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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_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.