I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good: Hermione?

[alt_terry]

I need to see you, to tell you something, this morning. Just for a minute. Can you break away and meet me in the kitchens at breakfast?

Please. It's really important.

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[alt_gredforge]

Everything all right there, Professor?

[alt_terry]

Everything's fine. Honest. It's just something between me and Hermione.

[alt_ron]

Not your room again?!

Have they been back there? Whoever it was?

That's not good.

[alt_terry]

No. No, nothing like that, honest. Everything's fine, I promise.

I just need to talk to Hermione about something unrelated.

[alt_ron]

Hang on.

You would tell us, wouldn't you? If it'd been something about your classroom or about someone spotting your wand or something? Or

or seeing you writing with this ink?

I mean to say, we are all in this thing together.

[alt_terry]

Of course I'd tell you. I'm not in danger or anything in any way. And nothing's wrong with the lock

But that doesn't mean that sometimes I don't have the right to talk to just one person if I that's what I need to do.

Look.

We all have the lock, but you also have the Private message system. I don't. Well, I actually do, but I'm never going to use it. And you know why? It's because if I try to write "Private message to Hermione Granger" my journal automatically fills in "and Amycus Carrow." And I won't do it.

[alt_gredforge]

But you have the lock. Even if his name's at the top, he'd never see it.

[alt_terry]

That isn't the point.

I won't do it. Having his name at the top of my journal entry marks me as his mudblood. His property. I just won't do it.

[alt_neville]

Blimey. I--

blimey.

I never thought about...

Well, it's just everywhere, isn't it? It affects everything. Your, what-do-you-call it. Your legal status. As a muggleborn.

[alt_terry]

...

Yeah

[alt_ron]

That reeks. It does.

Actually. I wonder if you even could write a PM to Hermione if Carrow has to go on anything you write and Marvolo has to go on anything PMed to her. That'd be three people, and you can't have three. Seems like we know which one of the three wouldn't actually be able to see it.

Which reeks. Worse than anything.

[alt_terry]

Yeah. It's a really neat way to keep mudbloods from talking to each other, isn't it?

[alt_terry]

Of course, most of them don't have journals in the first place.