Order Only: Private Message to Tim Clark
Jul. 1st, 2014 08:38 pmHello.
I enjoyed talking with you, too.
I'm sorry it took me so long to write back. I wasn't sure it was a good idea at first but then Hydra and Sally-Anne said that was ridiculous, of course it would be all right, so, here I am, writing back. Did you really ask Mrs L about the Order just so you could write to me? I mean, that's flattering but I hope you meant just that you wanted to be included right away and not only to be able to write to me. Because the Order's really important and I'm sure you meant to be part of it anyway, but thank you for saying it was so that we could talk more.
Er. I don't know how often I'll get to Sherwood but you know I've been going with Sirius to teach Potions on Wednesdays at Moddey Dhoo and tomorrow's Wednesday so if you wanted to visit I'd be there. And we could talk more.
About what you said...yes, it's hard to talk to other people about Professor McGonagall for lots of the reasons you mention. People tend to get upset on my behalf if I start talking about what it was like to think of myself as her property, even when I knew she also thought about me as a sort of protegée, too. Almost a daughter, sometimes, although she never really would have wanted to admit that.
And what you said, about losing your master and mistress--that helped. So thank you. They sounded like good people and I'm sorry for your loss, even two years later.
Well, anyway. Maybe I'll see you tomorrow. If you're not busy at Sherwood, that is.
Hermione
P.S. I'm sorry if I sound sillier than you expected. I'm not used to talking to boys. Men. I mean, you're not a boy, exactly, you're--okay, you know I'm really horrible at this so I'm just going to stop now and say I hope I see you because I think talking in person is easier than writing to one another.
P.P.S. Don't worry about Draco or Terry. We're just friends.
I enjoyed talking with you, too.
I'm sorry it took me so long to write back. I wasn't sure it was a good idea at first but then Hydra and Sally-Anne said that was ridiculous, of course it would be all right, so, here I am, writing back. Did you really ask Mrs L about the Order just so you could write to me? I mean, that's flattering but I hope you meant just that you wanted to be included right away and not only to be able to write to me. Because the Order's really important and I'm sure you meant to be part of it anyway, but thank you for saying it was so that we could talk more.
Er. I don't know how often I'll get to Sherwood but you know I've been going with Sirius to teach Potions on Wednesdays at Moddey Dhoo and tomorrow's Wednesday so if you wanted to visit I'd be there. And we could talk more.
About what you said...yes, it's hard to talk to other people about Professor McGonagall for lots of the reasons you mention. People tend to get upset on my behalf if I start talking about what it was like to think of myself as her property, even when I knew she also thought about me as a sort of protegée, too. Almost a daughter, sometimes, although she never really would have wanted to admit that.
And what you said, about losing your master and mistress--that helped. So thank you. They sounded like good people and I'm sorry for your loss, even two years later.
Well, anyway. Maybe I'll see you tomorrow. If you're not busy at Sherwood, that is.
Hermione
P.S. I'm sorry if I sound sillier than you expected. I'm not used to talking to boys. Men. I mean, you're not a boy, exactly, you're--okay, you know I'm really horrible at this so I'm just going to stop now and say I hope I see you because I think talking in person is easier than writing to one another.
I'm not sure how to do this, so I wondered if you could help.
Have either of you talked to Tim Clark before? Remember, he's one of the muggleborns who escaped at the Quidditch World Cup and now he lives at Sherwood with Sarah and Terry and Dudley and the others. Only I suppose not Terry soon, if he's going to go off with a Zulu company. Anyway, he's quite nice and really very fit, at least I think so, and he was at the Order meeting Saturday because he used to live at Moddey before he moved out to Sherwood and I talked with him there a bit, and I don't know if you noticed but we talked on Saturday too and then he wrote to me yesterday because he said he went straight to Mrs L to ask to be sworn in to the Order and then he wrote to me to tell me he'd done that specifically so that he could write to me and--and I think he fancies me and I think I just might fancy him back but I'm not sure because I've never really fancied anyone who was actually someone I ever could fancy, I mean not really, and I don't want Draco or Terry getting upset about it and how do you do this?
I mean, I want to write back to him but they'll see the message header. And with the way things are with Draco right now, I mean, he's really leaning on me a lot and I know he'll improve and it's not that I don't want to be supportive, I really do, I want to stick with him and we've even got a plan and we've talked to Sirius and he thinks it will be a good thing to do, and very helpful, so I'm really happy we have that to work on, but I don't want to upset him right now or make him think I'm going to abandon him. And Harry, I know you're spending loads of time with him, Hydra, but I could see how lonely he looked at the Order meeting on Saturday and I want to make sure he knows I still care about him.
Only. With Tim it's different. I mean, we don't really have a history together. And yes, he's a muggleborn but it's not as if that's the only thing we have in common, either.
Did I mention he's really quite fit?
Oh, bollocks. It'll never work, will it? I mean, he shares a tent with Dudley and Finbar and he's mates with Terry and I just don't think I can hurt Terry like that. Not right now, certainly. I mean, it would be different if it weren't someone he knows well, like that. Wouldn't it?
How do you lot ever manage to date different people at school? It's hopelessly complicated. I think I was better off not ever thinking about anyone like that. Maybe I'll just tell him we can only write to one another if we're just going to be mates, nothing else.
Have either of you talked to Tim Clark before? Remember, he's one of the muggleborns who escaped at the Quidditch World Cup and now he lives at Sherwood with Sarah and Terry and Dudley and the others. Only I suppose not Terry soon, if he's going to go off with a Zulu company. Anyway, he's quite nice and really very fit, at least I think so, and he was at the Order meeting Saturday because he used to live at Moddey before he moved out to Sherwood and I talked with him there a bit, and I don't know if you noticed but we talked on Saturday too and then he wrote to me yesterday because he said he went straight to Mrs L to ask to be sworn in to the Order and then he wrote to me to tell me he'd done that specifically so that he could write to me and--and I think he fancies me and I think I just might fancy him back but I'm not sure because I've never really fancied anyone who was actually someone I ever could fancy, I mean not really, and I don't want Draco or Terry getting upset about it and how do you do this?
I mean, I want to write back to him but they'll see the message header. And with the way things are with Draco right now, I mean, he's really leaning on me a lot and I know he'll improve and it's not that I don't want to be supportive, I really do, I want to stick with him and we've even got a plan and we've talked to Sirius and he thinks it will be a good thing to do, and very helpful, so I'm really happy we have that to work on, but I don't want to upset him right now or make him think I'm going to abandon him. And Harry, I know you're spending loads of time with him, Hydra, but I could see how lonely he looked at the Order meeting on Saturday and I want to make sure he knows I still care about him.
Only. With Tim it's different. I mean, we don't really have a history together. And yes, he's a muggleborn but it's not as if that's the only thing we have in common, either.
Did I mention he's really quite fit?
Oh, bollocks. It'll never work, will it? I mean, he shares a tent with Dudley and Finbar and he's mates with Terry and I just don't think I can hurt Terry like that. Not right now, certainly. I mean, it would be different if it weren't someone he knows well, like that. Wouldn't it?
How do you lot ever manage to date different people at school? It's hopelessly complicated. I think I was better off not ever thinking about anyone like that. Maybe I'll just tell him we can only write to one another if we're just going to be mates, nothing else.
I thought I'd ask Ron this but then I decided he'd get all embarrassed and Ronnish, so I decided maybe it'd be better to ask you two instead, since you're generally sensible about things when it comes to girls, unlike some people I could name, but I won't, because I need to ask you something and it's not for me, it's for someone else: Is Katie Bell going out with anyone? I figure you might know or be able to find out because of being on the Quidditch team with her.
If you know, could you tell me? And if you don't would you be able to find out? Discreetly?
If you know, could you tell me? And if you don't would you be able to find out? Discreetly?