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

[alt_susan]

I feel sort of odd writing about this when there's so much else going on, but even in the midst of all our work and our worries I get this fizzy feeling whenever I think about Aurelia and you two are the only ones I can really talk to about it. I understand why she feels she has to be so secretive, but I wish she'd at least be all right with the rest of the galleon people knowing.

We've been giving our owls a proper exercise regimen this week, though everything we're saying there is very proper and strictly new-friend-ish.

I'd hoped we'd be able to get away to see each other properly, but her parents have her on a N.E.W.T. tutoring course that sounds well demanding--so at least we've been equally busy.

I'm excited to see her in person again, but it's all kind of overshadowed by how horrid everything at school is, you know?

And I'm going to have a hard time being civil to Megan when we get back--I can't believe she helped search our rooms! I sort of understand why she's the way she is, but mostly I just want to shake her really hard.

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[alt_pansy]

It's sort of mad, isn't it? Megan, I mean. Doesn't she know that Umbridge isn't going to last forever? Not the rate she's gaining enemies. And when she's gone, Megan's going to be on her own.

Completely.

And no-one's going to have any sympathy for her either. Well. Maybe you. But honestly. It's not a smart move to put all her eggs in an incredibly unpopular and unstable basket.

Is there anything you can say at all to put some sense into her?

[alt_pansy]

And I'm glad you and Aurelia are getting on.

We've been talking more this term, with the galleons and all, and I can see why you'd like her.

Maybe you could set up revision sessions where she's tutoring you? I think that falls under Ev's rules of proper gathering.