Private Message to Sally-Anne

[alt_michael]

(It's all right if someone wants to make me read this out but I'd rather they didn't.)

Look, I'm sorry.

Can we talk about it? After supper?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Oh, yes. So he mentioned to us. Aurelia Archer supervised the other night for me and Pansy.

[alt_michael]

As if she needs the help.

[alt_sally_anne]

Pansy?

No. She's really very good at Potions. She said she could use the extra practise but I think mostly she wanted to keep me company.

[alt_sally_anne]

Anyway.

It's not just about me, no.

[alt_michael]

Yeah, that's what I was saying earlier, Sals, that it's not. And the thing is...ugh, you'll get cross again when I say this but look: You can't start thinking you're protected just because you've got powerful mates.

I thought Teds was a mate. Well, you see how that worked out. And I know you think they'll stand by you no matter what but you don't know that, not for sure. Not if it got...really bad.

If it's a choice between you and getting chucked out of their families or something, how do you know what they'll choose?

[alt_sally_anne]

Pansy would choose me.

Teddy was a friend, sure.

He wasn't a friend like Pansy.

[alt_michael]

Well, that's just bloody great, then, innit.

[alt_sally_anne]

See, this is exactly the sort of thing I meant when I said you don't trust me. You don't trust my judgment. You don't trust that I don't take risks for stupid reasons.

[alt_michael]

That's not the point. At All.

Nor what I meant.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well what exactly did you mean then, since apparently I'm missing your point?

[alt_michael]

My point?

My point is you're as Slytherin as they come. Fine. It's all very well for you, then, since you've got a rich, influential bestie who apparently (according to you) shall obviously turn her back on everything that makes her important and safe in order to protect you?

Well, lucky you.

You know what? Just forget it.

[alt_sally_anne]

Would you have preferred that I leave you out? Of everything, I mean.

Because that would be ever so much SAFER for you.