I Solemnly Swear that I am Up to No Good: Private Message to Ron Weasley

[alt_evelyn]

If you look at the last fifteen Keepers that have joined the rosters at Hogwarts, at their very first match they've ever played, the other team scores an average of twenty-two goals on them. The only reason the average is so low is because in two of the matches, the snitch was caught in the first thirty minutes of the match, otherwise it would be higher.

The maximum number on a first match was forty-three, against Fergus Cuerden on the Hufflepuff side in 1989. And if you look at the second and third games they play, the average number of goals scored on them drops to sixteen.

So, see, you'll do loads better next time because you've gotten the first one out of your way.

Would you be up for a game of chess or three?

We don't have to play it in the common room if you'd rather go to that room you found.

I've got biscuits, too. Chocolate ones and raspberry ones and cheese ones.

I understand if you wouldn't be, though.

Comments

[alt_ron]

Huh. That's-

Thanks, yeah. I would like to play chess. And, yeah, let's go to that room. I'm actually dead curious to see what it'll look like this time, y'know. Will it still have cauldrons and potions stuff? Sally Anne and Hermione think it magically remakes itself for whatever you need when you go there, but...

I don't know. I mean, we could try not taking a board along and see if it puts one out for us. Except if it didn't, it's a long walk back up the tower to get one. (And a bit dangerous to Accio one through the corridors. Even on a Sunday afternoon.)

Did you actually look all that up? Or are you just being clever and making stuff up to make me feel better?

Either way, I guess. Thanks.

[alt_evelyn]

I did.

I mean, it's all there in the library.

People tend to forget that even the best Keepers of all time had to start somewhere. It's not like they were all perfect right from the very start.

We could try and see. I think it'd be worth it. And if it doesn't give us a board, maybe we could see what we'd have to do to get it to give us one, like try asking it, or walking out and then walking back in again. And at the very least, we'll have biscuits.

[alt_ron]

Heh.

That's a brilliant plan. Let's go for it.

I'll meet you by the portrait hole in a couple of minutes.