ORDER ONLY: Private Message to Sally-Anne, Justin, Ron, and Harry

[alt_pansy]

WHAT?

I mean, seriously.

Seriously.

A man. In our room. For years. Who just happened to be old school chums with Harry's dad and Sirius and Mr Lupin.

If Sally-Anne didn't look so white-faced, I would've thought April Fools came early. Because it's completely and utterly ridiculous.

And weird.

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[alt_sally_anne]

If you think it's weird HEARING about it, imagine how it felt to be talking about that spell that turns animagi back to their human form, and I said, 'animals aren't supposed to even notice it when you cast them on it, see?' and a second later there is this NAKED MAN with really greasy hair crawling away from us in an utter panic.

[alt_pansy]

Aaaah

Oh, that's just

No.

I mean, it's just so not right, and I am SO glad I was not there.

[alt_pansy]

...and now I'm imagining our room with a big naked greasy man just sort of hanging round on our beds and honestly, I don't know whether to vom or laugh or both at once.

Ugh.

Ugh ugh ugh.

[alt_sally_anne]

Probably best to just pretend he really was a rat. And that business with the greasy man is some sort of joke. And he's gone off to live with Ron for a while because of Pyewacket, like we're telling people.

Though

Seriously, Pyewacket's a Kneazle and Kneazles are really smart and now I'm trying to think about whether he HAS ever done anything and the only thing is, he did watch Sebastian a lot more than he ever watches Milli's cat.

[alt_pansy]

True.

And they did seem to, you know, get on better than either ever did with Fergus.

Pye got a little off last year, for obvious reasons, and there have been people who spooked him, but he never seemed to be weird or anything around Sebastian. Peter. Whoever.

[alt_sally_anne]

Who hasn't Pye liked? I'm trying to think, now.

He hated Umbridge. Sensibly enough. And he loathed Letchley. Also sensible.

[alt_pansy]

And Professor Lockhart! Remember, we thought it was so odd when he'd get hissy around him.

I didn't let him anywhere near the Carrows unless I could help it, of course.

He certainly doesn't mind the Headmaster.

[alt_sally_anne]

If we told Milli (which obviously we won't) I bet she'd say that she always knew there was something fishy about my stupid rat.

[alt_pansy]

Then again, Milli's likely to think anything is fishy.

I blame Fergus's diet.

We might take a hint from her, though. Be a bit more suspicious of things. After all, we lived with an ANIMAGUS RAT MAN LITERALLY UNDER OUR NOSES FOR YEARS, Sally-Anne.

YEARS.

[alt_pansy]

I know. It's serious. I'll treat it seriously.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah but seriously you are seriously right.

How were we ever Sorted into Slytherin House? We are supposed to be WARY and CRAFTY and CLEVER.

But nope we had a man (A GRYFFINDOR incidentally) living IN OUR ROOM LITERALLY UNDER OUR NOSES SINCE SECOND YEAR.

It's Carrow's fault. If he hadn't escaped from Carrow I'd have felt less sorry for him and might have thought twice about making him my pet. Except probably not, because I really did want a pet.

[alt_ron]

Well. He did look really odd, like a giant hairless rat.

Tail-less, too.

Let's just say no one's going to ask to put his picture in one of those witches' nudey magazines!

So, yeah. If you take away the fact that it was bleedin terrifying when he was there all of a sudden... parts of it were fairly hilarious.

[alt_pansy]

So deeply glad I was not there.

Fervently, even.

[alt_pansy]

And you had better be keeping a close eye on him, Ron.

I mean, honestly.

[alt_ron]

Don't worry. He's not getting loose.

[alt_pansy]

Good.

I'm sorry. I'd be a great deal less giggly if I had been there. And hadn't had such a monumentally awful day yesterday.

[alt_ron]

How are you tonight?

[alt_pansy]

Much better. Sally-Anne got me some fennel seed after what Terry wrote, and that helped.

And while you lot were uncovering a spy ring of one, I made some good progress in Potions, which was sorely needed.

I think I'll be ready for the salle tomorrow.

We'll see what happens when I try to sleep tonight, but I think it'll be better than it was. I really, really hope so, at least.

[alt_ron]

Not so good last night, I guess?

Private Message to Ron

[alt_pansy]

Bad dreams.

Woke up screaming.

Sally-Anne slept over after that, though. Like we used to. Which was good.

[alt_ron]

Because I don't know whether he's telling the truth about most of what he told us, but I absolutely believe he thinks he's in mortal danger if anyone finds out. And, y'know, if you're that afraid for your skin, you're not going to let a bunch of kids make the decision whether to turn you over to the people you're afraid of.

If I were Pettigrew and I got a chance, I'd run, and if I couldn't run, but I got the next best chance, I'd try to kill the people who knew my secret.

[alt_pansy]

Right.

Point.

He also knows we're not just a bunch of kids, either. He's not likely to underestimate us.

And he's been to pretty much everywhere secret, hasn't he? Just carried in a pocket.

[alt_sally_anne]

I'm trying to think. He's been to Sherwood with me. He's been to 12GP. Not Moddey, unless I'm forgetting something. Not Saltash -- oh, of course he didn't go along when I went to Saltash, he knew perfectly well the null field would turn him back into a human. He hasn't been to the house outside Hogsmeade because I haven't been there yet, though I have the secret so I could get there if I needed to.

He always came along to Tea Appreciation, I figured it was because he had lots of opportunities to steal biscuits. And he came along to the QWC, even though I'd meant to leave him behind.

[alt_ron]

Ugh. That's something to consider.

I mean, he thinks--he says he thinks that Sirius would kill him first chance he got--but what if Pettigrew's thinking he should strike first. He may be able to get into Grimmauld, yeah? I mean, since he's been there.

He has been, hasn't he?

Has he been to Moddey?

Does it matter that the secret wasn't shared directly with him?

[alt_sally_anne]

It means he can't share it with anyone else, at least.

[alt_pansy]

He doesn't know Moddey's precise location if he's never been there. Which is something, I guess.

You're absolutely sure he's never been?

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah. I haven't been there very many times. I'm -- well, at least I'm pretty sure he never stowed away.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, given how quickly he offered to Vow not to betray us, I really don't think he wants to?

In all these years I don't think he's ever transformed into a human when we weren't around.

I think his very first choice would just to go back to being someone's pet rat.

Can you imagine doing that? I mean being a snake basically FOREVER.

[alt_ron]

No.

Well. If I could be your snake, maybe.


But, seriously, no. Then again, I don't have the same sort of reason to consider it.

[alt_ron]

He could just have been trying to put us off our guard, though. And he wasn't offering to Vow to the whole Order, was he? He meant just us, I'm pretty sure. So maybe he was wagering we'd let him take the Vow and then we'd trust him and then sometime we'd be a way for him to get close to Sirius or Mr Lupin or some of the others.

I mean, he's been close to them before, but back then no one knew his secret, so he wasn't at risk.

I don't know. It's hard to guess what he might've been thinking tonight. He was more than a bit mad, wouldn't you say? So I don't expect he has a plan all worked out for what he might want to do.

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah, it's true.

Thinking about all the secret places he knows how to get into -- I think we do have to tell the adults. Soon.

[alt_pansy]

And he knows about Hydra. And Rachel. And Harry. And Justin.

I mean. The rest of us too, obviously. But.

[alt_pansy]

They might not believe him, mind, but he certainly knows enough to really foul things up.

[alt_pansy]

What was the vow, exactly?