Private Message to Seamus

[alt_padma]

Still cross about not making the side? Only you've not been your usual. You were really quiet at the Prefects' meeting.

Here's something to cheer you up: Why do you suppose Cho Chang was binning a perfectly nice bouquet of flowers just after lunch today?

Three guesses.

First two don't count.

And in other news, I heard that Letchley didn't make it into first string for Slytherin, either. And Anne says she's grounded for about four weeks because of that collision with Smith and Stebbins. (She said she'd like to have hexed them both.)

So maybe it's not such a wonderful season to be playing, anyway. With your luck, Stebbins would knock you off your broom at 100 feet up.

Comments

[alt_seamus]

The Gryffindor side is basically the whole bloody Weasley family. It's embarrassing.

Is Cho Chang cross because Cedric carried Anne Cadwallader up to the Hospital wing yesterday? That seems a bit unfair, she is his teammate. Cadwallader, I mean.

Stebbins needs to pay better attention to what he's doing, it's no joke what happened to Cadwallader. I heard she was going to be grounded for six weeks, though I heard that from Towler, so who knows if it's true.

[alt_padma]

Well, someone has to be last in the Quidditch Cup.

I think she's partly cross about that, yes. I heard they had a date (and Jones said it was Diggory's birthday, too!) and he stood her up to stay with Anne. Anne didn't say one way or the other but I wonder if he stayed up there just because she's on his team or if he really would rather have been there than with Chang.

And Anne said four, not six, but maybe she was being hopeful and downplaying it.

Speaking of downplaying, have you seen how tired Professor Dolohov looks by the end of the day? I noticed that he's leaning on his cane loads more on the way out of supper than the way in. I'm not sure all that hexing he's making people do to him is at all wise.

[alt_seamus]

Yeah, but I'd rather it not be my House that's last! Maybe it's Ravenclaw's turn for a change.

If he stood her up to stay with Cadwallader I can see why she's cross with him. Did he not trust Madam Pomfrey to do a proper job healing her unless he was there keeping an eye on things? Oh and I'd trust Cadwallader over Towler, it's her shoulder.

Professor Dolohov looks pretty terrible by dinner most days. I hope he doesn't drop dead like Miss overdo things.

[alt_padma]

I think Chang's daft to be cross if he stayed because Anne's his responsibility as Captain. But she'd be justified if he stayed because he fancies Anne.

But. The thing is that everyone knows she's pretty but she's really got no personality at all. So I could believe Diggory might be bored with her.


I don't think Professor Dolohov likes me much. Did I tell you I realised he must have taught Regulus Black? But I still had to tell him about Sanji. It was really difficult to tell him without saying something that might offend him, you know?

I'm still taking the practical but I just hope he doesn't hold that against me.

[alt_seamus]

She might not have much personality but everyone seems to think she's really pretty. And she's a Quidditch player, how many girls are Quidditch players?

About Dolohov, though -- he taught Regulus Black, really? You hadn't told me. How did that come up, and Sanji?

[alt_padma]

She's fit. Maybe that's all he's interested in. But I always sort of thought Diggory was a cut above other Quidditchers.

Most of them are only interested in what their sport can get them. And I'm not sorry you're not with that sort.

But Dolohov. Well, it came up because he was asking what experience we'd had with Dark the Noble Arts. And that's about the worst thing that's happened to us and it was because Regulus Black went off his nut. And I tried to explain the way they told us, how Black was just broken in his mind, you know, but obviously that kind of thing shouldn't come from a stranger, and not a student.

So, I dunno. I think I'm going to have to work awfully hard to impress him. Which was never a problem with Miss Professor Carrow--loads of other things were problems, but not that part.

[alt_seamus]

Oh.

And Black was one of Dolohov's students, once?

Ugh.

Well, you'll impress him the same way you impress all your teachers. By being brilliant. It'll be fine.

[alt_padma]

I think he must have been. Professor Dolohov worked with so many people in the Council and he's such good mates with people like the Malfoys and Professor Raz. I can't imagine that he didn't teach Regulus too. And there was the way he reacted when I started talking about it.

I'm not going to keep reminding him, though, believe me.

I still don't really see why everyone liked him so much

Anyway. You'll be fine, too. With OWLs, I mean.

[alt_seamus]

I'm not worried. (Much.) I'm pretty sure I'll pass, but I want to do better than just PASSING, you know?