alt_pansy | (no subject)

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alt_ron

Yeah. You won fair enough. Well played, Marvolo.

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alt_harry

Thanks, mate.

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alt_ron

And our play was absolutely shambolic. Honestly.

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alt_harry

It seemed a bit off, yeah.

What happened?

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alt_harry

I mean.

You don't have to say. But we aren't playing against each other again this term, so I figured

Anyways. You were fine as Keeper, considering.

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alt_ron

Well. I mean, I know you and Bell are sort of seeing each other still, but she's not... Wood and Johnson were better captains. Anywiz, that's part of it. She's the one put Archer and Finnicky on the side, yeah? And we're just not-- I mean, it's more than just having new people... because every practice might as well still be our first one.

It's like every play is a surprise. And then there're the times when it seemed like some of them were playing for you!

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alt_harry

That's okay, I mean, yeah, we're sort of seeing each other, but we know Quidditch is Quidditch.

Which one of your chasers tossed the ball to Draco? I was too far off to tell.

And so it's not your season. There'll be others. And who knows? Maybe next term you'll be captain.

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alt_sally_anne

Coote tossed the quaffle to Draco. It would've been a dead nice pass if he'd sent it to Sloper or Bell. Or, you know, if it had been Draco passing it to me or Troy.

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alt_sally_anne

No hard feelings?

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alt_ron

No.

I mean, I'd rather you hadn't slammed that Quaffle in my gut or that other one through the hoop, but that's Quidditch, yeah?

You flew really well. Really distracting, that.

Erm.

Did you see I got a letter at supper?

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alt_sally_anne

Sorry about the one in your gut, I was not AIMING for your gut, you know, I was aiming for the hoop... at least you stopped that one, right?

I didn't see you got a letter. Who was it from?

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alt_ron

Better my belly than my head, I reckon.

From MLE. Well, the Aurors, actually.

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alt_sally_anne

WHAT? ~~It can't have been~~

What did they want?

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alt_ron

To invite me to some sort of training session and screening for maybe doing an internship.

It says someone recommended me. Doesn't say who. Desai, I reckon. Or one of the other trainers this summer? I mean, if they'd asked Dolohov, he'd have put in for F-F, y'know?

Actually. I wonder if anyone else got a letter.

Anywiz, I'm supposed to talk with one of the Aurors who're coming to talk at YPL tomorrow afternoon. Nice of them to give me time to think it over, yeah?!

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alt_sally_anne

They want you to become an Auror?

Or an Enforcer or something else or is it really not that clear what the internship is about?

I didn't get a letter but I wasn't even there this summer so that's hardly surprising. Did you ask F-F if he got one? It might have been Desai, though. Or maybe they BOTH had to recommend you, but that doesn't entirely make sense, because they're not going to ignore Dolohov's opinion.

Maybe it wasn't because of CCF, maybe it was because of that thing that happened with the outlaws when we were flying the boundary at the Stretton farm that time. You know? I mean the Enforcers were pretty impressed with us.

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alt_ron

Well, if it was the thing at the Strettons, then they would have sent you a letter, too. You know?

I don't know. It's the Aurors, though. The letter came from Mafalda Hopkirk.

It doesn't really say more than that. Just that I'm supposed to be sure to stop up to talk to the Aurors who come tomorrow, and that they'd have more details.

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alt_sally_anne

They wouldn't necessarily have sent me a letter, though. Do you know of any Aurors who aren't purebloods? I mean, I don't think there's a rule against half-bloods working for MLE and I'm sure not everyone is pure ten generations back but you definitely won't find any Aurors who had two muggle grandparents.

(Except maybe F-F someday. Heh.)

You're sort of perfect, from their standpoint because you're good at all the right things, you're a pureblood, AND you're going to need a job -- I mean, Draco and Harry would both make decent Aurors but they didn't get letters this evening, I'd have seen. I'm sure MLE would talk to Mr Malfoy before they sent either of them a letter. Eh. You know how it is.

Would you want to be an Auror?

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alt_ron

Well. It's a funny thing. I mean, Charlie said something about it once, and I thought it was mad. Only it's not completely mad, is it?

I mean, yeah. I'm going to need a job. And the Order needs people in positions that are inside the Ministry. We don't have anyone in MLE, and it would be dead useful if we did.

I mean, we've got loads of people who used to be Aurors or MLE and who know how they think. But it would be really useful to have someone who knows what they're planning, yeah?

So. Yeah. I might do it if I get offered a chance.

Do you think I shouldn't?

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alt_sally_anne

Well

How are you at occlumency these days? Because if you were an Auror you would have to work with Bellatrix Lestrange.

From:

alt_ron

Well.

Yeah.

I mean, I can do it. Mostly. Except if I'm cross or distracted or-

Yeah. So, that's a problem. But don't you think Auror Lestrange has got more to do than go around legilimising the people she works with?

I probably shouldn't want to find out, though, yeah?

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alt_sally_anne

Well I don't think there's any harm in talking to the Aurors tomorrow because SURELY it won't be Bellatrix.

And I doubt the Aurors who can do legilimency routinely go around legilimising their coworkers because yeah, honestly, even if you're not a traitor you probably don't want your coworkers looking in your head and seeing who you fancy or how much firewhiskey you drank last night or what color pants you have on under your robes and so on.

It would get dead awkward.

You should keep practicing, anyway, it's almost two years still till we finish school and you'd be able to enter the Auror programme (and mostly people don't go in right away).

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alt_ron

Well. At least that gives me a reason to keep on with the lessons. Sometimes I think I should just stop wasting Professor Dumbledore's time. Only, he says it's important, too.

He said something that made me think he'd taught Dad Occlumency or talked about it with him. I'm not sure.

But I know Dad would want me to keep at it.

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alt_sally_anne

I mean you're right that the Order needs people in useful positions and an Auror or even an Enforcer would be incredibly useful.

You'd have to do terrible things, though. And you'd have to never let your occlumency shields slip.

Actually it might be best if you could learn the animagus transformation because apparently animagi can't have their minds read.

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alt_ron

What do you think I'd turn into if I could transform?

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alt_sally_anne

You'd turn into a snake. Just because it would make you so cross.

From:

alt_ron

Don't be daft.

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alt_sally_anne

A red squirrel, maybe.

What do you think I'd transform into?

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alt_ron

Y'know. When we studied them in Creatures, I pretty much decided I'd want to be a badger if I could choose. I mean, they're fierce, aren't they?

Not sure how they got connected to Hufflepuffs, really.

Tsk. A red squirrel. Are you saying I'm noisy?

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alt_sally_anne

No I'm saying you're clever but easily distracted and you might start a fight with a bigger creature if you think you're high enough up in a tree they can't get at you.

Plus they're gingers.

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alt_ron

I expect you'd transform into an abraxan or a gazelle or something. Something graceful, y'know?

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alt_sally_anne

I was thinking about that the other day, you know, not so much 'what animal would I turn into' but 'what animals does no one want to turn into.' Everyone imagines turning into something that would be useful, like a dog, you know, so you can eavesdrop and spy like Sirius. (Well, plus, of the animagi I know, two turn into dogs and one turns into a cat.)

But you don't know until you transform what you're going to transform into. Do animagi ever transform into something huge and conspicuous, like a giraffe? (A giraffe would also be utterly pants in a fight. Well, I guess it could kick you. But it's not like a tiger, which is large and conspicuous but also intimidating.)

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alt_ron

Er.

That would be awkward. If you turned into something that belongs in the zoo. I mean, it's not as if there are many giraffes roaming about the countryside in England or Scotland, are there?

And if I ever saw a tiger here, I'd definitely hope it was an animagus! So, yeah, you couldn't be very secretive about it.

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alt_sally_anne

Exactly!

The perfect animagus form would be a sparrow. Because no one thinks twice about sparrows when they see one, AND you can fly.

A giraffe would be a terrible animagus form but a fish would be even worse. But even a giraffe or a fish would keep you from having your mind read.

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alt_cedric

Well played all of you!

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