Stupid punishments

[alt_harry]

Punishing people for things like that is bollocks. It's extra bollocks because nobody would punish me like that. I mean I know why. Because Father is so careful of me. And sometimes people bite off their tongues off when they get cruciated. But I don't think that getting cruciated is like being allowed to go to Diagon Alley without an Auror.

Also it's unfair to Slytherin. Just because we're supposed to be sly. Sally-Anne wouldn't eavesdrop. At least she wouldn't when she would get cruciated if she was caught. And we all know you can be. So.

Anyway, she told me that it really hurt. I mean really. But I won't ever know. Not that I want to get hurt. Only I wonder do the prefects cast it on each other? And if Father won't let me does that mean I can't ever be a prefect? Not that I want to be a prefect.

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[alt_draco]

They would too punish you like that. Just not directly.

I didn't know you didn't want to be prefect. Why don't you? I bet they would let you.

[alt_harry]

But that's what I mean. Not me directly.

Oh come on would you want to be prefect? Always have to follow all the rules? Not me!!

[alt_ron]

Heh. Yeah, I dunno that I'd care to be a Prefect. I mean, that's for people who really like to tell people what to do all the time.

Like Percy. He loves it.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Do you think he's going to be Head Boy next year?

I mean I hate to say it because you know how much he annoys me but he might be better than some of the alternatives. He apologised to me last year for delaying me, you know how he caught me running in the corridor when I was trying to find a professor (who wasn't Carrow!) while you were off having your chess game with Harry and Draco. Anyway when he found out later what I was after he said he was sorry. Even though I didn't tell him what I was doing because I was afraid he'd go get Carrow, Carrow is a teacher after all.

And he argued against letting the Head Boy and Girl use crucio.

And your mum would do her nut if he ever did. That might keep him from doing it. I don't know.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Percy seemed really nervous about it the one time he said anything about next year. I mean, I think he really, really wants to be Head Boy because he thinks it would help him get a really good job at the Ministry. And because, y'know, it would make him feel really good about himself to get it over all the other Prefects.

I think it would be really annoying for whoever gets Head Girl to have to work with Percy. I mean, he'd always think he was more important than her and go around making pronouncements for both of them. Heh. Sort of like Sandoval does with Moran, y'know. Except Moran does his own thing, too, so I think it's actually pretty equal.

You're right about Mum. I told you about last summer? When Percy had a right foul row with Dad and we didn't know what'd happened? Right before the camping trip. Well, the twins heard something Mum said to Dad, and they reckon Percy got caught trying to cast Crucio on the chickens or maybe a gnome or something. You know, all the prefects on the trip were supposed to be able to do it, and maybe Percy was worried they'd check if the prefects could before they'd let them go. I dunno. He'd have been really embarrassed if they'd told him he wasn't good enough and put someone else in his place. He'd never have got over that.

Anywiz, I guess if that's what happened, Dad must've said something really dire to Percy. Y'know, told him no son of his would use a curse like that or something. So I don't know. If Percy makes Head Boy, he might not want to do it, but I don't think anything Mum or Dad said would keep him from learning it. And who knows if he'd ever use it.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Well I don't think Siobhan would use it, if she were Head Girl, but I do think Moebius would use it if he were Head Boy. But there's no way Moebius will be Head Boy, his marks aren't good enough.

Moebius was also really cross that Moran put it on a Slytherin. So if he did get to be Head Boy, I think he'd mostly use it on other houses. Which would be good for me but bad for you. If Percy DID use it he'd probably go out of his way to start with a Gryffindor so no one would think he was showing favoritism.

[alt_draco]

Some of them follow the rules. Some of them seem to get away with breaking them left and right. So I don't know.

[alt_ron]

I don't think they do cast it on each other. The prefects, I mean. I think we'd have got it out of Percy if they did.

But maybe the Head Boy and Girl do have to practice on each other. I mean obviously they both know how to do it, and I've heard people say it's not the sort of spell you can just cast without ever having tried it before.

[alt_harry]

Well what if you don't know it before you become Head Boy then?

They must practise.

[alt_ron]

D'you think maybe they practise on elves?

[alt_sally_anne]

I don't think Sandoval had ever done it before.

Not on a person anyway.

[alt_hydra]

I saw what you said to Mummy, Harry.
Do you really think I'm right mean sometimes?

From,
Hydra

[alt_harry]

Of course, Hydra, you're a complete terror. You know that!!!

[alt_horace]

Now now, Harry. I know you're upset, but there's no need for language like that, hm?

[alt_harry]

Sorry Professor Slughorn

[alt_percy]

No, we Prefects don't cast that particular spell on each other. Remember, only the Head Boy or Head Girl has the authority to cast it (and generally if someone has demonstrated the type of trustworthiness that leads to them being picked as a Prefect in the first place, they'd be unlikely to do anything that would necessitate such a punishment). You may have entirely sensible reasons not to want to be a Prefect (such as wanting more time to revise without having to work around a patrolling schededule), but the fear that you would be required to cast 'Crucio' needn't be one of them.