Private Message to Draco Malfoy and Hydra Lestrange

[alt_padma]

D'you reckon one of your parents will tell Mr Crouch that those messages aren't actually private? I mean, I think someone ought, but I'm certainly not going to be the one to do it!

And did you see that your uncle wasn't at breakfast? And Professor Sinistra called him Professor Rabastan, just like some of us do? Are they.. I mean, I heard they gave each other Christmas presents and all. Do you think they really are in love and going to get married?

I think that would be really wonderful for Professor Sinistra, don't you? She's ever so nice. She'd be your aunt then!

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[alt_draco]

Razzer left him a private message, did you see? I bet he's telling him that he mucked up the spell.

Yeah, I saw he wasn't there. There was some big party last night for Mr Crouch's birthday, so they're probably all going to be sick as crups today.

I really don't know that he and Professor Sinistra are in love, but they're definitely good friends. People have always talked about the Raz like he'll be a bachelor forever, but he's always had girlfriends. Professor Sinistra doesn't seem like the type who would just be another girlfriend, though.

[alt_padma]

Oh, good that someone's told him. I mean, I suppose the best thing is to be polite and pretend not to have seen it at all.

I'm not sure why grown-ups like making themselves sick like that. It can't possibly be that much fun when you're doing it, to be worth all the trouble after, can it?

And no, I don't think she'd be much happy with being just a girlfriend, but I dunno, they do seem to have a spark whenever they're together. And she looks at him like she fancies him. Besides, eventually nearly everyone has to get married, don't they?

Talking of that, I was surprised to see Mrs Rohani at the YPL, though. I guess I don't really think about our traditions as all that foreign, since we have such an active community here in the Protectorate.

[alt_draco]

I'm certainly not going to let on that I saw anything.

I've had a brandy before - it's quite nice. I don't know that I like enough to make myself sick on it, though.

The thing is, as long as Raz keeps showing up on those most eligible bachelor lists, the more people will keep reminding him he needs to get married. I wouldn't be surprised if, one day, the Lord Protector himself told him to do so. Now, I don't know if anyone's expecting Professor Sinistra to get married, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't like to. I don't think we ought to speculate about the way she looks at him, though. There was a time when I knew two people, and I was absolutely positive that one of them liked the other, romantically, you see, and it turned out that I was completely wrong - they were just friends. So you never know.

I don't think of you as foreign, I guess, but when you bring up Lakshmi and such, I don't usually know what it means. Not specifically, anyway.

[alt_padma]

That's right, and you said your father let you try whiskey too but you didn't care for it nearly as much? Or was it wine and you did? Our dad mostly prefers beer, which I think is utterly horrid.

Oooh, now you've made me ever so curious who they were! But you don't have to tell me. If it's important I'll figure it out. There are so many possibilities though! But I know what you mean. Loads of people think Page and I are more than just mates, too. But if eventually he has to get married, then he might as well marry someone he likes. Don't you think?

And well, it's like Mrs Rohani explained. Lakshmi and Vashti and Shiva - that's like when you lot talk about Merlin and Erebus and Morgana and such. They were all great magicians because they're descended from the gods. And some of them are gods, too, only not like muggles thought about god. They're real, only we can't see them unless they want us to do. But they're the ones who decide who's going to have magic and who's not, before you're born, I mean, and they guide people to their ancestors after death, and things like that. And they had all sorts of adventures a long time ago.

Zabini says Parvati and I should show people more Indian dances and stuff sometime. We're thinking about incorporating some dance styles into Nagini. I think it would be well snitch. I'm not sure about a whole presentation on it, though. I mean, we don't know as much as someone like Mrs Rohani.

[alt_draco]

Whiskey burns more, mostly, but brandy's a little too sweet. Something between the two might be best.

Ha, you won't figure it out, believe me. So you and Page aren't more than mates, then? Didn't seem like you were, but I wasn't to know.

I liked the bit about karma. It seems a little like what goes around, comes around, right? Dharma sounds good, too, like duty and whatnot, if I was following what Mrs Rohani said.

If Nagini dances then I've never seen it. Which doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it, just that if you care about being authentic, it's something to think about.

[alt_padma]

Well. We'll see if I figure it out or not. Anyway, Page definitely says he wants to be more than mates. And I do, too, in a way, but I can't, you see. Because of - well, because.

And no, it's not that Nagini dances or we're being authentic about that (although Marvolo's giving us Parseltongue lessons, isn't that nift?), but you know the bit where we kill Measley is one of the only musical parts of the show. And also we thought that incorporating some dance into Nagini's movement would make us look less like two girls with a snake illusion round us and more like something that's not human at all.

[alt_draco]

Really now. Well, what did he expect?

I just want to see you eat Measley, to be honest, but if you want to dance while you do it, all the better. Either way it'll probably be the funniest thing I've seen all year.