Yesterday

[alt_gredforge]

was VERY satisfactory. For a number of people.

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[alt_bill]

How so?

[alt_gredforge]

It’s spring. And there’s a charming new custom going around for the Equinox: Kiss a ginger for good luck!

[alt_bill]

Interesting. And there you are, two gingers right at hand. How very noble of you to be willing to help.

[alt_gredforge]

Mum always was after us to be more helpful. Not to mention noble.

[alt_bill]

So...did you get many takers?

[alt_gredforge]

Didn't Dad ever teach you that gentlemen don't kiss and tell?

[alt_bill]

Ha.

[alt_gredforge]

So do they do it at the Ministry, too?

[alt_bill]

I think I faintly remember some rumour about it last year, but that was the first I ever heard of it. Sounds like it started at Hogwarts, but maybe it’ll spread. Dad and I are perfectly willing to be the helpful type, too.

[alt_gredforge]

Maybe Mum would prefer it if Dad were a little less helpful.

[alt_bill]

Maybe Mum can go be willing and helpful on a shopping trip to Ottery St. Catchpole or something. Then she and Dad can make each other happy by teasing each other over the dinner table that night over which one of them was more helpful.

[alt_percy]

Well, it didn't make me happy. I found it irritating.

Penny found it even more irritating.

[alt_gredforge]

Aren’t Big Head Boys supposed to be helpful?

Anyway, we suspect some people picked you because they wanted to irritate you.

[alt_gredforge]

That's probably why most of the people who kissed you were blokes. Ew.

How about Ginny? Did anyone try snogging her?

[alt_percy]

She got points taken away, actually, because she started hexing people who tried kissing her without her permission

[alt_ron]

Ha! Too right.

Madam Hooch caught her hexing Towler. Right outside the portrait, too. The fat lady was shrieking at them

[alt_ron]

You're mad, y'know.

[alt_gredforge]

Don't worry, Ron. In two or three years, Equinox will mysteriously start to seem like a lot more fun.

[alt_bill]

True fact, if this custom really starts to catch on.

[alt_percy]

Not necessarily. I'd prefer it if the whole embarrassing thing dies a well-deserved death.

[alt_gredforge]

True fact for everyone but Big Head killjoys, anyway.