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[alt_sirius]

Right, I'm just putting this here because I dunno where else to put it. And I'm too knackered to look anywhere else

Rejected Rationales (by Mssrs Moony and Padfoot):

• The truth (we wanted to give Alecto more of what Frank and I gave her brother to get the castle's secret out of her)
• We were running low on Wolfsbane and thought we'd get more direct from Snivellus
• We just started to head north ....
• We ran out of Firewhiskey and decided to raid Minerva's cupboard
• Hagrid reported something dangerous in Hogwarts
• Hagrid heard that a copy of Harry's prophecy was hidden in the Divination classroom
• We came to beg Pomona's forgiveness (despite doing nothing wrong)
• We got tired and thought to kip in Gryffindor Tower
• We brought Bea (and ourselves) for Poppy's checkup
• We thought we'd get her pre-Sorted
• We wanted to have a good look at the book (since Minerva's been so behind on it) - I still do like that one
• 'No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!'
• We wanted to snoop through the Astronomy professor's office
• We were arranging a welcome back for Hermione

Am I forgetting any? We still don't have a good one, but like you said, virtually any excuse is going to go over better than the truth.

I'm -- 

That last Apparation was

Well. It was worth it but I don't think we ought to do anything else like that again soon, yeah?

Better pick up some buns for breakfast. For you two, anyway. I'll stick to the ginger tea stuff.

Comments

[alt_lupin]

I thought we agreed on the library one. The second one, adding a book, not lifting one.

[alt_sirius]

Right, we did, but then I said we didn't bring a book.

[alt_lupin]

Which meant the trip was wasted because we'd remembered Bea but forgotten the book, Pads.

Surely they'll believe two old fools such as ourselves could leave behind the very thing we'd meant to take along?

[alt_sirius]

No more than they'd believe we went to plant a book in the library in the first place.

And you know they'll ask which book. I'll go pull something out of the library here.

[alt_lupin]

The Closed Mind is perfect. It's on the reading table by the window seat. I was flipping through it two days ago.

[alt_sirius]

Yeah. All right.

I can sleep before I tell everyone, right?

[alt_lupin]

If I can't, you bloody can't.

[alt_sirius]

Did you see what Pomona just wrote?! About Grubbly-Plank and Amelia Bones?

I mean to say.

How can she be all shirty with us when all the while she's been keeping the counsel of a couple of Sapphires?

And now Minerva's gone and missed the point, along with Poppy. Merlin. Witches.

[alt_lupin]

I did notice that.

Maybe she was crossest because of Dora. Or maybe she doesn't care what two women do, but when it's men she does? Who knows. At least she's speaking to us again. More or less.