AN - And we're back! * ducks rotten tomatoes* Yes, I know this is really
really late. Here's a formal apology: I, Pilgrim Angel, sincerely apologise
for posting Letters To An Arch-Nemesis - Chapter Nine up so very late. For
those who recognise some of the lines, the sources are at the bottom. And
now on with the show!
15 January Gryffindor Common Room 10:14 AM
Malfoy,
Just shut up and chill, man. You don't want to have another spaz attack. If you hate the Hospital Wing so much then think about it this way: the less fits you have, the less time you'll have to stay there. Normal blood pressure = no fits = no Hospital Wing.
Okay, now one step at a time.
I don't know why I didn't end up as battered as you did. Dumb luck I suppose. Well, if I remember correctly, you went rolling down before me. Maybe you received the brunt of all the rocks and sticks and branches.
Yes, I know there is a chance of you trying to kill yourself again but right now you're as weak as a kitten. Right now, you couldn't go three rounds with a fruit fly.
Do you really think us Gryffindors hate you so much that we would end your life given the chance? Sure, all Gryffindors (I guess that excludes Ginny) hate you with the fire of a thousand suns but they couldn't kill you.
Also, for the hundredth time: HERMIONE IS RON'S GIRL. I have no romantic interest in her.
And what's with the Malfoys don't faint? Malfoys don't faint; Malfoys don't cry...what else don't you do? Or should I ask what do you do? I must say though, these Quik Owl stamps are pretty cool. They'd be perfect for terrorist; a letter bomb would fly right past security and BOOM! They'd also be useful for Valentine's Day.
Now, let me take this chance to tell you that you are hopelessly melodramatic. As you said in one of your previous letters: "How do you face each passing day with such a sense of serenity, constantly aware of the fact that every breath you take may be your last? How do you go about your daily tasks without the ghosts of your murdered parents hovering over you like a shadow? Do you not go mad? Do you not look behind your shoulder fearfully with every step?" Sense of serenity? Daily tasks? Do I not go mad? Do I not look behind my shoulder fearfully with every step? I half expected you to start quoting MacBeth or something.
And Malfoy...1) No I don't think that you deserved to be dropped on the cement at six months old, 2) No I don't think that you deserved to learn how to catch by having your father lob a rock at your head and 3) No I don't think you're a louse, a caterpillar maybe but not a louse.
Don't want to get the Dark Mark? Then do something, you clod! And don't just sit there complaining, think of something clever to get your way out! Aren't Slytherins meant to be cunningly sly at concocting Evil Plans? Right now I'm tearing my hair out in frustration; I don't want you as a Death Eater too, and not just purely for self-preservation reasons (though I have no doubt you meant what you said in your last letter about getting revenge on us all with your super demonic powers). Think up a plan FAST! Right now I'm absolutely mindbogged. If all else fails I HAVE to go and confide in Dumbledore, and you don't want that to happen, do you? Stage a fake death, create a clone to get it for you, put arsenic in your father's tea, God, even paint the Dark Mark on your arm and then stab Voldemort in the back when he's not looking!
But to surrender to that piece of demon spawn is giving up. And do you know what giving up makes you? Weak. Think you aren't? But you are! You're weak. Well, guess what? Everybody is. Everybody fails, but you have to fight. If you think it's too hard and you give in, then all you will have been is weak. Do you want to know what strong is? Strong is fighting! Fighting is staying alive to do good and staying true to what's right. It's hard and it's painful, and it's everyday. It's what we have to do. But if you're too much of a coward for that then go ahead, give up. If even your dear Ginny can't convince you to fight against this evil, then I don't know what can. But do not expect Ginny, me or anyone else to watch you live your life as a coward.
I'm going to finish up this letter before I myself have a fit.
Harry J. Potter
AN - Housekeeping time!
"Right now, you couldn't go three rounds with a fruit fly." Yes, that's right. It's from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. I believe it is Season Two Episode 21: Becoming Part 1.
And the really long paragraph has bits and pieces from I think it is Season 3 Episode 10: Amends. For those who are a bit curious, I'll include the part in that episode.
Amends
Angel: I bet half the kids down there are already awake. Lying in their beds... sneaking downstairs... waiting for day.
Buffy: Angel, please. I need for you to get inside. Th-there's only a few minutes left.
Angel: I know. I can smell the sunrise long before it comes.
Buffy: I don't have time to explain this. You just have to trust me. That thing that was haunting you...
Angel: It wasn't haunting me. It was showing me.
Buffy: Showing you?
Angel: What I am.
Buffy: Were.
Angel: And ever shall be. I wanted to know why I was back. Now I do.
Buffy: You don't know. Some great evil takes credit for bringing you back and you buy it? You just give up?
Angel: I can't do it again, Buffy. I can't become a killer.
Buffy: Then fight it.
Angel: It's too hard.
Buffy: Angel, please, you have to get inside.
Angel: It told me to kill you. You were in the dream. You know. It told me to lose my soul in you and become a monster again.
Buffy: I know what it told you. What does it matter?
Angel: Because I wanted to! Because I want you so badly! I want to take comfort in you, and I know it'll cost me my soul, and a part of me doesn't care. Look, I'm weak. I've never been anything else. It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy. It's the man.
Buffy: You're weak. Everybody is. Everybody fails. Maybe this evil did bring you back, but if it did, it's because it needs you. And that means that you can hurt it. Angel, you have the power to do real good, to make amends. But if you die now, then all that you ever were was a monster. Angel, please, the sun is coming up!
Angel: Just go.
Buffy: I won't!
Angel: What, do you think this is simple? You think there's an easy answer? You can never understand what I've done! Now go!
Buffy: You are not staying here. I won't let you!
Angel: I said LEAVE!
Accidentally hits Buffy to the ground.
Angel: Oh, my God...
Buffy: No! No!
Angel: Am I a thing worth saving, huh? Am I a righteous man? The world wants me gone!
Buffy: What about me? I love you so much... And I tried to make you go away... I killed you and it didn't help and I hate it! I hate that it's so hard... and that you can hurt me so much. I know everything that you did, because you did it to me. Oh, God! I wish that I wished you dead. I don't. I can't.
Angel: Buffy, please. Just this once... let me be strong.
Buffy: Strong is fighting! It's hard, and it's painful, and it's every day. It's what we have to do. And we can do it together. But if you're too much of a coward for that, then burn. If I can't convince you that you belong in this world, then I don't know what can. But do not expect me to watch. And don't expect me to mourn for you, because... And it starts to snow!!!
Hope you like this chapter, people!
15 January Gryffindor Common Room 10:14 AM
Malfoy,
Just shut up and chill, man. You don't want to have another spaz attack. If you hate the Hospital Wing so much then think about it this way: the less fits you have, the less time you'll have to stay there. Normal blood pressure = no fits = no Hospital Wing.
Okay, now one step at a time.
I don't know why I didn't end up as battered as you did. Dumb luck I suppose. Well, if I remember correctly, you went rolling down before me. Maybe you received the brunt of all the rocks and sticks and branches.
Yes, I know there is a chance of you trying to kill yourself again but right now you're as weak as a kitten. Right now, you couldn't go three rounds with a fruit fly.
Do you really think us Gryffindors hate you so much that we would end your life given the chance? Sure, all Gryffindors (I guess that excludes Ginny) hate you with the fire of a thousand suns but they couldn't kill you.
Also, for the hundredth time: HERMIONE IS RON'S GIRL. I have no romantic interest in her.
And what's with the Malfoys don't faint? Malfoys don't faint; Malfoys don't cry...what else don't you do? Or should I ask what do you do? I must say though, these Quik Owl stamps are pretty cool. They'd be perfect for terrorist; a letter bomb would fly right past security and BOOM! They'd also be useful for Valentine's Day.
Now, let me take this chance to tell you that you are hopelessly melodramatic. As you said in one of your previous letters: "How do you face each passing day with such a sense of serenity, constantly aware of the fact that every breath you take may be your last? How do you go about your daily tasks without the ghosts of your murdered parents hovering over you like a shadow? Do you not go mad? Do you not look behind your shoulder fearfully with every step?" Sense of serenity? Daily tasks? Do I not go mad? Do I not look behind my shoulder fearfully with every step? I half expected you to start quoting MacBeth or something.
And Malfoy...1) No I don't think that you deserved to be dropped on the cement at six months old, 2) No I don't think that you deserved to learn how to catch by having your father lob a rock at your head and 3) No I don't think you're a louse, a caterpillar maybe but not a louse.
Don't want to get the Dark Mark? Then do something, you clod! And don't just sit there complaining, think of something clever to get your way out! Aren't Slytherins meant to be cunningly sly at concocting Evil Plans? Right now I'm tearing my hair out in frustration; I don't want you as a Death Eater too, and not just purely for self-preservation reasons (though I have no doubt you meant what you said in your last letter about getting revenge on us all with your super demonic powers). Think up a plan FAST! Right now I'm absolutely mindbogged. If all else fails I HAVE to go and confide in Dumbledore, and you don't want that to happen, do you? Stage a fake death, create a clone to get it for you, put arsenic in your father's tea, God, even paint the Dark Mark on your arm and then stab Voldemort in the back when he's not looking!
But to surrender to that piece of demon spawn is giving up. And do you know what giving up makes you? Weak. Think you aren't? But you are! You're weak. Well, guess what? Everybody is. Everybody fails, but you have to fight. If you think it's too hard and you give in, then all you will have been is weak. Do you want to know what strong is? Strong is fighting! Fighting is staying alive to do good and staying true to what's right. It's hard and it's painful, and it's everyday. It's what we have to do. But if you're too much of a coward for that then go ahead, give up. If even your dear Ginny can't convince you to fight against this evil, then I don't know what can. But do not expect Ginny, me or anyone else to watch you live your life as a coward.
I'm going to finish up this letter before I myself have a fit.
Harry J. Potter
AN - Housekeeping time!
"Right now, you couldn't go three rounds with a fruit fly." Yes, that's right. It's from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. I believe it is Season Two Episode 21: Becoming Part 1.
And the really long paragraph has bits and pieces from I think it is Season 3 Episode 10: Amends. For those who are a bit curious, I'll include the part in that episode.
Amends
Angel: I bet half the kids down there are already awake. Lying in their beds... sneaking downstairs... waiting for day.
Buffy: Angel, please. I need for you to get inside. Th-there's only a few minutes left.
Angel: I know. I can smell the sunrise long before it comes.
Buffy: I don't have time to explain this. You just have to trust me. That thing that was haunting you...
Angel: It wasn't haunting me. It was showing me.
Buffy: Showing you?
Angel: What I am.
Buffy: Were.
Angel: And ever shall be. I wanted to know why I was back. Now I do.
Buffy: You don't know. Some great evil takes credit for bringing you back and you buy it? You just give up?
Angel: I can't do it again, Buffy. I can't become a killer.
Buffy: Then fight it.
Angel: It's too hard.
Buffy: Angel, please, you have to get inside.
Angel: It told me to kill you. You were in the dream. You know. It told me to lose my soul in you and become a monster again.
Buffy: I know what it told you. What does it matter?
Angel: Because I wanted to! Because I want you so badly! I want to take comfort in you, and I know it'll cost me my soul, and a part of me doesn't care. Look, I'm weak. I've never been anything else. It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy. It's the man.
Buffy: You're weak. Everybody is. Everybody fails. Maybe this evil did bring you back, but if it did, it's because it needs you. And that means that you can hurt it. Angel, you have the power to do real good, to make amends. But if you die now, then all that you ever were was a monster. Angel, please, the sun is coming up!
Angel: Just go.
Buffy: I won't!
Angel: What, do you think this is simple? You think there's an easy answer? You can never understand what I've done! Now go!
Buffy: You are not staying here. I won't let you!
Angel: I said LEAVE!
Accidentally hits Buffy to the ground.
Angel: Oh, my God...
Buffy: No! No!
Angel: Am I a thing worth saving, huh? Am I a righteous man? The world wants me gone!
Buffy: What about me? I love you so much... And I tried to make you go away... I killed you and it didn't help and I hate it! I hate that it's so hard... and that you can hurt me so much. I know everything that you did, because you did it to me. Oh, God! I wish that I wished you dead. I don't. I can't.
Angel: Buffy, please. Just this once... let me be strong.
Buffy: Strong is fighting! It's hard, and it's painful, and it's every day. It's what we have to do. And we can do it together. But if you're too much of a coward for that, then burn. If I can't convince you that you belong in this world, then I don't know what can. But do not expect me to watch. And don't expect me to mourn for you, because... And it starts to snow!!!
Hope you like this chapter, people!