I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_pansy]

I got Pig back. I'm letting him rest up a bit before I send him off to Carrow in the morning. He doesn't act like he needs it, though.

I've cut out an article about the arrests with the Woods and typed a quick letter saying "serves them right, wrestling in the mud." I signed it "An Admirer".

Ugh.

I don't think we ought to send him right back to Terry. Not until we make sure that he can follow directions about not being seen after he delivers something. I'll work with him for a bit, and then we can practice with Lee or something. Because he'd be someone new. Or we could send him back to the Weasleys, because there's always a ton of people around, and they can send owls to one another so it'd be faster to see if it worked.

Should I work on having him learn to hide until he's wanted for a reply? Because if Terry can write in the journals, I don't think he'd need it, and it'd be riskier to have Pig around -- there's more that could go wrong.

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Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Sally Anne Perks

[alt_ron]

You're right. We shouldn't send him back there right away. If nothing else, it'd be bad if Carrow did see him a second time because there aren't a lot of owls that look like Pig. Or act like him. So he'd recognise him right off, probably. Too likely. Don't you think?

Sure, you can send him back here and the twins can work on him while we're gone next week.

Speaking of which. Sort of. After next week, Mum says we can have you all over. Jeremy, too, I bet, Sally Anne, and y'know, if Maureen and Gemma wanted to come again or you needed them to so the Strettons would say it was all right, that'd probably be fine, too. Mum doesn't mind, at all.

Anywiz, she said maybe midweek, so Wednesday or Thursday, I guess. D'you think you'd be able to come? I'll let Neville know, too, soon as you say whether you could come then.

Re: Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Sally Anne Perks

[alt_sally_anne]

You must mean Wednesday the 13th, right? Because next week we'll be off doing CCF stuff. I think the Strettons will let us come. Either Wednesday or Thursday should be fine.

Re: Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Sally Anne Perks

[alt_ron]

Right. Like I said, Mum says we can have people over after next week, cause that's when we're all away. I mean, I guess the twins or Gin could have someone next week, but Mum likes the idea of having it all be the same day, and we like having enough people so we can play Quidditch.

So, yeah, whatever date that is, but the Wednesday or Thursday after we're back.

Re: Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Sally Anne Perks

[alt_pansy]

I'll check and see if I'm free or not. I'm pretty sure I would be, though.

[alt_sally_anne]

Now that Terry's replied maybe we don't need to send poor Pig to Carrow. We know when to send him so he's not seen.

[alt_pansy]

On the weekends would be best, yeah, I saw.

I'll work with him a bit, and we can test him on the twins and Ron later this week, and maybe try next weekend, or the weekend after that.

Private message to Pansy

[alt_sally_anne]

Did Sirius answer your owl?

Re: Private message to Pansy

[alt_pansy]

He did.

He said the Doris business is pure nonsense, and I shouldn't pay it any mind. That he thought she'd picked up on the lyrics and was using them to try and be like him, but that she didn't really know him at all. Just like you said. And that I ought to keep right on asking questions, only he didn't think I was quite ready to hear his answers.

Which is also pure nonsense, of course, but whatever.

He also said I could write him again, but that I ought to be cautious, because he is supposed to be dead and all.

But yeah. He did write back. Really and truly.