Private message to Harry Marvolo and Hermione Granger

[alt_draco]

Okay, I've been looking at this thing all day waiting for something to happen. I know you said it was for secret messages, Harry, but what sort, exactly?

Are we meant to use it to take the mick on Bumbridge behind her (huge) back?

Or - Granger, since you helped come up with it, does that mean were meant to use it to summon her to us with fresh biccies and tea and things?

No, somehow I doubt that.

So Pansy's got one and Sally Anne and Hydra and who all else, exactly?

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[alt_hermione]

Mostly it's so we can assemble meetings and revision groups without having to send multiple private messages or a completely open invitation with no room in between.

I thought we told you the list? They're all friends of Pansy's or Hydra's or Sally-Anne's. Finch-Fletchley, Weasley and his twin brothers, Bones, Loveood, Corner, I think, and a few others.

[alt_draco]

So Harry can assemble meetings, you mean.

Well, I hope no one expects me to only ever revise with the "coin-group." Sometimes I like to see what they're reading over in Ravenclaw Corner, or see what Vaisey and Gamp and the others are working on in their year.

What I'm saying is: there are appearances I have to keep up, and Harry does too, really. Just in case everyone's forgotten.

[alt_hermione]

Yes, so Harry can, and so can other people who hold the coin.

And yes, of course this isn't the only group, it's just so that there can be a smaller group and it will actually help you keep up those appearances, you see, because it's not as if you'll need to advertise these meetings in your journals, you'll use the other way instead.

[alt_draco]

So, you're confident that you anyone can call a meeting and everyone with a coin will be all right with the person who called it, and why they called it.

Well, that's good to know. Hope you're right, cos if you're not, that might all end a bit badly for the lot of us.

[alt_hermione]

I've recommended that anyone use that as a criterion for choosing who gets coins and who doesn't, but of course that's not my decision.

Remember that there's a protection on it, as well. So if someone agrees to use it and then betrays it, there would be consequences for that person as well.

[alt_draco]

Yeah, I get that Pansy and Sally Anne and Hydra all decided who would get the coins, and they were thinking about this "criterion" - but look, how can they know for sure? I mean, what's Hydra thinking... her boyfriend traded France for... And Lovegood, does she even know her own last name, half the time?

I'm sure you know what I'm implying here.

[alt_hermione]

I know what you're implying, yes.

Hydra's boyfriend traded France for Hydra, mostly. I think maybe you should talk to your girlfriend about why they're all trustworthy. Sir.

[alt_draco]

It's probably more important that you know why they're trustworthy.

Though I suppose that's for Harry to tell you. Which I'm sure he has.

But anyway - I'm the one that Pansy chose to include. What would she know about Sally Anne and Hydra's choices? Unless they told her, which I suppose could be. I'm just surprised that either of them know enough about Lovegood or Bones to know how they really feel about certain things, is all. Unless what Remy is saying is true and Hydra really is a legilimens.

[alt_hermione]

Hm, well, I'm not sure about that but don't Lovegood and Bones go to Pansy's Teatime? So perhaps she's got to know them through that.

[alt_hermione]

Let's just say that the people with coins have all studied the works of Sinbad. Does that help?

[alt_draco]

Oh, brilliant. Him again.

And I already knew that about Pansy and Harry, of course.

So, what. How did everyone figure THAT out about each other when I wasn't paying attention?

[alt_hermione]

I really think you're making this more complicated than it is.

They're all mates. They all socialise outside of lessons, through one connection or another.

That's really all there is to it. But if you want to know more you should ask Miss Parkinson.

[alt_draco]

I socialise with all sorts of people in this school and I only trust two of them.

So yeah, I think I will ask her.