If any of you are sneaking around at night

[alt_hermione]

 I solemnly swear I am up to no good

If any of you are sneaking around at night, I can't say WHY I was sneaking around at night, but you should know that the prefects only patrol until midnight, and after that it's just if you can get the portraits to not tattle on you I suppose. And that some of the professors stay up and are really strange places when you don't expect them to be.

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[alt_sally_anne]

You didn't run into Carrow did you? Either of them?

I'm not currently planning to sneak around at night but just in case I need to sometime, it's good to know the prefects go to bed at midnight. Do you know which portraits tattle?

[alt_hermione]

No. I wouldn't be here if I had run into the Carrows!!!

I know for sure that the one with the girls dancing around the maypole on the first floor does, because they're all so snooty about it. When I'm out after hours (and not sneaking I mean, since I'm allowed if Harry needs me to get him something) they always give me a hard time. So I bet they would tattle.

[alt_sally_anne]

I thought you surely hadn't but I wanted to be sure!

I'll be careful to avoid the maypole picture if I'm ever out when I shouldn't be.

[alt_ron]

Oh, so this wasn't one of those times when you weren't sneaking, huh?

Guess that means Harry was with you, then. Otherwise you wouldn't have had to hide from the Prefects and all, yeah?

[alt_hermione]

Ron, I promised I wouldn't tell!!!

Yes, he was with me.

[alt_ron]

Oh, but you know you want to!

So what could you have been doing? If he'd wanted food from the kitchens, he'd just have sent you. Or if he'd left his notes somewhere.

You must have been spying on someone. Were you looking for Carrow? Or trying to find out what's in his classroom? I know that what happened in there on Friday's pretty much gone round the whole school by now. That's it, isn't it?

So did you figure out what he's doing with those rats?

[alt_sally_anne]

If Harry were going to spy on Carrow I would hope he'd have the sense not to take Hermione with him. He's safe from Carrow but Hermione isn't.

[alt_hermione]

Oh don't worry!! I would've told him I wouldn't go!! And he wouldn't have made me -- he isn't horrible like that, not when someone points something out to him, and it really makes sense I mean.

[alt_hermione]

I'm not going to tell you, Ronald Weasley, except to say that I wasn't going to do anything with Carrow, do you think I'm daft??

It was something else, it's an extracurricular project, and I'll tell you when it's over.

[alt_ron]

I don't think you're daft, but I know Harry thinks Carrow's behind all this stuff about the Chamber. We all do. And I think if he were going to snoop around and find out a way to prove it's Carrow, so his father could force Carrow to put Terry Boot right so he doesn't have to lie there in the Hospital Wing until spring, yeah, I think you'd be right there doing everything you could to help him find out.

So it's not about Carrow?

Huh.

[alt_sally_anne]

She already said she can't tell you.

Keep pestering her like this and she might decide not to tell us useful things about sneaking around after curfew ever again!

[alt_ron]

She said she couldn't tell us what it is. She hasn't said she can't say anything at all about it. For instance, she could tell us more things they weren't doing and then maybe we could figure it out.

I mean, we totally should be doing something more to find out what Carrow's up to with those rats. And the Head Girl and all those NEWT students and whatever they're doing for him.

I know you don't want to do anything that would cause more trouble for you, and that's dead right, you shouldn't. But that doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't, and if Harry's already got a plan, then we shouldn't do the same thing all over again, y'know? That's all. And maybe we could help, yeah?

[alt_sally_anne]

Well I'm sitting back here near the rat cages today.

They're squeaking like crazy but I'm not going to pull back the curtain for a good look at what's going on. Carrow's been pretending for most of class that I don't exist, but I think he'd quit pretending if I hopped up to take a close look at his project.

[alt_sally_anne]

And don't do anything stupid, Ron, just because you're a pureblood doesn't mean Carrow wouldn't cruciate you or worse if he thought he had a good excuse.

[alt_hermione]

She's right!! You don't want to hear what he talks about when he doesn't think students are listening, it's utterly foul.

[alt_sally_anne]

What does he talk about when he thinks students aren't listening?

[alt_hermione]

Creepy things. A lot like what he posts in his journal really, only he says them in that voice. And sometimes you just know he's talking about someone in specific, even when he's talking about something that sounds really different, like pigeons or something.

[alt_ron]

Well that's all very mysterious.

But thanks, I guess.