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Sandoval, can we get the house-elves back upstairs? I think the spell's not working properly.

There are still dead bugs everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

We just nipped in to get dressed in fresh clothes and get our books and such. I know it was cleaned last night, they said it was, but honestly, it's like an insect carpet in there.

Gross.

Oh, and I sent MacDougal back up to Madam Pomfrey because she was scratching her head a lot.

I just don't understand why the bugs would keep coming after they were all cleaned out.

If someone hexed us, wouldn't it have worn off by now?

Maybe there's a hex bag or something hidden in the room? Could we tell the elves to look out for something like that particularly? I read about hex bags in the Maleficarum we're reading for Young Interrogators' Club. If we get rid of the hex bag it'll stop the hex, right?

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alt_sally_anne

I thought we'd written it so it would only attract small stuff.

This is working a little better than I'd thought it would.

Maybe I should try to get the parchment back, what do you think Ron? If it came off in the dormitory like it was supposed to that could be hard, but if it's still stuck to Morag I could go up to the hospital wing to see how she's doing and I expect I could nick it back.

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alt_ron

If it's still on her and she's in the hospital wing, wouldn't there be loads of bugs there now? Is she still up there, anyway? I thought they just had to sleep there. D'you mean they've been hiding there all day?

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alt_ron

Or wait.

When did you write this? I only just saw it.

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alt_sally_anne

I wrote this hours ago. Anyway, I went up to see Morag and she didn't even have lice, she was just scratching because she kept thinking of lice. The parchment's not on her shoe anymore so it must have dropped off somewhere, probably Ravenclaw given that they got a whole load more bugs this morning.

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alt_sally_anne

Oh and Morag hadn't been hiding up there, Padma made her go back because she was scratching and Padma thought she had lice.

She didn't. She probably will tomorrow, though.

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alt_ron

Heh.

Only it'd be better if it was Patil that got the lice.

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alt_sally_anne

I know, but she SHOULD get them too if it works right, and it would have been a lot harder to plant the parchment on her.

Morag made this a lot easier by so obviously taking Padma's side with the party. She tried to go along with Padma's lie that it was all an unhappy accident, but she let it slip that she knew by lunchtime that day. Clearly they told her not to tell us and clearly she went along with it, so I'm really not fussed if she gets lice first.

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alt_ron

I guess she's not so interested in being your friend as she seemed. MacDougal, I mean. I suppose she was just doing homework with you because Patil got in with all those older Ravenclaws who spend all their time in the library. I thought maybe she decided Patil wasn't worth it, but I guess not.