Astronomy

[alt_daphne]

I'm up early enough to have written Mother, Father, and Queenie an owl, and do some reading, too. I'd like to get to breakfast before there's nothing but porridge left - yech! I expect I'll be exhausted by this afternoon, since we were up late last night with Professor Sinistra, but it really can't be helped.

News about what happens with the boggarts much have reached the Gryffindors, only I thought they were supposed to be brave and bold? Ron Weasley fainted while star-gazing last night, and for no good reason that I can see! Well, a shooting star did streak across the eastern sky at that particular moment, but that's no excuse to clutch your chest, gasp "Oh my heavens!" and crumble to the ground in a heap. To be perfectly honest it was quite amusing. Especially when Blaise yelled out "Do hurry, Professor Sinistra! Weasley's got the vapours!" I think he really might have had them, too! Upon rousing, I half-expected him to bat his eyelashes and call for smelling salts. Or maybe one of those lacy fans, charmed with a rivitialising spell.

Anyway, it only goes to show that karma, that thing Padma and Parvati talk about sometimes, probably really exists. For some people, at least!

Comments

[alt_padma]

I never realised he had such a problem with heights.

Must be getting used to the towers here, after scratching in the dirt all summer.

[alt_daphne]

Well, he was quite overcome by something! Or perhaps someone. That's what was so amusing, he fainted like a girl might if she got close enough to touch her favourite actor or singer.

[alt_pansy]

Or, you know, like someone who's been hexed.

Private message to Pansy

[alt_draco]

Concerned? You didn't seem much when he was having a go at Harry.

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[alt_pansy]

He got what was coming, and has behaved like a right berk to Harry. And I've let him know what I thought about it, too.

I just had enough of Patil and Daphne pretending like he'd actually fainted. It was just a bit much.

[alt_seamus]

I don't know what Weasley's problem was, but it was dead funny to see.

[alt_ron]

Nice.

[alt_seamus]

Well you sure enjoyed putting on a fainting show last week, Weasley. At breakfast that day.

Maybe someone wanted an encore performance.

[alt_ron]

Go bludger yourself, Finnigan.

We all know who it was that did it.

[alt_seamus]

I certainly didn't see anyone hex you.

So congratulations on excellent discreet wandwork to whoever it was, I suppose.

[alt_ron]

Oh, go fan yourself, Greengrass. I didn't faint. I was hexed.

You'd think after two years here, you could tell the difference.

[alt_padma]

So you say.

But Finnigan's right, you did put on that show a week ago. Figured enough time had passed, did you?

[alt_ron]

No one asked you, Patil.

And I've got the hex mark to prove it. Had to show it to Madam Pomfrey, didn't I?

[alt_padma]

I hope it was someplace good and embarrassing, then. I'm sure you deserved it.

[alt_ron]

Nice.

Keep your mind in your own pants, would you?

Private message to Padma and Daphne

[alt_seamus]

After slagging Marvolo at breakfast that day? Bloody well right he deserved it!

Was it Marvolo who got him back, do you know? Or Malfoy?

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[alt_padma]

My bet's on Malfoy. Marvolo's been more reasonable about Weasley lately, but Malfoy's more likely to take action. You know?

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[alt_seamus]

Yeah, you're probably right.

Good on Malfoy, then.

It's humiliating sharing a house with Weasley. Longbottom's not so bad, I don't think he REALLY meant to make fun of Professor Lestrange. He's just a berk, clumsy and not very bright, he'd really have fit better in Hufflepuff than Gryffindor, you know?

But WEASLEY, ugh. He's the worst sort of Gryffindor. If he could have every person of worth furious with him at once he'd call that a good day, I reckon.

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[alt_padma]

Yeah, I don't know how you manage it.

Speaking of sharing dorms, did you see that message Thomas sent to Weasley's sister? Are they snogging or what?

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[alt_seamus]

I don't know. Maybe? It's hard to get more than a dozen words out of Dean most of the time.

Re: Private message to Padma and Daphne

[alt_padma]

Ych. Imagine trying to snog a Weasley. I almost gave Thomas credit for cleaning up his act, but not if that's what he's spending his time doing.

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[alt_daphne]

Whatever they're up to, it looks like they've had their first row!

Oh, and I can tell you both with authority that it was definitely Draco who hexed Weasley. Weasley might've thought he'd forgotten what he was saying about Harry, but trust a Slytherin to never forget! It was really quite brilliant.

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[alt_padma]

I knew it was Draco! He's ever so good at that sort of thing. He would have won AK that time if Jones hadn't startled at her own shadow so often.

Did you see Weaslette said Thomas told her off for something?

I bet it was those messages she sent over the summer - you know, about a week before we came back? Wish I'd known what they were about. But she wrote to the Headmistress and Professor Slughorn and Mr Malfoy and Mr Peakes. Two professors and two Governors.

You don't suppose it was a complaint about Slytherin house? That'd be daft. But maybe it had something to do with her stupid brother being in trouble all the time - defending him or something like that.

Though I suppose to look at the way they talk to one another, there's no love lost there. Still. What else could it have been?

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[alt_daphne]

I just think it's terribly forward for someone in her position to write all those adults when they surely have more important things and people to be attending to. But trust a Weasley to have more nerve than sense.

Wasn't she writing to Hydra, too? That's probably the nerviest thing of all!

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[alt_padma]

Yes, she's well brazen, that's for sure.

Seamus, did Thomas answer you? What'd he say?

Re: Private message to Padma and Daphne

[alt_seamus]

Well, they're both insisting they weren't snogging.

Probably means they were.

Dean says about the same as Ginny. I think he tried to give her some advice and she didn't much like it. I think it DID have something to do with all those letters she sent through the journals, and I don't even KNOW what to make of those. Lucius Malfoy? Really? I wouldn't write to Mr Malfoy unless it were REALLY IMPORTANT and he's friends with my fa foster-father.

I'm thinking it probably was NOT really important.

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[alt_seamus]

I don't know what she was thinking with those messages.

Everyone in that family likes attention, one way or another. That's probably all it was.

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[alt_seamus]

If I wanted to hack someone off and then hope they'd forget it in a week...I'd go for a Hufflepuff.

Not a Ravenclaw, not a Gryffindor, but ESPECIALLY not a Slytherin.

Re: Private message to Padma and Daphne

[alt_daphne]

That's because you're clever! I do doubt that Weasley will take this lying down, though. Fortunately, Draco has loads of people watching his back for him.

[alt_daphne]

You'd think after two years here, you could mind your manners enough to not get hexed.