Thanks, Seamus

[alt_neville]

Thanks for having me floo over yesterday, Seamus. And please thank Mr Rosier for me, too. He seemed really nice, and it was wizard to see you. I'm glad I managed to help you get you at least one day off from study with your tutor. You'll be ace in all our classes when we get back to school in September.

Thought a lot about our talk last night, and I've talked with Gran about it some. You're right (and she agreed) that people with backgrounds like you and me have to always be make it clear to everyone that there's never the slightest doubt about where we stand. I was glad to sign the loyalty oath last year, and I know you were, too.

Thanks for the comics. I was missing the March issue of Archimedes Undercover, so I was really glad to see it.

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Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_neville]

I wonder if Mr Rosier gave him the idea, from something he said. It sounds unbelievable (well, I hope it's unbelievable).

But it doesn't actually make me feel any better to think that Mr Rosier put the idea in his head. Since I guess Mr Rosier might have a better idea of the way the Ministry works than Seamus. I have no idea if it's the sort of thing the Ministry really does. After all, I actually don't know of any other blood traitors on the run, who have children. If there are any, maybe it's the sort of thing that's kept mostly quiet, like it was with my family.

I wonder whether any of the Professors knew about my parents? Blimey. I mean, I guess it's sort of semi-public knowledge, or it was eight or so years ago. Because there are wanted posters for them and everything, although of course its been so long that kids at Hogwarts didn't know, except for you lot. Until the Prophet article, that is.

Now that I think about it, I bet that Professor Amycus Carrow knew. So that's why he always sort of despised me. Besides the fact that I'm pants at Transfiguration, that is.

Yeah, I did take the book home with me. I figured it couldn't hurt, and maybe it might help.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_terry]

Master likes Mr Rosier. Well, it's not like they're good friends or anything because Mr Rosier is posh, like you say, and high up in the Lord Protector's inner circle. And he probably wouldn't look at Master twice.

But whenever Master talks about him, he usually sounds approving. He says that Mr Rosier is 'the right sort.' 'Knows his stuff' (which usually means, he knows his Dark Arts). 'Has the best sort of ideas.'

That's pretty damning all on its own, I guess.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

What does he think of the other people from the inner circle? I know that Lucius Malfoy thinks Carrow is lower than trash, but I don't know what Carrow thinks of Mr Malfoy.

He's awfully disrespectful to the Headmistress, though.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_terry]

I think he mostly approves of Mr Malfoy, but on the other hand, he envies his power and influence. So he'll say little sly things to him, like that he admires his wife, while hinting that he admires her a little too much. Just to irritate him. It's all rubbish, though. He only says that stuff about Mrs Malfoy to jostle Mr Malfoy's broom.

I've heard him praise Mr Nott, the father of that Teddy Nott in Slytherin. He was saying something once about Teddy, and that Mr Nott 'didn't quibble a jot about doing it in front of the brat.' Something about Teddy's mum. Real approving-like, almost gloating. But I don't have any idea what that was all about.

He's friends with Mr Rookwood, and they send letters back and forth about Master's research.

When Regulus Black died, Master sneered at him, said he was weak. Not ruthless enough.

Yeah, he's awful toward the Headmistress. He'll mutter all sorts of vicious things under his breath about her, whenever her name comes up. I think he just hates anyone who has any power over him, and he especially resents her for taking custody of me away from him. He chunters on and on about her, calling her 'the bat' and grousing about how the bat squeaks and flails, but it's blind and blundering, and so on.

I've heard him sneer at a few of the others. Mr Crabbe and Mr Goyle he calls 'idiots, only occasionally useful.' He ranted about it for weeks when that Fenrir Greyback was angling to get permission to take the Dark Mark. That was, oh, maybe five or six years ago or so. He said that Greyback should be put down like a flea-bitten mongrel cur for daring to reach for the Mark, since it's only meant for pure, true citizens.

He doesn't talk too often about other people though. I think it's because he's mostly just interested in himself.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

I can't imagine Finnigan just deciding on his own they might kill you because of your parents. Surely he got the idea from SOMEONE, Mr Rosier or perhaps his tutor?

The professors must have known that they were considered traitors. The Headmistress was teaching back when they went to school, wasn't she? And Professor Slughorn as well, and some of the others. It's a little surprising it never got around before this.

Professor Carrow hates you for loads of reasons, it's not just your parents. He hates you for being a Gryffindor, and for not treating half-bloods and muggleborns like dirt.

Is the Slytherin book interesting so far? I'm really curious about it now.