Private message to Pansy and Harry

[alt_draco]

I've been thinking since duelling club, and even though Raz taught that stuff to you, Harry, so you'd feel more prepared if some mad person ever tried to hurt you, he must have shown it to the whole club for a reason, yeah? When he said it was especially effective against someone unpredictable, who can't be reasoned with by any other means--well, I immediately thought of the Carrows. And in his message to me my Father also said that we should be prepared to defend ourselves, against the Carrows, you know. He mentioned shield spells and the like, which are good, but they can only do so much, can't they?

I think we should keep practising combination combatives on our own time. Us three especially, because the Carrows have decided that they hate us, for some reason. I'm sure Sally Anne would want to learn more, too, and almost all the rest of the Slytherins in our year are interested enough in it that they'd want to join in, even if they don't feel personally threatened. I might tell Padma and Finnigan, too, cos they might want to organise something similar within their own houses. I'm not sure whether I should bother with Smith or Macmillan, though. They didn't seem to think anything was amiss on Monday, did they? Who ever thought we'd see the day when Hufflepuff would be the least put-upon house.

Anyway, let me know what you think.