I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

[alt_hermione]

Why Terry left.

I hadn't planned on talking about it really but I just told Harry about some of it and then I felt bad for not telling you clearly. Well, it's because of me, really, because Miss Professor Carrow will hurt me if he doesn't do what I say, and also because Amycus Carrow said that he was going to tell the Lord Protector that the Headmistress was a traitor if she didn't do what he wanted.

Harry says that his father is strange lately and I've noticed it too, but you know that if Harry is saying it it must be really bad. You know that the Headmistress was nicer to Terry than I think anybody has ever been in his life, I mean, she used to let him read books and eat as much as he wanted and he had a real bed and everything, just as nice as I do or nicer maybe even.

So that's why.

Also I won't talk about the other thing even though I know you all want me to, I can't, I slipped, I can't believe it let me slip like that, I thought it would kill me. But I can't say any more at all, so that's that and please don't badger me about it, I just can't.

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

...an Unbreakable Vow. Of course. That makes sense.

It couldn't have been, 'I will not reveal to anyone that Sirius Black is alive,' though. I expect it has something to do with the Wand Smugglers (though of course Hermione you shouldn't say, I'm not hounding you, just thinking about this).

I've always wondered, with Unbreakable Vows, how close you can get to breaking it without the spell killing you -- I mean, if I swore an Unbreakable Vow not to tell anyone that Daphne fancied Greg (not that she does) but I said, 'Guess who fancies Greg? I'll give you a hint: she's in my dorm. And everyone thinks she fancies someone else. And she's not my best friend. And she's not a complete eejit!' ...would that count? I suppose no one's really inclined to experiment and find out.

I'm glad this didn't come close enough to the secret to hurt you, Hermione. Enough awful things happened last week. More than enough.

I wonder if everyone in the organisation takes an Unbreakable Vow? It's a good idea in some ways because that way if they're captured by MLE they can just blurt out enough of the secret that they fall over dead and then MLE can't find out anything. So long as it's specific enough that they don't break the vow by accident.