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[alt_blaise]

Marvolo! Where have you and Malfoy gone off to? Have you finished the homework for Creatures? I've got all the basic stuff written out about basilisks and that business he called the literature review, but I thought maybe you'd let me throw in a quote or two about what you saw. Draco--you, too--you were down there with it. It'd be brilliant to finish out the parchment with something eye-witnesses have said about them. And who better than you?

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[alt_draco]

I can't be your eye-witness, mate. I didn't see anything because we I was stuck behind a load of rubble, thanks to our brilliantly deluded former Professor Lockhart. I saw the basalisk's skin, which was enormous, but I didn't see the creature itself. Which is good as I'd probably be dead if I had.

[alt_blaise]

See, that's eye-witness in my book. Would you say, for instance, based on the shed skin, that its individual scales were as large as your hand? As large as Weasley's head (and twice as clever)? Was it freshly shed, do you think? (When you found it.) When we saw it in lessons, it had got so dry and fragile, but if it was fresh when you first saw it, you should have been able to tell more about the beast that shed it. That's the angle I'm wanting.

I'll see you at breakfast and bother you until you say something I can use. Are you down there already? I don't know how you move so quickly in the mornings. Save some jam for me--and not just that transfigured prune slop. And don't run off until I get a crack at you for this quote.

[alt_draco]

It was fresh enough to fool us into thinking it was the real creature at first, all uncoiled along the rocks there.

And yes, I'm down at breakfast. If you want the real jam you had better hurry, as Vince has his eyes (and fingers) on it today.

[alt_harry]

Sorry I didn't see you at breakfast.

I don't really like to talk about that stuff, you know.