Private Message to Harry Marvolo and Draco Malfoy

[alt_hermione]

I made some progress today while you were gone.

We can't make the boxes any bigger than their maximum size. I tried that and it didn't work right.

But I think it might be possible to construct another set of boxes that's bigger and put the same runes and spells and things on them, and they might link up.

We need better wood, though. I think the closer the new ones are to the old ones, the easier it will be.

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Private Message to Harry

[alt_hermione]

Harry,

I noticed Sally-Anne wrote to you. I don't know what she was writing about but I hope it was about Bletchley.

You should do something about him. Maybe Professor Lestrange can frighten him or something. Or take him off the side completely.

Re: Private Message to Harry

[alt_harry]

It was.

I'm thinking of telling Raz, yeah.

And if he even just looks at her funny again, he's off. I'll make sure he knows it too.

Re: Private Message to Harry

[alt_harry]

Has he

...you know?

to you?

Re: Private Message to Harry

[alt_hermione]

Not recently but when I interrupted his threats to Sally-Anne he just said, 'What are you looking at, Mudblood?' and then he said that if I didn't leave he'd find me while you're in lessons and make sure I kept my mouth shut. Or 'otherwise occupied.'

But Harry. Sally-Anne's really, really worried that if someone comes after him, he'll think she peached on him. So whatever you do, it didn't come from her.

All right?

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[alt_harry]

Right.

So what would I say, then? If I did say anything? Because he might think it came from you, yeah? Which could be bad? Or could we

I don't know

I could catch him doing it myself?

Re: Private Message to Harry

[alt_harry]

She said that if I was there, it'd help. So I'll stick around and make sure he takes off.

Which is a start.

Re: Private Message to Harry

[alt_hermione]

Well, I'm not volunteering.

And I don't think she is, either.

Re: Private Message to Harry

[alt_harry]

Oh.

Right.

No.

Sorry.

[alt_harry]

Where can you buy wood?

Like is there a store that sells it?

[alt_hermione]

I don't know.

Maybe there are.

You might ask Ollivander's how they get wood. We don't need wand-quality but something better than old crates, definitely.

[alt_draco]

Would it work to transfigure something into a smaller size so that it fits in the box, and then send it through. That is, would it still be intact after the journey, and would it be possible to transfigure it back to its original size.

[alt_hermione]

No, not very well. It depends on what it is. A book works all right if you shrink it and then send it but I tried with a clock and now it thinks it's 5:04 every twenty-five minutes. (Er, we owe Crabbe a new alarm clock.)

Also, plants won't go through. Alive, anyway. I sent a jar of dried arrowroot and that was all right, though.

[alt_harry]

Maybe it was because it was in a jar?

We should try out live plants in jars.

And clocks in jars.

[alt_draco]

How did you

Crabbe wakes himself up with his own snoring. He'll be fine.