I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

First she took over YPL and CCF and made them horrid.

Then she took over as Headmistress.

Now she's fired Professor Lestrange and taken over teaching THAT or, you know, 'providing revision materials' or some such rot and having Madam Hooch do 'drills' and UGH we are going to learn NOTHING.

And Professor Dolohov is still sick (at least if he were better we some of us could go to him for extra help in Defence, he's really quite good at both).

How are ANY of us supposed to pass our OWLs? At least she hasn't taken over Charms or Transfiguration or Potions. Yet.

Anyway. I've been so distracted by everything (first that horrid CCF thing on Sunday, then Madam Umbridge taking over) I forgot to tell all of you about something that happened on Saturday. There IS someone at the school who's going to teach us occlumency. Actually, there are two people. One of them found me on Saturday (there was a pass-phrase, Hermione arranged it. 'Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.')

They won't be able to meet with us very often and it will take some time to get round to all of us who need lessons and weren't already but he taught me some exercises that he said I should teach everyone else to get started with (and then when you meet with him he can tell you all the things you're doing wrong, at least that's what he did with me).

Occlumency lessons are kind of horrid. Mr S is a little abrupt. But he said he thinks I'll be able to learn how to do it. So that's something. And he was also

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[alt_ron]

You had Defence today, right? How did that go? Or did they cancel?

About the other thing, occlumency, yeah. I guess there's no reason not to say, is there? I'm going to study with Professor Brutka. Which you'd think would be nift, only, well-

He called me into his office after supper on Tuesday and showed me why I really need to learn to guard my thoughts. I mean, on Tuesday. All I could think about was Sophie Fleet and Auror Crouch and those other Aurors and Crucio and how much I hate all of it, and he knew everything I was thinking. It was- yeah. It was awful. I mean, he was nice about it and talked to me about what I would need to do to learn. Only, it was creepy. I mean, I couldn't feel anything when he did it. And he didn't have to do anything besides look at me.

Have you ever noticed his eyes?

Really disturbing when you do.