Seriously. I mean, when you think about it, you could die in this school any day of the week if you weren't looking right when you took a rotating staircase.
Oh, we've a few niches like that, as well. My first year I simply could not remember that at a certain time of day the most direct passage between our Transfiguration classroom and our Potions Tower closed itself off. Got myself rather stuck more than once!
But, if what Perks says is true, about monsters in the castle and such, then I should say you've all had much more experience with the sorts of things in this bally old TriWizard Tournament than anyone we'll be bringing!
I wonder what the students at Durmstrang are like, what?
Just so you know, there was a student in our year who died last year. She was murdered by a professor.
He's not at the school anymore, but his sister still teaches here (Professor Carrow).
Anyway, the student who died was named Hannah Abbot and she was in Hufflepuff. Which is why the Hufflepuffs are maybe a little extra touchy about this sort of thing.
How awful, as well. I can't imagine being murdered by one of my profs. Well, I mean to say, there are one or two who don't care for me much because I'm--because I didn't know I was a wizard for a long time.
But I don't think he'd up and kill me, either. Blimey.
Oh, no, I showed my magic--well, round about the usual time, I expect. I just didn't know wasn't very healthy when I was younger, do you see, so my mother held me back a year. I had tutors, though. I started a bit behind everyone but I caught up quickly enough.
Draco tells me you've a classmate with a similar situation. Thompkins, I think? Anyway, it rather sounded like the same sort of, well, track, I suppose one might call it.
Most of the Professors here care more about it than they did two years ago, I can bally well tell you that.
It's Dean Thomas, and he started late because people didn't realise that he had a wizard parent; they thought he was a muggleborn, a mudblood. So he was in the camps, first year. Then someone was going through some old records and realised that actually his father, his real father, was a wizard. So he was taken out, assigned a foster father, and he came to Hogwarts.
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Date: 2011-09-07 02:14 am (UTC)Well, you'll see, if you get to come here.
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Date: 2011-09-07 02:17 am (UTC)But, if what Perks says is true, about monsters in the castle and such, then I should say you've all had much more experience with the sorts of things in this bally old TriWizard Tournament than anyone we'll be bringing!
I wonder what the students at Durmstrang are like, what?
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Date: 2011-09-07 02:15 am (UTC)He's not at the school anymore, but his sister still teaches here (Professor Carrow).
Anyway, the student who died was named Hannah Abbot and she was in Hufflepuff. Which is why the Hufflepuffs are maybe a little extra touchy about this sort of thing.
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Date: 2011-09-07 02:19 am (UTC)Thank you for telling me, Perks. Jolly kind.
How awful, as well. I can't imagine being murdered by one of my profs. Well, I mean to say, there are one or two who don't care for me much because I'm--because I didn't know I was a wizard for a long time.
But I don't think he'd up and kill me, either. Blimey.
Re: Private message to Justin
Date: 2011-09-07 02:25 am (UTC)Did you show your magic late, then? That seems like an odd thing to hold against someone.
How much do Professors at Beauxbatons care about blood purity? Some of my professors hold it against me that I'm a half-blood.
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Date: 2011-09-07 02:35 am (UTC)just didn't knowwasn't very healthy when I was younger, do you see, so my mother held me back a year. I had tutors, though. I started a bit behind everyone but I caught up quickly enough.Draco tells me you've a classmate with a similar situation. Thompkins, I think? Anyway, it rather sounded like the same sort of, well, track, I suppose one might call it.
Most of the Professors here care more about it than they did two years ago, I can bally well tell you that.
Re: Private message to Justin
Date: 2011-09-07 02:42 am (UTC)Wait, but whyIt's Dean Thomas, and he started late because people didn't realise that he had a wizard parent; they thought he was a muggleborn, a mudblood. So he was in the camps, first year. Then someone was going through some old records and realised that actually his father, his real father, was a wizard. So he was taken out, assigned a foster father, and he came to Hogwarts.
Re: Private message to Justin
Date: 2011-09-07 02:51 am (UTC)Quite.