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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 03:16 pm (UTC)As to Aurora, that conversation she and I had after the Games has kept me up thinking, more than one night. I wish I thought we could approach her, but I quite agree, it would put her in an entirely untenable position.
I'm more confident in her own sympathies than I think you are (and I think if one of the students did make that mistake, she'd do her best to protect them.) But the company she's in regularly is entirely a different matter. And for that matter, her influence goes only so far.
As to yourself - well, no harm in Matron being seen as a resource and help, without revealing herself.