to smooth things over in the Prefects meeting tomorrow, if the subject comes up.

Still, well...you know you've had a rather rough start to the school term, Ron. Please try to refrain from trading hexes with other students, all right? And consider Dean Thomas' special situation. Dad particularly wants him to succeed, but Dean's position as a student of Hogwarts is perhaps a bit precarious, especially in certain people's eyes. He needs to be seen as totally irreproachable. What counts as a mere scuffle for you could have rather more serious consequences for him.

[alt_ron]

And y'know about my wand, so, yeah. Slugs.

[alt_ron]

It's really appalling, let me tell you.

[alt_pansy]

Well, that explains things a bit better.

You really ought to get a new wand. Honestly. How're you going to be able to cast anything with it if you can't manage a simple hex?

What were the slugs like? I bet they were black, nasty looking things.

[alt_ron]

Oh, right. I should just write home and ask for a new one.

And get another howler in tomorrow's post!!

I think I'll just do with what I've got. I mean, at least when Mum yells at me for not revising enough to get good marks, I can say it was the wand... 'course I wouldn't ever do anything like that... hi, Mum!

Er. Well, yeah, they were kinda black. The slugs. But shiny-slimey black. Actually, almost blue, some of them. At least in the torchlight in Professor Brutka's office.

[alt_neville]

His office was wizard, wasn't it? A lot different than the way Professor Macnair kept it. And it was right nice of him to ask us for tea and all, and he didn't even mind when you were dropping slugs in his tea cups.

[alt_sally_anne]

What was Professor Brutka like? Did he seem like someone who'd like students who were interested in the Forbid magical creatures instead of thinking there was something suspicious about it?

[alt_neville]

He seemed all right, I guess. There were a couple of students who came in with questions and such while we were there, and he answered 'em all without grumbling at 'em the way Macnair used to do sometimes. Keeps a glass jar full of chocolate frogs, on his desk. (Ron sicced up some slugs on it, and that was funny--slugs crawling on the outside of the jar, and that got the frogs excited so they were hopping around like mad inside.)

He has a bit of an accent--French, I guess--but it's easier to understand him than I was afraid it would be.

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh ugh, the poor chocolate frogs.

I'm glad he's not too hard to understand, if you couldn't understand your teacher it would be hard to learn much, you know? And I do want to take Care of Magical Creatures. Do you know yet what you'll take next year?

[alt_neville]

I dunno. We have a whole year to decide, after all.

I'm just trying to live through Transfiguration this year.

Pity I can't drop it next year. I mean, I know it's important and all, but--yeah.

Anyway, I bet Professor Brutka's a decent enough teacher. Just had that feeling about him.

[alt_sally_anne]

It is a pity you can't drop it, I mean I don't see what you're getting out of it now. No offense or anything.

[alt_neville]

No offence taken, believe me.

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[alt_molly]

I wish we could get him a new wand, Arthur. But with that fine the Ministry is going to levy on us, not to mention all the food we've lost, I just don't see how we can come up with the Galleons right now.

[alt_gredforge]

Excellent curse Ronald!

D'you think you could show it to us later, so we can figure out the wand movements and such?

It was utterly wicked, but in the future we do suggest that you use it on someone else.

[alt_ron]

Oh, ha bloody ha!

[alt_ron]

I don't guess you've got any idea how to fix up my wand, then?