private message to Ernie and Sue

[alt_megan]

I am sorry I could not meet you earlier but I was in the common room helping with someone. It was Blessfield. You know, Jessica. She’s a third-year.

Her father had sent her an owl. And now she is all upset. Because the Watch caught her mother out after curfew and they almost

Well. I don’t know what they almost did, and Jessica doesn’t either, because her father didn’t say, but it was very bad. Or it could have been. But Jessica’s father is an Auror and he made them stop. Only then he wrote this long parchment full of rules for Jessica to keep her safe whenever she leaves school grounds.

One of them is if she ever hears people singing “tow row row” in the streets, she is to get home by any means possible, or else if she cannot, she should hide. Because the Watch is singing that now, when they go smashing things up. Especially halfblood things.

So now I am worried that I should tell all of the other halfbloods at school. Because they should know.

Do you think I should?

And Blessfield is fretting about her mother. Even though her father has said she is all right and no harm done. But one cannot blame her for fretting.

Comments

[alt_ernie]

Maybe we ought to wait until we actually head home for hols before talking about it. No need to make people fret before then, and things might've settled down a bit more.

[alt_megan]

That is true. Because some people have enough to fret about already and do not need extra distractions from their revising.

[alt_megan]

Did Stebs ever answer you?

[alt_ernie]

No.

[alt_susan]

I dunno, Ernie. I think it's generally better for people to know things than not, if it might help keep them safer. Megs, I'm so glad Jessica felt comfortable coming to you.

[alt_megan]

I think she will manage now but I wish I had something better to tell her. Because I don't think she is wrong to be scared.