Private message to Sally Anne and Pansy

[alt_daphne]

Girls,

I'm simply fraught with distress over what to do about the Revue casting! I've done all I can to try to convince Gerald to re-cast the part of Guy Brotherton, but he's flat told me that he won't do it unless he hears from Ron Weasley that he doesn't want the part. He says that Weasley is exactly how he pictured Guy Brotherton, and he won't consider someone else until he has no choice but to do so.

But I haven't heard a peep out of Weasley about the Revue - and understandably so! I'm not even certain that he's aware that he has the lead, let alone that he wants it or not.

I'm - I'm very sorry to trouble you about it. Normally I'd have no problem inquiring myself, but, I don't know Weasley very well, and it seems quite graceless to bother him about such things at a time like this.

Do either of you know if he realises he's been cast as the lead? Do you think he'll want to continue on in the part?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Oh...I don't know, actually, if anyone has told him. And I don't know if he'll still want to do it.

I'll ask him. (I should have told him before that he had the part, but I didn't quite know how to bring it up.)

[alt_daphne]

I'm sorry, Sally Anne. I don't mean to make things awkward, but I just...really wouldn't know how to bring it up. And now you're telling me that you don't know how to bring it up, either! Bother...

[alt_sally_anne]

No, it's okay. I went ahead and wrote him a private message (along with Pansy) to see what he said. He hasn't answered yet. I'll let you know what he says (or maybe he'll write you his own message.)

[alt_daphne]

Thank you so much! I truly do appreciate it.

[alt_pansy]

We talked it over, the three of us. He was a bit surprised, and wasn't expecting so big a part, but he said he wanted to do it. I think he was a bit nervous about the dancing, but only because he wants the production to come off well and he wouldn't want to spoil things, which probably means he'll practise a lot, which can't hurt.

I think

Well, he wants to be doing something. To get his mind off things. He's said he's looking forward to being back at school, so I think this would be a similar sort of thing.

We'll make sure he comes to the meet-up in New London.

[alt_daphne]

Oh! But Well, I'm so pleased to hear that. I hadn't thought about the Revue being an opportunity for him to focus on something other than recent events, but now that you bring it up, I see how it would be useful, as a sort of distraction.

Gerald is an excellent teacher. I'm sure he could teach just about anyone to dance! Well, perhaps not Millie, but that's to be expected.