alt_neville | Ron doesn't have his journal for now

He's not...entirely reasonable right now. I sure hope people leave him alone today. But they probably won't, worse luck. I'm sure there will be lots who think it's funny.

Whoever hexed him like that, that was really foul.

I just heard. Well, sort of. Some people were laughing about it before Charms started, but they stopped once they saw me looking. So I don't know everything, but I know enough.

It's really, really awful.

Is there something we can do between classes to help? Would walking and talking with him the entire time stop him from having to say it?

I don't want him going to the Great Hall again if he doesn't have to if it hasn't worn off by lunch or dinner. Maybe we could get food and go outside?

It's horrible. I was with him the first time he blurted it out. His ears turned so red that I thought they'd burst into flame and he looked just horrified enough to die.

And once people hear of it, you can bet they'll be coming up and speaking to him, just to hear him repeat it.

I'm trying to convince him to let me bring him his lunch out by the lake, but he's being stubborn and saying he'll eat in the Great Hall with everybody else.

Fine, then.

I'm sitting next to you today.

Maybe if we keep talking the entire time, he won't be interrupted by other people, and he won't have to say it more than the once?

It's worth a try.

Why would you take his journal away, Longbottom? Was he writing in class? (And wouldn't Professor Carpenter have taken it if he were?)

Or are you just in the habit of confiscating the Lord Protector's gifts to His loyal subjects?

I'm sure the Protectorate can get along perfectly fine without one day's journal entries from one of its loyal subjects. If it's better for that subject to take a break to allow his temper to cool a little.

If I let him keep it, you'd be screeching about him using impolite language.

As if she doesn't know already what's happened.

This stinks to high heaven of Finnegan and Patil.

And good one, Neville.

But how did they do it? Seamus didn't sit near us during breakfast. I've wondered if he'd hexed Ron in his sleep, but Ron was just fine when we were getting ready this morning, before we went down to the Great Hall. But it must have been done during breakfast.

I honestly don't have a clue, unless it was something he ate, or he was hexed under the table or something.

I agree, this is exactly the sort of thing they'd do.

You know perfectly well why he doesn't have it, you prat.

Padma Patil is a smug faced cow. Ugh.

She makes it really, really hard to do all the things I'm supposed to, because she's involved in all of them.

And I thought she'd grown up a little this term, but I guess not. Ugh. Double-ugh.

Going to help him skive off lessons, too?

Hardly. Any help I'd give him wouldn't do his marks any good.

What's happened, Neville?

Someone put a hex on him so that whenever someone speaks to him, he's compelled to answer a certain way. It's...it's really humiliating.

What are they making him say, Neville? Maybe we can figure out a way to undo the hex.

Someone hexed Ron so that he has to say 'my parents couldn't buy me brains if they wanted to' to everyone who speaks to him.

It's wretched. I think it was probably Patil and Finnigan. And they've spread the word so a lot of people are going out of their way to speak to him. So in Care of Magical Creatures today Draco asked him if he knew what time it was and Ron said, 'My parents couldn't buy me brains if they wanted to, get bent Malfoy.'

Brutka didn't think it was very funny, at least, he forbid anyone to speak to Ron once he realised how it worked, he said it was a distraction from the lesson.

Ouch.

All right. If you see him, tell him to meet us in the Common Room before dinner. We'll see what we can do.

Bloody hell, those prats.

Patil may suffer another scourge of lice.

I don't know if that'd be a good idea. They'd just blame him and that'd make everything worse.

We'll think of something.

Is there some way we could do something dreadful to Patil and persuade her that it was Finnigan who did it? Even if she thought he did it accidentally. Or at least arrange to place the blame on someone who isn't Ron (or me or Pansy or Neville). Someone who deserves it.

And good on Brutka.

Oh, dear.

Is...is Ron all right, Neville?

Um, yes, I guess so, Mrs Weasley.

Someone, um, hexed him. So he sort of...insults himself if anyone speaks to him. But it's nothing more serious than that.

Oh, my. I see.

Well, in that case...perhaps it is for the best that he's not writing anything today. That was clever of you, dear. Thank you for looking out for him.

Just so you know, ma'am, the hex is making him say something about his family, so he's sort of insulting you as well.

I thought you should know, in case he gets in trouble by the end of the day for ~~punching~~ hexing someone. Please don't send him a Howler.

Oh my.

~~How dreadful.~~

Of course--of course I won't send him a Howler! Ron shouldn't have to worry about that on top of everything else. Well, not that I'm giving him a free pass to take a poke at his classmates, mind! But I won't send a Howler, even if he does.

Thank you for saying something, dear.

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