Oh. I reckon it's a bit odd, but yeah, I've got more used to it. I was really anxious about missing 7th year back in September, but I don't care near as much now.
Maybe if when we win we can all take whatever exams we missed.
And Hermione can come in first in everything and Patil will know she was never the cleverest student in our year.
I don't know, though. In another year, I'll have forgotten all the bits I'd need to put on the written NEWTs. I don't think I'll get a very good mark on anything and I doubt I'll care all that much by then.
You've got a point. And we probably won't need to complete any special programme to be Aurors, either, if we fancy it.
I've transfigured today's rats to the size of small ponies, by the way, so if you hear any stomping from the attic, that's what it is.
I think they roughly have the same mass and weight as an adult wizard, though the fact that they are transfigured skews some aspects of the curse. But still, the ones that were goat-sized lasted almost four hours before they expired, so we'll see how these compare.
We should try to figure out if there's a way to defend against it. If we knew what would keep it from landing, that would be almost as good as knowing how to reverse it.
Do you want to be an Auror? You know you'd probably have to report to Kingsley Shacklebolt, and he probably calls everyone who works for him 'son.' Unless they're older than he is. And maybe even then.
Yeah I'm working on that end, too. It's really hard to defend against magic this dark and this powerful. I've tried a number of shield spells and they don't seem to prevent the curse from landing at all.
I don't know, really. It might be a lark, but then again so would playing quidditch. Or managing a bunch of teams, or something. Or producing music acts. Or ordering people about in some upper branch of the Ministry.
Once students get more advanced, they tend to take apprenticeships, like Patty with Miss Melli, and Lisa with Mrs Lee, or go to Sherwood and work with someone there. But even then, they come back on Sundays for dinner and training. There aren't any exams they have to take once they are an apprentice, but there is rather a lot of hard work they're expected to do, and they do learn quite a lot about it as they work.
Perhaps you'll apprentice with someone some day, Arista dear.
And we can't really teach all of the things they can at Hogwarts, but we do teach some things they don't, like literature, and writing, and the history of everyone in England, not just the witches and wizards.
I don't know. I've been thinking about that for a long time, even longer than since your arrival.
It wouldn't have been here. My mother was still here, for one thing. I never expected to set foot in this house again, since the Christmas I left when I was sixteen. It's still something of a shock to realise we've made it a home.
I think if the adoption hearing had gone forward, I might have taken you somewhere in the country and Fideliused the entire village. Or we would still have had to flee, so, my house in Monaco might have been where you would have been raised.
What I ought to have done was convinced your parents to give you into my keeping when we put the Fidelius on their house in Godric's Hollow, but there was no way to know we would need to take that sort of extraordinary precaution. The benefit of hindsight, I suppose.
I wouldn't have known Draco, and he wouldn't have known me. I wouldn't have got to know Ron. Or Hermione. Well, maybe Hermione, once she was in the Order.
Well, I don't want to corrupt your idea of who James was. I mean, someday you're going to want kids of your own and I don't want to scar you so badly that every time you get near a woman you think of your dad in a pair of your mother's lacy pants, dancing about with a bottlebrush for a microphone. For example.
The ones from school - well, it was a more innocent time, then. We had the freedom to be berks. And I'll tell you now that in a lot of those tales, we were not ... kind to Snape. He rather invited the rivalry but we did humiliate him on more than one occasion. Compared to the Protectorate, it wasn't nearly as malevolent. That doesn't make it admirable, either.
Plenty more where that came from, and all true. James was my brother, too. And just as well, because it's obvious that what he did for me is what you've done for Draco.
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Private message to Draco
Date: 2015-05-11 02:23 pm (UTC)Re: Private message to Draco
Date: 2015-05-11 02:24 pm (UTC)Re: Private message to Draco
Date: 2015-05-11 02:30 pm (UTC)ifwhen we win we can all take whatever exams we missed.And Hermione can come in first in everything and Patil will know she was never the cleverest student in our year.
I don't know, though. In another year, I'll have forgotten all the bits I'd need to put on the written NEWTs. I don't think I'll get a very good mark on anything and I doubt I'll care all that much by then.
Re: Private message to Draco
Date: 2015-05-11 02:59 pm (UTC)Re: Private message to Draco
Date: 2015-05-11 03:11 pm (UTC)I've transfigured today's rats to the size of small ponies, by the way, so if you hear any stomping from the attic, that's what it is.
I think they roughly have the same mass and weight as an adult wizard, though the fact that they are transfigured skews some aspects of the curse. But still, the ones that were goat-sized lasted almost four hours before they expired, so we'll see how these compare.
Re: Private message to Draco
Date: 2015-05-11 03:16 pm (UTC)Do you want to be an Auror? You know you'd probably have to report to Kingsley Shacklebolt, and he probably calls everyone who works for him 'son.' Unless they're older than he is. And maybe even then.
Re: Private message to Draco
Date: 2015-05-11 03:30 pm (UTC)I don't know, really. It might be a lark, but then again so would playing quidditch. Or managing a bunch of teams, or something. Or producing music acts. Or ordering people about in some upper branch of the Ministry.
Re: Private message to Draco
Date: 2015-05-11 03:52 pm (UTC)In the meantime maybe I'll come up and see if I can protect giant rats from the Black Curse.
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Date: 2015-05-11 02:25 pm (UTC)We have exams sometimes but it's not like at Hogwarts, Evelyn says.
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Date: 2015-05-11 03:05 pm (UTC)Once students get more advanced, they tend to take apprenticeships, like Patty with Miss Melli, and Lisa with Mrs Lee, or go to Sherwood and work with someone there. But even then, they come back on Sundays for dinner and training. There aren't any exams they have to take once they are an apprentice, but there is rather a lot of hard work they're expected to do, and they do learn quite a lot about it as they work.
Perhaps you'll apprentice with someone some day, Arista dear.
And we can't really teach all of the things they can at Hogwarts, but we do teach some things they don't, like literature, and writing, and the history of everyone in England, not just the witches and wizards.
no subject
Date: 2015-05-11 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-11 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-11 04:14 pm (UTC)I'll come this afternoon.
Private message to Sirius
Date: 2015-05-11 03:02 pm (UTC)I guess that wouldn't have been in 12GP, though. Do you think you would you have taken me to France?
Would I stillRe: Private message to Sirius
Date: 2015-05-11 03:38 pm (UTC)It wouldn't have been here. My mother was still here, for one thing. I never expected to set foot in this house again, since the Christmas I left when I was sixteen. It's still something of a shock to realise we've made it a home.
I think if the adoption hearing had gone forward, I might have taken you somewhere in the country and Fideliused the entire village. Or we would still have had to flee, so, my house in Monaco might have been where you would have been raised.
What I ought to have done was convinced your parents to give you into my keeping when we put the Fidelius on their house in Godric's Hollow, but there was no way to know we would need to take that sort of extraordinary precaution. The benefit of hindsight, I suppose.
Re: Private message to Sirius
Date: 2015-05-11 04:17 pm (UTC)I wouldn't have known Draco, and he wouldn't have known me. I wouldn't have got to know Ron. Or Hermione. Well, maybe Hermione, once she was in the Order.
Would you have wanted me to call youRe: Private message to Sirius
Date: 2015-05-11 04:49 pm (UTC)There are so many stories I could tell you about your father. You might not even be old enough for some of them yet.
I hope we'll be able to make up for lost time. What you said yesterday - I ... I have to think about what it means. How we can find a workaround.
He's not having you. He never should have had you in the first place.
Re: Private message to Sirius
Date: 2015-05-11 04:53 pm (UTC)Lana S-P is older now than my parents were when they died. I worked that out one night when I was especially annoyed with her.
Re: Private message to Sirius
Date: 2015-05-11 05:19 pm (UTC)The ones from school - well, it was a more innocent time, then. We had the freedom to be berks. And I'll tell you now that in a lot of those tales, we were not ... kind to Snape. He rather invited the rivalry but we did humiliate him on more than one occasion. Compared to the Protectorate, it wasn't nearly as malevolent. That doesn't make it admirable, either.
Re: Private message to Sirius
Date: 2015-05-11 05:30 pm (UTC)Even the ones with the lacy pants, if you're not having me on about that.
Re: Private message to Sirius
Date: 2015-05-11 05:56 pm (UTC)Re: Private message to Sirius
Date: 2015-05-11 04:55 pm (UTC)