Crossing the T's by thirty2flavors

Author's Note: This is a "Letter Project", as inspired by the Round-Robin Challenge over on the UR forums, and as such it's a joint project between me and Merle (Sharon). She takes care of Dorea's letters, I take care of Charlus'. With any luck, you might enjoy reading this half as much as we enjoy writing it. Hurrah, uncharted waters!

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Dorea,

First off, congratulations on the badge -- it goes quite well with the bronze-and-blue patch on the opposite side of your robes. I was rooting for you, you know; the other female prefects seem all to have come down with rather severe cases of being massively annoying, my darling housemate included. I hope having Crouch as Head Boy with you isn't too much hassle, either; his tendency for being self-righteous is made all the more annoying his Slytherin ambition, I find.

Secondly, as we're not in the same house, this joint project for Slughorn may be marginally more difficult. (For the record, I am fairly certain that Slughorn is extorting our abilities, using his NEWT-level class as nothing more than a giant Felix Felicis factory. What sort of project takes six months?) As Quidditch captain I can manipulate the practice schedule as needed (within reason, of course) so I can work around your Head duties if you let me know when those are.

Lastly, it may be a bit obtrusive of me -- I know we've never held any earth-shattering or exceptionally meaningful conversations -- but I couldn't help noticing you looked somewhat dismayed after the arrival of yesterday's owl post. I know it's probably none of my business, by any means, but you see I've made it a sort of general rule to not let pretty girls such as you look dismayed if I can help it. Anything wrong?

Sincerely,

Charlus Potter