Parvati and Lavender....

[alt_padma]

Be sure you're very, very careful what you touch in the Gryffindor common room. In fact, you might want to use the 'leviosa' spell like Mr Selwyn reccommended, so you can avoid touching anything.

I can't believe Weasley let Loony send an owl to the halfblood's ward at St Mungo's!

(And if you hadn't heard yet, well, remember what happened with Bones last year? Well, it seems like someone else has been trying to pass as a pureblood! Only it's not certain she even knew she wasn't!! Can you imagine? I'm ever so glad we can prove we're purebloods going back generations. It must be devastating to find out that your parents lied to you and now everyone knows the truth!)

Anyway, Belinda and I just finished scourgifying the whole of our dormitory room, and the bathroom nearest our room, to be on the safe side. You should do the same - and stay away from that owl and the rest of the Weasleys!

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[alt_ron]

You're a menace, Patil.

[alt_padma]

And you're a dirty halfblood lover, Weasley. What? Is Loony your girlfriend? Your brother's a menace. To think a Prefect would do something so reckless!

[alt_gredforge]

Reckless? You call that reckless?

Perce has a long way to go before he reaches our personal standard for recklessness. Such a disappointment to the rest of the family.

[alt_padma]

A ringing endorsement, I'm certain. Honestly.

I'm surprised your whole family hasn't been locked away for a bunch of blood traitors, Weasley. And Weasley.

How is it possible that the whole lot of you have turned out to be so woefully deranged? Does insanity run in your family or something?

Your father works for the Ministry, though, doesn't he? It's curious how he can have a job like that if all his children are dirty great mudblood-lovers.

[alt_ron]

Dirty great mudblood-lovers?

You started out being all terrified about halfbloods, but I guess you decided you didn't really want to insult Seamus? Try keeping on topic, yeah? Or is that too tough for you?

No idea how you got in Ravenclaw.

[alt_padma]

Seamus is the right sort. It's hard even to remember that he's not a pureblood. Whereas it's hard to even remember that you are one, the way you go on.

[alt_ron]

Go on about what, Patil?

[alt_padma]

Don't play innocent, Weasley. Apart from swearing up and down to everyone that you were trying to protect Marvolo at the start of the year, you're always hanging about with Longbottom, and everyone knows he's a muggle-lover. And with Perks and Parkinson. D'you really think anyone is fooled by those little messages about tuna fish? You're having secret meetings. I wonder what you talk about, hm? If it were proper, you wouldn't have to make them secret, now would you?

Don't try to mess about with me. I'm in Ravenclaw for a reason.

[alt_ron]

What reason would that be, Patil? So you can sell illegal potions all over the school and Crucio people who forget their notes in the Transfiguration classroom? Is there something else you Ravenclaws are good at? Oh, yeah. Acting snooty to everyone all the time. You're top of the year at that.

[alt_padma]

Oh, for Lakshmi's sake, I take it back: your other brothers are bloody geniuses compared to you.

Maybe it's just as well your wand broke. You ought to just finish the job and snap it properly, as you'll never amount to a real wizard.

[alt_ron]

Snappy comeback, that.

[alt_lana]

Do go on slandering us, Weasley.

If my marks were as scandalously low as yours, I wouldn't go around reminding people of the rankings. Of course, if it should turn out that your family tree has a hidden graft here and there, it would come as little surprise given your utter mediocrity in all areas of your magical training.

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[alt_ron]

Nice.

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[alt_molly]

OH! How I want to HEX this girl! What utter cheek!

Minerva, how ever do you endure her?!?

No wonder Percy hates her so!

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[alt_neville]

Everyone knows that I'm a muggle-lover?!? That's interesting, considering I don't even know any muggles. What in Merlin's name is she on about?

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[alt_sally_anne]

You're the sort of person who WOULD be nice to muggles because you're nice to everyone.

Which is utterly contemptible as far as Sandoval is concerned! I'm sure you're sobbing into your pillow at night because of what she thinks of you.

[alt_percy]

Don't be absurd, Patil. It's ridiculous to throw around an accusation like 'blood traitor' merely because, out of simple human kindness, I lent my owl to a first year student who was concerned about the welfare of her father. Looking out for the welfare of first years is what Prefects do. Whatever their blood status.

Besides the fact that Hermes didn't even deliver the letter, Madam Pomfrey told the Prefects last night that St Mungo's is taking all possible precautions to avoid transmission. They've set up an owl depot offsite to prevent any possibility of contamination.

And I suggest you leave off with the family insults. My father works tirelessly at the Ministry in a difficult and demanding job, there has never been the slightest whisper of concern about his loyalties, and you are only succeeding in making yourself look small.

[alt_padma]

First off, it's nothing to do with your responsibility as a prefect or any sort of sympathy, Weasley. It's to do with you nosing in, which is what you do, isn't it? You just want to be at the centre of everything.

Secondly, even if the owl doesn't go direct to St Mungo's, someone has to take the letters from where they do go and bring the answers back, so there's still some way for diseases to be transmitted. So it's not a baseless concern, is it? And anyway, like I said to Marvolo, Director Selwyn himself said we ought to scourgify and all, and so we've done that now.

Besides, didn't Director Selwyn say that people who come down with this thing are getting paralysed? What if there's a connection between that and the petrifications that have happened to the mudbloods here, and to Stebbins? If the halfbloods got the disease because they aren't protected enough by their magic, then maybe Stebbins got petrified because his magic wasn't strong enough? Maybe they all aren't really petrified, but it's the same thing that's happening in the camps and all?

And finally, I never said your father was a blood-traitor. I'm sure he works very hard. It must be so sad for him, though, that all his sons have turned out so disappointing. Well, not all. Your older brothers seem to be all right. I wonder what went wrong with you lot?

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[alt_molly]

OOOO!! I JUST WANT TO SHAKE HER AND SAY I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT MY HUSBAND IS PLENTY PROUD OF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HIS SONS! AND HIS DAUGHTER!

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[alt_arthur]

Molly, really. She's a very young girl who doesn't know any better than the foolishness that she's been taught.

This isn't doing you or the boys any good at all. You'll only give yourself a headache.

[alt_lana]

It's all well and good that St Mungo's has adopted measures to reduce the risk of transmitting this disease. However, as we agreed last night, we need to be pro-active here, too, and that includes not making rash decisions out of misguided empathy, Weasley. The fact remains that you did not consult Madam Pomfrey in advance to discover whether St Mungo's was taking any steps to prevent post owls from carrying contamination out of the hospital. The fact remains that you allowed your owl to be sent to St Mungo's without knowing whether that would be safe. And Patil makes a perfectly reasonable point that we do not yet know whether this owl depot will be a sufficient buffer to keep hospital contaminants from being transmitted to the public.

Here at Hogwarts we need to take our own steps to protect against this disease. The young people here represent the future of wizardom, after all, so we cannot afford to take risks here.

Honestly, I don't know whether you have the judgement necessary to continue as a Prefect, Weasley.

[alt_percy]

No one knows what has caused this epidemic or what spreads it, including St Mungo's. We are all operating in the dark here, which is no doubt why fears are getting the better of some of us and tempers are running high. But believe me, I take the welfare of the students of this school as seriously as you do. I will remind you that I have four siblings here, and I have no wish to endanger any of them.

If you have further issues with my judgement or fitness as a Prefect, than I respectfully suggest that you discuss them with the Headmistress.

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[alt_molly]

Arthur! Are you seeing this? And all because he had the common decency to lend his owl to poor Luna!

Minerva, you won't remove him from his Prefect position because of these insufferable accusations, will you?

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[alt_arthur]

Calm yourself, Molly. Percy's managing to keep his temper at least.

I do hope Ron will manage the same.

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[alt_molly]

And here's another one I'd dearly love to hex!

[alt_sally_anne]

Well since YOU know for absolute sure you're a pureblood then obviously you have nothing to worry about even if the owl did bring something back. It's really nice of you to be taking such good care of Sarah and Mandy and the other halfbloods in Ravenclaw, though.

[alt_padma]

Better safe than sorry, Perks. It's only what the Ministry says is the proper thing to do.

[alt_padma]

After all, as purebloods it's our responsibility to make sure that we look after those who can't necessarily protect themselves.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well of course!

I expect if Brown and your sister take your suggestions that Bundy and Finnigan will appreciate it too!

[alt_gredforge]

Actually, Hermes is ever so much cleaner than you, Patil.

[alt_percy]

You two are SO not helping.

[alt_millicent]

sod off

[alt_zacharias]

I've been thinking, every time we turn round someone else turns out to be a halfblood and we didn't know it. I think it'd be very helpful to know for absolute certain what students are halfbloods and which ones aren't.

[alt_padma]

That's a nift idea, Smith. It's utterly distressing to find out that someone's hiding the truth. (I mean, who can blame them, really, but if you think about it someone like Finnigan has never tried to lie about it, and he's loads more proper than a lot of purebloods I could mention.)

Anyway, I asked Sandoval about it and she said maybe, so we'll see.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_neville]

It's a dead awful idea.

I heard one of the prefects said that they might start making all the halfbloods sit at a different part of the table at meals in the Great Hall. The end, nearest the door. Another one said that maybe the Professors will start making the halfbloods sit apart in all of the classrooms.

I can't believe that people are acting this way.