alt_pansy | ORDER ONLY

did you manage to catch gimlet, ron?

it's not bad now that everything's back in place and I've had something for the pain. I have to write very slowly so I don't jog anything. annoying. katrina's better now that her arm is properly set too. she's okay, evs. can't write yet, but she wanted to pass on that she's okay.

glozeman is the worst.

least I had a good morning, yeah? love my book, s-a. and very sweet earrings, george. work very well. might see if rachel wants a pair.

before I forget. stebs, this next shipment needs to 'go bad', yeah? all of it. should be in tomorrow.

dinner will be interesting. especially if it's soup.

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From:

alt_evelyn

What?

Kitty broke her arm? In Transfiguration?

From:

alt_evelyn

And what happened to you, Pansy? What do you mean, 'back in place'?

From:

alt_george

Yeah, I'd like to know what 'back in place' means, too. Bugger Glozeman, anyway.

Glad you received my owl, at least, and I'm glad what I sent started the day out all right.

From:

alt_george

Happy birthday, luv. Fred's been teasing me that all the mush that card included would probably ooze out all over the Great Hall floor, but I meant every word.

Watch your back. At least the earrings should help keep anyone from sneaking up on you.

From:

alt_george

And I miss you like mad. As much as I love the berk, cozying up to Fred on the sofa at the end of a long work day definitely ain't the same.

From:

alt_pansy

miss you too, you giant bowl of mush.

tonnes.

From:

alt_pansy

dislocated a shoulder, sprained a knee.

I'll mend.

From:

alt_justin

Evelyn,

It might be more accurate to say she had it broken for her.

Professor Glozeman's lesson today was on transfiguring humans into animals. Not the Animagus transformation itself, what, but forcibly turning other people into animals.

He targetted Kitty and then allowed--I say, bally well ordered--us to take it in turns to try to either turn her into something else or change her back to a human again.

Patil managed to change her to from a beaver (Professor Glozeman's choice) to an ostrich, though one must say it looked as if she had some trouble completely visualising the bone structure. So something might have already begun to go wrong there. Daphne tried to change her back to human and couldn't quite manage, though she came close. Then Crabbe attempted to make her into a toad--but failed. Rather miserably, what.

I was able to transform her back, but Professor Glozeman has a strict policy against leaving his lessons without permission. He did not grant her permission to go straight to the Hospital Wing, as one might expect.

Then he wanted Ron to volunteer next but Pansy insisted it be her. I say, jolly good job, if painful.

-Justin

From:

alt_pansy

thought it'd foul things up otherwise.

felt bloody weird. still does, a bit.

From:

alt_justin

It might have done. I don't know how aware you were during your ordeal. When Corner had tried his spell, Professor Glozeman launched a lecture on the responses of true Animagi to forcible transmutations. Ron might have defaulted to his real form, for example, or a number of other outcomes which no one wanted.

I'm bally well glad you thought to take his place, what. I was just about to volunteer, myself, but I'm sure Professor Glozeman was more than happy to allow you to undertake it, the sadist.

-Justin

From:

alt_evelyn

How awful.

I'm glad Sally-Anne is there.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Glozeman made me try to transfigure Pansy. And said he'd have Crabbe go next if I didn't.

So I tried only I was ~~just as bad~~ worse than Crabbe.

From:

alt_justin

Pansy,

I say, it was good of you to stand in for Ron, but what a horrid way to mark your birthday.

-Justin

From:

alt_ron

Yeah, caught him. He was annoyed at first, but I gave him a kind of careful summary of what happened, and now I think he's annoyed with Glozeman.

You still in the Hospital Wing? Healer Garrick finally stirred himself to actually do something for you? Bloody useless git.

Tell Kat I got her things, and I'll have them up there soon as I can. Have to stop by Desai's first, though.

Garrick is going to let you stay tonight, right?

From:

alt_pansy

thanks.

we're to expect some disorientation apparently. so yeah.

hope he'll give me time on thursday.

bugger.

and I've got miles of things that need going over before the weekend, too.

From:

alt_justin

Pansy,

What sorts of things? Perhaps we can help.

-Justin

From:

alt_ron

Any of that I could do for you? Or go over with you? I'd probably do well to study with you, anyway.

Point is, I owe you.

Not sure what would've happened if he'd tried transforming me into something random. But I think it wouldn't have gone well.

I say, if it happens again, someone jump in and turn me to a snake as the first change. Then if no one can turn me into anything else, it might pass off as a failure in the spells, maybe in that first one that gets me 'stuck', y'know? I don't know. I guess it depends whether he really believes that nonsense of Ridgeway's or not.

From:

alt_pansy

hm.

I'm behind in revising for charms and NA, and desperately need to go to the salle.

but probably not the salle until thursday or friday.

that'll get me caught up enough so I can focus on potions and random businessy things.

thank you. both of you.

From:

alt_justin

I can certainly help you revise in either Charms or NA. When you're ready we can book the salle, too.

-Justin

From:

alt_pansy

NA and a run in the salle would be brill.

I'll snag Ron for charms and another salle run to keep me honest.

From:

alt_justin

Absolutely. If you like, I could have a word with Headmaster Dolohov on your behalf, and yours as well, Kitty, to explain why your coordination will be off for the next lesson or so.

-Justin

From:

alt_ron

I'm keeping up in Dolohov's, so if you want to see any of that, well, you should still probably get the notes from Sally Anne or Justin unless you've got a good handwriting parser. I need to catch up with Charms, though, so if you want to look that over together, I'm your bloke.

And any time you want to go to the Salle, I'll let you call whatever handicap you want. If you want to hex me black and blue, I reckon you've a right.

But, um. Are you really all right? You seemed really rattled. Are there some after-effects?

From:

alt_pansy

it's just

I feel a bit out of sorts in my own skin, yeah?

and I keep misjudging how far to reach for things. and my eyes have trouble focusing, so it's giving me a bit of a headache.

and during, everything just felt really really wrong, just, like, I don't really know how to explain it, and it's like it still feels like that a little.

From:

alt_ron

It's not like that for me, when I transform, but-- when I think about what it would be like, turning into anything else, I think it would be just like that--really really wrong. All the proportions, the way the eyes work, the way everything would taste and feel and move.

But, y'know... when I transform, I'm the one that's doing it. It's not a spell forcing me. And it's not bloody Goyle casting it!

I tried to talk Professor Dumbledore into doing that for me, actually, when I was trying to learn the transformation and wasn't having any success. He wouldn't do it. He said it wouldn't help and that it would probably make it harder for me to do it because I wouldn't want to feel that again. I reckon he knew what he was talking about, yeah?

From:

alt_pansy

I'd do it again, you know.

if it keeps your secret, it's worth it.

and you're utterly brill, you know? you and terry both. you should be properly proud of yourself for sorting it out like that.

glozeman would be gobsmacked if he knew.

make sure sally-anne knows it isn't her fault, will you? I keep telling her but she doesn't believe me.

From:

alt_ron

Yeah, I'm trying.

She can be really bloody stubborn when she decides to feel awful about something.

From:

alt_pansy

I suppose that just means we'll have to keep on showing her we love her no matter what, then, hey?

From:

alt_harry

I can volunteer to transform you. Except, I'm not sure Glozeman would be fooled.

It might be better to have you practice being transformed, and see if you can resist the temptation to turn into your snake form. If Justin thinks he could do it. (He definitely did the best today in class, out of our lot.)

From:

alt_ron

Yeah, well. If anyone does that to me, I think Pansy ought to have the first shot at it. Y'know?

From:

alt_ron

And Sally Anne, if I could talk her into trying. Just so she knows she can do it. She's really... having her spell slip with Pansy has really got her shaken up.

From:

alt_terry

Yeah, it does feel disorienting (the git used to do this to me--the time that Fred and George adopted me wasn't the only time he turned me into an animal for punishment).

Can you get your hands on some fennel seeds? Maybe in Potions class? Because they have something in them that will help with the wooziness. That's something I picked up from one of the more obscure books in the git's library. Have never tried it myself, since I never could get my hands on any, but if you can, it might help.

From:

alt_terry

(And I'm really sorry. You get rid of the git, and then you have a decent professor for a few years, and you get the chance to really learn something about Transfiguration--and now this.

It just really stinks.)

From:

alt_sally_anne

I am SO SORRY.

~~I should have just told him no and let him~~

Crabbe couldn't have done any worse for you than I did. ~~And Glozeman wouldn't have been trying~~

From:

alt_pansy

crabbe would've been awful.

it wasn't right, him making you try those spells without any chance to work on it beforehand.

it wasn't right making it happen multiple times like that either. or not talking about how to make it safe. if you can make it safe, that is.

he made katrina sit there.

just

he's awful. and if you spoke up about it, he would've used it against you somehow.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Well apparently Dolohov told him that he's not to use cruciation as a first alternative when disciplining students.

If I'd refused, he might have had Crabbe do it, but he might have just changed you back and had them have a go at me next. Which -- at least I wouldn't have been the one hurting you.

From:

alt_pansy

it's not your fault he's a shite teacher.

as it was, we kept it limited, and it was something we could handle. it could've been a tonne worse.

I know. if it'd been me doing it to you instead

I know.