Congratulations!

[alt_blaise]

Daphs, that's excellent you got Auror Crouch. Really brilliant. And Draco, Scrimgeour should be a good role. Really distinguished and commanding. I can totally see why they thought to cast you for him.

And Harry! We'll make awesome traitors together, mate. Sirius Black, though. Phew! You must've been brilliant to land that. We'll have to practice being villains. Maybe I ought to grow a mustache for Shacklebolt. What do you think?

Guess not everyone was as pleased with their parts.

And then there are the ones that are too dim to have noticed they should be embarrassed. Can you see Weasley over there? Looks pleased to bits. Ha!

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[alt_blaise]

Last night I did some reading up on Dumbledore and his band, and it was truly illuminating. I think I'll have to do a bit more reading, though, to begin to see what motivated them. Vainglory, obviously, and blood-thirst. But I'm sure each of them had a particular ambition or misapprehension that drove him forward into treason. I haven't found Shacklebolt's yet, but I plan to ask Professor Lestrange what his view of it is. And Miss Professor Carrow, as well. She fought him more than once, so I'm sure she has a unique perspective if she wouldn't mind sharing it with me.

I think I'll look quite striking bald, don't you?

I must say, I think you and your sister are taking a mature view of receiving an unconventional part. Daphs and I were talking about how much grace and coordination it will take to manage Nagini properly: brilliant to cast twins there, really. Have you taken dance, at all? You do carry yourself well. Both of you.

[alt_padma]

Oh, I'm sure Miss Professor Carrow could tell you all sorts of things. I think Ptolemy Baddock volunteered to be the historical consultant because they want to make sure we don't pester the real people too much. And because he grew up with so many of them, right? Like Mr Avery and Mr Yaxley. Plus I guess it would be a little weird to be in the play when one of the most dramatic moments is your own mum's death. That would be really hard, I think. Though Karoline said she asked him and he thought it would be brilliant, and even told her things that aren't in the history books about it.

Still, it's a bit odd, isn't it, considering what just happened last week. I think Parkinson and Baddock have talked before, but I wonder if it would help her to cope, hearing from him about losing his mum in the war? He wasn't much older than she was when the first Mrs Baddock died.

Anyway, I'm not sure if bald will be a good look on you. Though it might make you look older.

We've learned traditional dances, of course - Sattriya and Bharata Natyam mainly - but nothing like ballet or anything. Mum and Aunt Sivarti and Naniji are all well strict about posture.

But it sounds like we'll have some opportunities to work in dancing with Nagini, particularly when we chase Weasley about. We've already started thinking about what charms we might be able to use to create the effect of swallowing him up.

[alt_blaise]

I don't imagine Baddock can tell me much about the traitor Shacklebolt, though. And really, no one could except one of the teachers. It's not like anyone would admit it if their parents used to have Dumbledore and his bloodtraitors to dinner on Sundays.

You're right, though. It's tricky putting on a play about stuff that happened to people's parents. None of us can remember much of it. Even the seventh years. Of course, now we're old enough to understand, and this is a brilliant way to get us to learn about what happened and the reasons for it. So much better than any lecture Binns would give. Not that he ever talks about anything that happened in the last hundred years.

Just wait and see if you're not bowled over by my rakish good looks when I've shaved for the part. Daphne says it'll be dashing.

You should do a presentation for YPL sometime about your traditions and the dances. That would be really interesting. And there's no substitute for good posture: it's the mark of good breeding.

Luckily, it sounds as if the business with Weasley is the least of your part.

[alt_padma]

Well, if you're serious about shaving your head, you know some people who know the charm for it.