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Thanks to everyone who helped with the younger students yesterday.

I've been thinking ahead to 5th year Friday Revision. Now that we're definitely getting into less familiar stuff for both Dark Arts and Defence, I was thinking maybe we could have some people who are strong in each subject work together on the new material to help lead the revision, just as a starting point. Blaise, Padma, Justin, could you lead the Dark Arts section? Draco and me can handle Defence pretty well, I think. And, you know, anyone else who wants to can help out can.

I think we got a lot of good work done on Saturday's session too. I've been falling behind a bit on revising Potions and Charms, so I definitely needed it. Thanks for the invite, Sally-Anne. And thanks for putting it together, Corner. I think we're all going to do really well on our OWLS if we keep it up. When are we meeting next? Thursday?

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From:

alt_sally_anne

Yes, Thursday.

From:

alt_harry

Okay.

From:

alt_ron

Say. I was going to tell Harry that I'll be there Friday, only I'm not sure if Umbridge thinks I shouldn't talk to him. I mean, I know you're able to write to him, but it seems as if she's got special extra rules for us about not getting above our new status. (I mean, what's this about sitting at the bottom of the table? It's not like all halfbloods have to do that!)

Anywiz, I don't want her to get hacked off at me for answering him. Could you tell him for me?

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alt_sally_anne

I'll tell him, yeah. In person.

You lot stop being fake extra-bad half-bloods on Wednesday night, right? So at least you don't have to work out whether it would be a good thing or a bad thing to come to half-blood revision on Thursday.

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alt_ron

Actually, I was thinking I maybe could anywiz. I mean, if I'm a halfblood now, then I'm a halfblood. If it means anything, then either you are or you aren't and she says I am now, so I should just, y'know, make a statement and go to your revising group.

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alt_sally_anne

I'd say she made it clear that you're a pureblood who is being treated as a half-blood for three days (except not really, no one cares where I sit at the Slytherin table). If you come to half-blood revising you're essentially daring her to re-classify you for real -- or at least come up with something else horrid to do to you. Haven't you got in enough trouble this week?

Are you really supposed to wait on Ritchie Coote? What does he think of this?

From:

alt_ron

I'm not even the one in trouble. I mean, I figure if I'm going to get punished I ought to've bloody well earned it.

And she couldn't do. Director Selwyn wouldn't let her reassign my status. My father's a hero of the Protectorate, now.

So I figure I ought to do something that would count to stand up to her.

Like Harry's doing, yeah?

I mean, we can't just let her do whatever she wants and not say anything about it.

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alt_sally_anne

Look, the problem with letting you come (or Harry, that was probably a mistake but I was cross and I thought it sounded like a good idea) is that she's at least as likely to punish us as to punish you.

Just like she's punishing you for some daft thing your sister said.

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alt_ron

I keep trying to think this through.

I mean, I don't want anything horrible to happen to you because of something I did. Or, y'know, at all. For any reason.

But somebody has to do something. Because if we don't, then it's like we're saying we're alright with what she's doing. We've got to fight back. And doing something like this that calls out how stupid her ideas and rules about purity are. Well, that's a way to show that I won't go along. You know what I mean?

But I won't do it if... I dunno. If it makes you feel... unsafe?

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alt_sally_anne

She already knows that the half-blood revision group was my idea.

If it turns into something people are using to fight her, she'll blame me.

~~Anyway I want people to be able to REVISE~~

I'm not saying not to fight her but there are surely other ways? I mean things like everyone sending a private message on Thursday so that she has to spend HOURS having people read them if she wants to know what people are saying.

From:

alt_ron

Coote thinks Umbridge is a menace and this punishment is daft.

All he's made me do is spot him four pawns and a rook at chess, and then we sat around and thought up what other things I could do for him, so I rolled his parchment for his Charms essay, and cast a shining spell on his shoes once, gave his owl its treat when it brought a letter, and clipped the twigs on his broom, but that was just because we were comparing how we each do that, not really because he was making me do something.

Mostly, we've sat around talking about what we'd like to do to Umbridge or what would be funny if it happened to her. Like if the kittens in those plates in her office came to life and attacked her or if she fell in a giant bog and got sucked under.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Cats are carnivores, you know. If they were hungry enough they'd eat her.

Unfortunately she'd probably give them indigestion.

From:

alt_ron

Y'know, Coote should have a galleon. Then all of us on the Quidditch squad would have them.

Gryffindor for Sophie's Army!

Tow row row row, d'ya know.

From:

alt_justin

Harry,

~~Dark Arts?~~ Yes, of course, old man. At your service, naturally.

Though I say, I can't think I shall be much of an instructor, what.

-Justin

From:

alt_harry

I think the hardest part is sorting out how to say something so that other people can understand it. If you know what you're talking about, the rest is easy. So yeah. You'll be fine.