Order Only: Private message to Draco

[alt_selwyn]

I found ALL THE BROOMS and Mrs Longbottom said they were from you? Though she wasn't sure, she said she couldn't think who else would have done it.

I think she was happier about the wands actually. But!!! They try really hard to get us wands and Melli even makes them but NO ONE cared about brooms, NO ONE. Our best broom (the one you wrecked) was utter pants compared to my old broom and the ones you got were TEN TIMES BETTER, how did you get them, did you steal them? Sarah thinks you must have stolen them using Harry's cloak, is she right?

Anyway NOW maybe you can come fly with me? Mrs Longbottom says we're going to have to have lessons but I DON'T NEED LESSONS I've been flying on a proper broom since I was old enough to hold one.

Also the younger kids think the hamper is brilliant but I'm much happier about the BROOMS. Thank you!!!! I was SO CROSS WITH YOU but I'm definitely not anymore!

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[alt_draco]

Yes, the brooms are from me, and yes, I stole them using Harry's cloak. Only mind you keep that between us, otherwise people will expect me to always bring around new wands and brooms, and I'm fairly certain that this was probably a one-time escapade. Or not likely to be repeated for some time, anyway.

Stealing is bad, of course, unless you have a very very good reason for it.

So you don't think you need lessons, eh?

[alt_selwyn]

I DON'T need lessons. Not even one. I am VERY good at flying. I even used to play Quidditch with Erlend and Sigurd and Eleanor and their cousins and I hardly EVER dropped the quaffle.

Anyway I think stealing is fine since we're all outlaws anyway.

[alt_selwyn]

Well stealing from other people here wouldn't be fine.

But stealing from Harrod's is okay. (Those hampers came from Harrod's, right?) I mean they support the Lord Protector and the Lord Protector killed both my parents AND he'd kill Maureen if he knew about her wand. Or have her killed, anyway.

[alt_draco]

That's right. I only stole from people who support the Lord Protector and use muggleborns like Maureen as slaves.

You sound very sure of yourself when it comes to flying. Being sure of yourself is good, but then sometimes, something will happen to make you realise you didn't know as much as you thought.

You'll have to show me how you fly, I think, for us to be certain that you don't need lessons. I'm sure that you don't, but we'd best double-check. It might turn out that I need lessons from you - imagine that.

[alt_selwyn]

YOU wouldn't need lessons! Sarah says you're a Quidditcher.

But I can show you how I fly. I can show you any time.

[alt_selwyn]

Maureen needs lessons, though.

She says she's watched people play quidditch, Jeremy and Sally-Anne and Ron and the Twins and Pansy all used to play together sometimes and she'd come along to mind Gemma(who is the same age I am but I guess her parents didn't let her fly when she was little) and anyway, she said it looked like terrific fun. But she's a bit nervous actually getting on a broom. And I don't think she trusts me to teach her.

Most of the people here who do know how to ride a broom properly are really, really, really, really busy.

[alt_draco]

Either Sarah has a lot to say about me, or you have a lot of questions for her.

I'll teach anyone who wants to learn to fly. I might be busy, too, after a while, but I'm not right now.

[alt_selwyn]

Oh! Maybe Sarah fancies you? Anyway if you came to teach flying you could find out. (She doesn't need flying lessons, though, she had them at Hogwarts.)

[alt_draco]

Or she just knows a lot about me because I'm the sort of person people know a lot about. Somewhat like how people knew and heard things about you and Hector, and your parents.

[alt_selwyn]

Well, THAT'S true. Weren't you the Most Eligible Batcheler in one of the gossip magazines last year?

One of them once called me a 'Future Heartbreaker' and said the boys would be lining up and there was a picture of me smiling and then dodging behind a door. Mummy thought it was cute and kept the magazine, that's how I saw it.

[alt_draco]

Yeah. That was recent, actually. I wonder who the next Most Eligible Bachelor will be? Probably Harry, when he turns of age in a few weeks.

Future Heartbreaker? Aren't you seven years old, or something?

[alt_selwyn]

I'm TEN, actually.

But when that magazine article called me a Future Heartbreaker I was FOUR.

[alt_selwyn]

Mummy thought it was cute but Daddy was cross. (Mummy kept it anyway.)