I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
So who of us has been invited to CCF camp? I already know that Harry and I have been, and Daphs told me yesterday that she was in, too.
I wonder what sort of excitement is in store for us this time around.
Harry, you missed an utterly posh gathering at Avery's yesterday. Plenty of drinks, food, music, and games. No deep topics of conversation whatsoever. It was restful, in a way.
I wonder what sort of excitement is in store for us this time around.
Harry, you missed an utterly posh gathering at Avery's yesterday. Plenty of drinks, food, music, and games. No deep topics of conversation whatsoever. It was restful, in a way.
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Why, did Harry say it was a date? Because I told him it wasn't.
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There's nothing wrong with it if you want to date Daphne. I don't think she's a bad sort. Not like Lana Sandoval or some of the others.
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First Sally Anne, then Harry, now you.
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Anyway, was it a fun party otherwise?
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I don't know. I mean, there's fun in theory, and it had all the trappings of that, and then there's fun in actuality, which it wasn't. Not really. But it appeared to everyone as if I was having quite the smashing time, so no worries on that front.
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What was so terrible about it?
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Doesn't mean I can't still play it.
There's nothing outright terrible about it. Good food, enough liquor to keep things cheery, decent music, even some interesting conversation. But then when it comes time for the "real fun," you realise that all the pleasant chit-chat you've had is with people who enjoy some rather unsavoury things.
And I don't just mean the stupid "green bottle" games, either.
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Oh. No, that's 'Green Ghost' I'm remembering you used to play.
What's a green bottle game, then?
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There's a stack of brown bottles on a table, plus two green ones. Someone casts a spell that sends the bottles shuffling and flying around so that a bottle lands in front of each person. The two people who get the green bottles - either they snog, or, if it's two blokes, or two girls, then they get to make each other perform a dare.
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You're right: That sounds incredibly stupid.
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As for the dares, they don't tend to hold back, and some of them have vivid imaginations.
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Sorry. I just had to ask.
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Why does it matter if I did? Or didn't?
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And Antigone Fletcher.
The bottles also tried to pair me up with Melinda, but thankfully cousins aren't expected to follow through.
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I received an owl about it, what, but I'm well confused. It said everyone who was selected had earned top marks and was continuing on in both Defence and Noble Arts.
So there must have been some sort of mixup, what. I was thinking of writing back to clear it up but Mrs Jugson's so pleased I hesitate to point out that it's got to be an error.
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Moreover, does he care?
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He was here yesterday, as it so happens. He was pretty offended that you had decided not to continue, and from what I gathered, he saw to it that you had no choice in the matter.
Seems he didn't see fit to pass this along to you?
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He enrolled me in his lessons?
Without asking? Without my consent?
I say, that's jolly well not on.
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It's simply that I hadn't thought him so dashed rude, even taking into consideration that he's a cold-blooded murderer.
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Presumably because I got an 'A' on my Dark Arts OWL.
I really didn't want to do it last summer by the end but it's really annoying to get kicked out, anyway.
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I say, I'm happy to trade places, if you like.
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But I got an 'Outstanding' all the same. I suppose arguing with the examiners impressed them, dash it all.
I thought I'd simply not elect to continue, what, but Draco says Professor Dolohov insisted that I be listed on his rolls. Which rather indicates that even had I received a sub-par mark, he might have made the choice for me, regardless.
I say, it's not that I don't think he's a good teacher or even that the subject has no practical application, given our present and future goals. It's just that I thought with enough others taking the lessons, we could manage to learn what we needed without all of us taking them.
Well, and I never expected he would be so jolly well imperious about whom he wanted in his class. There's no doubt he's diabolically persuasive, what, but I've never before found him to be so dashed peremptory!
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Are you going to have to drop something you DID sign up for?
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As Draco says, one could always refuse to attend lessons but that could lead to worse problems than letting him think he's changed my mind. It might be best to make him think he's won, this time round.
Not before I make the point that he was wrong to take the decision for me, though, what?
-Justin
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Well, it worked out well enough with the OWL examiners.
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You see, we others can behave like Slytherins when we put our minds to it!
-Justin
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I just hate being left out.
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I know that Boot and Hermione still get lessons from the Order, and who knows, they might not even take Noble Arts if they had the chance - surely Boot wouldn't. I'm not sure about Hermione.
Well, it's none of my concern if he wants to go on being stubborn about it.
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Hermione would love that. I think Mr Snape might be a little like this but he's very focused and not especially chatty.
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She thinks Mr Snape is brilliant, even though he's sour. I don't mind his sourness so much, though - he's rather droll in his own way.
Acton would drive her up a wall, though.
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You're completely right about Acton. She'd get on well with Babbling, though. And she'd love Vector, from everything I've heard about her from Pansy.
You know she'd be the top student, if she were a student. Padma would have never stood a chance.
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Maybe I ought not to have. Suppose it might have made her feel strange. Or left out.
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She seemed glad to hear it. She said it's hard to know, because she got her wand late, and she doesn't get to work in classes very often -- all of it.
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Though who knows, she might not have believed me. I reckon it mattered a good deal more, coming from you.