Well I'm not dead!

[alt_hermione]

I'm  not dead and I'm okay and everything is okay, except that I have to recopy  all of the Pretiosissimum Donum Dei again, and I have to wear a little amulet that tells people where I am in the castle all the time. Which isn't so bad, really, not at all. 

I'll tell you more things about it later, Terry.

Anyhow yesterday Harry Marvolo spilled ink on the Pretiosissimum Donum Dei and I was so upset because it was alot of ink and it got all over and the book was ruined and so I went and I was crying in the loo and then the troll came and tried to kill me and Harry Marvolo and Ron and Neville and Draco Malfoy came and saved me. And then Professor McGonagall and Mr Lupin came and were very angry, and this lady named Rita Skeeter, and she wrote an article in the Daily Prophet that says I tried to lure Harry Marvolo into going after the troll but I never did. 

So I went and Professor McGonagall shut me up in my cubby which she does sometimes when I've been bad, but it isn't so bad now, and she left me a light because she said that it wasn't at all clear that I was at fault. And then she came and let me out and told me that I had to wear the amulet but that the Lord Protector wasn't very angry with me but that things were going to be very bad in the newspapers.

Anyway, thank you, Harry Marvolo and Draco Malfoy and Neville and Ron. I'm glad that I have friends people around me who care about whether a troll eats me even if I am a Mudblood.

Comments

[alt_draco]

I didn't save you! I was saving Harry!

[alt_hermione]

All right.

Thank you anyway.

[alt_draco]

Why were you crying over a book?

[alt_hermione]

It was supposed to be a gift for the Lord Protector from the Headmistress, and I had copied the entire book out by hand and it took me weeks, and then it was ruined and I was sad about my work and I was afraid I was going to get in trouble and I was afraid that Professor McGonagall would get in trouble with the Lord Protector too.

[alt_draco]

...Oh.

[alt_draco]

I am going away now.

[alt_hermione]

Okay.

[alt_neville]

That's awful, Hermione! How did it get ruined?

[alt_hermione]

Harry Marvolo spilled ink, and it was an accident, but it soaked right through most of the pages, and it got on the cover too.

I'm going to be able to save the cover though. I can dye it black.

[alt_neville]

Couldn't you clean it up with a spell There might be a spell that could fix it. Like reparo, when you someone breaks something like a cup. (My Gran's really good at that one. She's had lots of practice.) Anyway, maybe you could ask the Charms professor if she knows anything? Since it's a gift from the Headmistress and all?

[alt_hermione]

No, it was indelible ink. If you could do it with a charm, Madam Pince would have done. It's too bad but it's done now and I feel better after I had a good cry anyway.

[alt_neville]

I don't care what you call it, but I'm glad you're okay.

[alt_hermione]

I'm glad you're glad, Neville!!

[alt_terry]

are you in the cubby? can boot come see you later?

boot is so glad you are all right. told mr marvolo and mr longbottom thanks too. will tell mr weasley when he sees him.

mr malfoy doesnt seem to want thanks so wont bother him.

[alt_hermione]

I'm in the library now, and you can come see me whenever you like! The Headmistress said that I'd better get to work on recopying so that's what I'm doing, mostly. I'm trying to see if I can save any of the drawings because those were much harder to do than the words.

[alt_terry]

boot will come right away, keep you company for awhile.

don't know, did you see? there's another mudblood in the castle now

[alt_hermione]

I didn't see.

I wonder what he'll be like?!

I can't wait to meet him!!

[alt_terry]

he's a servant to mr marvolo. saw it in mr marvolo's journal the lord protector gave him to mr marvolo, as a gift

boot hasnt met him yet

[alt_sally_anne]

That book you were copying was ruined? All of it? That's terrible, it was beautiful. Are you going to make another one?

[alt_hermione]

Yes, I am, I'm working on it right now.

I probably shouldn't be writing to students like this. I'll be quiet now.

If you want you can come and see it and have some of the pieces of the book that didn't get ruined and that I can't use. They're still very pretty, just I can't paste them back in or any thing like that.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well it's alright you talking to students if you have something useful to say, I suppose, and I would have a use for some of the paper if you don't. Even with ink splotches, if it's still all colourful and no one else wants it I could use it. I'll come by the library later and see what you have.

[alt_ron]

Glad you're all right then.

[alt_pansy]

What about you? How are you?

[alt_ron]

M'all right. Not a scratch on me.

[alt_pansy]

You're very lucky. And very stupid.

I was kind of worried about you.

[alt_ron]

Seemed a good idea at the time. Sides, it would have killed her if we hadn't.

[alt_pansy]

Yes, it would have.

[alt_ron]

Were you really worr-

Just waiting for the Howler now.

[alt_pansy]

Your mum was really scared. She actually asked me if I knew where you were.

Hey, look at it this way: at least when you get the Howler it won't have breath smelling like Firewhiskey.

It's important to look on the bright side.

[alt_ron]

I didn't see that one just her haring after Percy over where I was.

I'll take that bright side and hope she doesn't find a way to make it hit me round the head after its done with the screaming.

[alt_pansy]

Parents hit. I hope the Howler doesn't. It's nice to get a break from all that, isn't it?

[alt_ron]

Mum and Dad don't - not like that. Might threaten it and yell alot but nothing like real hitting.

Imagine it would be though. For...for you.

[alt_pansy]

You get used to it.

I'm thinking of tellng Dennis to go find a container for my joy. We hope that will keep him busy. He's like a living gargoyle, waiting, watching so he can LEAP into action.

It's a peach.

[alt_ron]

Sorry you had to. Have to.

That would be a bit creepy, someone lurking around like that but. he doesnt know any better.

[alt_pansy]

Maybe we can get him to go find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Might take him a while.

[alt_ron]

But it's November? Where's he goin to find a rainbow in november?

[alt_pansy]

That could put a wrinkle in the parchment, yes.

There would be rainbows in the rain forest.

[alt_sally_anne]

I'm going to call you Troll Killer Weasley instead of Carrot Head from now on.

[alt_ron]

Reckon I can handle that.

[alt_terry]

boot has said this to mr marvolo and mr longbottom already. wants to thank you, too, for helping hermione. boot was too scared to come with you, but he is glad you were brave.

[alt_ron]

All down to you that we knew she was missing so you should get thanks too, I reckon.