I Solemnly Swear I Am Up to No Good - Private message to Sally Anne

[alt_draco]

Look - I've been thinking about it and I don't even know how you jumped to the conclusions you jumped to, the other day.

It's important for me to know what happened to make you believe I had feelings for Hermione. So if you can specify that for me, I'd appreciate it.

Also, I know how tight you are with Pansy and Weasley, and always have been, since the beginning of this lock. I would also appreciate you not sharing your speculations with them, however tempting it might be.

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[alt_sally_anne]

When we're somewhere safe like the Hidden Room or your Auntie Walburga's museum, you look at her a little more intently than you look at anyone else. And you have this tendency to touch your hair. When you're talking to her, I mean. Patting it into place and combing your fingers through.

Girls will do that on purpose to flirt, sometimes. Play with their hair while they're talking to a boy they like. I don't know if boys actually notice that or not. (It usually goes along with stuff like giggling and making eye contact and then looking down and then looking back, and standing a little closer than people do normally. Obviously you don't do any of THAT.)

Look, I'm serious when I say no one else would ever notice any of this. I've spent years and years watching people in the Slytherin common room so I know whose way to stay out of and all the rest. Most people don't bother. I mean, watch out for Megan Jones, but she's unlikely to ever see you and Hermione chatting in the Hidden Room. You know? (Also, she watches people really closely same as I do and for the same reasons but I think she puts less of it together.)

[alt_draco]

Right. Jones, she almost beat me at AK, back in first.

No one was supposed to notice anything, Sally Anne. And someone did - you.

It's alright. I'll get rid of it.

[alt_sally_anne]

You'll get rid of what, the way you feel?

[alt_draco]

Correct.

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh, Draco.

Good luck with that.

I mean. If anyone can, it's probably you.