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alt_nymphadoraHydra,
I've been meaning to write since you left for school. Really, I meant to find a time to ask after you when I'd heard that OWL marks had come out. What I heard was that you're owed congratulations for having swept them with all Os.
I confess that made me uneasy. That and the fact that you've been training with the other person I know who swept his OWLs. My foster brother gives that sort of intelligence a bad name, rather. I hope he's treated you well enough, training you. I couldn't stand that--luckily I'm not the one aiming for work with the Aurors! (I wonder sometimes if it's anything you want to do or whether you're doing it because you can and feel you must.)
At least you've escaped to Hogwarts and don't have to take orders from the Grouch for a while. Are things going well? (I did read what Desai wrote. I thought it sounded exciting, actually, in a terrible sort of way. I think I'll suggest Frank make our training a bit more like that!)
All the same here. I keep getting larger and slower, while Bea keeps getting quicker. You can guess how that's working out!
I've been meaning to write since you left for school. Really, I meant to find a time to ask after you when I'd heard that OWL marks had come out. What I heard was that you're owed congratulations for having swept them with all Os.
I confess that made me uneasy. That and the fact that you've been training with the other person I know who swept his OWLs. My foster brother gives that sort of intelligence a bad name, rather. I hope he's treated you well enough, training you. I couldn't stand that--luckily I'm not the one aiming for work with the Aurors! (I wonder sometimes if it's anything you want to do or whether you're doing it because you can and feel you must.)
At least you've escaped to Hogwarts and don't have to take orders from the Grouch for a while. Are things going well? (I did read what Desai wrote. I thought it sounded exciting, actually, in a terrible sort of way. I think I'll suggest Frank make our training a bit more like that!)
All the same here. I keep getting larger and slower, while Bea keeps getting quicker. You can guess how that's working out!
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Date: 2014-09-12 02:10 am (UTC)Auror Crouch is not a kind mentor, but then I didn't expect him to be. He is very frank about my shortcomings, which has been helpful. Or will be, I hope. I don't suppose I'll mind being an Auror. I don't imagine it's worse than being on the Council and it may be much better. I too wonder sometimes if it's anything I want to do.
We've not yet done Salazar's Rules in the sixth year NEWT, so I don't know how it will go. I think Professor Desai wants to see what we're made of, but I don't know that I want her to know.
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Date: 2014-09-12 09:56 pm (UTC)I'll grant that it couldn't have improved my chances of finding a better work placement if I'd done better on my OWLs and NEWTs. Mine were a mix of Os and Es, but I'd still be cleaning bogs and emptying rubbish at 4 in the morning if I'd got all Os, so you can't judge by my situation. Yours is entirely different, but--and this is just my view--I think yours is nearly as skewed in the other direction. If you want to be an Auror, you'll be able to do that regardless of whether your marks were perfect. The advantage of sweeping your exams is simply to shut the mouths of anyone who might otherwise say you were being preferred because of your Mum. And maybe it buys you a bit of caution from the people you'll train and work with, if they think you're a ruddy genius. That seems a good enough reason to me to say that taking the advantage you took was a sound decision.
It would be different, maybe, if you decide you don't want to be an Auror and need a cover for why you shouldn't be. Then it might have been clever to cock up a subject or two. Seriously, Hydra. Do you want to find a way out of doing it? If you do, we'll think of something. I hate to think of you having to go through what they'll put you through if it's not right for you. None of us would question it if you decided to do something--anything--else.
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Date: 2014-09-14 03:49 pm (UTC)I don't want to find a way out of doing it. That doesn't mean I want to do it, either, but... no one gets to do what they want, do they? Just like you do wan't to clean bogs. So until everyone gets to do what they want, I don't think it really matters.
Plus, I already do have something I want, and no one knows about it. If I can remember that I'll be alright.
Thank you for asking, though. Truly.