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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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.
Re: Private message to Justin
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.