Private Message to Draco Malfoy

[alt_pansy]

What can I do to help?

What do you need?

I know you'll want to be near your father while he gets better, but can I send along anything for you? Or keep you company on the train? Or anything?

Just let me know. Please.

I want you to know that I care for am here for you. However you want me to be.

Comments

[alt_draco]

Pansy, he looks awful. Everyone's saying he'll recover but they're being strange and vague about it, or else acting all business-as-usual. It reminds me of all that secrecy that went on when they tried to kill Mother.

Aunt Bellatrix is here and she and Mother have been talking about something all night, and when I passed by in the hallway they both got quiet so fast, but then Mother asked me if I needed anything to drink before bed in a way that sounded too bright. And now she just wrote in her book to tell me that she and Auntie Bella might be going to the Ministry tonight. What for?

Mother said I don't have to go back to school with everyone else. I can go late. It seems bad that they would let me do that. As if they want me to be around, in case it gets worse.

[alt_pansy]

That does seem bad, yes. I didn't think

I guess I didn't think it was quite that bad.

But I can also see how they'd figure that if you were at school, you'd keep worrying and wishing you were back with your family anyways.

It's hard, isn't it, to sort out what people say just to make themselves feel better, or to reassure someone else, and what is really going on?

She wrote me too, you know. Aunt Narcissa. And she was... off. She kept calling me 'dear.' I figured she was distracted, for obvious reasons, but I see what you mean.

[alt_draco]

I think that he was alive, and people were just relieved about it, so no one realised right away that it was actually bad. Or it took a while to sink in.

I've been sitting with him off and on, and he's not very lucid but he won't let go of his wand. I tried to take it so he'd be more comfortable and he had... some kind of fit, I think. So we just let him hold it.

Anyway. How's the train?

[alt_pansy]

I think people are relieved that they can talk about that photo that's supposed to be Sirius Black rather than who got hurt or the awful things they saw, so that's all they've been discussing.

Elsie Urquhart is already being a pain as a new Prefect -- I think she's trying to make sure that none of us will think her too nice, but she's already gotten quite snappish with a firstie, and she looks like she's just eaten a lemon every time I see her pass by. Vaisey has been fine, though.

Who do you think they'll pick to be Prefects out of our class next term? It won't be that much longer, will it?

Did you see Clearwater's bit about Hogwarts being oh-so-safe? I thought that was pretty rich, considering how we ended last term.