Dead grim!!!

[alt_ron]

So this morning everyone was talking at breakfast about the Headmistress's announcement and Towler said it was in the Prophet, too, in the section where they report what happened here at Hogwarts during the week. And later we thought that we should probably check to see if they said any more about Dean, so at lunch we asked around and found someone who still had a copy--you know, I never really noticed, but I don't think a lot of people take the Prophet, I mean Towler and Wood just get it for the Quidditch results, I think--anyway, it didn't say anything new about Dean, so that was okay, but then I closed it up and saw what was on the front page.

I mean, it took me a few minutes to realise what it was. There's a picture of a dead bloke on the front page!! Really! A corpse, just sitting there on a bench, and he's dead dead!!! It's, um, the article says he's a 'Mudblood labourer found murdered at his New London worksite Monday morning'. And he's just sat there, with his lunch beside him on that bench, and one arm draped over the back of the seat like he's just waiting there, and then if you watch the picture just a minute, you realise that it looks like he's sweating: there're beads of it on his forehead and dark patches of it, y'know, on his clothes, and then I saw it looks like he's been crying cause there are kind of streaks running down his cheeks only it's not clear like tears, it's darker like maybe there's blood mixed in? But it's hard to tell because it's a picture, and THEN! Something blurps out of the side of his mouth and sort of blurbles down his shirt front!!!

And, and, the article says when they found him all his fluids (ew, I know!) had been turned to mud. So that's muddy tears on his face and that sweat is mud, and when they moved him, it says that loads of mud just sort of sloshed out of him!!!

I can't believe they put this in the paper. Except Seamus says it's because of what it says on the bench beside him in the picture. Somebody's written 'this is the grim truth' on the bench like that's the point of it. But it just doesn't seem right, them putting a picture of a dead body like that where everybody can see it. Just, y'know, ughk!

Comments

[alt_padma]

No, of course not, but mudbloods aren't people, Longbottom. Honestly.

I mean, whoever did this did destroy someone's property, but they must have done it to show what mudbloods really are. Not people.

[alt_neville]

Oh.

[alt_draco]

I'd have to disagree - they are people, they just aren't wizards.

[alt_padma]

Well, if you say so.

But the point is that I don't think it was Black's followers at all. I think it was someone sending him a message.

[alt_draco]

You're right. Black's a traitor and mudblood lover, so his followers must be too, and they wouldn't kill a mudblood. They'd probably give him a wand and dress robes and throw him a big mudblood party. At a vile discothèque or something.

[alt_padma]

What's a discothèque?

[alt_draco]

Its a place where muggles listen to loud music and dance all night, and its quite dark inside but there's lots of bright, flashing, coloured lights. You can hear the music and see the lights even if you're clear across the street. And outside everyone stands in line for hours waiting to get in to the discothèque, all while wearing really ridiculous and revealing clothes.

[alt_padma]

So it's like a fancy dress party, then? Or a ball? But for muggles? How odd.

You wouldn't think they'd care about music or dancing.

And why are they so obsessed with revealing their bodies? Oh, that reminds me - did you ever go to see the beaches with the naked muggles? You never did say.

[alt_draco]

Some of the muggles were dancing while they waited and it isn't real, proper dancing. They just sort of bounce their bodies around and sometimes rub them together. Some of the music sounded a bit good not too different from ours, though, similar to the Weird Sisters.

I saw the nude beach, yeah. Wasn't what I thought it would be.