Private Message to Seamus and Lares

Marvolo is completely mental.

You saw him pull me aside after supper? He wanted to yell at me about Thomas. He said that I should have come to him like Weasel so we could have 'worked something out.' He even had the gall to say that I was disrespecting his wishes about how these contests were to go by handling my challenge by myself, in my way. (And seriously, does he think for a moment Thomas would have gone for arranging a fix? Not in a thousand years.)

Honestly. He thinks he can control what everyone's doing and make us all behave like we're still in cradle school. And--listen to this--he said that we had a choice to work 'with him' or 'alongside him' or 'against him' in future, and that by 'letting' things turn deadly I'm signalling that I'm working 'against him.'

I asked him if he really thought that's the way Our Lord wants it--his own father, after all, is the one making us go through this initiation process. And that sort of stopped him for a moment. He said, the Protectorate should be a shining example, and it's easier to serve Our Lord's pure and noble vision if you're not constantly in fear of being stabbed in the back.

I wonder just what he thinks has been happening in the Council all this time? And just why Avery and Glendower and all those others have died over the past few years? Is he really that naïve?

Rama.

The worst part was when he said something about how I knew that Professor Dolohov wanted to be notified about things that might affect him and--he's right about that--and I had to say over again that I hadn't ever expected Thomas to actually break any of the wardings and--and between that and what happened with Draco and Blaise--I mean, does he think other people are going to sit back on their heels and not play to win? He's absolutely mad if he thinks that--and I just started crying. I hated myself even when it was happening, you know? But it just all sort of came crashing in and I suddenly couldn't stop for a while.

(Which I think worked. I mean, he stopped shouting, anyway. For a while.)

But honestly, he seems to think that some of us should be working around the challenges. That's what Lines was doing, I think, and Bobolis and Bell were doing. And where did it get them? Out. That's where.

Oh, I'm so-- I know he's the Lord Protector's son but honestly, I think even Malfoy would tell him he's being daft about this.