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[alt_amycus]

Proper pride, hippogriffs. Nothing like a good swipe of the claw for disembowelling pigeons who forget the proper pecking order.

A little more blood around here certainly wouldn't go amiss.

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I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

[alt_gredforge]

EAT DUNG, YOU BLOODY ARSE WIPE.

[alt_rabastan]

As I understand it, the ones who forgot the "pecking order" weren't actually the ones who got swiped.

I think we'd all do well to avoid blood, seeing as our Lord's son is under the school's care, and that he was quite nearby when the incident took place.

[alt_amycus]

Oh, I can't see that His Son was ever in any danger. The hippogriff has proper pride, like I said. It would do never do anything but bow obesiance to him.

Bootlicking blood traitors, though...they will never be safe, no matter how much they grovel or cower or scrape. Even to the point of eating mud.

A little spilled gore in such cases may be just the ticket.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

[alt_gredforge]

RIGHT! NOTHING FOR YOU BUT DUNG SANDWICHES TILL DOOMSDAY!

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[alt_pansy]

He's not making any sense at all any more.

How can you be a blood traitor who grovels? Don't blood traitors sort of do the opposite of groveling?

...I don't think anyone important pays him any mind. They just sort of figure that he's rambling and leave it at that.

Not that it doesn't make him any less horrid.

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[alt_pansy]

...and not that he ever really made sense before either.

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[alt_lee]

Well if no one important pays him any mind why don't they SACK him?

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[alt_pansy]

Well, let me clarify.

I think he's still around because one person does think he should stay, and He tends to have the final word in things.

But even then, I really don't think He pays much mind to what he says.

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[alt_pansy]

I mean, that's the only logical reason why.

Because if Lucius and the Board don't like him, and the Headmistress doesn't either, and neither do the parents, there's only one reason why he's still around.

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[alt_lee]

Bloody hell.

Why doesn't He move the nutter to His own personal playground then.

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[alt_terry]

Well, if He did, then I'd end up going with him.

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[alt_gredforge]

No way!

You'd just stay with the Headmistress. Wouldn't you?

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[alt_pansy]

I wouldn't depend on it.

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[alt_terry]

I don't--I don't really know. I have no idea what's been done, formally, with my ownership contract, the one that gave me to Master in the first place. I'm not sure if I was ever legally transferred over to the Headmistress, but I don't think I have. It's not like they've ever shown it to me, like they think I'd be even interested.

But maybe there's some way it's been, I dunno...sort of stuck in some kind of legal limbo?

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[alt_gredforge]

Huh.

She's never asked you to call her Mistress or anything?

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[alt_terry]

No. But I've noticed she really doesn't like that title anyway. None of the house elves call her "Mistress," but "the Headmistress."

I could ask, but...I dunno. I guess I'm afraid to find out. Least said the better, I reckon.

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[alt_pansy]

I don't know.

I really don't.

Maybe it's a way for Him to keep us on our toes.

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[alt_terry]

Don't try going and playing any pranks on him. Promise?

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[alt_gredforge]

Mere pranks aren't enough anymore. We want VENGEANCE

.

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[alt_terry]

I'm not kidding. He's getting really dangerous. You gotta promise.

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[alt_gredforge]

You asking us to just do nothing?! Just take that shite?

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[alt_pansy]

I agree with Terry.

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[alt_neville]

I gotta say I do, too.

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[alt_terry]

You don't think I know what's like? Having to just take it?

With Master, sometimes it's what you have to do. If you want to keep alive.

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[alt_terry]

I don't want to see you get hurt. Or Ron. Really hurt. And he'd do it. And he'd just laugh afterwards.

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[alt_gredforge]

...

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[alt_gredforge]

Bloody hell.

Only for you, Professor.

Look. We'll tell you what. We won't do anything unless we clear it with you first.

But we're gonna be watching. And he is gonna pay. Someday, by Merlin, he is gonna pay.

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[alt_terry]

Thanks.

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[alt_lee]

I'll help you brainstorm. It may take all of our minds put together to come up with something good enough but that'll still keep any of us from getting into hot water.

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[alt_sally_anne]

I've been thinking about this all afternoon.

Anything you do, anything that would be worth doing that would actually hurt him that you CAN do, is only going to make him more dangerous. He'll be angrier, and he won't have any less power, and he doesn't have to know for certain that you were responsible for something in order to blame you for it.

And you know he's clever in his own mad way. If you really made him angry, REALLY angry, he wouldn't hurt you. He'd hurt Ron. Or Terry. Or he'd have Miss Carrow do it. Because it's a worse to have a friend hurt than to be the one who gets hurt.

About the only thing I can think of that would be worth doing that would hurt him AND he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone after would be to actually kill him. And I don't think any of us could, plus anyway we might get caught.

Do you think it would be wrong to kill him? If we could, I mean.

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[alt_ron]

Yeah. I do think it'd be wrong, actually. I can't exactly explain why, because you're right, it's the only thing that'd stop him, and somehow somebody needs to stop him, but it wouldn't be right.

I--

My dad says there's a difference between defending yourself and killing someone when they're not trying to kill you first. It's like the unforgivables, yeah? It changes you to do it. And makes you Dark. I think. I mean, it's not like we talk about it all the time or anything, but Dad has sometimes. And I think he's right. You shouldn't do it.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Do you think it changes you, or it's just that if you weren't at least a little Dark to begin with you can't properly cast those spells on people? My textbook says

What if you did it without magic? I mean muggles do manage to kill each other occasionally despite not being able to use magic.

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[alt_ron]

I think it's two different things, what happens when you use unforgivables and what happens when you kill somebody a different way. I mean, there's a magic thing that happens when you use AK, right? It talks about that in some of the books Nev's got, and we were talking about that one day. Anywiz, that's like a side effect, I guess, and it's as strong a magic thing as the killing magic that works on the person you kill. You can't do it and not get hit with the back side of that curse, right?

And I don't know if you have to already be Dark before you'd do something like hunt someone down and kill them. Maybe. But it makes you worse. I think. Just doing that.

And I think that's true whether you used a spell to kill the person or, I dunno, pushed them of a cliff or picked up a big rock and bashed them with it.

I don't think you could go on being just who you were before. For one thing, either you have to hide it or you have to live with people knowing you've done it, yeah? And, I don't know, but most people who kill someone or even help someone kill someone, they end up sent to Azkaban, and that changes you, for sure.

D'you think that's what made Carrow the way he is? Killing people? I mean, people talk about stuff they think he's done--or her. And I dunno. D'you think he was mad from the start or only after?

[alt_rabastan]

All the accounts I've heard have it that the creature was after Mr Malfoy, and that Mr Weasley stepped in the way, preventing what could have been a fatal incident.