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alt_padmaYou'll never guess what Corner told me and Moon last night!
Seamus, he said he wanted you to know, but I don't think you've any lessons with him today. So he asked me to explain.
He said he'd been invited to go into the halfblood programme, that Sons of Wizardry thing that you're going in. Up until Friday, he didn't even know he was a halfblood - no one did! His mum kept it a secret even from him!!
I mean, I suppose we should have figured it out because he wasn't in our group at the YPL and because he kept trying to talk to Weasley when he thought I wasn't watching. But he swears he didn't know before now. So I guess he just had some back luck at the YPL, and as far as Weasley, I dunno, maybe he thinks Weasley ought to behave better because he's matey with Parkinson. I told him to just watch it since Weasley's such an arse. And now that everyone will know he's a half-blood he doesn't want to get lumped in with that lot, even more than before.
But imagine not knowing, and finding out that the person you've been calling your dad your whole life isn't really at all? I mean, it's like something you'd read in one of your mum's Sorcery Romances, Lav! It's terribly tragic, really, the whole thing. I guess his mum's well embarrassed about it, too - and really, she should be! What happened was, his mum was engaged to be married to this muggle and then she found out he'd been lying to her! He was already married to another muggle! Taught her a lesson, I guess - they really are animals, aren't they?
But then, she found out she was going to have Michael, only she didn't have a husband because he was a dirty great scheming muggle liar, so she convinced Mr Corner to marry her instead. I guess he'd been in love with her for ages, and he'd asked her to marry him a couple of times already, or he'd never have helped her. So he agreed to marry her and to say that Michael was his! Isn't that mad? And they never told Michael, ever.
But then it turns out that Master Gibbon, he's really interested in Divination, I guess. And so for all the boys in our year and second-year, he looked up everyone's birth dates and had their charts done (so see, it will be useful once you get to that), and he discovered that Michael was born before his mum got married to his - well, step-father, I guess. So he did a little more looking round and he found out that Michael couldn't have been pureblood. But I guess because of the timing, he wasn't sure whether they knew or not. But he wanted to include Michael in the programme because he didn't think he'd be able to pass any of the tests to prove otherwise, if he tried to join the Brothers of Purity later when he's grown up, and all. So Michael's mum wrote to him, told him what happened, and let him choose whether to go in the programme or to keep lying to everyone.
And obviously, he chose to tell the truth and go in the programme. Which I think is really quite noble. He could have kept right on lying and no one would have known, but instead he's owning up to the fact that he might not really be pure, and he's making the best of it.
If Karoline weren't already working on the Fall of the Ministry for our play in the spring, it'd be a marvellous thing to write about, wouldn't it?
Seamus, he said he wanted you to know, but I don't think you've any lessons with him today. So he asked me to explain.
He said he'd been invited to go into the halfblood programme, that Sons of Wizardry thing that you're going in. Up until Friday, he didn't even know he was a halfblood - no one did! His mum kept it a secret even from him!!
I mean, I suppose we should have figured it out because he wasn't in our group at the YPL and because he kept trying to talk to Weasley when he thought I wasn't watching. But he swears he didn't know before now. So I guess he just had some back luck at the YPL, and as far as Weasley, I dunno, maybe he thinks Weasley ought to behave better because he's matey with Parkinson. I told him to just watch it since Weasley's such an arse. And now that everyone will know he's a half-blood he doesn't want to get lumped in with that lot, even more than before.
But imagine not knowing, and finding out that the person you've been calling your dad your whole life isn't really at all? I mean, it's like something you'd read in one of your mum's Sorcery Romances, Lav! It's terribly tragic, really, the whole thing. I guess his mum's well embarrassed about it, too - and really, she should be! What happened was, his mum was engaged to be married to this muggle and then she found out he'd been lying to her! He was already married to another muggle! Taught her a lesson, I guess - they really are animals, aren't they?
But then, she found out she was going to have Michael, only she didn't have a husband because he was a dirty great scheming muggle liar, so she convinced Mr Corner to marry her instead. I guess he'd been in love with her for ages, and he'd asked her to marry him a couple of times already, or he'd never have helped her. So he agreed to marry her and to say that Michael was his! Isn't that mad? And they never told Michael, ever.
But then it turns out that Master Gibbon, he's really interested in Divination, I guess. And so for all the boys in our year and second-year, he looked up everyone's birth dates and had their charts done (so see, it will be useful once you get to that), and he discovered that Michael was born before his mum got married to his - well, step-father, I guess. So he did a little more looking round and he found out that Michael couldn't have been pureblood. But I guess because of the timing, he wasn't sure whether they knew or not. But he wanted to include Michael in the programme because he didn't think he'd be able to pass any of the tests to prove otherwise, if he tried to join the Brothers of Purity later when he's grown up, and all. So Michael's mum wrote to him, told him what happened, and let him choose whether to go in the programme or to keep lying to everyone.
And obviously, he chose to tell the truth and go in the programme. Which I think is really quite noble. He could have kept right on lying and no one would have known, but instead he's owning up to the fact that he might not really be pure, and he's making the best of it.
If Karoline weren't already working on the Fall of the Ministry for our play in the spring, it'd be a marvellous thing to write about, wouldn't it?
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Date: 2010-09-28 06:45 pm (UTC)Really makes you see why the Brothers of Purity (and the Daughters of the Protectorate) want everything checked over twice and documented with a tapestry or something. Because you just can't tell, otherwise, WHO someone's father was.
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Date: 2010-09-28 07:21 pm (UTC)But you can see he was really worried people would think the wrong thing, like when it turned out Bones had been hiding what she was. He didn't want people saying he was a liar like his muggle dad or even his mum, pretending to be something he wasn't. He didn't know.
So that's why he wanted you to know, especially, as you'll be in the programme too and the others will listen to you.
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Date: 2010-09-29 01:07 am (UTC)Does he LOOK like his father? I mean the man he always thought was his father. Does he have pictures?
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Date: 2010-09-29 01:33 am (UTC)Imagine finding out you weren't who you thought you were your entire life--you're right, it is a bit like something that would happen in one of Mum's romances. It's a good thing Corner's not old enough to be engaged to anyone yet.