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I can't believe you. We've carried you all year on this project, made up for your idiocy, caught your daft mistakes, reminded you of your commitments so you wouldn't let your tasks slip, rewritten your parts when your reports made no bloody sense. Honestly, it would have been so much easier to have done this project without you, and how do you repay all the work we did for you?

You knock over the cages.

I know it shouldn't surprise me you hadn't shut the doors properly, but I just can't imagine being that stupid.

And there you were with Moran's tongue down your throat, making so much noise you didn't even notice you'd tipped the table until they were all over the floor and running out the door. I feel dirty just having seen it.

I swear, if you don't find every last one of those rats, I'll make you sorrier than you can imagine.

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alt_padma

Is that where they went? Ew.

I mean, it's bad enough they were off snogging, but in Professor Carrow's office? Talk about daft.

From:

alt_lana

I know. Really. I could really have lived my whole life without seeing Bobolis with her

never mind. I don't even want to say it.

Such a disgrace.

From:

alt_lana

It was a nift party, by the way. And a good birthday on the whole, I hope.

I know you were feeling a bit, well, mixed about it. Celebrating so soon. But I'm glad you did: you've showed everyone how to carry on with a proper sense of how things ought to be done.

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alt_percy

A very unfortunate incident. I know your study group has been working with those animals all year, and it would certainly be regrettable to lose them.

I had a rat for a number of years, and so I know that if you have lost sight of the escapees, you may be able to lure some back by putting out cockroach clusters. They're particularly fond of them.

Good luck.

From:

alt_lana

If it weren't for the fact that we have them on a strictly controlled diet for the experiment, I'd thank you for that suggestion Weasley.

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alt_sally_anne

Isn't Psyche Bobolis in Gryffindor? Is she as dimwitted as Lana likes to say she is?

From:

alt_sally_anne

Although I have to admit snogging in Professor Carrow's office is pretty daft, even with him in Azkaban.

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alt_ron

I don't really think so. She seems pretty normal to me.

(Don't even say it, Perks. I know what you're thinking.)

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alt_sally_anne

What? I wasn't thinking anything! Other than that I've already fed the rat something that wasn't part of his diet so clearly there's no reason to return him to the experiment.

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alt_zacharias

Say, Sandoval, are you in the NEWT-level DADA, as well? Only Carmichael and Goshal came back from their lesson yesterday and said that Professor Lockhart was asking everyone about their summer plans. And he said that he'd be round the Ministry probably, like as not, on account of how they've asked him to assist in the search for Black.

Did he tell your class the same? You're hoping to go into Auror training, Darst says. So does that mean you'll be working on the Black search, too? That'd be exciting, I think.

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alt_lana

Cheers, Smith.

I am hoping to enter Auror training, but I shouldn't think they rely on raw recruits in the search for Black. I do expect we'll have an opportunity to study the techniques and strategies they've been employing. It's certainly an exciting time to be entering the profession.

As for Professor Lockhart. Yes, he mentioned the same to us. He wasn't terribly specific about what role he's been asked to play--and, of course, it could be anything. No one in our group thought to ask him, though I'm sure he'd tell you if you're interested: he's certainly not shy of talking about his opportunities.

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alt_zacharias

Oh, no, that's okay. Mostly, I guess I just wanted to know if Goshal and Carmichael were trying to be funny.

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alt_sally_anne

Do you know how many of the rats are still missing? I saw Mr Dawlish this morning and it looked like he was trying to lure them (but not with cockroach clusters as he doesn't want to spoil their diet, I'm sure).

I'll be sure to keep my eyes open, of course.

From:

alt_lana

Twenty-four rats escaped. We recovered eighteen of them in the first hour of searching, but that leaves six. They could be anywhere, but the most likely thing is that they were a tasty meal for one or more of the cats.

I hope no one's familiar develops odd symptoms as a result. I could just hex Bobolis for this!

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alt_sally_anne

Are there any symptoms we should be watching for? There are a lot of cats in Slytherin house.

From:

alt_lana

Well, that's difficult to guess. We haven't been studying what the effects might be down the food chain. I don't have any idea whether there could be any cross-species transfer of the changes we've studied in the rats themselves.

But if anyone were to observe any unexpected magical behaviour in an animal that might plausibly have eaten one of the experimental rats--or any evidence of such a creature's losing its magic--it would be wise to report that to a Prefect immediately.