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I don't particularly care for what Cavanaugh has done with the greenhouses. They're all fussy now. I know she's the expert on 'ornamental' gardening, but she likes to pretend growing plants isn't dirty or something. And she's always rearranging things. So they look better, I guess. Which means it's hard to find anything. Next time we go in there, I'll bet you a knut there'll be a topiary. Or she'll have put ribbons on something.

~~And when she ripped up all of Longbottom's~~

Good thing she hasn't rearranged our NEWT beds, ey, Zach?

Finch-Fletchley is still pretending like everything's normal. I think he's well gotten the message by now, but he is rather good at being excessively polite. At least we only have to put up with him for a few more months. Then he can bally well share a flat with Weasley, which will no doubt be heaven, as they can both sit up nights sorting out even better ways to kill things.

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From:

alt_zacharias

I dunno, Ern. I mean, I only really continued Herbology because of Sprout, you know? Yeah, Cavanaugh's got them all fancified and everything but so long as we can carry on through N.E.W.T.s I try not to look at how she's rearranged things.

As for F-F, Summers tried to convince me that we're overreacting. Way he sees it, that wizard was an Irish traitor, after all, and would have done for Effers if he hadn't killed him first, and besides, he was told it was to the death. I told him, he doesn't get it at all. We know he had to do it, we're not complete idiots. It's not that he did what had to be done, right. It's that he looked so--he didn't even hesitate. And that bloke might have been an Irish traitor but he was still a wizard--a pureblood, like us. I bet Effers might even have enjoyed getting to kill a pureblood. So yeah, I don't care if he's not planning to slit our throats--I mean, I don't even think he really would do, you know--but I'm not giving him a reason to consider it.

Anyway, seems like we're not the only ones who find him unsettling. Did you get a load of Professor Glozeman today? There's no way he could have thought F-F knew the answer to that question! I checked and it's not even in the chapter we're covering. It's not even in the textbook! Seems like he was dead steamed when Effers came up with it. Did it look like that to you?

From:

alt_ernie

That was what got me, yeah. The indifference. Like he was combing his hair instead of killing someone. Makes me think all that joviality is a bit of a front, yeah?

And I get not making him angry. But I'm not going to pretend like we're all friendly or something when we're not. That's his thing. Not mine.

Glozeman is creepy, no mistaking. Figures he'd pick F-F out of a lineup. And yeah. He does seem more than a little invested. I mean, it's clear F-F lives in Dolohov's pocket, so maybe he's annoyed about that?

From:

alt_megan

F-F is scary. So is Weasley. I never thought I would say that about Weasley but it is true, he is scary.

Do you suppose they are going to make us kill ~~people~~ things in class now? All of us, I mean?

From:

alt_ernie

Yeah. Well. That Harry Marvolo isn't necessarily not scary. If you know what I mean.

Unpredictable, that fellow.

And you saw Professor Desai asking for volunteers. I figure those that want to will get plenty of opportunity.

From:

alt_ernie

And it's just different.

Like it doesn't even smell the same in there.

I dunno. Yeah, I stuck with it because of Sprout too, and it's like this was her place, and it's just weird to see it changed up like that.

It just feels disrespectful is all.

It's not like she has to keep it like a museum or something.

But it's only been a few weeks, really.

From:

alt_zacharias

Yeah. Makes me wonder what she did to her office.

Although...she was a traitor. Supposedly. I dunno, I almost find that harder to believe than the idea that she's gone. I guess it makes a certain amount of sense, though. The way she was with everyone, regardless of who their parents were, or if they were fostered or whatever.

So maybe we're not supposed to feel like Cavanaugh's changes are a violation.

From:

alt_ernie

That's just

I don't know

Being a Hufflepuff, innit?

She was giving help to terrorists. Apparently. The sort of people that blow stuff up. And yeah, they don't care who your parents were either, but that's a bit of a leap.

I wonder if she took the fall for someone.

Or was set up or something.

She might've been taken advantage of, because she trusted people. Or she didn't know what she was getting into.

From:

alt_megan

That's what I was thinking too! Because it is too easy sometimes to end up being taken advantage of when people turn out to be not good people at all. And you wind up trusting them and then later you find out you shouldn't have but it is too late.

Honestly sometimes I think that if they just put all the untrustworthy and horrible people in one House it would be simpler for everyone. Because we could just herd them into their common room and then hex it off completely.

But anyway one cannot tell. I mean, Umbridge was a Hufflepuff and look how awful she turned out to be. I am just glad the Headmaster did not bring in another professor like her for Herbology or anything else. So yes, you might be quite right about Professor Sprout having been led astray and never meaning to actually do anything awful.