Did anyone else
May. 31st, 2011 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_padmaread in today's Prophet that Abbott's little sister and brother are being reclassified as purebloods?
I think that's about as good a way to honour Abbott's memory as any, really. Maybe they think it'll help protect them some. Although it might not, either. Not entirely.
Here in Ravenclaw, loads of people are having trouble sleeping. I guess on Sunday the Sisters in Witchcraft made sachets for under their pillows. Lavender and chamomile and other herbs that help soothe and calm people when they're going to sleep. I'm not sure how well they're helping. Fawcett's been having a terrible time of it, and Su Li too, for that matter. We've asked Professor Sprout if we can go down to the greenhouses after today's last exam, to make some more, and she said yes, we could do. I think we'll put runes on to help make them more powerful, too. MacDougal got a bottle of some vile potion from her mum but it smells so bad no one wants to test it. I think the runes are safer - especially after reading that paper Linus Moon wrote for class.
We were talking about things in the Corner this afternoon, about how it seems like Our Lord's peace keeps getting disrupted in really horrible ways. Like last year. And now this. We're supposed to be safe at Hogwarts - and we are, mostly - but if stuff like this can keep happening even with the best kind of protection available, well, we reckon it's just true what they tell the Young Protectors, that it's everybody's business to keep themselves all prepared for domestic enemies, all the time, because you never know.
Still. Even with knowing that we're practising and we're prepared, it feels sort of helpless. Doesn't it? Like you can't ever really keep the bad out, not altogether. And I mean, being fourteen doesn't make us any more able to stop bad things happening than being thirteen did. Do grown-ups feel that way too, do you think?
I think that's about as good a way to honour Abbott's memory as any, really. Maybe they think it'll help protect them some. Although it might not, either. Not entirely.
Here in Ravenclaw, loads of people are having trouble sleeping. I guess on Sunday the Sisters in Witchcraft made sachets for under their pillows. Lavender and chamomile and other herbs that help soothe and calm people when they're going to sleep. I'm not sure how well they're helping. Fawcett's been having a terrible time of it, and Su Li too, for that matter. We've asked Professor Sprout if we can go down to the greenhouses after today's last exam, to make some more, and she said yes, we could do. I think we'll put runes on to help make them more powerful, too. MacDougal got a bottle of some vile potion from her mum but it smells so bad no one wants to test it. I think the runes are safer - especially after reading that paper Linus Moon wrote for class.
We were talking about things in the Corner this afternoon, about how it seems like Our Lord's peace keeps getting disrupted in really horrible ways. Like last year. And now this. We're supposed to be safe at Hogwarts - and we are, mostly - but if stuff like this can keep happening even with the best kind of protection available, well, we reckon it's just true what they tell the Young Protectors, that it's everybody's business to keep themselves all prepared for domestic enemies, all the time, because you never know.
Still. Even with knowing that we're practising and we're prepared, it feels sort of helpless. Doesn't it? Like you can't ever really keep the bad out, not altogether. And I mean, being fourteen doesn't make us any more able to stop bad things happening than being thirteen did. Do grown-ups feel that way too, do you think?
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Date: 2011-05-31 07:27 pm (UTC)I really think Hogwarts will be a lot safer now, don't you?
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Date: 2011-05-31 08:11 pm (UTC)People in Gryffindor aren't sleeping well, either. And Percy -- he looks like he went through a war. I suppose in a way he did.
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Date: 2011-05-31 08:14 pm (UTC)Is there anything I can do?
Everyone in Gryffindor is broken up. Percy, well, I already said, I guess, but -- I keep thinking about how two weeks ago he was barking at everyone and telling us what to do and now he sits there and stares into space and startles when the wind blows. It's horrid, it's like he's Percy's ghost.
For once his horrid brothers are leaving him alone. I don't know what's wrong with Ginny, going after him like that as if there's NO OTHER PERSON IN THE WHOLE SCHOOL who could possibly give her advice on her class choices.
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Date: 2011-05-31 11:52 pm (UTC)That's exactly the word for it.
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Date: 2011-06-01 01:18 pm (UTC)And that just because we're still sort of kids doesn't mean we'll be safe.
It's funny, it's like sometimes, people still treat us like we're babies, but then at the same time, we're expected to handle things that would be hard for full-grown witches and wizards. You know? I think the programme this summer will help a little, at least when it comes to feeling a bit more prepared for everything.
Who are you writing to for the YPL by the way?
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