I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good - Private message to Harry and Hermione

[alt_draco]

We need to tell the others what happened. You need to.

Mind, I'm not entirely keen on the idea, because at least three of them will probably over-react in a variety of unhelpful ways. But...they need to know. Especially if they'll be at the wedding.

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[alt_harry]

okay.

[alt_hermione]

All of it or some of it? Because to understand what happened last night they need to know about how we thought he was dead, you know, and then to understand what happened to Mr Selwyn they need to know--and they need to know who was there, I suppose.

I'm sorry, Draco. I know it's hard to accept it, to see it for real like that, and not just the bits that your father wants you to see.

But you're right. We should tell them.

[alt_draco]

Whatever they need to know, I suppose.

I'd rather see it in a pensieve than rely on Harry's account - he leaves things out. And there were things that I noticed, and you noticed, that he didn't. And he shouldn't have to be the only one to have seen it, you know?

That's why I made you watch. Sorry, but it was important.

[alt_hermione]

No, it's good. I don't know why I--well, I mean, I do know why, I'm going to have nightmares for a while, I think, but you're right. And now we can think about what it all means.

Who was that man, for one thing? And why does he look like that now? Like a snake? Ugh.

And then what Harry said about watching it with Professor Brutka. What really happened?

I'm not sure we have any answers to any of it. I'm not even certain he does.

[alt_draco]

You know, one thing that the Dark Arts books don't mention (nor does Professor Dolohov, for that matter) is how the rituals tend to utterly ruin one's physical attractiveness, after a time. Not that Auntie Bellatrix seemed to care, she was practically kissing the hem of his robes, even while bleeding.

Being a snake suits him, really.

You don't always have nightmares? That's interesting.