'Dear Mr and Mrs P Weasley,
We are sorry to inform you that your daughter, Lucy Weasley, has been behaving very disrespectfully over the past term. This started a few weeks ago, when she played truant from her lessons for the whole day. When the other girls returned to the dorm, it was reported that Miss Weasley was lying on her bed and wouldn't tell anyone why she had missed her lessons. We were unable to get her out of her bedroom for another day, and she did not leave until Dominique Weasley performed the Levicorpus jinx on her during a lunchtime. I am aware that this isn't the most polite way to get a child out of bed, but by the time we had heard, these events had already happened.
The appalling attitude continued when Lucy was absent from a Potions lesson and found, again by Dominique, painting a moustache on the Fat Lady. She was put on a detention, where she used the levitation charm on a desk then let it slam into the ground, almost hitting Professor Slughorn. She has also been found roaming around the castle long past curfew, with no excuse. These are only two of the disgusting acts Lucy has performed.
Unfortunately, I have decided that if Lucy is determined to behave as carelessly as she has recently for any longer, she will be expelled from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Yours Sincerely
Filius Flitwick
Headmaster'
Percy and Audrey were shocked to receive a letter from the headmaster complaining about their youngest daughter. They had never really known much about Lucy, as she kept herself locked away from everyone, but they didn't see her as a troublemaker, unlike Ginny's son, James Sirius. Now he was always in trouble. But he had never been threatened with expulsion. Percy decided to send an infamous scarlet letter to his daughter.
It was quite a shock for some of the first years who had never seen Howlers before.
"Lucyy..." Roxanne hissed. Lucy glanced up from her untouched plate and gave the red envelope a confused look. Were they special ministry envelopes from Percy's work or something? Lucy heard lots of gasps around the table as the naive little first year unknowingly picked up social suicide. Not that she had anything to lose.
'What?' She mouthed as she started to tear open the seam.
"LUCY WEASLEY!" Percy's voice boomed across the hall from the hovering letter, making Lucy jump back slightly.
"YOUR MOTHER AND I ARE ABSOLUTELY APPALLED! WE EXPECTED BETTER FROM YOU, LUCY! PROFESSOR FLITWICK WROTE TO US ABOUT YOUR BEHAVIOUR! DID YOU KNOW THAT? DID YOU KNOW YOU COULD GET EXPELLED? WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU ATTEMPT TO HIT A TEACHER WITH A TABLE? OR PAINT ON THE FAT LADY? WHY, LUCY? IS THERE A GOOD REASON FOR ALL OF THIS? THIS IS NOT HOW WE RAISED YOU! WHY CAN'T YOU BE MORE LIKE YOUR SISTER? DO YOU SEE HER ASSULTING TEACHERS, OR VANDALISING SCHOOL PROPERTY? NO! BECAUSE SHE IS GRATEFUL TO BE AT THIS SCHOOL, AND GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING SHE HAS. I AM DISGUSTED THAT YOU COULD BEHAVE LIKE THIS, LUCY. IF YOU DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS ONCE MORE, WE WILL NOT BE BUYING YOU A BROOM! BE WARNED, LUCY!"
The whole hall sat in silence, staring at the scruffy girl at the Gryffindor table who was trying to look as though she didn't care, although she was starting to turn red. The first to break the silence was a high pitched squeal from the Slytherin table, then a snort, which had obviously been tried to sustain. Lucy didn't have to turn around to work out who it was. Cheeks still the colour of the envelope; Lucy stood up and ran back to her dorm, lying on her bed again. She wasn't sure how she could spend so much time in there, especially with the Fat Lady shooting her dirty looks whenever she came past.
But Heidi couldn't find her in there. So it was okay.