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[alt_ron]

Sir. I know I haven't made very good progress and I know you might think it's not worth me carrying on with Occlumency lessons, but I'd like to keep at it if you've got time for a session now and then.

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[alt_albus]

I'm certain we can arrange a time, my boy.

If you would describe your practice since we last met, I will consider how we might best begin.

[alt_ron]

Erm. Well. I tried doing all the things we discussed all summer whenever I was talking to Mum. I mean, she's not a Legilimens, but she always knows when I'm thinking of stuff she doesn't think I should be or stuff she doesn't want me to go do or not thinking about whatever she's saying to me. So I thought it might help if I could Occlude when she was talking to me. And maybe it sort of worked. Sometimes. Except it meant I never really knew what she'd asked me to do, and I got in a load of trouble for starting to muck out the goats when I was meant to bring rakes around from the shed. That sort of thing.

Oh. I have been doing Professor Dolohov's meditation exercises every day because we got in the habit during CCF and he's going to have us doing them all year. They're good for setting aside stuff I'm thinking about. Sometimes. Depends what I'm thinking about.

I don't know. It's the same thing still. I just get ideas all in a flash and can't stop that. They just pop up. And, um.

Well.

I think about someone in particular a lot. And I can't stop that, either.

[alt_albus]

Indeed.

Bring me a copy of your schedule when you come for class tomorrow morning, and I will find some suitable times to meet. I should review your material from Professor Dolohov as well, to determine the best approach.

The question of how to hold your focus will occupy us for some time.