| just_harry @ 2002-08-28 08:19:00 |
I went and saw Professor Dumbledore a couple days ago, and I think I'm going to go see him again, because he said he couldn't help but I really think if I just explain things to him he'll understand. So I'm going to go see him after breakfast.
We played Hufflepuff on Saturday, and it was a really good game. Susan and Ron were both really good, and I think both sets of Chasers had a hard time getting anything past them. The game was really long, but we were tied 60-60 for awhile. Ron nearly knocked Eloise Midgen off her broom when she tried to score once. It was really close. I think Justin is mad at me for catching the Snitch, though. It was pretty close to him, but I guess he just didn't see it. It was a really good game.
We have our next Animagus lesson tomorrow. Last week's was really cool. It's fun having Sirius as a professor for another course, and Professor McGonagall was really fair about it. Hermione is doing really well already. Everybody's talking about it now, I think, about who might be able to do it. I guess some people were surprised that we aren't really going to become Animagi in six weeks, because I saw someone get up and leave the class. I think the class is going to be cool anyway, you know? I mean, it would really cool to become an Animagus, but I think learning about them will be neat too.
I guess some people just don't want to do something if they're not getting anything out of it. I don't know. I don't see why you wouldn't want to do something for someone else, too. I guess you're getting something out of it then, too, or at least my uncle Vernon said that once. I think he just didn't want to donate to the woman at the door, but it kind of makes sense.
Comments:
| potterstinks @ 2002-08-28 09:33 pm UTC |
Why don't you just set up a bed in Dumbledore's office, Potter? Then you won't even have to take the stairs to complain until you get your way.
| potterstinks @ 2002-08-28 09:37 pm UTC |
I wouldn't go around offering unsolicited help to anyone if I were you, Potter. If you're trying to pad your resume, surely you can certainly find an old hag who could use some help with finding an unsuspecting boy to shove into her oven.
| potterstinks @ 2002-08-30 12:54 pm UTC |
Where on the bloody green earth do you get that idea? And what is it any of your business, anyway? I'm certainly not going to go to Durmstrang just to make your life any easier, Potter.
(parent)| just_harry @ 2002-08-30 01:21 pm UTC |
What are you talking about, Malfoy? I just thought maybe your dad had changed his mind. I never told you to transfer to Durmstrang.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2002-08-30 01:39 pm UTC |
What do you know about My Father, anyway? Did you think, perhaps, that he would come alert you the moment he decided to whisk me away? Fat chance, Potter.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2002-08-28 09:42 pm UTC |
And why the sod would anyone want to take another boring class about boring Animagi when it's taught by boring Black? Perhaps some of us aren't salivating at the thought of being taught to transfigure into a pair of faux leather pants.
| potterstinks @ 2002-08-28 10:00 pm UTC |
My lord, Potter, if anyone else went to Dumbledore for every hangnail like you do, I suspect we'd all mysteriously find ourselves in the Forbidden Forest in the middle of the night, wouldn't we? Just so long as you get what you want, though, I suppose that leaves the school in working order.
| hannahabbott @ 2002-08-28 10:05 pm UTC |
Mister Malfoy? Do you ever get tired of stalking or is it your only past-time?
If so, I worry for your health.
| potterstinks @ 2002-08-28 10:18 pm UTC |
Perhaps you'd forgotten, Abbott, but you are neither a professor or anything but an unknown, common Hufflepuff. What, may I ask, are you doing following the comments I leave? Haven't you a conspiracy theorist to be looking after?
(parent)| hannahabbott @ 2002-08-28 10:24 pm UTC Re: |
Haven't you a conspiracy theorist to be looking after?
Thank you for your reminder, Mister Malfoy...if you happen to see ![[info]](../icons/userinfo.gif){kind=icon}
erniemacmillan in your stalker travels, please tell him to report straight to me...and take house points if he refuses.
*cracks knuckles and then smiles sweetly*
| finch_fletchley @ 2002-08-28 11:58 pm UTC |
Hannah -
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHY ARE YOU ENCOURAGING MALFOY TO TAKE POINTS AWAY FROM YOUR OWN HOUSE JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE MAD AT ERNIE?! You're out of control!
| hannahabbott @ 2002-09-01 05:02 pm UTC Re: |
Justin -
I was not, nore have I ever done (except in that one incident with the first years, rolled up toilet paper and the bathroom ceiling) ever taken house points from Hufflepuff.
I was mearly suggesting that Ernie should see me despite his strong desire to avoid me at all costs.
On the other hand, maybe I am part of the conspiracy too...
| petitemillicent @ 2002-08-29 12:36 am UTC |
Taking points from your own house, I see, Miss Hufflepuff?
Why don't you and Turpin form a club and make "I am not a Slytherin but I play one in hope that people will take me seriously" tshirts?
Pathetic.
M. B.
 turpinol @ 2002-08-29 05:57 pm UTC |
You might do better at formulating your insults if they weren't so patently anti-logical.
First off, membership in one house does not preclude characteristics of another house. Perhaps you are merely ambitious, without a hint of loyalty, bravery, or studiousness to round out your personality.
Is it any surprise that prefects from other houses would have a touch of ambition in them? Or that a Ravenclaw's studiousness requires a hint of ambition to do well?
It certainly doesn't suprise me.
Secondly, prefects do, occaisionally, need to take points from their own houses. Just this week, I was forced to take points from a second-year who told an unfortunate Gryffindor first year that some potions were dry mixtures or pastes (true) but then went on to give her the recipe for gunpowder instead of actually helping her with her essay. What if she had made that? It pains me, but sometimes prefects need to stop discipline problems before they become larger problems. I can only imagine that Hannah's loyalty to her classmates prevented her from dealing with Ernie earlier.
It is not pathetic, it is part of our jobs.
Thirdly, what makes you think being a Slytherin means that people automatically take you seriously?
How ridiculous are you?
The beginning, middle, and end of the definition of a Slytherin is: their ambition is a stronger trait than their loyalty, bravery or studiousness. Do you imagine that all Slytherins are secretly "ruthless" and "evil," and that all non-Slytherins should be practicing "constant vigilance?"
You discredit your own house, if that is what you think. I would say that Crabbe and Goyle are certainly loyal, and Malfoy is quite bright. Would you like to tell them that they are nothing more than their ambitions?
Since you seem to think that I rely on my ambition to have people take me seriously, perhaps now would be a good time to investigate common misconceptions of Slytherins.
History is filled with examples of Slytherins that went on to public office and powerful positions in both Wizarding and Muggle governments. And not all were He-who-must-not-be-named, or latter-day Richelieus. There were many who used their office and influence to the benefit of those they ruled. So, Slytherins are not inherently evil.
However, if you pay even the slightest bit of attention during History of Magic, you may have noticed that Professor Binns frequently indicates illustrious Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs. Therefore, not only Slytherins acheive notoreity as adults.
There are also Slytherins who passed out of notice once their name was written in the Alumni Record. Perhaps their ambitions were nothing more than to spend their lives happily puttering about their garden, living happily ever after. Therefore, not all ambitions are created equal.
Or perhaps they had An Evil Master Plan, (after all) and they simply lacked the ability to see their goals to the end. Being sorted into Slytherin does not indicate the ability to command respect, any great talent in any area, or that the student will find themselves in an oppurtune place to follow their ambitions.
In light of that, I can barely imagine what makes you think "Slytherin" equals "respect."
Perhaps it hasn't occured to you, but people are more than the houses they were sorted into. Look at the job listings in the Daily Prophet. None of them ask for graduates of a particular house. A good number ask that you do have a valid wizarding license, but they don't specify a preferred method of obtaining one. Do you think your house is going to matter when you leave here?
I'm not here to be something I'm not. I am studious, true, but I am also ambitious. Being true to myself does not mean that I "play a Slytherin." It means that I am a Ravenclaw with goals I intend to meet.
Oh, and if I thought that Slytherins were automatically people to be feared or respected, would I have ever taken points from you?
| sinistra @ 2002-08-31 06:59 am UTC |
Ms. Turpin, ambition is not the only quality of Slytherins, and you do shame to Slytherin House by assuming that Ms. Bulstrode is dull enough to have implied that. I do wish to inquire where Ms. Bulstrode mentioned ambition at all. I infer from this statement that you wish to stake your claim on ambition merely as a Prefect. Certainly Ms. Abbott's lackadaisical instructions for Mr. Malfoy to find Mr. Macmillan instead of doing it herself is not very ambitious at all.
If anything, I should think Ms. Bulstrode is referring to the ever popular trend of cattiness in certain female students who seem to have discovered the fact that Slytherins are nasty and thusly are following in the same vein in order to be paid attention to. It is such a pity that none have a personality that would do them the same job.
Two points from Ravenclaw and two from Slytherin for this nonsense. Taking yourself seriously doesn't mean everyone else does.
| hannahabbott @ 2002-09-01 04:56 pm UTC Re: |
Millicent
I never wished to be in Slytherin. My house is, and always will be, Hufflepuff.
I'm sorry if this offends you.
- HA
| petitemillicent @ 2002-09-02 01:14 am UTC Re: |
We are not on first names basis.
Offend me?
HA, indeed.
M. B.
| la_pensee @ 2002-08-29 02:01 pm UTC |
Hannah,
I understand that you are a prefect but I see no reason for you to treat members of your own house and those of my own in a fashion which borders upon condescending. I admit I don't entirely understand your methods regarding this situation. If you found it questionable, I would agree that you should try to address and possibly resolve the problem in some manner. However, I fail to see exactly what kind of tactic you were using to handle it. Were you attempting to divert a person's negative attention from another and onto yourself? I can't help but think that this wouldn't be beneficial for either you or the party in question.
Pansy
| hannahabbott @ 2002-09-01 04:46 pm UTC Re: |
Pansy -
My apologies. I did not wish to offend anyone.
Sick. Going back to bed.
- Hannah
| sinistra @ 2002-08-31 03:48 am UTC |
Ms. Abbott, would you mind explaining exactly what it is that you think you are doing? I do hope you have not decided to taken your role as Prefect so seriously as to address other students as "Mister" and "Miss." Such laughter would surely split my sides at this hour of the morning. Two points from Hufflepuff for threatening another student.
(parent)| hannahabbott @ 2002-09-01 04:38 pm UTC Re: |
My sincerest apologies, Professor. I was simply demostrating the fact that sometimes in order to get someone's attention, you must go out of societies boundaries a little. If in doing so, I have over stepped my mark, then I apologise to not only you, but to Malfoy.
(parent)| sinistra @ 2002-08-31 03:50 am UTC |
Mr. Malfoy, it is too early to deal with you. Two points from Slytherin for being an irritant.
(parent)| petitemillicent @ 2002-08-29 12:31 am UTC |
You, whoever you are, mind your own business.
Or do you have none.
M. B.
| la_pensee @ 2002-08-29 10:23 am UTC |
Harry,
I have also gone to speak to Headmaster Dumbledore several times about my own concerns, and I am beginning to believe he does not listen to our problems at all, and merely lets I think he is.
Pansy
| just_harry @ 2002-08-30 05:17 am UTC |
I don't know. I think Professor Dumbledore helps if he can, but sometimes he thinks it's better for us to do it on our own, you know? I just wish he would say that's why he's doing it.
(parent)| la_pensee @ 2002-08-30 08:36 am UTC |
Harry,
Perhaps you are right, but I can't help but feel that if he just took action sometimes he could often aid if not solve the situation. However, if you do ever get tired of talking to Professor Dumbledore, my door's always open, and I would at least TRY to help.
Pansy
| just_harry @ 2002-08-30 01:09 pm UTC |
Thanks, Pansy, but I think Professor Dumbledore is the only one who can really do anything about it. I'll keep that in mind, though.
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