Good show!

[alt_ron]

I think our side should be proud tonight, especially you, Thomas. I mean, yeah, Desai had a point about the risks of your going off alone, but I think we made a good case for it being worth a shot and your being especially well suited for slipping past the others right at the start when both sides were still trying to find each other and form up. It was a lark watching you take them out, too, once I was dead and back in the mess waiting to see how it was going to play out.

And Finnigan: you came through and made it worth sacrificing to get you sprung, so, yeah. Good show.

Bones: don't feel too bad about going down early. That happens. I mean, it could have been any of us getting surprised in the confusion at the start. They're right, of course, that we all need to be extra focused at the start of these things, but that's what we're here to learn, innit? And, anywiz, you were solid in the first exercise, right? It was Finnigan who went down to that first trap and Thomas, but they were in top form on the next outing. So tomorrow's your day, yeah?

The rest of you were solid. Malfoy, you especially. I think it was the right call we made at the end, don't you? And Patil: you've got eyes on all sides of your head, don't you? We were lucky to have you watching all angles.

So, yeah. Well done, mates.

Cheers.

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[alt_ron]

And cheers to the rest of you lot, too. Harry, mate, it came straight down to the last wand. Well fought!

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

F-F. No hard feelings you took me out. It was a fair shot, and I couldn't defend it.

Watch your back tomorrow, though!

Heh.

[alt_justin]

Ron,

Indeed, congratulations and well done, all of your teammates!

(And thanks for sharing the bounty, what! I say, a bit of sweets were just the thing after such a long day.)

Thomas: I'm well impressed. I feel certain Harry and Pansy were about to win it for our side, if you hadn't been there to stop them. Good form, old man.

-Justin

[alt_padma]

I suppose that's one advantage of being a prefect. But it wasn't all that helpful later.

Don't worry, Zabini and I will make sure that doesn't happen again. He's just got to not try to help

Anyway, I was well embarrassed we got eliminated so quickly, but it was useful to watch the others try to come in to the target zone.

Honestly, though, where did you get the idea about those twine bundles? They work but we need to refine it a little.

Maybe in the morning there'll be time to try some modifications.

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

[alt_ron]

Not sure when I've been this tired. But still totally keyed up. Well, yeah. I do know. It was at the end of that night at Ministry, and I reckon that was worse. Has to have been. Only, now this feels like the most exhausted ever. Phew.

It's all fine.

I've got Malfoy, Finnigan, Zabini, Patil, Thomas, and Bones on my side... and I picked them. Isn't that mad? Well, I got Thomas on a coin toss, since there weren't even numbers.

But they were the right ones to choose. We've come in ahead of the other lot in pretty much everything. And more than shown skill on the things that weren't competitions.

It's not right without you here, though. You'd be excellent at this. Of course, I'm not sure how the selections would've gone, then. I think I'd still have taken Malfoy first since I had first go. I wasn't going to let Harry have him. But then, if Harry'd taken Justin like he did yesterday, then I'd've taken you second. Instead of Finnigan. And it might all have gone differently from there. But Harry might've taken you with his first pick, and then we'd've ended up on opposite sides. Which... would be interesting, wouldn't it? I'd probably lose every gambit because you know too much about how I think. And you'd love that.

Heh. Maybe it's not such a bad thing you're not here to help Harry win!

Teasing.

Really, it reeks you're not.

Guess I'll just have to go off and have a sulk.