Private Message to Seamus Finnigan

[alt_padma]

Well, that's over with, at least.

We're never letting Moon present at History Club again, agreed? Centaurs are one of those topics that ought to be amazing but in Moon's hands it's just.... I thought we came up with History Club to get away from Binns' lectures, not go to more of them outside of lessons!

Anyway, next week we'll do Founders' Night, yeah? That ought to get everyone back even if they left last night thinking they were done.

Do you want to spend some time on Sunday planning out what we're going to say? I could ask Parkinson and MacMillan to meet us in the library if we think it'd be helpful. I can't on Saturday anyway because we're practising for the first Model Wizengamot debate. You should really come, it's pretty interesting.

Can you believe Zabini? He's such a troll. I can't think what Daphs sees in him.

Oh, and I heard Longbum got another detention from Carrow! It's really astonishing that he can even function, isn't it? But I guess if Carrow didn't have Longbum to pick on, he might look elsewhere. He doesn't slag you at all, does he? I mean, aside from if you make a mistake. Does he care that you're the right sort or is he just all about halfbloods all being no good?

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[alt_seamus]

No arguments here about Moon. It wouldn't have been so bad that he wanted to read the whole thing off a sheet of paper without ever looking up, if he'd at least written something more interesting.

That's a good idea about planning on Sunday. We should let Macmillan know how much time he'll have, too.

So far as I can tell, Zabini dislikes everyone who's not in Slytherin, plus more than a few who are.

And I've lost track of Longbottom's detentions. Carrow's a bit like Zabini, he doesn't like much of anyone. So long as he's busy hating Longbottom he mostly leaves the rest of us alone. He doesn't care what sort of half-blood I am, though, impure is impure as far as Carrow is concerned.

[alt_padma]

Well, I figured we'd have MacMillan go last, that way he can't run on and on. (Besides, he's covering Helga Hufflepuff and she can't be all that interesting, she's a Hufflepuff!)

Incidentally, did you see that Professor Lestrange sat over with Professor Sinistra and Madam Pomfrey tonight? And Professor Acton was looking hexes at them all through supper! I'm sure they fancy each other - Professor Lestrange and Professor Sinistra, I mean. I think it's terribly sweet, don't you? I mean, it's a little weird to think about Professors that way, I mean they're so old, but it's not like they're as old as the Headmistress or anything. And neither of them have ever got married. I bet anything they get engaged before the year is over! Wouldn't that just scorch Acton's cauldron for her!

Do you reckon Acton will have a go at Professor Brutka next?

[alt_seamus]

Hmm. Do you reckon he's her type? Or do you think 'her type' would be anyone male, of age, single, who's breathing and has a pulse?

[alt_padma]

Definitely anyone who's even remotely eligible! I'm half surprised we don't have to trip over a hundred cats on the way in and out of the Charms classrooms as is!

[alt_seamus]

Are the teachers allowed to get married and still be teachers? I'd be sad if we lost BOTH Professor Sinistra AND Professor Lestrange, wouldn't you? They're some of my favourite teachers here.

Acton wouldn't be so bad. To lose, I mean. She's not terrible but she's not great.

[alt_padma]

Well, if the teachers are going to get up to the same sorts of mischief that the older kids do, up the Astronomy Tower (and as it's Professor Sinistra, I mean, how couldn't she know that half the couples in school use that alcove just before you go out the trapdoor?), then I reckon everyone would rather they actually are married and not just messing about.

Otherwise why would the Ministry make such a meal out of those pamphlets that tell us all how important it is to be able to prove the legitimacy of babies and all that?

I think it would be terribly romantic, actually, to think about two professors who met and fell in love like they are. I suppose someone will turn it into one of those romance novels like Lav's mum is always reading, Bewitching Romances. They're utterly soppy but it's just the sort of story they tell.

[alt_seamus]

Maybe he'll send her a Valentine on Valentine's Day.

I'm sure Professor Sinistra knows about that alcove, she seems pretty clever. It's a big tower, though.