Worst party ever
Nov. 1st, 2009 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_dracoWell I have no plans to attend a Deathday Party ever again if I can help it, and I would advise the rest of you to do the same. It was freezing, for one, because if you get a load of ghosts in one place the air goes all chilly. For two, did you know that ghosts eat horrible, rotten food? I didn't. Apparently the more the food reeks, the more they convince themselves they can still taste it. Though they aren't truly tasting or eating it, they're just floundering around in it helplessly. I don't think I can imagine anything more undignified than being a ghost.
That toilet ghost, Myrtle, was at the party moaning on about how much everyone loathes her. Honestly, after hearing her complain I can't see why anyone wouldn't. Peeves was actually useful for once and drove her away with a fistful of mouldy nuts. And then the group of headless ghosts showed up and were awfully full of themselves. Losing one's head - what a brilliant thing to be proud of, that. I don't really care whether or not Gryffindor's ghost gets to go on the headless hunt, but this one particular ghost, Sir Patrick, was pretty rude and gobbing off all over the place, especially to Harry. So when he showed up we were all more than ready to leave, and as we were heading for the Entrance Hall, Harry thought he heard someone or something speaking in Parseltongue. I didn't hear anything, but I don't have a pet snake or study the reptilian tongue. I don't know if Harry could actually make out any words but it must have been the Heir of Slytherin talking, because when we followed the voice up some stairs we ran right into Granger's petrified cat. And then there were those words on the wall, which I suppose everyone must have seen by now. It was all quite exciting but Harry might be a little unhappy because Granger is his mudblood and that means that no one should bother her cat without asking him first. And Granger's gutted too, obviously, because when you think on it the cat's probably her only real friend.
All of that happened but I scarcely had any pudding. Did they serve anything good? Last year there was treacle tart but it was sort of watery, I was hoping for a nicer one this time.
That toilet ghost, Myrtle, was at the party moaning on about how much everyone loathes her. Honestly, after hearing her complain I can't see why anyone wouldn't. Peeves was actually useful for once and drove her away with a fistful of mouldy nuts. And then the group of headless ghosts showed up and were awfully full of themselves. Losing one's head - what a brilliant thing to be proud of, that. I don't really care whether or not Gryffindor's ghost gets to go on the headless hunt, but this one particular ghost, Sir Patrick, was pretty rude and gobbing off all over the place, especially to Harry. So when he showed up we were all more than ready to leave, and as we were heading for the Entrance Hall, Harry thought he heard someone or something speaking in Parseltongue. I didn't hear anything, but I don't have a pet snake or study the reptilian tongue. I don't know if Harry could actually make out any words but it must have been the Heir of Slytherin talking, because when we followed the voice up some stairs we ran right into Granger's petrified cat. And then there were those words on the wall, which I suppose everyone must have seen by now. It was all quite exciting but Harry might be a little unhappy because Granger is his mudblood and that means that no one should bother her cat without asking him first. And Granger's gutted too, obviously, because when you think on it the cat's probably her only real friend.
All of that happened but I scarcely had any pudding. Did they serve anything good? Last year there was treacle tart but it was sort of watery, I was hoping for a nicer one this time.
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Date: 2009-11-01 05:11 pm (UTC)And who is the Heir? Heir of what? How are we supposed to know whether we should beware if we don't even know if we're enemies with it?
I just hope it isn't the Heir of Cat and Kneazle-Hating or something.
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Date: 2009-11-01 05:24 pm (UTC)Anyway, of all the school Founders it was Salazar's idea to keep mudbloods out of Hogwarts, but back then no one would listen to him so he ended up leaving the school. But before he left he figured out a way to make it so that his heir would return to school one day and cleanse the school of mudbloods.
What's odd is that its happening now, when mudbloods are only here as servants and such. But like the Head Girl said, we must not be doing enough to keep the school clean, or else the Heir wouldn't be warning us, would he?
Anyway, we all thought the cat was dead, but the Headmistress figured out that it was actually petrified. I think the heir petrified it because it belongs to Granger. Maybe he thinks that mudbloods shouldn't be allowed to have pets.
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Date: 2009-11-01 05:38 pm (UTC)I'm glad to hear the cat isn't dead, at any rate.
You're right about it being odd. You'd think that the Heir of Slytherin would be happy or something with the current state of things. Seems to be an awfully petty thing, to come back after all these years just to petrify a cat that didn't ever do anything to anyone.
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Date: 2009-11-01 05:45 pm (UTC)Maybe he thinks we're slipping. Maybe he's a legilimens and can see into peoples' thoughts and he knows that they're not really loyal. The point isn't the cat, the point is the message, and its saying we'd best watch ourselves.
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Date: 2009-11-01 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 06:00 pm (UTC)Hey, when are you lot studying Potions this week? I might stop by.
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Date: 2009-11-01 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 08:51 pm (UTC)Or even Binns. Even though he's a bit of a barm-pot, he might at least have heard of it before.
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Date: 2009-11-01 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 11:34 pm (UTC)At any rate, with regard to your observation, it is possible - nay, probable - that the animal was not the intended target. Or if it were, then it is likely that it serves merely as a message, as Draco pointed out. Now, as unpleasant as it is to contemplate, it is also true that even the best of wizards must at times behave in ways that are less than 'nice' in order to protect and promote our way of life. I do not yet know whether this incident is something of that nature, but in any event, purebloods are hardly at risk. There is no need to fear.
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Date: 2009-11-02 03:10 am (UTC)I'm going to keep looking, though. There has to be something.
Let me know if Professor Binns actually tells you anything!!
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 03:03 am (UTC)Now, what is all this about writing? And the chamber?
(Your mother thanks you for her card, by the way. I see your lessons over the summer have not left you completely.)
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:40 am (UTC)Anyway it's just like I said: Harry heard someone talking in Parseltongue, and then he and I - oh, and Weasley, too - found
Granger's catthe cat petrified, and there was writing on the wall that said THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 05:38 am (UTC)That's impossSomeone has arranged an elabourate Halloween prank, I shouldn't wonder. Over-zealous, perhaps, but nothing to worry about. Surely the Headmistress shall uncover the culprit soon and put an end to the trickery.
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Date: 2009-11-01 10:56 pm (UTC)I wouldn't want anything to happen to Pyewacket or even Fergus.
I hope that the Heir doesn't hate rabbits, too.
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Hydra
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Date: 2009-11-01 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 10:59 pm (UTC)What's so special about me?
From,
Hydra
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Date: 2009-11-01 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 09:54 pm (UTC)That sounds like the worst party EVER Draco!
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Date: 2009-11-01 10:36 pm (UTC)How was the pudding?
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Date: 2009-11-02 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 01:13 am (UTC)Of course I didn't do it, that was the stupidist thing I've ever heard. And the cat wasn't really my mudblood's. It was just a cat that hung around. I'm not stupid enough to let my mudblood have a cat. That would be really muggle.
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Date: 2009-11-02 03:38 am (UTC)It's right nice of him to deny it to Mr Malfoy, to help protect you.
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:43 am (UTC)