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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[alt_sally_anne]

Thanks. Just so long as you don't hold it against me when we beat you.

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[alt_sally_anne]

And UGH don't even joke about that stupid precedence stuff.

YPL was a lot better without Hembridge.

[alt_sally_anne]

And just think, we would have had to sit with the Hufflepuffs (neutral territory!) if we'd wanted to sit together.

But now you can sit with your own House and cheer against me and I'll see you after the match, right?

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[alt_michael]

Don't come round the Ravenclaw dormitories, then. Capper and I have been telling each other all day to hold the doors for each other and then to piss off, halfblood. Luckily Moon's still so upset with himself over grassing on the Duelling Club that he's not even noticed we're mocking the whole thing.

Nor has Padma, but if she did, we'd just tell her we're practising.

[alt_michael]

Well, it's true we can still sit in Ravenclaw this way, but I think I'll have to cheer for you but against Slytherin, if I can manage that.

Don't the Slytherin team usually all go back to your Common Room and set high tea after their matches?

On second thought, you'd better come and see me since no one will make you have to serve the tea!

Private Message to Sally-Anne

[alt_michael]

Or...do you think this would be a good reason to use that coin thing? To get everyone together to celebrate?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Oh -- good thought. There WILL be something in the common room (butterbeer, probably, not high tea) at least if we win but maybe a little while after?

Re: Private message to Michael

[alt_sally_anne]

That's awesome.

I'm not the only halfblood in Slytherin but most of the rest are like Susan Bones -- quarter not half, not fostered, etc. Milli's a halfblood but she still HATES it if anyone brings it up.

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[alt_michael]

Well, how about right after if you don't win but a couple hours after if you do? Which you shan't, by the way.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Sounds perfect.

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[alt_michael]

We're about half (hah), but not as many as are in Hufflepuff. Gryffindor's about even too, isn't it?

But really, it's not a problem because most of us don't fuss over it; there are other things more important. And when we do fuss over it it's--well, it's different. I mean, Padma. I know you can't stand her but she's really all right once you show her you're worth something. And she keeps people's confidences, too. Sort of like the way you talk about Pansy Parkinson.

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[alt_sally_anne]

She kept Susan Bones' confidences really well, after Megan Jones passed them along to her.

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[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?

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[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?

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[alt_sally_anne]

I can't remember EVER saying that, actually.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.