ORDER ONLY: Professor Sprout?

[alt_hermione]

Would you please say something, to Professor Carrow or Dennis if you could manage it, like 'I asked Terry to get that bucket of bowtruckle dung'? Perhaps you needed it for compost or something like it? Only Terry is going to be in an awful spot of trouble and I swear he didn't do anything wrong, not even the tiniest bit, and you know that Professor Carrow will punish him and Professor McGonagall said I was supposed to do anything I could to stop Professor Carrow from hurting Terry.

So, would you? Please?

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[alt_molly]

Oh, dear. Whenever I hear something like, "I need a really good excuse for why there's a bucket of bowtruckle dung," I can't help but expect that the twins were involved somehow. Were they? If so, they'll certainly be hearing from me about it! I don't want them pulling that poor boy into hot water along with them.

[alt_hermione]

No no it wasn't them, it was Lee Jordan! It - well, he tried to pull a prank on Professor Carrow and Terry covered for him, only Dennis saw the bucket of bowtruckle poop, or actually probably smelled it first, and I'm certain sure that Dennis will tell Professor Carrow about it.

[alt_molly]

Oh, my. I've heard about Lee Jordan. He's very good friends with the twins, I think. Kindred spirits, they are. (Not that I hear about him from them since they don't write me much, but I get occasional complaints about his pranks in Percy's letters.)

Come to think of it, didn't Carrow's journal have something in the past week about giving Lee Jordan a detention? I imagine he must have decided to get a little pay back.

Well, as beautiful as the mental picture is of Amycus Carrow covered with bowtruckle dung, I hope Terry extricated Lee before the prank could be pulled and there are no repercussions. Minerva, have you heard anything?

[alt_mcgonagall]

As far as I can tell, there hasn't been a word of any trouble with Lee Jordan beyond the immediate. Young Boot must be quite a friend of his.

Miss Granger: I shall let this incident lie, but I hope that you will communicate to Mr Boot that rules are rules - and I hope that you will communicate to Mr Jordan that prank-pulling is inappropriate.