Private Message to Steve Capper and Sally-Anne Perks

[alt_michael]

Has anyone heard if Strangeweale's going to be okay?

I wouldn't have thought something as simple as cleaning the castle would have caused such a ruckus. You?

I mean, Evelyn and Chelsea and Norma are just all so quiet, it's hard to imagine they had anything to do with starting it.

Perks, did Phillip Stretton come talk to you? He's your foster-brother, isn't he? Steve, did you manage to get any sort of sense out of the others? What happened?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah, Phillip told me about it. He was pretty sure it was Strangeweale who started it -- he was having a go at Chelsea Abbot and Judith Starling. Or maybe it was Featherstone who started it, because she was the one shrieking the loudest after that it was all Starling's fault. Phillip wasn't sure.

Anyway, Strangeweale got whisked off to the Hospital wing and yeah, everyone thought he would be fine, really.

[alt_michael]

Well, did Phillip tell you that Madam Umbridge told Chelsea and Judith to come see her in the morning to tell her 'their side' of the story?

Chelsea was pretty nervous about it, according to Sue Bones.

So I don't think we've heard the end of it, do you?

[alt_sally_anne]

I hadn't heard that bit, no.

You're probably right.

I don't think Madam Umbridge likes half-bloods. Judith's a half-blood and Chelsea's legally pure because of what happened to Hannah, but I'm not sure how seriously anyone takes that.

[alt_michael]

I don't know if she doesn't like half-bloods or if she just doesn't like kids.

Well, we're not kids. But you know what I mean.

And yeah, I can't blame Chelsea for worrying. Even if it wasn't her fault (and I can't really believe it was. Strangeweale and Featherstone and McLaggen? And Warrington? Please).

[alt_sally_anne]

I don't think she likes kids, but I think she likes half-blood kids less.

Siz warned me that when I had my interview to try not to sound 'above my station.' So I tried to get her to talk about herself (Madam Umbridge, I mean) and that sort of worked.

Anyway, there's no way it was Chelsea's fault, she wouldn't have started anything. And Featherstone is horrid, she's one of the ones I caught bullying Caroline Bones this summer during the camping trip. I don't much know Fintan McLaggen but if he's anything like his brother --

Anyway, yeah. I don't think Strangeweale was hurt badly but I expect he'd have deserved it if he had been.

[alt_michael]

Whether or not he deserved it, do you think that'll make a difference?

Uh.

Listen. Totally different topic but - you're in Creatures, right? Did you understand the bit Professor Grubbly-Plank asked for on Firecrabs? Something about their shells?

Only I ran out of parchment just at the end of our lesson and I don't remember what she said.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah, I'm in Creatures. She wants us to write about Firecrab exoskeletons and what protections they offer (from fire, obviously, but other stuff too), and also what they DON'T protect against.

[alt_michael]

Oh. Okay, great.

Thanks.

I think she said she had a few in the pen down near her shed, too, if we wanted to have a closer look (without getting too close, of course). In the interest of the report, I mean.

Uh.

You wouldn't want to...go down and have a look sometime? I mean, the report's not due until the end of the week, so...we could go tomorrow. Or Tuesday. Or even Wednesday. If you want.

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh, good idea. I don't think I have time to go until Wednesday but don't feel like you need to wait for me.

[alt_michael]

Oh.

No, Wednesday's good. Great, in fact.

Wednesday.

After lessons, then?

[alt_sally_anne]

Sure, I'll see you then.