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[alt_ron]

Well, tea with Professor Brutka was interesting. And his office is totally wizard!


But, yeah. Malfoy. You'd better keep totally out of my road tomorrow. You and your lousy gob. Dean Thomas is loads better than you can ever hope to be.

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[alt_ron]

It's really appalling, let me tell you.

[alt_pansy]

Well, that explains things a bit better.

You really ought to get a new wand. Honestly. How're you going to be able to cast anything with it if you can't manage a simple hex?

What were the slugs like? I bet they were black, nasty looking things.

[alt_ron]

Oh, right. I should just write home and ask for a new one.

And get another howler in tomorrow's post!!

I think I'll just do with what I've got. I mean, at least when Mum yells at me for not revising enough to get good marks, I can say it was the wand... 'course I wouldn't ever do anything like that... hi, Mum!

Er. Well, yeah, they were kinda black. The slugs. But shiny-slimey black. Actually, almost blue, some of them. At least in the torchlight in Professor Brutka's office.

[alt_neville]

His office was wizard, wasn't it? A lot different than the way Professor Macnair kept it. And it was right nice of him to ask us for tea and all, and he didn't even mind when you were dropping slugs in his tea cups.

[alt_sally_anne]

What was Professor Brutka like? Did he seem like someone who'd like students who were interested in the Forbid magical creatures instead of thinking there was something suspicious about it?

[alt_neville]

He seemed all right, I guess. There were a couple of students who came in with questions and such while we were there, and he answered 'em all without grumbling at 'em the way Macnair used to do sometimes. Keeps a glass jar full of chocolate frogs, on his desk. (Ron sicced up some slugs on it, and that was funny--slugs crawling on the outside of the jar, and that got the frogs excited so they were hopping around like mad inside.)

He has a bit of an accent--French, I guess--but it's easier to understand him than I was afraid it would be.

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh ugh, the poor chocolate frogs.

I'm glad he's not too hard to understand, if you couldn't understand your teacher it would be hard to learn much, you know? And I do want to take Care of Magical Creatures. Do you know yet what you'll take next year?

[alt_neville]

I dunno. We have a whole year to decide, after all.

I'm just trying to live through Transfiguration this year.

Pity I can't drop it next year. I mean, I know it's important and all, but--yeah.

Anyway, I bet Professor Brutka's a decent enough teacher. Just had that feeling about him.

[alt_sally_anne]

It is a pity you can't drop it, I mean I don't see what you're getting out of it now. No offense or anything.

[alt_neville]

No offence taken, believe me.

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[alt_molly]

I wish we could get him a new wand, Arthur. But with that fine the Ministry is going to levy on us, not to mention all the food we've lost, I just don't see how we can come up with the Galleons right now.