I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good: Private Message to Sally-Anne and Justin

[alt_susan]

Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit

I did something wrong last night and Zach can see that I PM'd you!

At least it was a PM and not a message to the whole group, and it's not out of character for me to write to either of you.

Still, I've GOT to come up with an explanation he'll buy--he mentioned the revue so I think I can use that.

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[alt_justin]

Sue,

All right, calm down, let's look a moment, what?

Oh. Yes, I see, you didn't write the whole of the phrase in your subject.

Well, it's not too terrible. You didn't mention anything out of order. If anyone at the Ministry looks, they'll not know what the 'ISS group' means but that could easily be a school club, what?

Could you tell him it's a game we've been playing? Or perhaps Sally-Anne can think of a more clever explanation.

We've just been to Mr Weasley's funeral, though, so I'm not sure either of us are at our best just now.

But Zach shan't fuss if you simply say you were starting to write something else or that it was just a bally well silly mood struck you, or something of that nature.

The important thing is not to panic, what. It'll be fine.

-Justin

[alt_susan]

Right then. Not panicking.

Thanks, Justin.

[alt_sally_anne]

It's about the review, you were making a joke in character, and you put stuff in the wrong order.

If anyone from the Ministry asks (which they won't) it was a joke that related to some conversation we had on the train.

[alt_sally_anne]

And if he wants to know the joke, tell him it's not funny unless you were there for the original conversation but it relates to Daphne.

[alt_susan]

Thanks! I think something like that will work. I mean, it's not as if Zach's suspicious, really. He's just taking the piss, like he does.

But, yeah, that was close. And I'm starting to realise how new I am at this really, compared to the rest of the group.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, we've all slipped up in one way or another. The stuff I have to be particularly careful about:

1. Remembering that if we make some sort of arrangement under the lock, we have to send an owl or write a PM or something so that no one's parents or foster parents will say, 'wait, when did you talk to Pansy? are you sure she's expecting you?' or whatever.

We were pretty sloppy about this on Saturday, but I thought about it later and decided it wasn't really suspicious at all that Ron's friends would have wanted to come be with him. Anyway, I had all those parcels to deliver and then I just stayed.

2. Remembering not to call Hermione by her first name anywhere else. She's 'Granger' or 'Harry's mudblood,' ugh.

3. Remembering that outside of the lock I don't know Terry at all. Amycus Carrow had a mudblood and apparently the mudblood disappeared after the Carrows died. Probably because Carrow killed him. And that's really all I know about him.

It's #1 I tend to be twitchiest about because when we act like we're all reading one another's minds, that's honestly pretty suspicious.

[alt_susan]

That's really helpful.

I'll have to think a bit about what specific things I need to be most careful about, but I'll definitely take those on board.

And I'll be extra careful reading over my posts from now on.