I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Sally Anne

[alt_ron]

I'm sorry.

That was really-


Are you cross? Or- I dunno.

I'm- I can't believe she was so- I mean, even for Mum.

Yeah. I'm sorry.

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[alt_ron]

No, that's the thing. She didn't have any idea how embarrassing-

Ugh.


And when she started in about dust-repelling charms and pot-scouring ones...

[alt_sally_anne]

I'm sorry! She got me onto runes and runes are interesting even when they're housework related!

I didn't mean to make her all misty-eyed or embarrass you worse than Maybe next time we can talk about something safe like Quidditch.

[alt_ron]

You and runes!

Yeah. Quidditch should be safer. Or creatures. We could get her talking dragons, and Charlie, and all. That's pretty interesting, and she might say something we haven't heard yet about what the Order knows about Stornoway and the wards.

[alt_sally_anne]

Not if Ginny's there. But the dragons are really interesting, even if she can't mention the wards.

[alt_ron]

Ugh.

You're right.

We should've got her onto that tonight. It was lucky Gin was off wherever. With Honoria Sandoval, I think.


I wonder what Sandoval's parents think about that, actually. Not much, I'd guess. Gin never says, but, well.

[alt_sally_anne]

About the wards, or about the Lord Protector, or what? They immigrated here from Spain, you know, so I assume they like it here.

Honoria's not too bad, but Lana was a nightmare. I wonder how she'd have got on with Umbridge?

[alt_ron]

No, about Honoria wanting to bring Ginny along to theirs.

I don't think they'd be very pleased.

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh, got it.

I always imagined Lana Sandoval grew up in some huge enormous castle of a rich-person house. So maybe Honoria and Ginny just stay at one end and the rest of the Sandovals are at the other.

[alt_ron]

Actually, Gin says their house isn't that large, but she went on and on about how amazing it is, anyway. She said there's a room that's all tiled and has a pool with a fountain in it. Inside the house. And another room that's got something to do with it's having been taken out of a harem in Turkey or Persia or somewhere.

And I guess there's a carriage house, too, that Orion lives in now, and the grandparents live just behind in a really big house with secret passages that Honoria and Gin played Sneak Thief in one time.

Yeah, Honoria's all right. It's just the rest of them are right snobs.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah.

Did you know I saved old Mrs Sandoval's life once? After the QWC bombing. Didn't make Lana any nicer to me, though. Orion's never given me any trouble, at least, maybe he appreciated that I patched him up too? (He wouldn't have died without me being there but their Gran would have.)

[alt_ron]

Lana Sandoval's a nasty piece of work.

And her gran's lucky you were there. Figures they weren't even grateful.