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So did Dovs answer you yet? I hope he told you she liked you just fine. I mean, he told you from the start that she's a difficult sort, right? So I'm sure she was impressed even though you couldn't be sure.

Can we do something tomorrow? I mean, I'd come there, but... How's Pansy? Was it better after you got home? I was nervous, too, mind you, but I wasn't snipping at everyone. I don't think. I wasn't, was I?

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alt_sally_anne

Professor Dolohov assured me that I'd done fine and that if I hadn't impressed her, she'd have called me an idiot far more times. So....I guess now I just have to wait and see if she decides to take on an intern for the summer, because she almost never does. I really do think she'd decided by the end of tea that I would be more of a help than a hindrance, because of the conversation about origami, actually, but yeah, we'll see.

I'd love to come meet you. ~~Just so long as Pansy doesn't~~ Pansy, well, I think she's a little calmer than she was when we were testing. And no, you were fine.

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alt_ron

I think it's hilarious that you might get hired because of those paper animals you make. I mean, they're brill, but she should see the other stuff you can do--make stuff out of bits and bobs, and fix almost anything that's got bunged up or that's got its charms skewed, and upgrade the spellwork and runes on almost anything. She'd be mad not to hire you.

What if we went for a ramble somewhere. You could come here, only then Mum'd want us to have lunch at home and she'd want to talk your ear off. We could go off somewhere like Dover or Rye or something and just see what's there. I think the weather's meant to be fine.

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alt_sally_anne

Anyway. I just want to get away from everyone for a day, I think. (I mean, everyone except you.) Your mum's not so bad but maybe we could pack a picnic?

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alt_ron

All right, then!

Why don't we pack some sarnies and go to Sandwich? (I bet Pansy could make a good joke about that. If she were feeling jokey.)

We can see if there're any sandy witches along the shore.

(Yeah, I know. That was naff. Sorry.)

What'd'you say?

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alt_sally_anne

Yes. Let's.

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alt_sally_anne

And we got onto the paper animals because Professor Dolohov had told her I was good at making things, and she wanted to know what I'd started with, and I told her a little about the origami. She asked me to tell her some things I knew how to fold, and then she asked me what were some things I DIDN'T know how to fold, and then she said she wanted me to fold one of those, and talk through what I was doing. So, why was I making each fold. She wanted a bear, which I hadn't ever folded. So first I drew a bear, to get a picture of it in my mind, because they're not something I've seen very many times. And then I thought about what they were like that I already knew how to fold, and I decided that I could probably modify a cow, because they have a heavy body. Although bear legs are thicker and shorter and the heads are rounder -- so then I talked about how I was modifying it as I went, both in terms of the paper and in terms of the magic (because I wanted it to move like a bear, not a cow, and it needed to be balanced right so it could stand up on its hind legs, which is something bears can do (and cows can't).

Anyway. I'd never actually tried to explain how I make those animals before. So on one hand it was a bit silly, because it's NOTHING like making an eye, you know, or glasses. But on the other hand, I guess she wanted to see how I thought, and that turned into a conversation about all the ways that the physical form affects the magic.