Private Message to Padma Patil

[alt_lana]

Say, Patil,

I've just been talking with Montague and Baddock and Neds about next weekend, and it only just occurred to us to wonder if you and Finnigan have been invited along to Snowdonia for hunting with Mulciber? He seems to have invited most of the younger set--Sarah will be there, too, and I understand Weasley's coming.

So I'd have thought you'd have been invited, too, unless Mulciber's decided to keep it to those of us who've left school.

I expect it will be rather more exciting than visiting camps and schools and whatever else you've been doing. This will give you a bit more of a taste of what being on the Council is about.

If you're along for it, I mean. So are you coming, then?

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[alt_padma]

Oh, yes, I'm going. It took a little arguing with my parents because it's a country weekend and everyone else is out of school, plus it's so close to Pavs' wedding, but when I said that it was for Council business they had to let me go.

I have a feeling that's going to turn into a rather convenient reason for loads of things, actually. I hadn't quite thought about it in those terms until all this started but--well, it means I shan't have to do all sorts of things Mum wants, if I don't want to do them.

Anyway, Weasley's coming? That's rather interesting. Oh, but he's interning with you lot at MLE this summer, isn't he. Just how hopeless is he, really?

[alt_lana]

Yes, I suppose it has rather changed things with my family, too. Marrying did as well, though.

And, no, it's Percy Weasley who's coming, of course.

The other one, I'm not sure. I haven't really had much to do with him yet. Desai seems pleased with him, though. He's not doing any worse than the other interns, anyway--at least he's not the one all the ridiculous stories are about. Do you remember MacAvoy and Fletcher (they were both Orion's year). Well. They've both got other jobs (not very good ones, obviously), but they're doubling up to intern with us this summer, hoping we'll take them on for training a year from now. Bit pathetic, isn't it?

Anyway, there's a new story nearly every day about how one of them's misstepped with Lestrange or got nervous in front of Crouch and dropped her wand at his feet. Or yesterday, it was Aelis Fletcher, falling into a great lot of muck because she lost her footing and then instead of scurgifying her robes clean, she did something wrong and burnt great holes in her field robes.