Yesterday

[alt_ernie]

I don't want to say anything much about yesterday, except that Bobby probably shouldn't have said that thing about Marvolo, but sending a snake after him was well out of order.

Bobby's going to lay low for a bit, but there's nothing else we can do about it. It's Marvolo, so we can't even really complain about it or his dad will have us thrown in prison or something. And no one cares if a Hufflepuff gets eaten by a snake anyway, except us Hufflepuffs. We just have to look after our own.

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

Ohhhh there's nothing we can do about it because he's so scary and powerful! Except insult him in the most public way possible, that is.

[alt_ernie]

Shove off, Perks. Who asked you.

[alt_ron]

Macmillan, mate, that's just daft.

There's no way he meant that snake to attack Stebbins. I mean, maybe if Harry'd been the one who conjured it, you'd have a point. But he wasn't.

Try thinking a little before you say stuff, yeah?

[alt_padma]

That's ridiculous. Nobody thinks he conjured it, everyone knows Moran did that. But it sure looked like he sent it after Stebbins, and well, who could blame him? I heard what Bobby said, it was really rude.

[alt_ernie]

Sorry, you reckon sending a snake to kill someone is fair play for being a bit cheeky!? I wouldn't want to get on your bad side, Patil.

[alt_padma]

Well, first of all, he says he didn't send the snake after Stebbins, really, and I guess we ought to believe him. And in the second place, I hardly think he was going to make the snake kill Stebbins, you're overreacting.

Anyway, we're revising for Charms up on the third floor if you want to come. I don't expect Morag will, but maybe Belinda and Linus.

[alt_ernie]

I'd like to believe he didn't do it, because he generally seems like a decent sort, like when we away in the summer and stuff. But I reckon he's got a bit of a temper, and maybe he didn't plan to do it, but when Moran conjured that snake it just sort of stood there looking a bit nervy and then Marvolo was talking to it and it was going for Bobby. It's a bit of a coincidence, isn't it, that the snake goes for the one person who happened to have said something bad about Marvolo?

And we don't know what it would have done if it had got to him, do we. Maybe it has a super poisonous bite and he would've been dead in one second, or maybe it would've just scared him a bit. I don't know, but it looked pretty fierce and scary to me.

I don't know. What I do know is that I don't blame Bobby for keeping out of Marvolo's way until the heat's died down!

Charms revision sounds good. I'll get my notes and come up to find you.

[alt_ernie]

I know what I saw, Weasley, and so does everyone else.