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[alt_pansy]

I ran across an interesting Latin phrase. Vox populi, vox dei. but I don't get it. How can the voice of the people be the voice of a god? I'm just a kid. How should I know?

Do you like get an instructional manual on Being A Grownup when you are 17 and does it have answers to questions like that? I'm so tired of hearing "when you're a grownup you'll understand". So when do you offically Become A Grownup? How old, I mean.

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[alt_susan]

I've always wondered about that too. Not the Latin thing, but how you know when you're really a grown-up.

[alt_pansy]

Maybe you have to pass a test. A practical one, not a paper one.

Like: Your 12-year-old daughter is starting to assert her independence. What do you do?
a. Avada Kedavra
b. Ground her until she's 46
c. Chill and realize it's something they do
d. Turn her into a turnip

[alt_sally_anne]

You forgot the one that goes 'scream and shout and cry and say he she has no family loyalty and only cares about quidditch frivolous things.'

Mrs Stretton's jolly good at transfiguration, though, I reckon she could do the turnip one if she had a mind to.

[alt_pansy]

Or there's this one: ignore your daughter and Christmas and refuse to talk to her at all.

[alt_mcgonagall]

There is no instruction manual, Miss Parkinson. We all must muddle through on our own.

[alt_pansy]

Brilliant. Now I'll never sleep tonight.

Thank you, though, for being honest with me. You always are. I admir

[alt_ernie]

I reckon there's some stuff you never understand, even when your really old.

[alt_pansy]

The more I think on it, I think you're right.

[alt_seamus]

Well Miss Tonks is 17 and she has a grownup job.

But she turned her hair pink for me and Hydra at the party when all the other grownups were busy somewhere else.

If theres a manual I think I want her version of it.

[alt_pansy]

Wouldn't it be wizard to change your hair colour?

[alt_seamus]

It would! She said shes a metamorfmagas though and your either born that way or your not. So we cant learn that trick at school. Too bad.