I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
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alt_justinHullo, All,
I'm back at the Jugsons' and Remy has been telling Alfie all about our 'adventures,' as he calls them, what. At least he's not well excited about Madam Umbridge coming to Hogwarts to run the YPL. I say, it probably would have been too difficult to hold my tongue if he were.
I was a bit worried at first that Remy would be jealous because I earned two of those bally old awards and he had none. It's odd, though, because he seemed even more proud of them than I am, as if somehow it reflects on him as well. Alfie was more upset by it than Remy, what? I'm not half sure what to make of that.
But at least it's over for the nonce. Although it sounds as if Madam Umbridge has no intention of allowing us to rest during the year, what? I say, I've never been quite so sorry to be right as when we learned she'll be quartered at school.
Speaking of which, when do you lot expect to go to Diagon Alley for your school things? Thankfully, the Jugsons have scheduled no more parties but it should be relatively simple to arrange to meet whenever others are going to New London.
I've been thinking more about Sirius' letter to you, Sally-Anne. In particular about his saying that we should all be talking more with each other about our opinions. I say, I don't know what you asked, apart from what you said, but I think he might mean that if we've already made friends we trust, we ought not to stop trusting them just because we think something different to one another. Or perhaps because we're afraid that those thoughts will end the friendship.
I think the Protectorate wishes us to distrust one another and to think that each of us is alone in any misgivings we might have. I think it works, what? I mean to say, Darius was so upset mainly because he didn't think he could talk to anyone. Luna, that's not your fault, what, nor anyone's in particular, except that no one wished to be the one who stepped forward. Or perhaps no one thought it was his place to do so.
It makes one wonder how many others are foundering in their own doubts, what?
It's got me to thinking about what we can do, as a group. Not bringing more people into the lock, obviously; I'm not going to open up that can of worms again, what!--but perhaps there's something to be done under the guise of something innocuous. What about a club? We could make it invitational and only invite the ones we think are bound to be reasonable. And Lee and the twins could come as well. Perhaps we could create some sort of educational lecture that we could have if we think someone's untrustworthy?
-Justin
I'm back at the Jugsons' and Remy has been telling Alfie all about our 'adventures,' as he calls them, what. At least he's not well excited about Madam Umbridge coming to Hogwarts to run the YPL. I say, it probably would have been too difficult to hold my tongue if he were.
I was a bit worried at first that Remy would be jealous because I earned two of those bally old awards and he had none. It's odd, though, because he seemed even more proud of them than I am, as if somehow it reflects on him as well. Alfie was more upset by it than Remy, what? I'm not half sure what to make of that.
But at least it's over for the nonce. Although it sounds as if Madam Umbridge has no intention of allowing us to rest during the year, what? I say, I've never been quite so sorry to be right as when we learned she'll be quartered at school.
Speaking of which, when do you lot expect to go to Diagon Alley for your school things? Thankfully, the Jugsons have scheduled no more parties but it should be relatively simple to arrange to meet whenever others are going to New London.
I've been thinking more about Sirius' letter to you, Sally-Anne. In particular about his saying that we should all be talking more with each other about our opinions. I say, I don't know what you asked, apart from what you said, but I think he might mean that if we've already made friends we trust, we ought not to stop trusting them just because we think something different to one another. Or perhaps because we're afraid that those thoughts will end the friendship.
I think the Protectorate wishes us to distrust one another and to think that each of us is alone in any misgivings we might have. I think it works, what? I mean to say, Darius was so upset mainly because he didn't think he could talk to anyone. Luna, that's not your fault, what, nor anyone's in particular, except that no one wished to be the one who stepped forward. Or perhaps no one thought it was his place to do so.
It makes one wonder how many others are foundering in their own doubts, what?
It's got me to thinking about what we can do, as a group. Not bringing more people into the lock, obviously; I'm not going to open up that can of worms again, what!--but perhaps there's something to be done under the guise of something innocuous. What about a club? We could make it invitational and only invite the ones we think are bound to be reasonable. And Lee and the twins could come as well. Perhaps we could create some sort of educational lecture that we could have if we think someone's untrustworthy?
-Justin
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Date: 2012-08-20 01:47 am (UTC)What do you mean about an educational lecture? There ARE people who think like us but don't want to say, and they tend to feel really alone.
Like Jeremy StrettonNOBODY likes Delores Umbridge. I don't think even Padma Patil actually likes her. So with her around there will be a lot of people who will be thinking, 'well, if that's what SHE thinks, it's probably wrong!' but they'll feel even less like they can say anything. If we're inviting people in to have seditious conversations we'll have to be absolutely sure Umbridge doesn't find out, and she had a way of just popping up during CCF, didn't she, when you least expected it.
We could always pretend it was a revision club. Or we could call it Cat Fanciers', she'd surely think THAT was just FINE.
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Date: 2012-08-20 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-20 02:33 am (UTC)I'm sure we could come up with something that Patil wouldn't be interested in doing, what?
Not that I can think of anything at the moment, mind.
-Justin
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Date: 2012-08-20 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-20 05:07 pm (UTC)Patil would be well unimpressed with that sort of thing.
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Date: 2012-08-20 05:34 pm (UTC)I quite like that. Fanciful Creatures, what?
See if your brothers would be interested, or have any suggestions, will you, old chap?
-J
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Date: 2012-08-20 02:30 am (UTC)But what I mean is some sort of programme that we could run if we wind up with someone coming in, like Patil, who would report on us if we were talking about things that matter. If we say we're 'Cat Fanciers' then we ought to have things about cats, if you follow me. Only not that. Something that appears to fit with what we claim to be.
-Justin
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Date: 2012-08-20 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-20 03:30 am (UTC)History, except Patil and Finnigan already have a History Club. Maybe we could say it was Opera Appreciation. Or we could call it a book club and we could read great wizarding classics like Shakespeare, that doesn't sound seditious.
But yes, you're quite right about a programme. We might want to take it in turns to put something together just in case, so we weren't repeating if people stopped by more than once. If we made it a book club we COULD have a book each month and we could always fall back on that. We'd probably want short books, though, come to think of it, most of us are going to be getting ready for OWLS.
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Date: 2012-08-20 03:36 pm (UTC)Those are all quite long but there used to be plenty of aids for reading them.
Perhaps the wizarding version of 'Great Books' are all much shorter?
-J
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Date: 2012-08-20 05:08 pm (UTC)Would we have to actually read them?
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Date: 2012-08-20 05:14 pm (UTC)How about biographies of all the founders and people who lived when they did.
We could ask Binns to be the staff person who backs us up. Or, well, maybe Madam Pomfrey. She's really old.
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Date: 2012-08-20 06:44 pm (UTC)I think Madam Pomfrey would do it if I asked. I don't think I'd better until we're back at school, she's really busy this summer. Binns....huh. I don't think he remembers who ANY of us are.
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Date: 2012-08-20 03:24 pm (UTC)Not that I'm worried about rubbing them the wrong way, just that it could lead to more attention from Madam Umbridge, or other people, than we would necessarily want.
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Date: 2012-08-20 03:35 pm (UTC)Not that we'd actively discourage people from coming, but if the friends we wish to make all truly believe we're reading dusty tomes from days gone by they might not take an interest, what?
-J