Well done, Sally-Anne!

[alt_michael]

Congratulations on making the Slytherin side.

I just hope it doesn't make all the difference, ha-ha. We'll probably win anyway, since half your team will be new. Don't take it personally, though!

(And that's not me using improper etiquette, either, since we're just about equal in precedence, heh.)

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Re: Private message to Michael

[alt_sally_anne]

(Padma, I mean.)

Pansy really does keep confidences. Maybe Padma does for Ravenclaws, I mean I wouldn't know if she's doing a good job keeping them, right?

Re: Private message to Michael

[alt_michael]

Well, that was ages ago. But I know people who've told her things as a Prefect, and even before this year, Su Li says she'd trust her with anything. And Finnigan confides in her all the time, and he's not a Ravenclaw.

That's what I'm saying--Padma and Pansy seem like they're a lot alike to me. Only Pansy can throw more sickles round if she needs to do, Padma has to rely on doing people good turns so they'll like her back. She can't just assume that they'll treat her respectfully, even if she is a pureblood. She's had to work for what she's got. I can understand that she'd be jealous of her place and want to keep it, even if that means sometimes playing dirty.

Aren't you always saying that playing dirty's all right, so long as it gets you what you want in the end?

Re: Private message to Michael

[alt_sally_anne]

I can't remember EVER saying that, actually.

Re: Private message to Michael

[alt_michael]

Well, that's how the rest of your House seems to think, anyway.

And that's really what Madam Umbridge is telling us, too, in her way. So you can't blame Padma for believing it.

Re: Private message to Michael

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah, we all hear the same thing from Umbridge.

It's Patil's choice whether she believes it. Just like it's yours.

Re: Private message to Michael

[alt_michael]

I'm not saying I believe it. I'm saying that if the world is really the way Umbridge tells us, it's up to us to find a way to live with it.

Anyway, you're obviously getting upset, so I guess I'll go do some revision.

I'll see you tomorrow, maybe.