Weird Sisters

[alt_harry]

Mr Malfoy sent the new Weird Sisters album to me and Draco. That was nice of him. Thanks, Mr Malfoy. I'm really liking it so far.

So it turns out that there are some places in the castle where we really shouldn't go. I learned that this weekend.

It's really weird to have that Mudblood serving at the Head Table. She always looks like a mouse scuttling around. It would put me off my food if I were a teacher. She's so thin - even thinner when you see her up close. And I think there's something growing in her hair.

Comments

[alt_draco]

Disgusting name, you mean! Why don't they just give them numbers, or something?

[alt_neville]

Well, I know the Ministry says that her sort should be classified with animals, but my Gran says that even animals that live with people get their own names.

[alt_draco]

That's a silly comparison. Pets and familiars aren't looking to steal and corrupt the magic of the Pureblooded.

[alt_sally_anne]

All the more reason they need names. It makes it easier to keep track of them so that if they cause any mischief, the wizards in charge of them can spot patterns.

Anyway, the name "Hermione" is from Shakespeare. There's nothing wrong with Shakespeare, he was a 16th century wizard who wrote plays and poetry about witches and wizards. The Weird Sisters got their name from one of his plays, too.

[alt_draco]

Numbers seem a far less personal way of keeping track of them, and just as efficient.

And honestly, Sally Anne, I have heard of Shakespeare.

[alt_sally_anne]

You really think you'd remember a #24698 if you ran into it two years later, better than a "Hermione"? You're a lot better with numbers than I am, then.

You've heard of Shakespeare?!? No one else at my village school had. Did you ever get to see one of his plays performed? I think it would be wizard to see The Tempest.

[alt_draco]

You give them a number so you don't have to remember. It gets put in a file somewhere, or something. And remember that there's only so many names to go around, as well. Imagine if there's a proper witch out there named "Hermione" and how she'd feel to know that a mudblood shared her name. I would be downright outraged if I ran into a mudblood named Draco. Though obviously, that would never happen.

No, but I saw Millicent Bulstrode say "bubble, bubble, toil and trouble" while bent over her cauldron in Potions. I suppose I could have told her that the correct wording is "double, double" and not "bubble, bubble," but I really couldn't be bothered.

[alt_sally_anne]

There's no charm to make a file fill itself up with all the stupid rule-breaking things a mudblood does, or anyone else does for that matter. Someone (like Headmistress McG) has to pay attention, notice, and put it in the file. Which means that some wizard has to actually know the names of the mudbloods they're responsible for. Or the numbers, if it were numbers.

Are you usually up this late? I'm the only one of the girls who's still awake, and that's just because I have trouble sleeping.

[alt_draco]

No, which is why I slept for hours before replying to this.