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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_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.