ORDER ONLY: Terry & Harry

[alt_hermione]

First of all as you probably know Terry is in the infirmary again. Last night he was all black and blue and he couldn't walk. He said that he got hexed. I don't know about what hex would do that but he said it knocked him off his feet and slammed him into the wall, and that it didn't seem like Professor Carrow meant to hurt him as badly as he did. Which I don't believe for a second, Terry is such a marter, and he won't ever let anyone pity him, but he ought to!! So I'm going to go see him. And Madam Pince said I could, because I have been such a diligent worker this week-end.

We dusted almost all the books in the Restricted Section, and took them out and cleaned them all off. Some of them wanted to bite me but I wouldn't let them!

In other things that happened, Harry Marvolo came in and wanted to look at the old annuals on Saturday afternoon. I was taking a break and Madam Pince was at her tea so I showed him them, and he wanted to look at the one for 1977, and when he did he was paying an awfully lot of attention to the Gryffindor section. After he left I went in and looked at it and there's a boy in there who looks just like him, which I suppose I knew, because of everything that Sirius has been saying. But he's the Lord Protector's son and I didn't really believe it, I suppose.

He was nice. I mean, he was really very nice and he talked to me more than he had ever talked to me about anything. I think he wanted to know what Muggles were like because he asked me about them. I told him that they were just like we were except that they don't have magic and they don't live in nice places. Usually I think that he wouldn't let me say "we," because he isn't like me because I'm a Mudblood. But he didn't say anything about it. I wasn't sure if he was happy or sad because of the things that he read in the annual because he looked like he was half about to cry and half about to start laughing the entire time, but anyway I am going to go visit Terry now.

Comments

[alt_molly]

Oh, how dreadful. Hysterics? Was it the pain that caused the hysterics, then? Not that he doesn't have plenty of cause, of course, but he's always struck me as unbelievably stoic about his injuries. Perhaps he just reached some mental limit.

(Honeydukes AND a new jumper, made with my softest wool.)

I'd like Professor Carrow have done to him what I'd find amusing.

[alt_poppy]

No, it wasn't the pain. I believe he was distressed at seeing the other people in the infirmary with him. I've noticed that he has a terrible fear of Mr Lupin, and I suspect that that is the trouble - but he was not able to express his fear in any way at all. He kept insisting that he was fine, fine, utterly fine, and that he would just nip off to his duties - although it was excruciatingly clear that he was nowhere near fine.