alt_hermione | Order Only: Blackmail

Parkinson and Perks went and had tea with Professor Sinistra today. She told them the girl who accused Professor Lestrange is Cassie Calderwood. Calderwood's a Slytherin and she was caught last year harassing Professors Lestrange and Sinistra because she was obsessed with him. So it fits, but I guess the accusation is that he was with her willingly, knowing how she felt about him, while he was supposed to be with Professor Sinistra. Only Professor Sinistra said she thought it wasn't him, really, that she saw the memory that they have and she doesn't think it was him at all. And that she believes him when he says it wasn't.

I think it's good that Mr Snape Obliviated her, though, after he and Madam Pomfrey and Professor Sprout talked to her. Because from the sound of it she's not very good at keeping secrets--or I suppose I ought to say that she can keep them but she has no kind of dragon poker face. Sally-Anne just mentioned Cassie's name on a hunch and her expression gave it right away.

So maybe we shouldn't consider her as an Order member, if she gets scared too easily. And anyway she's still planning to marry him, even though he's a Councilwizard (and I know you'll all say he's dangerous and he is but he's also good to Harry, really, but anyway--) Although Pansy and Sally-Anne said that she's planning to help the students, by leaving notes for them to find and use, but that's not the same kind of thing, and anyway that's to stop Madam Umbridge and not the Council.

The thing is that we can't really do anything with that, can we? I mean if we tell the papers, they won't print it, and if they do, then Professor Sinistra will know that Pansy and Sally-Anne must have told someone, even if they didn't go to the magazines themselves or anything. So I'm not sure what good it does us but that's what Madam Umbridge has that's keeping the Councilwizards from getting rid of her.