Setbacks.

[importance_of]

The secret and very important plan isn't working out too well, Hannah! I haven't found out anything! Everyone keeps glaring at me whenever they see me anymore. It's a bit upsetting, really. They shouldn't be glaring at their Prefect. It isn't very respectful and I have half a mind to just glare right back at them. Instil a bit of fear of

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[bullystrode]

So you are still alive. How unfortunate for the rest of us.

[importance_of]

Of course I'm still alive! Why'd you think I wasn't? I hope you haven't been plotting anything against a PREFECT of another house. I suppose you really haven't had the time, unless you've been plotting in the Slytherin common room. I'll be watching you anyway, so don't think about starting anything!

Well, I won't actually be watching you. Wouldn't dream of doing such a thing, really. Just be concerned! Very, very concerned!

[bullystrode]

Too late.

[importance_of]

What? You've already PLOTTED against me? Ah ha! I've got you now, Bulstrode, and you've only got YOURSELF to blame!

[bullystrode]

Good luck, little badger.

Miss Bulstrode,

[pomonasprout]

Surely you have something useful to do... Far away from Mr MacMillan.

If you don't, I'm certain that I can come up with something. Understood?

Mr MacMillan, time-turners are not given to students like you because you'd work yourselves to death.

That's all.

Re: Miss Bulstrode,

[importance_of]

So I don't get a time turner? I would use it only to get more sleep and to catch a meal that I might have missed. Nothing else!

But you do give them to students, right? What kind of students get them?

No. Just no.

[pomonasprout]

I do not give time-turners to students, ever.

If you're missing meals, I'd suggest that you work less. Yes, you did just hear those words from a professor. Work less. Your grades are better than fine. I don't want to see howlers from your family some morning because you've decided to overwork.

I'm only thinking of your best interests, you know.

That's all.

Re: No. Just no.

[importance_of]

I am catching all of my meals because Hannah won't take no for an answer. I thought that a time turner might help in case I did miss a meal. I will respect your decision and try to fit everything into the small amount of time that I have to work with.

Would you happen to have a moment of free time? I'm having a few problems with my Herbology project, and I could use some direction.

Absolutely.

[pomonasprout]

What's the question? Students seem generally to need a bit of help focusing their projects... Are you stuck on something vague?

Re: Absolutely.

[importance_of]

Er. Well, you see, I don't have a clue what I'm doing and I don't exactly have a project picked out. I don't know where to begin, and every time I find something interesting in a book I usually find some reason not to do it. I thought I had it all figured out but I didn't write any of it down and now I'm not quite sure what it is that I had figured out.

I'd prefer to continue this somewhere a bit less public, please, Professor Sprout.

Re: Absolutely.

[pomonasprout]

That can be arranged. Come by the Greenhouse whenever you can.