alt_draco: (seriously statuesque)
Draco Malfoy ([personal profile] alt_draco) wrote2013-07-20 07:59 pm

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.
alt_hermione: Hermione smiling. (smile)

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[personal profile] alt_hermione 2013-07-21 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
So it was a good date, then? Harry said you were going with Daphne.
alt_hermione: Hermione does not believe (dubious)

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[personal profile] alt_hermione 2013-07-21 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Why shouldn't it have been a date?

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.
alt_hermione: Hermione unimpressed. (unimpressed)

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[personal profile] alt_hermione 2013-07-21 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't say I wanted you to date her. I just said it wouldn't be such a bad thing if you did want to do.

Anyway, was it a fun party otherwise?
alt_hermione: Hermione does not approve (Disappointed)

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[personal profile] alt_hermione 2013-07-21 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry. I guess even normal things feel strange right now. Ordinarily you'd have found a way to have fun for real. I mean, they're still mates of yours, aren't they?

What was so terrible about it?
alt_hermione: Hermione unimpressed. (unimpressed)

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[personal profile] alt_hermione 2013-07-21 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Aren't you lot a little too old for that game?

Oh. No, that's 'Green Ghost' I'm remembering you used to play.

What's a green bottle game, then?
alt_hermione: Hermione is pissed off but can't say it (insolent)

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[personal profile] alt_hermione 2013-07-21 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

You're right: That sounds incredibly stupid.
alt_hermione: Hermione, smiling smugly. (smug)

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[personal profile] alt_hermione 2013-07-21 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
So...did you snog Daphne, then?


Sorry. I just had to ask.
alt_hermione: Hermione gets bad news (bothered)

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[personal profile] alt_hermione 2013-07-21 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Can't I be curious without having some nefarious motive?
alt_justin: (Vraiment?)

[personal profile] alt_justin 2013-07-21 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hullo, Draco,

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.

-Justin
alt_justin: (Zut.)

[personal profile] alt_justin 2013-07-21 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm not continuing in Noble Arts, you see.

-Justin
alt_justin: (soupçonneux)

[personal profile] alt_justin 2013-07-21 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I say, what do you mean? I'd imagine he knows; I sent my selections, same as everyone, what.

-Justin
alt_justin: (choqué)

[personal profile] alt_justin 2013-07-21 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
He... Sorry. What?

He enrolled me in his lessons?

Without asking? Without my consent?

I say, that's jolly well not on.

-Justin
alt_justin: (fâché)

[personal profile] alt_justin 2013-07-21 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
No, no of course, quite right.

It's simply that I hadn't thought him so dashed rude, even taking into consideration that he's a cold-blooded murderer.

-Justin
alt_sally_anne: (I don't want to talk about it right now.)

[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2013-07-22 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't.

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.
alt_justin: (non rasé)

[personal profile] alt_justin 2013-07-22 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Sally-Anne,

I say, I'm happy to trade places, if you like.

-Justin
alt_sally_anne: (surely you are having me on)

[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2013-07-22 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Why didn't you muff your Dark Arts OWL, then? What was your practical?
alt_justin: (Mais non!)

[personal profile] alt_justin 2013-07-22 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I say, I thought I had done. I even debated a point with the examiners. They made me repeat the spell--I thought I'd bally well made certain I wouldn't receive an excellent mark after all that.

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!

-Justin
alt_sally_anne: (This conversation is making me nervous)

[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2013-07-22 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, it's interesting that he put you in the class when you didn't sign up for it.

Are you going to have to drop something you DID sign up for?
alt_justin: (confident)

[personal profile] alt_justin 2013-07-22 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure I want to withdraw from anything else. Without Dark Arts I was taking seven subjects, so I believe one may be able to withstand the load but it'll be dashed difficult.

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
alt_sally_anne: (surely you are having me on)

[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2013-07-22 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, you're going to argue with him even though you're planning to go ahead and take the class?

Well, it worked out well enough with the OWL examiners.
alt_justin: (idiot)

[personal profile] alt_justin 2013-07-22 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes, absolutely. He might suspect something otherwise, what?

You see, we others can behave like Slytherins when we put our minds to it!

-Justin
alt_sally_anne: (Meh.)

[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2013-07-22 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
There's that.

I just hate being left out.
alt_sally_anne: (This conversation is making me nervous)

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[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2013-07-22 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Are you thinking of anyone in particular?
alt_sally_anne: (I know better than to meet your eyes)

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[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2013-07-22 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
I've thought a few times that Hermione would LOVE classes with Professor Dolohov, if she could take them. And his office hours. I mean, whenever I go to his office to ask a question about one thing I wind up talking to him about something completely different but really interesting and then I leave with a stack of books.

Hermione would love that. I think Mr Snape might be a little like this but he's very focused and not especially chatty.
alt_sally_anne: (that is excellent news then)

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[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2013-07-22 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
He would. He would think she was delightful.

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.
alt_sally_anne: (This conversation is making me nervous)

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[personal profile] alt_sally_anne 2013-07-22 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I told her something similar when we worked together on the coins.

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.