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_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?