Exam Week

[alt_sally_anne]

I have been having a lot of trouble revising, but exam week has mostly been going okay. I guess I'd done enough work beforehand that I mostly remembered everything, at least in the classes with a practical component. I don't know about History of Magic. I was very happy with how the Runes project turned out, at least.

I am especially glad that the Dark Arts exam is over.

Professor Slughorn, if it's possible I would like to stop by your office to talk when you are not busy with exams. I am hoping you can give me advice regarding next year.

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Private message to Harry Marvolo

[alt_sally_anne]

Thank you. Thank you so much. I think she was really planning to hurt me. I was afraid when you jumped up that she would hurt you instead but I guess she had enough sense not to.

I'm going to talk to Professor Slughorn about whether I should take Dark Arts next year or just drop it. He was the one who suggested I try to get in, because it would help me make connections, but those connections won't do me much good if I'm hurt too badly for Madam Pomfrey to heal the next time Professor Carrow drops a bookcase on me.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

I think I'm going to drop Dark Arts.

When we got to the exam today Miss Professor Carrow noticed right away that Harry hadn't brought Hermione with him and she made a bunch of comments about it, really scary, threatening comments. And then, she had a bunch of common rats and we went up one at a time to try again whatever of the Cardinal Curses we'd tried a year ago in that 'taster' class. And whatever it was, whether we failed or succeeded she'd do it herself to 'show us how it was done,' you know.

When everyone finished she said she wanted to give a few students the opportunity to raise their marks by duelling two-on-one and then she called up Greg and Vince AND ME and I realised she was going to put me right under that bookcase again, and it looked even less stable than it had last time and she'd stacked... oh, I don't even want to think about it. Heavy things. But before I could go up Harry jumped up and shouted that if anyone was going to get a chance to raise their mark it ought to be him and he wanted to be the one to duel Vince and Greg, and he went up to the front of the room and got ready and then she said never mind, we were actually out of time and dismissed us.

I hate her. I HATE HER.

The rat I had to kill, I closed my eyes and pretended I was casting Avada Kedavra on Carrow. And it might have worked except that since my eyes were closed the spell missed the rat. It completely blew apart the glass container the rat was in, though.

Anyway I'm going to talk to Professor Slughorn and see what he thinks but I can't think of anything he could say that would make me want to stay in. I'm not a Gryffindor and if someone actually wants to hurt me I want to AVOID them, not sit class with them once a week. Maybe I could take the Arithmancy book home over the summer and learn enough to switch to Arithmancy.

[alt_blaise]

I'm glad it's over, too, the Dark Arts exam. All I can say is Miss Professor Carrow takes her subject dead seriously.

Got a bit hair-raising there at the end. I'd try a joke about how it was Harry-raising, too, except there wasn't a thing that was funny about it. Just, well-

Good to have it finished.