Meeting with Padfoot

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After madam Pomfrey repaired my nose and cleaned up my lip I went to the common room to find Harry and Ron already there.
" Hey Hermione " I said sitting beside her
" Hey ..... wait what happened to your lip ? Hermione asked looking around for any other wounds
". We were playing"
" Oh okay"
"How was practice?" asked Hermione rather coolly half an hour
later, as Harry and Ron climbed through the portrait hole into the Gryffindor common room.
"It was -" Harry began.
"Completely lousy," said Ron in a hollow voice, sinking into a chair
beside Hermione. She looked up at Ron and her frostiness seemed to melt.
"Well, it was only your first one," she said consolingly, "it's bound to take time to -"
"Who said it was me who made it lousy?" snapped Ron.
"No one," said Hermione, looking taken aback, "I thought -"
"You thought I was bound to be rubbish?"
"No, of course I didn't! Look, you said it was lousy and Ellie has a bloody lip I thought-"
" I didn't tell u it was Ron
"I'm going to get started on some homework," said Ron angrily
and stomped off to the staircase to the boys' dormitories and vanished from sight. Hermione turned to Harry
"Was he lousy?"
"No," said Harry loyally.
Hermione raised her eyebrows.
"Well, I suppose he could've played better," I muttered, "but
it was only the first training session, like you said. . . ."
Neither Harry nor Ron seemed to make much headway with their homework that night. I knew Ron was too preoccupied with how badly he had performed at Quidditch practice and I myself was having difficulty in getting the chant of "Gryffindor are losers" out of my head.
Me and Hermione had completed all our homework ages ago but Harry and Ron had not and we can't let them copy atleast Hermione won't allow me.
They spent the whole of Sunday in the common room, buried in their books while the room around them filled up, then emptied: It
was another clear, fine day and most of our fellow Gryffindors spent the day out in the grounds, enjoying what might well be some of the
last sunshine that year.
Hermione was was sitting with Crookshanks on her lap and chatting merrily to Ginny as a pair of knitting needles flashed
in midair in front of her, now knitting a pair of shapeless elf socks.
I was sitting in my favourite cosy sofa in a corner feeling sleepy.

At half-past eleven, i was sipping a mug of hot chocolate with large marshmallows. Hermione wandered over to them, yawning.
"Nearly done?"
"No," said Ron shortly.
"Jupiter's biggest moon is Ganymede, not Callisto," she said,
pointing over Ron's shoulder at a line in his Astronomy essay, "and it's Io that's got the volcanos."
"Thanks," snarled Ron, scratching out the offending sentences.
"Sorry, I only -"
"Yeah, well, if you've just come over here to criticize -"
"Ron -"
"I haven't got time to listen to a sermon, all right, Hermione, I'm up to my neck in it here -"
"No - look!"
Hermione was pointing to the nearest window. Harry,Me and Ron
All looked over. A handsome screech owl was standing on the windowsill, gazing into the room at Ron. "Isn't that Hermes?" said Hermione, sounding amazed. "Blimey, it is!" said Ron quietly, throwing down his quill and getting to his feet. "What's Percy writing to me for?"
"Percy?Why the hell is Percy writing to You ?I thought he hated us now" I said confused .
No one seemed to hear me because they were so engrossed in what Percy had written.
He crossed to the window and opened it; Hermes flew inside, landed upon Ron's essay, and held out a leg to which a letter was attached. Ron took it off and the owl departed at once, leaving inky footprints across Ron's drawing of the moon Io.
"That's definitely Percy's handwriting," said Ron, sinking back into
his chair and staring at the words on the outside of the scroll: To Ronald Weasley, Gryffindor House, Hogwarts. He looked up at the other two . "What d'you reckon?"
"Open it!" said Hermione eagerly. Harry and I nodded.
Ron unrolled the scroll and began to read. The farther down the parchment his eyes traveled, the more pronounced became his scowl. When he had finished reading, he looked disgusted. He thrust the letter at Harry and Hermione, who leaned toward each other to read ittogether , I also peeked upon their shoulders.
Dear Ron,
I have only just heard (from no less a person than the Minister of Magic himself, who has it from your new teacher, Professor Umbridge) that you have become a Hogwarts prefect.I was most pleasantly surprised when I heard this news and must firstly offer my congratulations. I must admit that I have al-ways been afraid that you would take what we might call the "Fred and George" route, rather than following in my footsteps, so
you can imagine my feelings on hearing you have stopped flouting authority and have decided to shoulder some real responsibility.But I want to give you more than congratulations, Ron, I want to give you some advice, which is why I am sending this at night rather than by the usual morning post. Hopefully you will be able to read this away from prying eyes and avoid awkward questions.From something the Minister let slip when telling me you are
now a prefect, I gather that you are still seeing a lot of Harry Potter and Ellie Lupin. I must tell you, Ron, that nothing could put you in danger of
losing your badge more than continued fraternization with those two idiots. Yes, I am sure you are surprised to hear this - no doubt you will say that Potter and Lupin has always been Dumbledore's favorite - but I feel bound to tell you that Dumbledore may not be in charge at Hogwarts much longer and the people who count have a very different - and probably more accurate - view of Potter and Lupin's behavior. I shall say no more here, but if you look at the Daily Prophet
tomorrow you will get a good idea of the way the wind is blowing - and see if you can spot yours truly!Seriously, Ron, you do not want to be tarred with the same brush as Potter and Lupin, it could be very damaging to your future prospects, and I am talking here about life after school too. As you
must be aware, given that our father escorted him to court, Potter had a disciplinary hearing this summer in front of the whole
Wizengamot and he did not come out of it looking too good. He got off on a mere technicality if you ask me and many of the people I've spoken to remain convinced of his guilt , And u know who Ellie Lupin's father is ,he is a half breed dangerous werewolf and u should probably stay away from her she is of no good.
It may be that you are afraid to sever ties with Potter and Lupin - I
know that he can be unbalanced and, for all I know, violent but if you have any worries about this, or have spotted anything
else in Potter's or Lupin's behavior that is troubling you, I urge you to speak to Dolores Umbridge, a really delightful woman, who I know
will be only too happy to advise you.This leads me to my other bit of advice. As I have hinted above, Dumbledore's regime at Hogwarts may soon be over. Your
loyalty, Ron, should be not to him, but to the school and the Ministry. I am very sorry to hear that so far Professor Umbridge is en-
countering very little cooperation from staff as she strives to make those necessary changes within Hogwarts that the Ministry so ar-
dently desires (although she should find this easier from next week - again, see the Prophet tomorrow!). I shall say only this
- a student who shows himself willing to help Professor Umbridge now may be very well placed for Head Boyship in a couple of years!I am sorry that I was unable to see more of you over the sum-
mer. It pains me to criticize our parents, but I am afraid I can no
longer live under their roof while they remain mixed up with the dangerous crowd around Dumbledore (if you are writing to Mother at any point, you might tell her that a certain Sturgis Podmore, who is a great friend of Dumbledore's, has recently been sent to Azkaban for trespass at the Ministry. Perhaps that will
open their eyes to the kind of petty criminals with whom they are currently rubbing shoulders). I count myself very lucky to have escaped the stigma of association with such people - the Minister really could not be more gracious to me - and I do hope, Ron,
that you will not allow family ties to blind you to the misguided nature of our parents' beliefs and actions either. I sincerely hope
that, in time, they will realize how mistaken they were and I shall, of course, be ready to accept a full apology when that day comes.
Please think over what I have said most carefully, particularly
the bit about Harry Potter and Ellie Lupin, and congratulations again on becoming prefect.
Your brother
Percy
I looked up at Ron.
"Well," I said, trying to sound as though I found the whole
thing a joke but I couldn't i always loved Percy like my own brother and hearing these things from him was painful, "if you want to - er - what is it?" (I checked Percy's letter.) "Oh yeah - 'sever ties' with us , I swear I won't get violent." My voice cracked at the last part "Give it back," said Ron, holding out his hand. "He is -" Ron said jerkily, tearing Percy's letter in half, "the world's" - he tore it into quarters - "biggest" - he tore it into eighths - "git." He threw the pieces into the fire.
" Don't cry " Harry sad softly before hugging me.I sniffled in his chest trying to forget what Percy wrote in the letter.
"Come on, we've got to get this finished some time before dawn,"
he said briskly to Harry, pulling Professor Sinistra's essay back toward
him.
Hermione was looking at Ron with an odd expression on her face.
"Oh, give them here," I said abruptly.
"What?" said Ron. "Give them to me, I'll look through them and correct them," I
said.
" Hmm, I will help u checking" Hermione said sitting in ron' s chair
"Are you serious? Ah, Ellie , Hermione, you two are a lifesaver," said Ron,
"what can I - ?"
"What you can say is, 'We promise we'll never leave our homework
this late again,' " I said, holding out both hands for their essays, but Hermione looked slightly amused all the same.
"Thanks a million, Ellie," said Harry weakly, passing over his essay and sinking back into his armchair, rubbing his eyes.

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