I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_hydra]

How is everyone feeling? We're supposed to be happy, I suppose.

I'm happy about some things, but not about others. I'm happy that the bomb in the school didn't explode. And that members of my family weren't killed. Yet I'm a rather sick at the thought of how many people who weren't involved were killed. And then there's those strange things they've said about what was done to the airport. It can't have been good.

When I was little and first heard the word "airport," I thought it was a place for ships that carried air in their cargo.

I keep thinking about odd memories like that and getting distracted. In Potions yesterday, I nearly exploded our dizziness draught by stirring in billywig eyes instead of black beetle eyes. If Remy hadn't shouted at me just as I was about to add them, we would have probably both slept in hospital wing last night. And this morning, I tried to re-read my Arithmancy notes and could barely follow them, which I suppose means I wasn't concentrating during lessons. At least I'm not the only one. I've seen a lot of people who look as if they're having trouble concentrating.

And did anyone see that Mummy said some rather unkind things to Madam Umbridge on the journals? It made me a little pleased, just for a second, but then I remembered that she doesn't really deserve that - even if she does hate kittens. And you know, if Mr Yaxley is injured that probably means that Mummy is in charge of MLE, which I'm sure she doesn't like one bit. She doesn't like having to manage people and mind little details, so it's probably driving her mental. That pleases me a little, too.

That's all. I just felt like talking to all of you.

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[alt_terry]

What's being said about what happened at the airport?

Because what I'm hearing is rather different than what you might be hearing. If you knew what I

As I understand it, it's not 'what was done to the airport' that's the important thing.

[alt_sally_anne]

I've been mostly trying to ignore the wireless but it's hard, because someone's got it on in the common room all the time. Because so many Slytherins have parents or other relatives who went over, you know?

Anyway I heard the destruction of the airport was done to execute a whole lot of people who'd been in on the conspiracy.

What are you hearing?

[alt_terry]

That they weren't in on the conspiracy.

And that there were a lot more people killed than they're admitting.

Don't you think it's quite strange that the week that Ireland is blowing up, the Ministry gets a sudden yen to do an urban renewal project, getting rid of an old airport that's been there for ten years? Don't you think there's more to the story?

[alt_neville]

Blimey. What are you saying, Terry?

[alt_luna]

And how do you know it?

[alt_terry]

I can't reveal how I know it, but I do. But if you just think about it, their whole stinking story falls apart.

Okay, so they say they executed collaborators. And they had to sink the airport in the Irish Sea to do it. Pretty fast 'justice,' wasn't it? So how did they find and identify all those collaborators, AND uncover the evidence AND bring them to trial AND prove them guilty. They didn't, did they? They wouldn't have had TIME!

If they had actual evidence, they would have made a big public trial of them and trumpeted it everywhere.

No. They buried them in the Irish Sea so no one could see how many victims there were.

[alt_neville]

I doubt they give trials to muggles or muggleborns.

[alt_terry]

No, they don't. People like you think it's perfectly fine to kill people like me for no reason. Other than who my parents were.

[alt_neville]

Terry! That's...that's not fair. People like me?

[alt_terry]

Who are dead by the way. I just found out recently. They died of typhoid. Along with my sister.

[alt_sally_anne]

Terry, no one on the Lock thinks it's okay to kill people like you. Or your parents. Or my mother. Or Hermione.

[alt_terry]

I--

that--

I just--

[alt_ron]

You're wrong about the kinds of people. There are people who are evil, who kill other people because they want to rule over everything. And there are the rest of us. The ones who could get killed any time we step wrong or say the wrong thing.

[alt_sally_anne]

A big public trial?!?

Even the Woods didn't get a big public trial, they just got shipped off to Azkaban. And they were wizards. I'm not sure the wizengamot is even set up to put muggles on trial. Or were these wizards they were killing because I would have thought someone would've been talking about whether they were related to Finnigan, if they were.

[alt_sally_anne]

There's ALWAYS more to the story than they tell us.

I mean they're still insisting that Sirius Black is dead. And apparently he was SEEN -- or at least the 'impostor' was, and everyone knows that was Sirius. (Or so I heard today. I can't remember if that was on the wireless, or just a rumour. He wasn't in Ireland, I guess, he was somewhere else.)

And of course they killed loads of people and some of them weren't in on it. I mean at the Froste Faire they fed muggles to wild animals for a laugh. I don't imagine Auror Lestrange would be picky about whether muggles she's killing are actually guilty of anything at all.

[alt_terry]

So what's your point?

My point is there damn well is more to the story than they tell us. The people I'm with know more of it. And I'm not allowed to explain everything I know, even if it's killing me to keep my mouth shut, and if I said everything I know about Luc some people there would probably be some people on this lock who would call me a liar. Because they don't want to believe that people they care about can do something so bleeding inhuman.

And I'm angry. There's no excuse for what the Irish did, I'm not defending them.

But for Merlin's sake, get your heads out of the sand.

[alt_sally_anne]

We get it, Terry.

YOU KNOW MORE THAN WE DO.

I'm really not sure what you expect us to do with this information we don't have.

[alt_ron]

Hello! Have you even read what we've all been saying here?

Any of it?

Do you think it's more whatever when you say it than when the rest of us do? Because. Everything you just said is what we've been talking about. How the news is lies, yeah? And how what they're doing over in Ireland is horrible.