Private Message to Padma Patil and Belinda Dunstan

[alt_lavender]

Argh!

Mummy is being an absolute nutter! I don't understand it.

So, she mentioned in her last private message to me that Lovegood had asked to stay on at Hogwarts over the hols, and I was thinking, hurrah! That's the most sensible idea the girl has had in, oh, ever.

She gets to stay and muck stalls with Professor Brutka, and I don't have to look at her blank expression across the breakfast table every morning and worry that she'll say something mortifying at our holiday party. Everyone's happy!

So I said as much to Mummy and she said no, Lovegood has to come back because leaving her at Hogwarts would 'give the wrong impression.'

And, she said we all have to go to the viewing of Black's corpse--apparently it would, you guessed it, 'give the wrong impression' if we weren't there.

I don't see why, as everyone knows we're loyal, but there's no reasoning with her. Mothers!

Oh, and I thought you two would want to know that people have been asking Parvati and me all day if we did the quiz and we haven't given away a thing! So there, Belinda!

Comments

[alt_lavender]

Oh, and I wasn't so much thinking of Obliviating ourselves so we'd forget we'd seen it, so much as Obliviating our parents so they'd forget they'd asked us to go!

But you're right, the other way would be easier--well, if we actually knew Obliviation at all that is!

Sometimes it seems like people who are older than us know all the interesting things! I so wish I could Apparate too.

[alt_padma]

Oh, well, Obliviating them would be better, so we don't have to go at all, but I guess seeing it so people know we've seen it and then Obliviating it would be more prudent.

If Looney's coming home then we could practise on her. Or - have your parents decided to keep mudbloods in the house? I bet we could practise on one of them, just for little things like whether they'd made the beds or whatever, and they wouldn't get in horrible trouble for forgetting and we'd get our practice in.

[alt_lavender]

Mummy doesn't particularly care for mudblood servants in the house; she feels we can get on well enough with our elves and a few muggles to do the real drudge work.

Daddy has a few in the stables, but I'm not sure we should meddle with them--you know how cross he gets when anything to do with the stables is disturbed. And he's almost never cross otherwise.

The Loon may be our best opportunity, actually. Nobody'd notice, since she's always doing something daft.

[alt_padma]

The Loon, then. Or the muggles. It does work on muggles, so that's possible. I don't think it'll work on an elf.