I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

[alt_ron]

Yeah, totally. I Solemnly Swear I Am Up to No Good.

So is it okay to use a contraction there? I'm up to no good? Or does it have to be spelled out? And does it have to be capitalised like that?

Okay, so I'm supposed to tell something on myself that would get me in trouble if anybody found out, right? Well, yeah, I've got something. In Carrow's class that day, when he'd put the Imperius curse on Dean and Hermione, and he was planning to get them sent away? After he blew up in flames, a bunch of people started shooting water out of their wands like they were trying to put it out, only they were really just trying to keep Carrow from realising who'd done what and to keep him off balance so he wouldn't start hexing people.

I didn't cast a water spell. I cast a spell that made some kind of burning oily stuff spray all over Carrow, and it made the flames flare up and go scary hot. I don't think it was even a proper spell, exactly; I think I just wanted to see Carrow burn for what he'd done, and my wand just did what I was thinking. You know what my wand's like now: that's the only time all year my wand's done anything I wanted it to.

And I totally meant to hurt him. I did.

So there. If I do something stupid to get us all in trouble, you can turn me in for trying to murder a teacher.

Comments

[alt_neville]

Well, I won't turn you in, that's for sure. But don't think it's quite right to say you were trying to do it. The thing is, it all happened so fast, there was no time to think. It all turned out a lot better than we had any right to hope it would. And it got Terry away from him, which is probably the best thing of all.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, but I've had plenty of time to think about it since then, and I know I meant it. I mean, face it, my wand could never have done that if I hadn't been dead serious about it. I mean, with my wand, I can't even make mud!

[alt_neville]

You're right, that wand of yours is sort of a menace.

You can't get a new one?

[alt_ron]

Yeah, I don't think so. I mean the one I've got is Charlie's old one.

No point asking, really.

[alt_hermione]

Well at least you have a wand!!

[alt_ron]

Well, yeah. But I can't really practice anything with it anymore. You never know what it's going to do. Seriously. You saw the slugs! And there've been some pretty nasty muck ups in Charms, so I pretty much just pretend--do the wrist movements and don't even try to cast anything. It's really better to just let Acton give me terrible marks than to burn up people's robes or explode our table or whatever might happen next.