catch a falling star ,

[ALICIA SPINNET]

To The Holder of This Letter ,

Perhaps I should start by apologizing. Considering the late hour of the night, I hope my owl doesn't scare you and wake you from your sleep. But I was so restless that I had to write to someone, even if there was a good chance that they would not write back. Things have been so off lately that I can barely catch a few hours sleep anymore because I'm constantly worrying about what is really happening out there. We're safe here at Hogwarts, that much I do know. I mean, we've got Dumbledore, right? What else could be safer? But now that people are insisting that nothing is wrong, they're making cover stories for the things that really shouldn't be happening.

Though I guess, I really don't need to tell you these things. I'm sure you're already aware of what is going on out there. It's not like it's very well hidden. But at any rate, I again apologize if I've woken you with my worried rambling. I'll just go back to watching the stars now.

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Alicia Spinnet

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[FRED WEASLEY]

My Dear Alicia,

First off, I am not afraid of the owl you have sent. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised to see it approaching me with a piece of parchment. George has fallen asleep and I have been alone for a whole fifteen minutes. Second, I'm always awake at this hour. It's the best time to venture about in this maze of a school.

I reckon there's a lot to worry about lately, but it's not the right way to go about it. You're making things worse for yourself..really. I mean.. you sitting around and moping in fear is going to fix the problem, right? If you agreed with that statement, I'll have to send an explosive with my next letter.

What's coming is coming.. the best anyone can do for now is let it come, so long as we can be ready for it when it gets here. You must prepare yourself, but that doesn't require breaking down into a spiraling depression, mind you.

Awaiting for your reply,
Twin Number Two

[ALICIA SPINNET]

Dear Fred ,

It would figure that you would be the one to also be up at such a late hour. It seems rather silly that I'm writing you back via owl instead of just going down into the common room to see you, though apparently Hermione has already proven that the girls were trusted to not enter the boy's dormitories, which is why we can get in there without any issues. But I guess considering what time it is, it probably wouldn't look all that good if anyone woke up to find me there talking to you, huh?

I know, I know. I worry too much, I always have and probably always will. But you know how opposed I am to the fact that Umbridge is here. Dumbledore doesn't seem at all worried about the fact that the Ministry is meddling with Hogwarts, and I have to wonder how much of that is a brave face meant not to alarm the staff and students. We're not stupid, he knows that, but some of the younger kids would freak out even more then they already have if they knew half of the stuff that went on here. I heard that Umbridge actually took a handful of first years into detention for defending Harry the other day, and they came out pale and shaking terribly.

I'm not in any kind of depression, Fred, don't ever get that into your head. I'm just worried about what's happening around us, both of what we know and what we don't. There has to be something we can do...we're not prepared in the slightest if something happens. The one class that would be the most helpful at a time like this is being taught by a woman in a pink cardigan who likes kittens and makes us copy notes from a book. We're dead ducks at this rate.

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Alicia Spinnet

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[FRED WEASLEY]

Miss Spinnet,

Of course, I'm still awake. George is usually awake as well, so I'm not the only one..well I suppose anyone's being awake at this hour is a tad out of the norm--- oh forget it. Let me restart..Obliviate! You..read..nothing. Moving on.. Yes, I do see the difficulty that you'd be pushed through should you decide to come talk to me face to face. It wouldn't be very smart, considering this is when all of the snogging happens. I'd know.. I keep tabs on Gin-- I must be far more tired than I realize for telling you this. My apologies in advance for strange..well..stranger behavior.

I don't exactly think that Dumbledore wants to be held accountable for a panic. I do believe that he's hiding quite a bit from us.. but the man can't just go about telling us all. He probably isn't very sure of the situation..and doesn't want to mislead us. Not that it gives him an excuse to leave us all here as bait to die.. Quite frankly I don't plan on getting caught off-guard. George and I work on DADA. We just don't do it often because it's too hard to do it secretly. What we need is figure out how to prepare ourselves.

It's a mystery, really. We don't know much and we can't worry too much yet..as we aren't in the loop. You need to calm down.. and work at sticking up for Harry..and other brilliantly wise students. We can't give in to the fowl git.. it'll only give her more power. She needs to leave and she won't do it willingly. We need to speak up and take whatever punishment she deals out. It's horrid..but it must be done.

Trying to stay Optimistic,
Fred

[ALICIA SPINNET]

Dear Fred ,

If that woman thinks she's going to get anything out of me that she actually wants to hear, I'm afraid our dear professor Umbridge has another thing coming. I refuse to let her bully me around the way she has with some of the younger kids. For heaven sake, if I can't stand my ground now then I might as well curl up under a rock and die there. I'd much rather go out that way then by letting her ruin me, and it feels like a rather cowardly thing to say, regardless.

I know it wouldn't do to cause panic, I'm not that dense. But the idea that there has to be something that we can do has been eating away at me since we came back. This was definitely not how I thought our last year would go, Fred. I was hoping for something much easier then a hostile takeover from the ministry, but I suppose we work with what we have. I haven't got the slightest clue what to do though. Got any ideas aside from pranking the bloody hell out of her? Even that might lose the laugh eventually...

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Alicia Spinnet

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