𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 | 𝐝.𝐦.

thirty nine

dear betty,

  it's remus. apologies, only got your letter two weeks after you'd sent it as things have been rather chaotic here in the wizarding world. i hope all's doing well in hogwarts now, with it being october already. hoping you've finally reconciled with your friends, since you've never mentioned it once in your letter. i'll just assume you have.
  anyway, if you'd like to know, your mother's doing fine and so is your brother, although tonks and i have gotten him quite fattened up. he's a greedy young boy as you know. i'd like you to know that there's no point for you to be paranoid over your mother as she is steadily recovering under our care. we've also developed a system to keep her safe when we're out of the house, so there's absolutely no need for you to worry about the ministry or Joseph Bennett reaching her.
  if you have any other concerns or needs, winter attire and all (i know you didn't prepare anything other than those usual clothes you have and tonks have a couple ready), you are always welcome to write a letter again, though i cannot promise you we will receive it or write back promptly.
  do pay attention in class, betty. and send your sister, too, my best regards. (have never gotten a letter from that one)

remus

The room of requirements is vaguely scattered with people since it is a weekend, and most students are out venturing Hogsmeade.

Only the first and second years who have been recruited a few weeks back, remain in the room, finding comfort in the warm, peaceful makeshift room that was designed by Luna.

She had fashioned them a ceiling similar to the Great Halls. But one that resembles the explicit image of the outside sky, displaying well the swirling of the clouds that fill the sky, the sun barely hidden behind the fog, and brightening up the entire room.

Betty reads the letter in the corner, as she and her friends have been banned from participating in the Hogsmeade trip this week by the Headmaster himself.

They had stayed up past curfew, it was the first time Betty had been caught for that, and as a result, Snape had very strictly prohibited them from going to Hogsmeade this weekend.

So the group, along with a couple of other students, trustworthy and tailored to not talk about the organisation, remain in the secret room to avoid the Carrows whom they know are out, sadistically seeking trouble with the other students.

Ginny and Betty's friendship has been on a fair stance since her joining the DA. She was no longer as critical as she was at the start of the year and she had began to unwind the bubble of protection she had placed against her, to Betty's utmost relief.

The fiery redhead girl pulls out a scroll from her bag discreetly, keeping it out of view from the other members around.

There is one first-year, accompanied by an older third-year, both Betty had recently known, Maisie Jean and Hayley Geller respectively, who are practicing spells a distance away, causing quite a ruckus with their cheering and laughter.

But that does not rattle the other students, made them more glad if anything, to be hearing even a little hint of excitement invading the school.

"We've got quite a number of people," Betty notes, her forehead wrinkles in surprise as Ginny rolls out the scroll.

She stashes away her letter from Remus.

It is a scratchy parchment with the list of students apart of the DA inscribed into it. Ginny possesses it, as the rest believes she is most reliable with that important, sacred item.