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alt_justinFred and George, and Mrs Weasley: Well done, all of you! The shop is jolly well brilliant. I'm glad I was able to convince the Jugsons to let me catch them up, so I could visit however briefly.
Bill, I say, you needn't have worried about not telling us the details regarding Maule and Mulciber: It was all over the school by the time the train pulled out of Hogsmeade Station, what.
Alfie Jugson's been boring us with his 'severed finger' trick all day. He's particularly proud of the charm the other boys in his year worked out that turns the finger into a worm while one stares at it.
He did tell us that Philip Stretton put them all to shame by reminding them that his brother works in the same department where 'The Finger' is on display. I say, it would be almost funny if it weren't also so gruesome, what. One has to remember that to a twelve-year-old boy, anything involving blood is appealing. Still, it has been difficult not to remind him that there was a person attached to that finger until not too long ago. Sally-Anne, Jeremy, have you seen Philip doing anything similar? I've been debating taking him to one side and explaining but I'm not certain how he'd receive the advice. One doesn't wish to come off a horrible prig.
I hope everyone else's holidays are off to a good start.
-F-F
Bill, I say, you needn't have worried about not telling us the details regarding Maule and Mulciber: It was all over the school by the time the train pulled out of Hogsmeade Station, what.
Alfie Jugson's been boring us with his 'severed finger' trick all day. He's particularly proud of the charm the other boys in his year worked out that turns the finger into a worm while one stares at it.
He did tell us that Philip Stretton put them all to shame by reminding them that his brother works in the same department where 'The Finger' is on display. I say, it would be almost funny if it weren't also so gruesome, what. One has to remember that to a twelve-year-old boy, anything involving blood is appealing. Still, it has been difficult not to remind him that there was a person attached to that finger until not too long ago. Sally-Anne, Jeremy, have you seen Philip doing anything similar? I've been debating taking him to one side and explaining but I'm not certain how he'd receive the advice. One doesn't wish to come off a horrible prig.
I hope everyone else's holidays are off to a good start.
-F-F
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Date: 2013-12-23 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-23 01:28 am (UTC)Well, you might expect him to trot it out once the working day's over, I daresay. Or when your mother's not looking. (Mrs Jugson has told Alfie twice to put it away and he waits until her back's turned.)
-J
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Date: 2013-12-23 02:32 am (UTC)Aaaaand Val just came in shrieking because Philip scared her with his finger, so thanks, Justin, now I know exactly what she's talking about.
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Date: 2013-12-23 03:01 am (UTC)You know I'm always bally well pleased to be helpful!
-Justin
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Date: 2013-12-23 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-23 03:44 am (UTC)Didn't know the mousy thing could scream that loudly. Merlin.
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Date: 2013-12-23 04:09 am (UTC)I don't think Philip will get her with that trick again, though.
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Date: 2013-12-23 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-23 01:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-23 02:00 am (UTC)Private message to Justin Finch-Fletchley
Date: 2013-12-23 02:12 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Justin Finch-Fletchley
Date: 2013-12-23 02:52 am (UTC)I appreciate your attempt at discretion but I rather think you're not giving either of them nearly enough credit. They're made of far sterner stuff than you imagine.
Also, I believe you may be misinterpreting the source of their reactions: I could be wrong of course, but it seems to me that what upset them about Maidstone was the thought that those poor girls are the same age as our schoolmates, what, or even Luna and Evelyn themselves. It's only natural for them to identify with the victims.
And what was upsetting about Saltash for Evelyn--and for Neville, I daresay--was learning that their father had lost their magic, and learning in so abrupt a manner. One can debate the validity of their reaction, or the rest of the Order's, and of course it's for Mr and Mrs Longbottom to decide how to address matters of family, but it must not be ignored that the situation was made much worse by the Order's penchant for not sharing openly with its 'Junior' members, as you call us.
I say, have you forgotten that Luna asked to be Cruciated by Carrow? Or that Evelyn's cat was killed in what one assumes was an act of retaliation or hatred against her family, not to mention the indignities she's endured at the hands of boys who ought to know how to behave as gentlemen?
But you jolly well will insist on treating us all as if we're still in short trousers, what, despite that we face danger every day in just as immediate a way as the rest of you, or more.
-Finch-Fletchley
Re: Private message to Justin Finch-Fletchley
Date: 2013-12-23 04:37 am (UTC)I will keep that in mind in the future. As I said, I meant no insult, and I'm only sorry it was interpreted that way. But sometimes good intentions are simply not enough.
Re: Private message to Justin Finch-Fletchley
Date: 2013-12-23 04:47 am (UTC)I'm merely questioning the assumption that we require that discretion, nothing more. But I'm jolly glad to hear you'll keep it in mind, next time your impulse is to protect us from some horror that measures up short against things we've already suffered.
Cheers.
-F-F