Apology

[alt_neville]

The jinx finally wore off so Fred and George Weasley reckon it's finally safe to give me my quill back.

I must have insulted thirty or forty different people. I can understand if some of you don't want to talk to me ever again, but I just wanted to say, I'm awful sorry.

Comments

[alt_neville]

I guess people understand that it's the jinx that made me say that stuff, but they're all wondering, was I really secretly thinking it, all along? But I wasn't.

I dunno if Susan Bones will ever speak to me again. Or if Sally-Anne will keep helping me with Transfiguration.

[alt_ron]

if there going to let a jinx stop them from being a friend? not much of a friend, I'd say.

[alt_neville]

Yeah, I guess.

Your brothers were real nice to me about it. The twins, I mean. Not Percy. Well, I mean, he suggested I go to the Hospital Wing, which didn't do me any good because I'd already gotten Madam Pomfrey hacked off at me. But Fred and George, they just sat with me in the Common Room and took my quill away so I couldn't write insults in the journal anymore, and they took my mind off of it by telling jokes and they just laughed at me every time I insulted them.

I think they were really interested in the spell. They like charms and jinxes a lot, don't they?

(Maybe they were sort of interested in the insults, too. I mean, they said I'd given them loads of ideas for things they could say to Percy.)

[alt_ron]

You've no idea just how much they like them. Dead frightening, really.

[alt_percy]

I can hardly wait to encounter Fred and George's expanded repertoire of insults.

[alt_neville]

Sorry.

[alt_sally_anne]

Clearly you need to try hexing them with this so they have an excuse to say them.

Even if you tried and it didn't work they'd probably be happy to pretend it had.

It'd probably last for WEEKS.

[alt_percy]

In this case, Ron is right, Neville. Jinxes and hexes are simply part of the education here at Hogwarts, and sometimes students make a little free with them. No need to take things so personally.

[alt_sally_anne]

I looked for you this weekend to see if you wanted to work on Transfiguration but you were hiding in the Gryffindor common room.

I knew you'd been jinxed, you berk, why would I be cross with you? How could anyone who knew you at all think you meant any of it?

[alt_ron]

my point!

[alt_neville]

Well, thanks. I'm glad you know I didn't mean it.

Sorry I missed studying with you. Next weekend, I promise, if you're up for it.

[alt_sally_anne]

Of course.