I think this disease is just as dangerous to purebloods as it is to halfbloods but until someone like Mr Malfoy or Mr Selwyn gets it they're just going to say 'oh, what a shame! he must have been a halfblood after all!' every time someone takes ill. Who wasn't registered as a halfblood already I mean.
Good on your brother for letting her use his owl. I hope her father is alright.
You're dead right. The thing is, everyone thinks Mr Lovegood's cracked, so they'll believe any mad thing the Ministry want to say about him. And nothing he or Luna or anybody else says on his side will make any difference at all.
But, y'know, I think there's something really odd going on. Did you see what my Mum wrote to Luna the other day? She told her it *wasn't* the muggle disease, and she swore to her it wasn't. She wouldn't have done that if she'd thought there was any chance he did have it. And, okay. I know my Mum isn't a Healer, but she knows a lot about stuff like that. I mean, she has to with all of us. Otherwise, she'd have been taking someone to hospital every other day.
Besides. She'd never lie to Luna. She just wouldn't.
I mean I think you're right your mum wouldn't swear it wasn't the disease if it wasn't. But he might have gotten sick after they got there, and anyway why else would she have taken him?
I just went back and looked at that journal entry again.
She didn't actually say he was sick. It said he was 'under the weather.'
Could that mean that he wasn't sick, but somehow hurt instead? Like an accident, I mean? And maybe he got hurt in some way that she didn't want to say in the journals? I wondered, because she said she'd send Luna an owl. Like why couldn't she say it right there, if it was okay for everybody to see?
Lying that he's a half-blood, you mean? Or lying about him having the muggle paralysis?
I don't have any idea whether he's could have been a half-blood without even knowing it. I suppose that's the sort of thing that could take anyone by surprise...I mean, who ever really knows all the secrets there might be in a family? As to whether he's really sick with the paralysis--well, Mrs Weasley said to Luna that it wasn't it, when she sent him to St Mungo's. I dunno, d'ye think she could have been fibbing a little, just to keep Lovegood from getting too scared? I don't really know her well enough to say.
(Did you hear Lavender Brown going on and on about Lovegood at dinner, Ron? About how she always should have suspected Luna was that sort, with the odd way she acts all the time. I thought for a moment there that Ginny was going to hit her.)
Lying that he's a half-blood. I don't know why they'd lie about him having the muggle paralysis. I mean he's a pureblood and EVERYONE knows he's a pureblood and surely we're not the only ones reading Mr Selwyn's announcements and thinking they're lying and this means really purebloods can get it. If he didn't even have it then why would they say he did?
Did Finnigan say anything to Brown? I mean he's a halfblood too even if Patil fancies him.
He wasn't sitting nearby. Luckily. That would have started a brawl at the Gryffindor table for sure, and not even Professor Lockhart could have ignored that.
Lavender's the one who acts like an eejit all the time if you ask me. I mean, okay, yeah. Luna's daft. But I'd take her any day over Lavyloo if I had to choose one of them to share a train compartment with or something.
I am trying to think of anyone I would LESS want to share a train compartment with than Lavender Brown.
Oh I thought of one: Lana Sandoval. But in our year, I think Lav is the bottom of the barrel. I mean Patil is horrid but at least she's clever enough to have interesting things to say.
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I think this disease is just as dangerous to purebloods as it is to halfbloods but until someone like Mr Malfoy or Mr Selwyn gets it they're just going to say 'oh, what a shame! he must have been a halfblood after all!' every time someone takes ill. Who wasn't registered as a halfblood already I mean.
Good on your brother for letting her use his owl. I hope her father is alright.
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But, y'know, I think there's something really odd going on. Did you see what my Mum wrote to Luna the other day? She told her it *wasn't* the muggle disease, and she swore to her it wasn't. She wouldn't have done that if she'd thought there was any chance he did have it. And, okay. I know my Mum isn't a Healer, but she knows a lot about stuff like that. I mean, she has to with all of us. Otherwise, she'd have been taking someone to hospital every other day.
Besides. She'd never lie to Luna. She just wouldn't.
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She didn't actually say he was sick. It said he was 'under the weather.'
Could that mean that he wasn't sick, but somehow hurt instead? Like an accident, I mean? And maybe he got hurt in some way that she didn't want to say in the journals? I wondered, because she said she'd send Luna an owl. Like why couldn't she say it right there, if it was okay for everybody to see?
Not sure what that means, though.
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Maybe he got hurt making something the Ministry wouldn't approve of.
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I don't have any idea whether he's could have been a half-blood without even knowing it. I suppose that's the sort of thing that could take anyone by surprise...I mean, who ever really knows all the secrets there might be in a family? As to whether he's really sick with the paralysis--well, Mrs Weasley said to Luna that it wasn't it, when she sent him to St Mungo's. I dunno, d'ye think she could have been fibbing a little, just to keep Lovegood from getting too scared? I don't really know her well enough to say.
(Did you hear Lavender Brown going on and on about Lovegood at dinner, Ron? About how she always should have suspected Luna was that sort, with the odd way she acts all the time. I thought for a moment there that Ginny was going to hit her.)
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Did Finnigan say anything to Brown? I mean he's a halfblood too even if Patil fancies him.
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Oh I thought of one: Lana Sandoval. But in our year, I think Lav is the bottom of the barrel. I mean Patil is horrid but at least she's clever enough to have interesting things to say.
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Brown is just as foul AND she's dull.