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[alt_ron]

Professor.

I've been reading back over the part of Proteus you were talking about, and I think I was looking at the pictures the first time and I didn't really pay attention to what he was saying about how it feels to transform. Because, yeah.

That's a lot like what I was trying to explain about how it felt with the leg-locker and the thing about how it felt to get up with my legs fused like that and having to hop instead of walk, but it didn't feel like hopping usually does. More... I don't know. Like launching myself.

I almost want to try that again. The leg-locker, I mean, and maybe some other jinxes like that, just to feel what it's like to move when my body's different, y'know?

Anywiz, can we get together again soon? I don't want to wait too long. I mean, if you've got time when you could see me. I know you're busy.

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[alt_albus]

You have an intriguing idea there, Mr Weasley. You might think of other jinxes of that kind, and I shall as well.

Certainly, we should work together again soon. It is a trifle hard to plan without knowing when your attention must be focused on these challenges. Shall we perhaps say Wednesday at nine?

[alt_ron]

Not til  Wednesday. All right.

About the challenges, though. I mean, so far, they haven't been very difficult to work out. I expect that will change, but still, it's not as if I mean to win. I have to look like I'm competing, and I reckon that some of them will be difficult to work out what I should do that wouldn't be horrible to other people but wouldn't give away that I'm not really serious about being considered. That's the tricky part. I want them to decide I'm not the right sort of wizard for them, but I don't want to show them that I think I'm not the right sort for them. If you see what I mean.

I should keep on with the meditation exercises, then?

And did you mean I should start reading that long book about King Arthur? Or should I just read all of Proteus again and see what I missed before? It really has terrific drawings, doesn't it? I thought it was especially great when he turned into the minnow and then into a trout. Oh, and the part where he was charging up that rocky slope as a goat, just to see if there was sweet grass at the top!

[alt_albus]

Tuesday at nine, then. Decide on at least three jinxes you'd like to try.

Before then, meditation exercises, yes. For reading, focus on Proteus, but I would like you to start the White as soon as you've a chance. You might well enjoy the whole thing, but you need only read through the transformation scenes for our purposes. Those scenes are a most effective direction to allow your thoughts to wander.

Regarding the challenges, you have rather hit the point. You may well find, though, that walking that line is rather more time consuming than you realise, my boy.

[alt_ron]

Tuesday night. Thank you, sir!