If anyone has any questions

[alt_percy]

concerning this morning's altercation in the corridor between Mr Rickett and Ms Fletcher, you may speak to one of your House Prefects. The Head Boy, as you are all aware, has been entrusted with extra authority, as necessary, to enforce the school rules and preserve school decorum.

I realise that this is a stressful time of year and that there is a great deal of excitement about the Duelling Club. Nevertheless, the longstanding school rules forbidding the use of magic in the corridors--much less duelling--must still be obeyed.

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[alt_ron]

They were duelling in the corridors? And Moran caught them? What'd he do, Crucio them?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Yes, he did.

Everyone in the Slytherin common room is whispering about it right now, I think they thought if Trinculus used it on anyone it would be someone from another house.

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[alt_ron]

Whoa! Really? I was just kidding when I asked it!

What'd they do, hit Moran with a curse? I don't really know either of them. What're they like?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Well I don't know Rickett, he's in Hufflepuff I think, but when Antigone gets in trouble it's usually points taken for whispering in Charms or something. Oh and she's gone through three robe pets because she keeps getting them confiscated by teachers for playing with them in class, I think Lockhart lets her get away with it but she's lost one to Acton, one to Slughorn, and one to CARROW if you can believe it.

So I'll admit I'm not surprised she wasn't paying attention to who might see her when she tried hexing Rickett. She didn't quite hit him but it was a near miss I guess. Oh unless it was Rickett who almost hit Moran, I've heard it both ways. Which probably means it WAS Antigone.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Wait I mean she didn't quite hit MORAN.

She did hit Rickett with something and he hit her, too. And then Moran turned up and one of them almost hit him with something and he put Crucio on both of them.

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[alt_ron]

Whoa! On both of them? I mean, I've heard you have to seriously want to hurt somebody in order to be able to even make that spell come out of your wand, let alone make it hurt, so you couldn't just be feeling cheesed off at someone and do it.

Have you seen Fletcher since it happened? Did she have to go to Madam Pomfrey after?

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[alt_sally_anne]

I heard she went to the nearest bathroom and Elizabeth went looking for her and found her throwing up.

She came back to the Common Room a little while ago and everyone stopped talking and stared. She looked like her head hurt. And she looked angry but she didn't say anything to anyone.

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[alt_neville]

That's just awful.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Yes.

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[alt_neville]

You know when they announced that the Head Boy and Head Girl can do that spell, I never really thought they would. Or at least they'd save it for, I dunno, someone going spare and attacking a teacher or something. But hexing in the corridors happens every week.

(Merlin, it's a good thing I don't think anyone would ever pick me for Head Boy. "Cause I don't want to have to do that. Ever. Anyway if I did, I think Gran would kill me, Head Boy or not.)

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[alt_sally_anne]

You didn't think they'd use it?

I'm surprised Sandoval hasn't yet. Now that Moran's used it I reckon Sandoval will use it on someone before Christmas.

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[alt_neville]

I just can't imagine doing that to anyone. Guess I sometimes forget not everyone's like me.

Yeah, I could see Sandoval using it, now that I think about it. She's the sort that would, I dunno, secretly enjoy it, while still telling everyone she's only doing it cause she has to do it.

Ugh.

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[alt_sally_anne]

I can imagine doing it to Carrow.

Do you reckon Percy would use it ever, if he were head boy? I don't think he'd ever use it for fun, at least.

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[alt_neville]

I'd still rather duck and take whatever he dishes out than do that to Carrow. I mean, you've never seen my Gran, and what she'd do to me if she ever knew I'd used that curse--well, that would be almost as scary as anything Carrow could do. And Gran's family, so she'd hold it over my head forever, unlike Professor Carrow, who I hope I'll never see again after I leave Hogwarts.

About Percy---I dunno, Ron, what do you think?

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[alt_ron]

I dunno, sometimes I think he maybe could. Y'know, he's always so sure he knows better than anybody else and that he knows what they deserve done to them. I mean, look how he talks about as an important lesson, like it's the obvious thing you do.

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[alt_neville]

But could he maybe be just saying that? Cause he has to, cause he's a Prefect, especially in the journals? He was the one who argued against the Head Boy and Head Girl being given the right to do the curse, when the Prefects voted on it, right? Horatio Hooper said so, and he should know.

I saw Gareth Archer and Ed Bones trying to talk to Percy about what happened in the Common Room right before dinner. Didn't seem to me that Percy liked talking about it much. He sure wasn't gloating over what Moran did or anything.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Well you both know him better than I do.

But he's clever enough not to let on in the journals if he disagrees with anything anyone in power does. He might let you know later.

He does like being in power an awful lot though. And there's nothing quite like a curse no one else is allowed to use to show off how powerful you are. If they make him Head Boy next year it'll be interesting to see if he ever uses it. And on who. Moran used it on someone from his own house, I never would've thought he'd do that. I thought we were more likely to get it from Sandoval.

[alt_percy]

Moran did what he is authorised to do, Ronald. As I said.

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[alt_molly]

Oh, Minerva. Is he talking about Crucio then? Did it really happen?

To think that we would ever see this day, that one Hogwarts student would do that to another, and it's defended as school policy.

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[alt_mcgonagall]

I am afraid so, Molly.

[alt_ron]

But what about Rickett and Fletcher? Did they get hurt?

I mean did they do something so bad he had to do it to make them stop? Or, wait. But the curse doesn't work like that, right? I mean it's about hurting somebody not about, like, calming them down or making them stop before they break something or

Right?

[alt_percy]

It's meant to teach an important lesson so it's not easily forgotten. The effects are temporary, of course, when applied correctly. But I trust that the memory will make a permanent impression.

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[alt_neville]

When applied correctly? What's that supposed to mean??

And what happens if it's applied incorrectly? Hannah Abbott said Anthony Rickett shook for two hours afterward.

[alt_ernie]

It wasn't really an altercation though, it was

Anthony didn't even do anything much, they were just messing around

What's decorum mean? Is it about not damaging school property, like the paintings and tapestries and that?

[alt_padma]

It means behaving properly.

[alt_hannah]

But he

Anthony was shaking all

Oh. Of course that's important.

[alt_percy]

Yes, it is.

[alt_ernie]

Oh, right yeah, I see.