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Apr. 3rd, 2012 07:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_billWe have absolutely no choice. We MUST admit them.
Minerva, they know our deepest secret of all.
They know about the false book of Hogwarts.
We were betrayed by the Sorting Hat.
I asked them who else they suspected might be working with 'the wand smugglers,' as they call our group. They told me they think Madam Pomfrey is involved, chiefly because of her kindness to Terry Boot. They also think she was in an ideal position to receive contraband goods, like Hermione and Terry's wands, because she receives medical shipments for the hospital wing. They've wondered a bit about Professor Sinistra. And the other one they said they chiefly suspected but were not sure about was you.
I asked them why and they hemmed and hawed a great deal. They didn't want to tell me, and no wonder! But I insisted, saying there was no chance we'd admit them unless they told us everything. It seems that right after they created their secret lock, they more or less kidnapped Terry Boot, broke into your office and put the Sorting Hat on his head. The Hat told Terry that it was sorry he couldn't have been left out of the false book, but he was born too soon. And they've been wondering ever since what the hell it meant.
(Terry Boot's a Ravenclaw. By the way.)
Minerva, they know our deepest secret of all.
They know about the false book of Hogwarts.
We were betrayed by the Sorting Hat.
I asked them who else they suspected might be working with 'the wand smugglers,' as they call our group. They told me they think Madam Pomfrey is involved, chiefly because of her kindness to Terry Boot. They also think she was in an ideal position to receive contraband goods, like Hermione and Terry's wands, because she receives medical shipments for the hospital wing. They've wondered a bit about Professor Sinistra. And the other one they said they chiefly suspected but were not sure about was you.
I asked them why and they hemmed and hawed a great deal. They didn't want to tell me, and no wonder! But I insisted, saying there was no chance we'd admit them unless they told us everything. It seems that right after they created their secret lock, they more or less kidnapped Terry Boot, broke into your office and put the Sorting Hat on his head. The Hat told Terry that it was sorry he couldn't have been left out of the false book, but he was born too soon. And they've been wondering ever since what the hell it meant.
(Terry Boot's a Ravenclaw. By the way.)
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Date: 2012-04-03 02:47 pm (UTC)I was livid yesterday. (Well, as livid as I could be considering how sick they made me!) But today, I have to admit, I'm almost proud of them. Yes, I am proud of them. I'm proud that they befriended Terry Boot and have been so good to him. I'm proud that they made sure he would be Sorted. What a difference they've made to that poor boy's life.
Arthur pointed out that it's clear that they've absorbed what we've always tried to teach them while still remaining cunning and careful about it, too. The reason they approached me was that they knew I would never betray them if it turned out they were wrong. Once I realised that, I couldn't stay angry.
I will insist that they buckle down to their studies and stay in school. And yes, I hate it. But we can protect them better if we admit them. And keep a closer eye on them, too.