alt_michael | (no subject)

Well, that was not really the outing I thought it would be.

I didn't think that someone not seeing the Aurors would be more exciting than what we all did see, for one thing.

Longbottom, I didn't mean anything by it when I thought maybe they didn't let you in. It should have been obvious, anyway, that there wouldn't have been any kind of...security risk, I guess. Anyway. No hard feelings, yeah?

I hope the actors actually show up for the panto tonight.

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Posted by

alt_susan

Well, Aurors can't be doing wiz-nift, exciting things all the time, can they?

I mean, this is more realistic in a way.

Posted by

alt_michael

Oh, it's not that they weren't, Bones. It's ... well, they'd clearly just finished, hadn't they?

You'd think we could have got there ten minutes earlier and we'd have seen the same thing as last week's group.

Posted by

alt_susan

Well, you might have a point there.

Look on the bright side--at least nobody's thought they've seen Snape or MacNair this week.

Posted by

alt_michael

Week's not over yet!

Posted by

alt_hannah

Oh, don't even joke about it! That sort of excitement we don't need!

Posted by

alt_crouch_jr

Corner, is it? And Bones?

As you were told this morning, Magical Law Enforcement is not in the business of entertaining children. Particularly disruptive, disrespectful children.

And you, Corner. You think it would be funny to cry 'Snape!' this week? I believe you'll find it less entertaining in practice.

And your next visit to our department is certain to exceed your wildest expectations.

Posted by

alt_michael

I didn't mean it like that, sir. Any of it.

Only we weren't disruptive - most of us, anyways. We were respectful, too, sir. And them as weren't got sent away.

Posted by

alt_bellatrix

You save me from making the very same point, Barty, in less patient language.

Posted by

alt_crouch_jr

I can't see what they're teaching them at Hogwarts.

Certainly not sense.

Posted by

alt_bellatrix

Even thinking about it puts me on the verge of rage.

Wait until you have children of your own attending.

Posted by

alt_lucius

Imagine acting as one of the few voices of reason among the Governors.

It is maddening indeed to meet with mealy-mouthed excuses - from other parents, even! - regarding how the pupils are to be cossetted along.

Peakes has at least got the right idea with his young charge. Too many of them believe their duty as Governors is to ensure their own progeny are never brought to account.

Posted by

alt_bellatrix

You know, Lucius, I've never paid much attention to how, exactly, one becomes a Governor.

Perhaps this weekend we should find a moment to chat about the process.

Posted by

alt_lucius

Nor should I have expected you to do, Bella - after all, only half of the Governors have children enrolled in the school.

But of course, I should be happy to discuss the current slate, their terms of office and what may be done to ensure competent service going into next term.

Posted by

alt_neville

Yeah. Sure. Whatever.

I'm all right, everyone.

~~Sorry if that disappoints some of you.~~

At least you got to see something, Corner.

Posted by

alt_michael

What we got to see was about half a dozen Aurors who'd just finished an exercise and they were standing round on the floor, talking and breathing hard. And toweling off a bit.

So you really didn't miss anything.

Baddock says you threw the first punch, though. Blimey, Longbottom, that takes stones. Crabbe and Goyle can thump just about anyone in our year. What'd you want to go and do that for, anyway?

Posted by

alt_neville

I didn't do it.

Posted by

alt_alice

And thank goodness for that.

But punching? My sweet boy?

Posted by

alt_sirius

Taking after his da, Alice?

I remember one Quidditch match in particular.... I'm surprised he didn't get grounded from the game for the duration.

Posted by

alt_alice

Well. There is that, I suppose.

Still.

He must have been terribly provoked to even try anything that foolhardy. Because that doesn't sound like the Neville I know.

Posted by

alt_frank

those bastards deserved every inch of it.

and I'm pretty sure these little pieces of shit had it coming to them too.

Posted by

alt_sally_anne

Did you throw the first hex, Nev? I'm sure Greg deserved it if you did. Or Vince. Whichever it was.

Posted by

alt_neville

I didn't hit anybody! Or hex anybody. But that's not what that lying Ptolemy Baddock said.

Crabbe and Goyle cornered me in the last turn of the corridor, just before we were all about to go in. They said they didn't see why I should get to go in when my parents--well, never mind what they said. I'm sure you can imagine the general idea. And that led to one thing and then another, and then it was just a mess until Baddock peeled them off of me. My nose was bleeding all over everything. And then Baddock smirked as he said, 'Well, what did you expect, Longbottom?' He lied through his teeth to back up Crabbe when Crabbe told Professor Sinistra I threw the first punch.

Posted by

alt_terry

No way would I have believed you'd be nutters enough to go around throwing punches at Crabbe or Goyle.

They're not going to make you keep rooming together, are they?

Posted by

alt_neville

I reckon not, no. Don't know who they'll put Crabbe with, but they found a single room to stick me in by myself for now. Or they may have one of the prefects who are here as chaperones switch with Crabbe.

It better not be that Ptolemy Baddock, though.

Professor Sinistra wanted me to apologise to Crabbe. And I wouldn't do it. I said I was sorry there was a scene, but I wouldn't say sorry for something I didn't do. And that's why I got sent back to the Horseguards. I don't think they'll send me home early. But I don't get to do any of the rest of the events today.

Sorry to be whinging. But it was the Auror training I wanted to see most of all.

Posted by

alt_pansy

It's not whinging at all.

Crabbe and Goyle are idiots.

I expected better of Ptolemy, though.

Posted by

alt_sally_anne

I would have, too. He's always been fair to me, but I guess he doesn't care about anyone outside Slytherin House.

Posted by

alt_pansy

Maybe he still thinks he's got a thing or two to prove, so he decided to throw his weight around.

After all, he became Prefect under less than ideal circumstances.

But still, how transparent is that?

Posted by

alt_neville

I have to do a bunch of lines, too. 'I will not shame my pureblood heritage."

I had to miss the theater tonight, but Professor Sinistra says if I turn in all my lines tomorrow morning, I'll be able to go with the group tomorrow.

I'll be keeping away from Crabbe and Goyle, though.

Posted by

alt_draco

Too bad about the Aurors, but I meant to ask...was Owain Pritchard or anyone else interesting on your boat tour?

Posted by

alt_michael

Uh. No.

Well, I think Celestina Warbeck was supposed to come but she cancelled last-minute.

That's why I'm not half prepared for them to tell us the panto's off too.

Posted by

alt_draco

And you got rained on, too. I can't help but feel glad I was in the first group.

Posted by

alt_michael

That's why she cancelled, I think. Because it was raining.

I mean, it's still been fun. But I guess they couldn't make it as nift twice in a row.

Maybe next year we'll get to do something all in one big group again.