I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Um.

Sue. I'm sorry I got you into this mess.

So I did a stupid thing this morning. I wrote Sue a private message about stuff we'd done yesterday, and I needed to write it so Thomas and Finnigan could see I was sending a PM because they were around and could see I was writing.

Anywiz, I didn't even think... and I was writing about Apparating because Sue did it yesterday for the first time while we were paired up for an evasion exercise, and I wanted her to know I reported to Dolohov that we'd both used it during the exercise since neither of us had done it in lessons yet. But I said something about that meaning that we could go ahead and do it in lessons today and not have to try not to...

And long story short, we got back to camp tonight and both of us had got notified by Magical Malfeasance that our private messages revealed we'd confessed 'self-tutoring an age-restricted magical skill without benefit of permit or proper instruction'.

And. It's worse than that because the notices were delivered in the afternoon direct to Professor Dolohov and Auror Desai, so they called us in and gave them to us. Well, Desai talked to Sue and Dolohov took me aside.

He wasn't cross. Actually, he said he was impressed I'd been trying to learn magic above my level--he said it showed I was taking initiative. And he told me not to worry because he wrote the office of Magical Malfeasance for me and told them I'd had his permission to study Apparition independently during the summer. So it should all be taken care of.

Only, that makes me worry a bit. If you know what I mean.

And it really was stupid.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Comments

[alt_susan]

Sorry--I fell asleep early last night and then couldn't get away anywhere private this morning.

Don't feel too badly--I wasn't exactly thinking sharp there either.

To be honest I didn't think they monitored PMs for stuff like that--I mean, unlicenced Apparition is like breaking the Firewhiskey age statutes. Everyone says they don't but a lot of people are well fibbing! I thought they only checked for really criminal or treasonous stuff.

Now I'm worried about Aurelia's and my PMs--we never said anything outright. but someone looking for something to disapprove of would totally find it.

[alt_ron]

Ugh. Yeah. It does just make you paranoid, doesn't it?

I mean, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about people reading my private messages, because they're always under the locks. Except while we're here because you have to worry people will get suspicious about what we're writing. At school, I just pull the curtains or only use one ink at a time and anywiz, people aren't ever paying so much attention there because there's so much else to be doing, but here... Well.

Anywiz, it was a stupid mistake and I'm really sorry it included you.

I wish I could say don't worry about Aurelia, but who really knows what they'll nose into?

I don't know anyone who'd really disapprove of you and Aurelia, though. You know? I mean, I know why you'd think that so I guess it's obvious some people do, but not very many, yeah?

[alt_susan]

Some really pureblooded people do--or at least they disapprove of being open about it--cos it might take away from getting married and having lots of babies like proper witches and wizards ought.

And I'm afraid that those are the kind of people who might be monitoring PMs--it doesn't help that I'm nowhere near Aurelia's league according to them. And there's the whole thing with her uncle too.