My Guardian and Zacharias

[alt_megan]

I got a letter from my guardian this morning. It was a lovely letter. She said she was proud of me for doing better than she expected on my exams. I didn't fail any of them. And I wasn't even very close to failing. She told me a funny story about Quidditch, too.

I'm going to write back and tell her about the Quidditch game this weekend. Even though it wasn't very long. Harry Marvolo was in it. So she ought to be interested. I mean, she ought to be interested because he's so good at Quidditch!

I wonder if Zacharias is still angry with me for hexing him. I did it while we were playing AK. At the very end. And then he looked so surprised I laughed. But only a little. Mostly I was horrified, because I didn't mean to hex him. I was only laughing because I was so startled and sort of scared that I hexed him by accident. I've been avoiding him, so I don't know if he's still angry. But it's been a long time. So maybe he's not.

Comments

[alt_susan]

I'm glad your guardian isn't cross with you anymore. She seems very unprounpra the way she feels changes a lot.

I dont know about Zacharias; it can be hard to tell how he feels too. But you could ask.

[alt_megan]

Perhaps it does. The way I feel changes a lot sometimes, too. Don't you? When different things happen?

If I asked and he was still angry, he'd get angry at me even more! And wouldn't forget for a longer time.

[alt_susan]

Well I guess I do get into moods sometimes. But the...I don't know, the underneath feeling I have about a person or a thing...that doesn't change too easily.

If I did terribly in Charms one day, it wouldn't make me hate it and if I did well in Potions it wouldnt make me like it. I think I'm a bit the same with people too.

[alt_megan]

I don't know if I have an underneath feeling about things. Maybe everyone doesn't. Maybe my guardian doesn't, especialy. But maybe I do. I think I do, actually. What does it feel like?

Do you have to be completely still and patient to feel it?

[alt_susan]

I don't know if I can discribe it because I think it's a little bit different for every person. But I guess it's a bit like a feeling that's stronger than the feeling you have for just one moment.

With me, I take a long time to make up my mind about things, but then I take a long time to change it to.

[alt_megan]

Oh, that's not what I was thinking it was going to be at all.

Perhaps some people have lots of underneath feelings at the same time.

[alt_lavender]

It sounds like you worked really Hard for your exam results. That's very good of you.

Parvati and I didn't really work very hard last term, but we're going to try to do better this term. We're going to have a revising group because I think we both learn things better when we revise with other people. Besides, revising by yourself is so dull, don't you think?

[alt_megan]

Yes, I did. So I'm glad it all turned out okay. Because I wasn't sure it would.

I think revising with other people is brilliant. That's why I did so well at potions. Because I practised with Pansy!

[alt_lavender]

I was talking with some of the other people who are going to be in the revising group, and we thought you might like to Join.

You'd be a good person to have around on account of being so consha conshehard-working. Parvati and I can be awful Chatterers if we don't have someone else there to help us concentrate!

[alt_megan]

Oooh, that's really nice of you. I'd like to be in your revising group. Are you going to revise for everything together?

[alt_lavender]

I think we're going to start with Potions, because Parvati and I got our worst marks in that. And then we'll do some Transfiguration and History of Magic, because that's what Daphne and Belinda want to do.

And of course we'll have Padma and Linus who are clever at nearly everything, to help us along!

[alt_megan]

Oooh. That's a lot of people I barely know revising together.

[alt_padma]

Don't fret about Smith; he's always been a right punter. None of us ever minds when he gets on a high hippogriff about something.

[alt_megan]

Oh! Okay. If you say so. And you should know. Since you know him from before school.

But I still hope he's not cross.

[alt_padma]

If he is, it doesnt matter. He won't be for long - well, I mean, he'll find something else to be cross about.

Besides, we'll set him straight. It wasn't your fault. Look at me and Marvolo. Though I guess that doesn't count because I missed, but it's the same idea.

And then theirs Page, too. I mean, I had no idea he'd already been hexed loads of times. If anything, it's Perks' fault for telling us all to target him. Don't you agree?

[alt_megan]

I suppose so.

You will? I suppose it is sort of the same thing. But he wasn't playing. So he had a right to be cross. But it has been a long time. So he's probably forgot. Like you said.

Umm I Yes, I agree.

[alt_sally_anne]

Don't worry about it Jones, accidents happen and the hex is really harmless. I mean I got hit by a leg-locker jinx in the common room last week because one of the fourth-years tried to hex a friend as a joke and missed and got me, that was loads more annoying than getting blue ears. If Smith is really still cross with you maybe you should hex him on purpose just to give him something better to be cross about.

[alt_megan]

I'm not really worried. Especialy after everyone said not to be. I was just thinking about it.

I don't want anyone to be cross with me.

[alt_sally_anne]

It's Page's fault for being a wanker. No one who hexed him ought to feel bad about it.

[alt_padma]

Well, that's just what I mean. It's not Jones' fault she hexed him and she oughtn't feel bad about it.

[alt_millicent]

dont know why you worry so much about hexing. stop being a winer jones.

[alt_megan]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.

[alt_sally_anne]

You whinged plenty when I made your nose glow last week, Milli. And that wasn't even a hex, that was an accident.