Ron Weasley

Say, are you all right?

I heard you'd maybe got the rough end of a duel last night. Is that so? What happened?

Or maybe it's just talk. It's hard to know sometimes. By the time stuff gets around to us Gryffindors, it's not always quite right.

Er.

Hermione? What was that all about with calling me master today when I ran into you in the doorway after Potions? Was that some sort of sick joke Malfoy and Harry were pulling? Cause they were both laughing, weren't they? Or trying not to, but not doing much good at it. Gits.

I can't believe you have to let them make you do stuff like that.

I dunno.

Nev'll probably say I shouldn't even ask you about it. Only it was so odd. And I just want you to know I think it stinks.

Hey.

Have you lot heard what happened to Diggory? I hear someone hexed his willy and turned it into a plum. He had to go to Madam Pomfrey to get it turned back.

I mean to say, that's just

that's right dangerous, messing about with somebody's bits like that.

Oi, Stretton!

I hear you forgot Sally Anne's birthday was today. (It was Pansy that said, not her, so don't get cheesed off at her.) Anywiz, it's not so hard to send a school owl, or, y'know, walk up to someone and say 'Many Happy Returns', is it?

I mean, I know you're not her brother or anything, but it would've been a decent thing to do.

I meant what I said.

Just in case you thought I wasn't serious.

So, honestly? I don't know what we should do.

We've got Potions this afternoon. With Ravenclaw. And I haven't heard if Professor Slughorn is going to make us move tables or not. Or change partners, or whatever. I sort of don't think he will, but I dunno.

But this morning in Transfiguration, I thought Carrow was going to hex us for sitting where we usually sit well, where I usually sit in the back. He said we knew before we came in where we were supposed to sit, and we got another detention for not wanting to just let them tell half our class they aren't good enough to sit with the rest of us.

I mean, I'm trying to let Seamus think it's more about me not liking to sit up front like a girl, 'cause he's really

he agrees with

that some people are better

only, of course, he thinks he's in the better group, but even with the Carrows, who're making him sit in the back, he doesn't want us--Nev and me--standing up for him. He's really

I dunno

And Dean just shrugs and won't talk about it, but he's really hacked off, you can tell. And also scared expecting, I dunno, but he knows it's not going to stop with making him sit away from the rest of us. He's seen what happens, and I think he's getting ready for that. But he won't say anything to us, and I don't know if he thinks we're making it worse for him by showing we don't think this stuff is right. And Bundy. She never says anything to anyone, anyway. She just kind of flinches if you even look at her.

So I don't know what we should do, y'know? And we've got both Charms and Transfiguration again tomorrow.

Not that I'm not happy to see the older clothes suddenly gone from my trunk, but I'm confused.

Don't they all have their own clothes? I mean, Hermione does, right? Why didn't the professor?