Order Only Private Message to Sally Anne Perks

[alt_ron]

Have you and Pansy decided when you're going to have to take that potion? I mean, does it go off after a certain number of days? Or is it good for a while?

You're not going to go and take it without telling me, are you? I'm serious about wanting to be there.

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[alt_sally_anne]

It's good for a few days. I was thinking maybe the weekend. But probably Friday night, actually, so I'll have all weekend to recover.

I won't take it without you there, I promise.

[alt_ron]

Good, because-

Alright, it worries me. I mean, this is a serious potion. Not that I think Pansy's not got it right or anything. I mean, everyone says Mr Snape's really good at brewing. But, well-

You talked to Professor Carpenter about it, right? Did she know anything that hadn't turned up when you were reading about it?

[alt_sally_anne]

I'm sure she's got it right. Mr Snape apparently made her start it over three times. So -- he knows what to look for, he watched her brew it the whole time, and he wouldn't let her get it wrong.

It's still -- well, there are some risks. Mostly, they come up if you take it over and over, the way people did hundreds of years ago when there was rather a fad for it. If you take it over and over, it drives you mad. So it's not worth it, especially since of the things you see, some of them are real glimpses of the future (or at least of a possible future), some of them are real glimpses of the past or present, some of them are real but completely misleading, and some of them are just completely untrue. Professor Carpenter said it was more 'recreational than practical' and then told me not to use it (but like I said mostly the risks come up if you use it more than once).

[alt_ron]

Mostly?

[alt_sally_anne]

I'm not going to go mad, don't worry. There are stories about people going mad after trying it one time but I did some reading and they all drank like a GALLON of the stuff.

[alt_sally_anne]

And even they stopped being mad eventually.

It's the people who took it over and over who wound up in the St M's curse damage ward.

[alt_ron]

Okay. You're sure?

Did you ask Mr Snape about it? I mean, he usually tells it straight even if it's not what you want to hear.

I mean. Argh. I mean, what if some people are just more... receptive or sensitive to it? And what if you're-


Sorry. I'm sure it's going to be okay if you say it is.

[alt_sally_anne]

Mr Snape said it's a lot more dangerous if it's not brewed properly and then he assured me it would be perfect. So.

[alt_sally_anne]

I hate this stupid challenge.

[alt_sally_anne]

I mean the whole thing, not just this bit.

[alt_ron]

Me, too.

All of it.

[alt_sally_anne]

How did things go with Padma?

[alt_sally_anne]

(You don't have to stay up and answer if you'd rather go to sleep. Sorry, I should have asked earlier and instead I was thinking about the potion and ... other stuff. Anyway.)

[alt_ron]

Yeah...

I don't even want to think about that tonight or I'll never go to sleep, y'know?

I'll tell you tomorrow.

Alright?

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah, of course it's alright.

I'll talk to you tomorrow.