alternity | Er, Lovegood?

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Are you . . . quite well?

There's no shame in it, you know, if you find you're not feeling quite the thing, and need to stop at the hospital wing. I'm sure that Madam Pomfrey would have no objection.

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From:

alt_lana

Ta, Weasley. Lovegood is fine.

She has her own Prefects to assist her should she need anything.

From:

alt_percy

All the Prefects of Hogwarts are charged to look out for all students, whatever their House. And I think that given tonight's incident, she might . . . have some cause for hesitation about approaching certain people.

From:

alt_lana

Weasley, as you're perfectly well aware, there are six Ravenclaw Prefects. Any of them would be perfectly competent to help Lovegood or any other Ravenclaw as the need arose, and all of us are closer to hand than you are. Did you mean to suggest that Clearwater is somehow inadequate? Or Tamblyn or Chang?

Honestly, if you have something you'd like to say, come out and say it.

From:

alt_percy

Very well, if you insist, I will come out and say it.

I wondered whether Lovegood would feel comfortable speaking to her House Prefects when the Head Girl that they all look to, from her own House administered that curse herself just this week.

From:

alt_lana

I was under the impression that Lovegood was a family friend, Weasley. You don't seem to know her as well as I would have expected.

What happened tonight was a result of her own, admittedly peculiar, desire to study the effects of the Cruciatus curse first hand. I'm sure you read her comments on the subject. While I gather that she has thought along these lines for some time, it was my use of the curse on Tuesday that crystallised her desire to experience its effects.

Were you not sitting close enough to hear her tell Carrow to go ahead before he cast the spell?

From:

alt_molly

She . . . she asked him to cast the spell? No, I don't believe it! That must be a lie!

Oh, my poor Luna. . . that poor, dear girl.

Arthur, I'll have to Floo over to Xeno's tomorrow. When he learns of this, he'll be beside himself. I can only hope I'll be able to manage to keep him from doing anything rash!

From:

alt_percy

She is a family friend, Sandoval, and we're all quite fond of her. And so none of us like to see her getting needlessly hurt.

You can't pretend that she did anything to deserve that. And as for 'asking for it,' Merlin, she's an eleven-year old child.

From:

alt_luna

I'm twelve now, actually. I just had my birthday.

From:

alt_percy

Luna, do me a favour? A great personal favour, actually.

Please refrain from asking people to hurt you. Especially Professor Carrow.

From:

alt_luna

Why not him, especially?

From:

alt_amycus

Yes, Weasley, why not me? I find myself quite interested in your answer. Most passionately, as a matter of fact.

From:

alt_percy

It's just that--um, you're very good at it. Sir.

From:

alt_amycus

Acceptable.

From:

alt_luna

I don't expect I will. But it's nice to know that the help is there if I need it.

From:

alt_hannah

Why, what's happened to ~~Looney~~ Luna Lovegood?

From:

alt_neville

It happened at dinner, in the Great Hall. In front of everybody.

From:

alt_hannah

What? She didn't get petrified or anything, did she?

From:

alt_neville

No.

From:

alt_percy

It was ... an incident. It's entirely over now. No need for you to worry.

From:

alt_amycus

I'd prefer to call it a 'demonstration.' And a very effective one, if I do say myself.

From:

alt_amycus

And a little worrying wouldn't be amiss. That's the sort of thing that keeps you on your toes, so to speak, a service I am always happy to provide.

From:

alt_percy

Er--quite.

From:

alt_neville

Merlin, I was afraid he was going to kill her there right in the middle of the Great Hall in front of everybody! I saw someone do that curse a long time ago to a vagrant muggle before they were all moved to the camps, but I've never seen it done on anybody I know.

Sally-Anne, I'm even more sorry that you went through that. I bet when Professor Carrow throws it, it must be even worse.

She didn't even scream. Not once.

From:

alt_ron

I know. That was the disturbing thing, wasn't it? That she didn't scream at all. I mean, you could tell it was dead dire, just looking at her jerking around on the floor like that. And then, y'know, when she kept twitching afterwards.

From:

alt_neville

But then she got up again and just brushed off her robes, and--did you see? She sort of--sort of smiled at him! And she went back to her seat and started eating her dinner like nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Seamus and me couldn't believe it.

That girl is dead uncanny.

Even Professor Carrow looked a little spooked. Like, he wasn't grinning so much afterward when he turned to watch her go.

She better watch her step around him.

From:

alt_ron

Heh. Yeah, that's Luna for you.

From:

alt_ron

And, yeah, actually. I thought the same about Carrow afterwards. It was like she stole some of, I dunno, the effect he thought he'd conjured.

Did you see how he looked while he cast it? He was totally loving how everyone stopped talking and just stared with their mouths hanging open.

And then she didn't act scared at all. And that left him looking totally a squib, didn't it?

And, yeah, I totally think he'll do something awful soon just to prove he can.

From:

alt_neville

I'll bet Professor Carrow doesn't even know what to do when he meets a student who isn't even afraid of him.

Well, I hope the fact that she got sorted into Ravenclaw means she'll have the smarts to outwit him.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I was watching Carrow's face. He

From:

alt_sally_anne

On Tuesday night after Sandoval let it stop that second time I was on the floor trying to stop shaking enough to get up and I looked up at the two of them. Carrow looked almost hungry. I mean like someone looks after they've had a taste of some food they really like and they want more.

Sandoval though

You know how Oliver Wood looks when he's just climbed off a broom? Ron you look the same way. Your eyes are all bright and your cheeks are pink and you're breathing a little fast because you like flying so much.

That's how Sandoval looked.

Anyway Carrow's face tonight looked more like he'd had a whole meal instead of just a taste. He liked watching Sandoval cast crucio but he liked casting it on Luna better.

I think Carrow loves hurting people and I think Sandoval loves having power over people.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I've been wondering ever since dinner why she didn't shake and throw up after. Pansy didn't throw up when Mrs Black did it to her, but she shook and had a bad headache.

Maybe it's because she didn't scream? I don't know why that would make a difference though.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I don't know how it could possibly be worse but Hydra talked about whether Sandoval would have a 'strong' cruciatus so probably it does vary.

I can't believe she didn't make a sound.

From:

alt_ron

Maybe she couldn't?

From:

alt_ron

Where were you? I mean, if you were at dinner you couldn't have missed it.

From:

alt_hannah

I got caught up in revising at the library and lost track of time and hurried in to grab dinner the last five minutes. Luna was gone by then.

Ernie said that Professor Carrow put the Cruciatus spell on her? Why? What did she do? She always does her work in class, and she's never cheeky to the professors. Well, she's odd, of course, but not cheeky!

From:

alt_ron

He did it because she wrote in her journal that she wanted to know what it feels like. He told there the other night he'd do it for her, and, well, she didn't say no.

When it was all over, it sort of looked like she told him thanks. 'Least she smiled at him in that sort of way you do when you mean Thanks.

And, yeah. Luna's just Luna. No one's like her, that's dead certain.

From:

alt_molly

Percy. . . ?

From:

alt_percy

Mum, not here, I don't think. I'll send an owl. Look for it early tomorrow morning.

From:

alt_ginny

Luna, is a very strong witch. She can handle herself well. If she needs something she, will let someone know. I don't think we need to fear for her so much, I don't know what was wrong with her or why she did it, but its clear to me that she wasn't afraid of him. She told him to "go ahead".

That's my beast friend for you... Not always altogether there, but never one to stick her head in the sand or back down.

Edited Date: 2010-01-15 02:57 am (UTC)

From:

alt_harry

Maybe she should've been a Gryffindor then, that was dead strange.

From:

alt_ginny

I will agree with that. I don't know what crept into her head that would even make her want to do it. But she is very brave. You will be hard pressed to find anything predictable about her.

Edited Date: 2010-01-15 04:07 am (UTC)