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[alt_sally_anne]

I'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?)

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[alt_daphne]

I can't think of a single person who is so worth my attention that I would declare them a "rival." I would quite enjoy critiquing Smith, but I doubt Professor Desai wants to hear about his snogging technique.

I don't know Steven Capper well, though, so I believe I'll write about him.

[alt_sally_anne]

I tried to get Patil to write about me but I think she's going to write about Pansy, Daphne, or Justin. (I do think it's probably going to be someone she considers a rival.)

[alt_ron]

Eh?

Oh. Erm. Didn't see she'd posted until just now. I was, er, advising some of our first years on strategic thinking.

Right. So, sure you could write about me. Why not? Should I write about you, then? It can't be Kat or Nev, really, because it's better if she's not sure how close or not we are. Guess I could write about Pansy. No secret we're friends. I mean, it's one of those things she'll have heard, how odd it is, the Gryffindor-Slytherin business.

[alt_pansy]

I'm not sure how much we could get away with. Desai's pretty sharp, yeah?

I mean, if it were for Professor Raz, I don't think I could claim to not know Nev very well, and if she's read up on us, which she probably has, I'm pretty sure she'll catch those public entries I made about Mr and Mrs Longbottom. But I'm not sure that qualifies as 'knowing well'.

I might go with MacDougal, only because of the falling-out we had.

I think I'm overthinking things.

I'm going to say that I'm slightly better at shielding spells than offensive spells, and I can sometimes get distracted by what's happening to people around me, but once I'm focused, I can be fairly quick on my feet. I don't think I'll talk about the more advanced stuff that really clicked for me, like those linking spells we worked on at the end of term with Professor Raz, and the paired work we did at Moddey.