So very

[alt_megan]

Oh! I feel so ... So very ... I don't know how to say it. Like at the end of when we were playing AK, and I hadn't been hexed. And I laughed and laughed and laughed. And I didn't know why I was laughing. Like that.

I really like school. Everything is so brilliant lately. Almost everything. Some things aren't so good. Actually. Like that someone always seems to be cross with me. Eloise said I was putting on airs. And I'm not! I'm just trying to be better. And useful to people. And I want to be like the people I admire. That's not wrong. I really don't think that's wrong.

But everything else is so brilliant. Except I do wonder if Daphne doesn't like me any more. Padma says she's jealous because I'm prettier than her. But Sally-Anne said she's not jealous. I haven't asked her. I think probably she doesn't like me because I'm a ha Hufflepuff. And she was only pretending. To get all my best embroidery patterns. Slytherins are supposed to be cunning. And get what they want. And Slytherin is the best house. So perhaps I should try to be like that. Getting what you want is nice.

But everything else is brilliant. I even understood the new charm we did on Monday right away. Without having to ask anyone for help. And today...

Everything is brilliant. Really. It is. And I'm so glad. And grateful.

Comments

[alt_padma]

Well, it certainly seems to me as if Daphne's a bit jealous, but of course its very hard to tell with Slytherins. Sally-Anne might even be jealous and telling you that Daphne isn't is her way of making you feel as if you ought to be spending time with them, instead of with us. But you know that it's not the house, it's the people in the house and if you want to succede you ought to be with the best people.

And being useful makes certain that youll be with the best people.

[alt_megan]

But if Sally-Anne I don't Do you think so?

I think I am with the best people. It's awfully exciting. And I'm working hard at it. So I'll be useful.

[alt_sally_anne]

Sally-Anne is not jealous of Megan Jones.

[alt_padma]

Oh.

Well, its hard to tell, isn't it? I mean, hardly anyone would say their jealous even if they are.

But I believe you could be telling the truth. After all, your not the sort who enjoys having fun with friends or sharing packages from home while revising or talking about interesting articles in Witch Weekly or looking at the photos in Proper Warlock and trying hair charms on each other. You're much happier walking on the edge of the Forbidden Forest where Professor Macnair says there are things that will eat you, all alone. Arent you?

I suppose it's hard to be part of a group when you don't have anything to bring to it.

[alt_sally_anne]

I share packages and revise and try out hair charms with Pansy.

And I go for walks with Teddy and I play chess with Weasley and I revise with Longbottom, of course, but I suppose we're only talking about girls, aren't we? None of those three will let me try out hair charms on them, it's positively heartbreaking.

[alt_padma]

I'm sorry, I meant your own packages from home.

Interesting friends you have: Nott's at least a pureblood, but honestly, the things Ive heard he does to animals are positively ghastly. And Weasley and Longbottom are hardly the right sort. Parkinson is sometimes alright, but then she can say the most frightful things sometimes. Though I suppose its not her fault her mum's mad and made her sort of mad too.

So I suppose its just as well youre not jealous.

[alt_sally_anne]

I wouldn't have any more packages to share if I spent my time with you lot. Lucky for me Harry's generous with the sweets he has Dennis bring from Hogsmeade.

And my friends really are quite interesting. It's part of what I like about them.

And if I'd wanted to try out for choir I think Pansy would've come to listen and clap for me even though she doesn't even sing in the bath. I'm glad I have a friend like that.

[alt_padma]

Do the other Slytherins know your so soppy?

[alt_megan]

That's not fair! Susan said she wouldn't mind. About choir. And I thought she meant it. And then she did mind. And she's been cross with me for ages. I don't think she really likes me either. If she did, she wouldn't keep trying to hold me back.

I thought Susan was different.