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alt_sally_anneI'm thinking about Professor Desai's assignment. Both in terms of not giving away more than we have to, but also in terms of who I should write about. Normally if I needed to write about a close friend it would be Pansy, but I'm wondering if I should write about Ron so that I could talk up something Desai might not know? (Since you need to impress her.)
It's tempting to tell her I 'duel like a hesitant Ravenclaw' (or however it was Mr Shacklebolt put it) -- though really my biggest problem with duelling is I can't stop myself from flinching and so I end up taking too long to react. In an actual battle I might be able to patch people up so they could go back to fighting -- I mean if someone's hit with the entrail-expelling curse or something really horrid I wouldn't be able to do much about that, but if they got a blinding hex I might be able to fix it quickly enough they could still be useful. I also have excellent aim but only if I'm not worried about someone hexing me, which is not exactly useful in a proper fight.
None of that is any sort of real secret.
Anyway Ron if you want to have me write about you, I'll show you the scroll before I turn it in so you can be sure I'm not giving anything away she shouldn't know.
Probably no matter what I say about myself I'll definitely be classified as the sort of ally you sacrifice if you need to. (That was a jolly cheerful lecture today, wasn't it?)
It's tempting to tell her I 'duel like a hesitant Ravenclaw' (or however it was Mr Shacklebolt put it) -- though really my biggest problem with duelling is I can't stop myself from flinching and so I end up taking too long to react. In an actual battle I might be able to patch people up so they could go back to fighting -- I mean if someone's hit with the entrail-expelling curse or something really horrid I wouldn't be able to do much about that, but if they got a blinding hex I might be able to fix it quickly enough they could still be useful. I also have excellent aim but only if I'm not worried about someone hexing me, which is not exactly useful in a proper fight.
None of that is any sort of real secret.
Anyway Ron if you want to have me write about you, I'll show you the scroll before I turn it in so you can be sure I'm not giving anything away she shouldn't know.
Probably no matter what I say about myself I'll definitely be classified as the sort of ally you sacrifice if you need to. (That was a jolly cheerful lecture today, wasn't it?)
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Date: 2014-09-20 05:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-09-20 05:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-09-20 05:10 am (UTC)The thing about her is that she's so focused on succeeding that she never bothers to learn from her failures. And until she can do that, well--she'll never get to where she wants to be.
Oh, but if you write about her as your rival, you should mention that. I bet Desai would find it intriguing!
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Date: 2014-09-20 05:16 am (UTC)But I think that mostly just proves your point.
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Date: 2014-09-20 05:18 am (UTC)