Private Message to Seamus

[alt_padma]

Lana asked if I'm going to Snowdonia next weekend and I told her I am. Are you?

I've been trying to think about what to pack. It's just a weekend but there will probably be at least one formal meal, right? And there's that reception thing on the invitation.

Mum says in the old days, witches didn't necessarily have to go broom-back and hunt, they could stay in the lodge and just come out for luncheon and such, but I think that would not look well with the Mark and all.

Have you ever been on something like this, with Mr Rosier? What should we expect?

Oh, and she said Weasley was coming and I thought she meant Ron, but she meant Percy. Isn't that funny! I completely forgot that he got Marked when we did. Anyway, he's coming, but she did tell me a thing or two about his brother, as well. (Unfortunately, he's apparently not completely hopeless.)

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[alt_padma]

And it's creatures, right? I mean, we'll be hunting magical creatures. I was looking for brochures but mostly I remembered when Ms Drumgoole was in the papers because of Auror Crouch.

[alt_seamus]

Well, Snowdonia can arrange for you to hunt just about anything. (I wonder if anyone's ever asked for a lethifold? That seems less like sport and more like playing dice with Dementors, but who knows?) Anyway. I imagine Cadmus Mulciber might find it hilarious to watch the lot of us devoured by a dragon, but dragons are dead expensive, plus they require some teamwork to take down and they aren't recommended for a first hunt.

If he wants to see how we work together, it'll be a single creature, something a bit dangerous, that we'll have to cooperate on to take down. A troll, maybe, or a sphinx or hippogryff, something like that.

But it could also be muggles, because they're less expensive and we could each have one. Mr Rosier says they arm the muggles with knives and bows, to make it a more interesting challenge, and people do occasionally get hurt, but they're usually less dangerous than the larger creatures.

[alt_padma]

Ooh, I hope it's not a lethifold!

Am I going to regret not taking Creatures?

Only if it's muggles, I guess that won't matter. I think Lana's expecting muggles, actually, she said that the weekend would be a 'better example' of what being on the Council is like.

I just noticed my CCF robes in the wardrobe. Would those do?

[alt_seamus]

Oh, good thought on the CCF robes. Those would be perfect, I think, whatever we end up hunting.

We'll both regret not taking Creatures if they send us out after a nundu! (Just kidding. It won't be a nundu.)

[alt_padma]

If it's a nundu then we just offer to fly lookout and let someone else handle it.

[alt_seamus]

Yeah, we can fly lookout, all right. Over Ipswitch or Canterbury, that ought to be a good distance. They might rather insist we join in with the fun, though, seeing as supposedly they've never been subdued by fewer than a HUNDRED wizards.

[alt_padma]

Oh, that's easy, then. If there's something we think is really dangerous, we just tell Weasley (Percy, that is) that he ought to have the first shot at it.

Isn't that how it's supposed to be done? See, we can figure out this Council business easily enough.

[alt_seamus]

Oh, sure. After all, he was HEAD BOY.

Who do you think they'll choose as Head Boy, with Draco gone? I think it's between me and Macmillan, and not just because you'll surely be Head Girl.

[alt_padma]

I dunno, I've been thinking about that. Because has there ever been a year recently when one of the Heads wasn't in Slytherin? So this will be a first, either way.

Unless they make Marvolo Head Boy, but they couldn't, could they? He's not even a Prefect.

Anyway, obviously I'd prefer it be you, but if it's Macmillan it ought to be fine, he's easily led.