Revising in the evenings

[alt_sally_anne]

So last week, I think it was Thursday, Longbottom brought Thomas along so I could help him revise transfiguration too.

Only, Thomas really didn't need me explaining anything. He could do everything just fine. He even understood the theory pretty well which is surprising considering he wasn't even at Hogwarts last year, and Longbottom hardly ever understands what I'm going on about.

And then we had Transfiguration yesterday, Thomas has it with my house on Mondays and his own house on Thursdays, and he couldn't do anything. I don't sit near him in class so I couldn't see what he was doing wrong, but everything went to pieces.

Anyway to answer the question people were asking last week, I like tutoring people because I think I learn subjects better when I have to explain them to someone who really doesn't understand, like Longbottom. (But who will also listen to me try to explain it practically forever, like Longbottom.) But last week Pansy and I also went and revised with Belinda Dunstan and Morag MacDougal and that was quite nice actually, we talked when we weren't revising. And Belinda brought food to share. We're meeting again this week.

Draco where do (and Harry and Blaise and Teddy) revise? Pansy and I tried to find you twice but we never remembered to ask at dinner where to look for you. Are you in one of the classrooms near the library?

Comments

[alt_neville]

You're right about Dean getting the theory of Transfiguration more than me. He doesn't talk about it much, but I guess he must have seen working wizards using it when he was working in the infirmary at that before he came to Hogwarts. Still, I was worried about him after seeing how he did in class last Thursday, and that's why I talked him into coming to revise with you and me. I was so surprised to see how he well did when it was just the three of us, that night.

He didn't want to tell us much about what happened in Transfiguration yesterday, but he was real quiet last night. Wouldn't blame him if he was dead upset about how how it went, though--I heard Crabbe and Goyle going on and on about it in the Great Hall last night.

(No offence, cause you're a Slytherin and all, but it must've been pretty bad if Crabbe and Goyle were rolling their eyes at him for not catching on.)

[alt_sally_anne]

Tell him again not to let on how much

Vince and Greg are better at Transfiguration than you'd think, I mean I'd hate having to read their scrolls and they're never the first to catch on but they can turn a mouse into a snuffbox without having it collapse into a puddle of ... well, you know what's been happening.

Pansy's going to come this week to revise with us too, she had an idea for helping him practise that might work.

[alt_ron]

Hey, I think I'll come along, too. If that's okay. We've got

I know I could use the review and some more practice, too. So, yeah. If you think there's room wherever you're getting together.

[alt_pansy]

There's room. And yeah, it would be okay.

[alt_pansy]

We'll see.

[alt_draco]

It's sort of near the library. Down that one corridor that leads to the charms classroom.

Are people ever going to stop talking about how Thomas can do spells outside of class but not in class? Honestly, it only matters if he can do them in class, and I hope someone helps him get his nerves together because it slows the whole class-time down.

[alt_neville]

Do you really think so?

I think the only spells that matter in the end are the ones you can remember and do outside the classroom, in your daily life, after you've left school. Without a teacher standing over you, so to speak.

Course, we're in school now. So yeah, he's gotta be able to demonstrate them in class, along with the rest of us.

[alt_draco]

We're not leaving school for ages, so obviously what happens in class matters more now.

[alt_sally_anne]

OWLs matter a lot more than what happens in class but those are years away. Besides his nerves might get him during OWLs too.

Anyway Pansy and I have an idea for helping him get it together, I guess we'll see if it works. It wouldn't slow the class down so much if Mr Professor Carrow didn't stop everything to point it out every time his spells didn't work. He must think we'll learn something useful from Thomas's failures.

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh and we'll look for you down the Charms corridor next time! Thanks.

Have you finished your scroll for Muggle Studies yet?

[alt_draco]

I've got two inches left, so I'm nearly done.