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[ernster]

Well, I was right about one thing. I didn’t need a second in my duel with Zacharias. Not because I won- as I didn’t. But because I’ve been wrong all along. Funny, these things. In retrospect, I should have seen it before this happened. It took a good hexing for me realise it… but when your actions end you up on the wrong side of a wand… it’s a real

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[feralmoon]

...you're possessed. You have to be. I should alert the Spirit Division.

[ernster]

I've never experienced an exorcism before.

[feralmoon]

Well, you obviously need one. Either that or you're on drugs. Been melting anything in spoons lately, Macmillan?

[ernster]

Peanut butter, actually.

[allthesevoices]

what on earth happ

No. Er. Thank you, Ernie. I disagree, but... that was a nice apology.

[ernster]

Than we agree to disagree.

[allthesevoices]

This can't be right.

Ernie, are you feeling okay?

[ernster]

My ego is bruised. It feels brilliant.

[the_cracked_jar]

See Ernie, it wasn't so hard to be nice now was it! I like you alot better this way!

[ernster]

I hope you aren't expecting this to be a regular occurrence, Emma. I only apologise when I'm wrong and that's rare.

[durmstranger]

Ernie, there’s no need to apologise. I always knew that you were a nice boy. It was just that this year, you were a nice boy hidden behind a boy who was a little misguided, that is all. It is nothing really to be ashamed of, all people are misguided at one point in their lives.

And Happy Birthday! Are you sitting your apparition test with Hannah? She’s been writing to me about it - she’s really very excited. She says that she won’t fail if you are there, so I thought you should know.

Oh, and if you and Hannah are not dating by November, I will be very disappointed. Then I will arrange veritaserum, drug you both and make you confess your true feelings. Then I will do the same for Su-Li and Kevin. While Su-Li is a nice girl and really does deserve better, she does seem to like him.

[ernster]

Right. Well... let's just not discuss it further, okay? I prefer to avoid rubbing salt in an open wound.

Of course I am! But I still don't think she needs me in order to pass. She just needs to remember to focus, but I'm going to take care of that. I'm getting her some more potions tomorrow, to help that problem. We're sitting it on the 19th. I'm sure I'll pass.

You better invite me along if you do that to Entwhistle and Su. That's something I'd pay to see.

[durmstranger]

Oh, okay. I just thought I should say it now, rather than leave it and say it later. Best to get these things out now.

Oh, it's just underconfidence! She is easily good enough to pass, she just gets too nervous. But good luck to both of you, all the same.

If I cannot bring you along, I shall arrange for a pensieve, so that I can immortalise the moment for all to see.

[smith_badger]

Alright, that has to be the weirdest response to me mouthing off I have ever seen in my life. Yay for Zacharias and his inability to keep his mouth shut?

Yes, we had noticed, pretty much from the first day of this year, that something wasn’t quite right. That you weren’t the Ernie from the previous years, that you either didn’t care, or didn’t know what was going on, or had let your power go to your head, or something! Except Justin claims that it was just the fact that you had to have that growth spurt sometime and that I was apparently moody (however he could tell, I will never know) as well, and thus had no room to talk. But yes, we had noticed, and I did try to get you to snap out of it before this, but you get that. Epiphanies are strange things.

As to what we were doing that we excluded you from? Trust me, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. You had to be of age, which at that point, you weren’t, and all other things aside, I had enough problems with five people, let alone six. Of course, now I’m a good boy and

[feralmoon]

You know, naming off all the reasons of why I'm the only one who's available to date isn't exactly flattering. Just in case you're unaware.

[smith_badger]

No, but pointing out that out of the entire school I thought of you should be.

[feralmoon]

Well...true. When you word it that way, it sounds much better.