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[alt_hermione]

This afternoon, while Harry and Draco and the others were in Transfigurations, Teddy Nott went and found me reading. (Don't worry, everyone: I always transfigure the covers of my books so that they look like remedial readers or comics or something like that.) Anyway, he was obviously waiting for a chance to find me alone, when Harry was in a lesson, because he thought he could intimidate me into telling him some embarrassing secret.

I told him Harry has been clear in the past about people interfering with his mudblood without permission. He said something like 'How dare you speak back to a pureblood' and I tried to act contrite, looking down and just saying softly that I was only repeating what my master has said. He wasn't happy but he didn't hex me or anything, he just stood there and demanded that I answer his questions.

I said of course, I'd be happy to help however I could, provided it was something Harry would approve of me doing. He asked me a load of questions for a 'research project' he said he was working on but it was clear what he was looking for.

So. If Teddy seems to think I've got a hopeless crush on Professor Lestrange, and that I'm ever so jealous of Professor Sinistra, that's why.

What an idiot.

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Private message to Hermione Granger

[alt_terry]

I do hope you're right, that he's an idiot. And that's the end of it.

I also know you're doing everything you can to guard yourself. I still find myself wanting to say 'Be careful.' (As if you hadn't figured out that you need to be, which is downright insulting. So I won't.)

There's a part of me that almost wishes you did a little more of the protective camouflage that boot used to do. Would that keep you safer with Teddy Nott? Maybe not, come to think of it. (I think if I were still around Hogwarts as boot, he'd welcome the chance to terrorise me.)

Teddy Nott was someone who always raised my hackles. Even before I found out my Animagus form.

Re: Private message to Hermione Granger

[alt_hermione]

It's okay to say 'Be careful' when it means you're worried about someone. And I appreciate it, Terry. I won't do anything foolish. I did put on a more deferential attitude when he got shirty, of course, but it wouldn't do much good to be like that all the time since it's not the way I am most of the time, if that makes sense. Mostly I try to behave as unobtrusively as possible, which generally just means staying out of the way but not bowing and scraping the way Dennis used to do.

Teddy's just so odd. I never know just what he's thinking--not the way Hydra can, of course!--but I mean, usually I can tell what's motivating someone, you know, and Teddy...he's always shifting his track. One time he'll be really sneaky and then the next moment, he's awfully direct and earnest, and then the next he's arrogant and presumptuous, and then he can be very violent. And I know that.

But I can handle him. If I have to. It'll be all right.

Anyway, he got what he wanted, no one's hurt by it, and I don't care if anyone thinks I'm in love with Professor Lestrange. It's actually rather funny to me.

I worry about you too, you know. Are you coming back to Hogwarts, then? Or did you decide it's safer to stay in Sherwood?

Re: Private message to Hermione Granger

[alt_terry]

Yes, I am. I've actually moved in with Cedric already. He's snuck me in a few times to help with potions with Mr Snape.