A fine mess

[alt_draco]

What is with today? I think I've finally got Dennis calmed down now. For a while there he wouldn't stop trying to punish himself like a house elf would, trying to take his eyes out with a toasting fork and whatnot.

Vince, I heard what you were telling people. As if I would really make my mudblood summon scones during Transfiguration because I was too upset to eat breakfast, owing to Patil losing her hair! (Not that I don't feel bad for you, Padma, but I managed my breakfast just fine). So now I suppose I have to give some kind of public explanation, don't I?

Well the truth is that Dennis is... his magic has manifested. And it's been going off at random, inconvenient moments, like during the middle of Professor Carrow's lecture. (I'm terribly sorry I had to leave during lecture, sir, but Dennis was making such a scene and you looked...displeased) Dennis thinks he's a bad mudblood because of it, now, but it seems to me that he can't really help that his magic's shown up. With the way he beats himself up about it he'd obviously turn himself off if he could.

I was going to bring him to class this week because I thought his magic might stay away if I was constantly watching him, but that obviously didn't work. Maybe I should just leave him in our room all the time. Only he isn't really any use to me then, is he?

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Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

That's really awful.

And it happened in Carrow's lesson? What did he do? Carrow, I mean.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_hermione]

I don't know, he just looked like something nasty bit him on the bottom, and then Harry said something like 'please Hermione do whatever you can so we don't get in trouble,' and then I rushed Dennis out because I thought Carrow would do something horrid. I ran as fast as ever I could with him and then Draco followed. But I didn't see what Carrow did after we were gone.

Also Harry told me to take another message to you, to say he was sorry, but I bet you don't care, do you?

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Well, that depends, doesn't it?

Is he going to keep being a total git to me when people are around? Cause that's not on. Either we're mates or we're not.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

And what's all that stuff he's saying up there to Malfoy about drowning Dennis? I mean, really? That's--

That's the sort of thing that tells other people he thinks it'd be okay if--

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_hermione]

I don't think he means it, I mean, if he said something about drowning you in scones you wouldn't think he really meant it, would you?

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

People listen to him. And if he acts like stuff's no big deal, then they think they can do it, too. Or shove it in your face that Marvolo really told you, didn't he?

Sorry. Look, it's just not on what he's doing. So, no.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

I mean, I know you can't do anything about it when he talks about you one way and acts totally different when no one's around to know. But it's not right.

And he doesn't own me. No offense, but that's how he acts. Like he can just do anything and everyone just has to take it.

Well, I don't.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

You can tell him that.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_hermione]

Fine, I'll tell him, but I don't think he's going to like it.

I mean - it's not as though I like it when he's a git, really I don't, and you're right, I can't do anything about it, but he's ever so much nicer than I expected he'd be, and -

Only, Professor McGonagall someone I talk to sometimes says I mustn't make excuses for him, because I can't let myself get Stock Syndrome, and start thinking like Dennis. So I suppose you're right, but I wish you knew that he thinks about it a lot, and he's not - I mean, he's clever enough, he's good at magic and he's good at tactical kinds of things, but he's not clever about things like that, and he's not really a Slytherin and he's not good at acting like one, so when he does he bungles it all up sometimes.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

It's not going to get you in trouble, is it? I mean, I can tell him myself, actually.

He shouldn't get cross at you.

He won't will he?

And, yeah, you're right, what he's doing now? It's not very clever.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_hermione]

No, I don't think he'll be cross, I mean, he might be but he wouldn't get me in trouble, he might tell me to go away but I think that's probably it. He only ever is horrible to me when people are watching and I'll tell him when no one's around.

I think he'd rather just say whatever he thinks, only I don't think he can. He doesn't really tell me what he's thinking but I don't think he really likes the half bloods being separate and I don't think he really believes in mudbloods being less than purebloods, or at least he doesn't believe that I'm any less than anyone else, maybe he feels different about Dennis, because Dennis is so odd. But he can't ever ever say those things really. I mean, not that you can either, but he really especially can't.