| Overheard in the Great Hall of the Royal Academy, 17 Sept 1942... |
[17.05.09|22:45] |
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| | amused | ] | "Far be it for me to criticise how people react to danger, but I really think that Josette is taking it too far. She's found herself a corner and looks for all the world like she's lost in prayer."
"You're kidding. Does she think that'll do any good in her case?"
"I know. Too little, too late, in my opinion."
"Oh, I believe it. She's been lurking around the chapel, you know."
"Her? Really? Last person I'd pick to find religion."
"Well, guilt can do funny things to a person." |
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| Overheard at St Pantaleon's Hospital in the junior staff break room: |
[27.04.09|12:21] |
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| | predatory | ] |
"I know who it was replaced Princess Susie's KitKat stash. It was Seth Goldstein. He bought her supper tonight too."
"You say that like it's interesting. She's already been with Wilkes and Malaspina, and probably Leffoy too, have you seen how they flirt?"
"Not to mention Lamercier. I wonder if it's true what they say?"
"Clearly not in his case, she didn't even go out with him twice."
"Who knew she was such a slag?"
"Uh...everyone. That's right, you left school before she was old enough to be really disgusting, didn't you?"
"That lightning just drives me insane. I know it's going to get awful later tonight. I can't believe Leffoy's not here and left us with just Király and her."
"Oh, please, there's nothing wrong with Király. You're just bitching because you're allergic to her dog."
"Well, you'd think she could launder her clothes better." |
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| Overheard outside the Hogwarts Great Hall as students gather for supper, 16 September 1942... |
[31.10.08|17:38] |
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| | shocked | ] |
"Well, Valeria Zabini may be blond like a Malfoy but she's exactly like Bella was, only a thousand times worse. She was practically going down on Riddle in the common room during tea and she made a date with him. And I've heard the stories about her and Nat Pritchard at Marco's wedding. Are all the Zabinis huge whores or only the girls? Wait, no, there's Mercutio."
"Wait, she was flirting with Riddle and he noticed?"
"What did I say? She's a really obvious slag!" |
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| Overheard after luncheon in the Great Hall at Hogwarts, 16 September 1942 |
[27.10.08|16:18] |
"Be careful of that new girl, the Malfoy, I can't believe they let her in here. I heard from Jennifer Wyngarde who had it from Colette Saint-Germain that she was the mistress of Grindelwald's son AND his Russian boyfriend." |
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| Overheard during van Rensselaer's open lab hours, Tuesday afternoon 15 September 1942 |
[18.09.08|10:08] |
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| | amused | ] | "Malfoy minor hasn't written back to Weasley... *cough*... Lovegood yet. I saw her looking at the letters as they came in too. But nothing."
"How fickle they are, these young lordlings."
"How fickle indeed." |
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| Overheard before dinner in the Hogwarts hallways, late morning Tuesday 15 September 1942 |
[07.09.08|11:37] |
"Mamma wrote me urgently this morning, there was a raid on Londinium last night. Lightning hit Grimmauld Place, she thinks it might have been aimed at the Black family."
"Why the Blacks?"
"I don't know for sure, but I did overhear Mamma and Pappa over summer and that Miss Black, the one who was married to a Malfoy, she's home from France, and you know, it makes me wonder... about them all." |
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| Whispered at the Hufflepuff table during supper at Hogwarts, 14 September 1942... |
[28.07.08|09:45] |
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| | predatory | ] |
"Don't you think it's even a little suspicious that Estrid Farryll and her sister and that Greenwood slag took off out of here and the very next day the other Greenwood gets hauled off for treason with Baddock and Boot?"
"No. It's not a little suspicious. It's entirely suspicious. And yet the Kytelers defend them."
"Well, you know, Dashwood is friends with Boot, and he isn't here either, is he?"
"Still, he's the son of the Dux Bellorum, Kyteler is! Would he betray his own family?"
"He took the whore's side over his own mother's, what do you think?" |
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| Found stuck to the doors in one of the upperclassmen's loos, Hogwarts Castle, 14 September 1942 |
[06.07.08|12:41] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | amused | ] | Carefully written, and charmed to appear to all but a select few to be a notice from Barty Crouch about the intricacies of bathroom evacuation procedures.
Hypothesis: the energies of the universe are neatly balanced, what is taken shall someday be restored in equal measure.
Example: the slut balance of the universe. No sooner does Greenwood go off with the fairies than Rosier's Mudblood gets ready to throw her back to us.
Further revisions of this theory may have to account for the existence of constants, such as Pritchard. |
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| Overheard in the Hogwarts Great Hall at breakfast, 14 September 1942... |
[23.06.08|00:29] |
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| | shocked | ] |
"Wow. First Kyteler and Dashwood break up and now apparently Greenwood's given Davies the slip. How can Davies actually be surprised, though, given what Greenwood got up to all over the place?" |
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| Overheard in the junior staff dormitory at St Mungo's, after midnight 14 September 1942... |
[08.06.08|18:27] |
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| | bitchy | ] |
"...so, do you suppose Allison's sorry she didn't get to him now that he's dyin'?"
"Who knows? I do hope after I went to all of the trouble to steal those from the Prodigal Daughter's stash that you don't think you're going to eat the whole thing yourself, Turpin!" |
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| Overheard in the Slytherin/Ravenclaw common room, Sunday night 13 September 1942 |
[04.06.08|08:19] |
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| | concerned | ] | "Actually, I think you're being a terrible prat about this. Really, think about it. It must have been Kyteler who ditched poor Dash. Again. Just like he always does."
"What are you talking about? Of course Dashwood was never going to put up with someone as inexperienced as Kyteler for long. I'll even put money on it."
"Are you drunk or just thick? Talk to Jeannot or Rookwood or anyone who ever had to be in a bloody dorm with them about how it was, and how it's always been. Kyteler whistles and Dash comes running with his tongue hanging out. 'Spose he thought he was set for life once Campion died, God rest his soul."
"Well, looks to me like Kyteler's the one who's come back, dragging his tail behind him. Dash is back at the Malfoys, and it doesn't half sound like his kind of place!"
"Wonder how he's getting on with Marvell?"
"Marvell as was."
"Marvell as was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end."
"Amen." |
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| Overheard at Miss Polly's tea, Sunday afternoon, 13 September 1942 |
[06.05.08|16:28] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | shocked | ] | "Well, of course it wouldn't normally do to go to the cricket, but what's a girl to do, now that Josette's let Edmund Diggory loose, eh?
"Anyway, that's not what I wanted to tell you! What I wanted to tell you was that Wood told Device that Brown died of pleasure. With him! And Device started beating him until that little 'claw prefect broke it up.
"Can you believe it? What a fib! Wood's still an arrogant damned... hrm.
"Tell you more later, Gardiner might overhear. Cake?" |
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| Overheard at Malfoy Manor, 12 September 1942, during Marco and Melina Zabini's wedding reception... |
[07.03.08|10:39] |
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| | mean girls :) | ] |
"So that's the girl Alessio was going to marry? I suppose she got over him fast enough. What are they doing, fucking on the dance floor?"
"I believe that Pritchard thinks that's dancing."
"I don't believe for a minute that Pritchard thinks that's dancing. Maybe she does though, if she thinks that's a neckline..."
"Well, good for her. Better Pritchard than both the good doctors at once, which is what she'd have ended up with eventually, everyone knows it, and look what it did for Portia..."
"Zabini will never be a magister, let alone a magister-doctor. He's like a lapdog--pretty, but dumb as a post. He was Artisson's lapdog when they were in school, you remember? Oh, excuse me, Malfoy's. How do you think he and his mother decided who got which brother?"
"Barely, that's all I remember. We were first-years."
"Where is Maria, anyway?"
"I thought I saw her making excuses. Three Sickles to one she's taken Melina's father into one of the bedrooms, he left five minutes after she did. Her poor mother!"
"That's not Melina's father, that's just her mother's escort. His name is Zitek. Wonder if he's related to that boy who's always on Malfoy and Susie's ward?" |
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| Overheard in the halls of Hogwarts Castle |
[26.02.08|16:49] |
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| | dirty | ] |
"Jenny Popescu and Nadya Karkaroff are lesbians. I heard them talking about how they were going to kiss each other all over in the library."
"You say that like it's news. What's interesting is that Celerity Warrington and Alma Greengrass are also lesbians."
"...and Colette Saint-Germain and Dimity Ducas do it too, are there any girls in Slytherin fourth who aren't?"
"I just want to watch, that's all." |
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| Overheard in Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shoppe in Hogsmeade, early Saturday afternoon 12 September 1942: |
[08.02.08|14:41] |
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| | giggly | ] |
"Oh, Dolores, you missed it! It was so hilarious, I just can't believe it. Fran Abbott, that horrible dreary girl who follows Dull-Away about, tried to come in here but Madam Puddy threw her out, because there was a GOAT following her everywhere, and it ate poor Jessica's cake, and Cynthia and Amalthea made her pay for it! It also knocked over two tea-carts and made off with Gilly Greenbroom's favourite scarf!" |
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| Overheard in the Hogwarts library, Saturday 12 September 1942 |
[25.01.08|22:46] |
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| | bemused | ] | "Goodness, it's a mess in here, how am I going to be able to get my Charms homework done by Wednesday if I can't find the books I need? And it would be too sensible for Chattox to accept complete breakdown of order as an excuse for not turning in an essay!"
"At least we don't have History this week on top of it. Hurrah, no more goblin rebellions! No more Binns!"
"Were you listening to half of what Goyle said? The new Professor has already been hired. More of the same: it's Miss Binns. The one who was here most of this week."
"Were you listening to what those Ravenclaws had to say about Mrs Pryce? She's a Binns, sure, but she's not even a witch! They shipped her off to the Muggle world, of course, and she even got married there."
"She can't be a Squib! Van Rensselaer was making eyes at her every meal. He wouldn't touch a Squib if his life depended on it. He's in line for the Snape fortune!"
"Oh, and the Snapes have such high standards these days, don't they? Isn't that Mudblood Irish girl meant to be the new heir?"
"Hah, yes. How things do change..." |
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| Overheard in the junior staff break room at St Mungo's, Friday 11 September 1942... |
[24.12.07|03:30] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | impressed | ] |
"First a Travers, and now a Malfoy...but this one ain't dying."
"Nah, it's van Rensselaer she wants." |
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| Overheard in the halls between lessons at Hogwarts, Friday afternoon 11 September 1942... |
[24.12.07|03:28] |
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| | stuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid | ] |
"Who knew the Malfoys were Jewish?"
"Well, I always heard they weren't Christian."
"I guess they really do run everything."
"Who, the Malfoys?"
"No, the Jews." |
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| Overheard in the NEWT Housewitchery seminar, mid-morning Friday 11 September 1942 |
[20.12.07|11:45] |
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| | terrified | ] | "And so, the Malfoys' people among the Gryffindors have even got them nearly under control, or as good as, if Jeremy Wood is the only hold out. I think it's really scary... basically the only people left who speak the truth are people like Wood. We've as good as lost the war." |
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