alt_ron: (14b_ron)
Hey.

I've been thinking about what I told you about my dad.

And about what Mr Black said. I read it again. And y'know, I don't know what to think now, exactly. Y'know, about my dad. Because, yeah. I think he does what Mr Black says, y'know? Justifying stuff he does. For his job. He does all that stuff to keep the camps in control because he thinks- no, really, he knows that the other people who work there, especially the people who work above him, but y'know, some of the others who want to move up higher, they'd do worse things if he weren't there. If they did his job, they'd be loads meaner than he is. But see, he can't stop what the rest of them do. And sometimes he even has to do things that make him sick. I mean, sometimes you can just tell when he comes home that he's sick about what he's had to do. Or if you can't tell from him, you can tell by the way mum acts and what she says to him.

So, yeah. Does that mean Mr Black would think my dad is horrible because he does what he does? Because, it's just like what he says about people in the middle: they do it because they're afraid their kids will get hurt or they'll get arrested and their families will get reclassified or worse.
alt_ron: (34_distressed)
What Greengrass said. Uh. Is it really like the play, do you think? I mean, I did that because everyone said it was important to show loyal and all.

D'you think it's really important to go to this ball thinger?

Cause, I mean, there's almost no one left to ask that's not a troll. I mean to say, Bullstrode?

Does anyone know any of the foreign girls that don't have dates yet?

I can't believe I'm even thinking about it.

Blimey.
alt_ron: (1b_ron)
You know, if tomorrow just has NO SPIDERS in it, I'll be happy to read another of those pamphlet thingers out loud in front of everyone and pretend I LOVE the Lord Protector like the father mine should have been and whatever whatever it said.

I don't even care if they really do make us go through a test to see who can take the most pain without screaming or passing out or whatever. But then, it was Zabini I heard that one from. So, y'know, whatever. He was probably just taking the piss.

But I swear, if Thomas and Finnigan try anything more, I'm going to totally let them have what's coming.
alt_ron: (3_smile)
Dear Director Selwyn,

My name is Ronald Weasley. You might remember that I played Mad Eye's Mad Cat in the spring play. As a project for the Young Protectors' League, we are each writing to someone in a field we are interested in for a career.

As you know, both my father and my brother Bill work at the Ministry in your department. My dad's in the Department of Purity Control and works with the Muggle Domestication department, too, and my brother Bill's in Communications. I would also like to work at the Ministry someday, probably in one of the departments that you oversee.

I understand that your department oversees the Department for Regional Restoration, Rural Reclamation, and Retroversionary Rigmarole (DFRRRRRR), which surveys former Muggle habitations to see whether they should be restored to a fully natural state, or developed into new wizarding towns. This job sounds really exciting to me! I think I would be good at this because I like exploring and flying, and finding places in the country that have been left empty. I particularly like the idea of blowing up rotten old Muggle places so that nature will take them back faster, and make them beautiful again. I also like the idea of planning where to build new things.

I'm writing to you instead of the surveyors because what matters the most to me is serving Our Lord by working for the Ministry, and I would most like to work in Protectorate Affairs, your division. I like the idea of serving Our Lord as directly as possible, and it's hard to find a better place for that than your department! I admire you a lot, and I know you're a good person to work for. I don't expect a response because I know you're very busy, but thank you for everything you do for us.

Thank you for your time, sir.


Sincerely,
Ronald Weasley
alt_ron: (3_not a swot)
So, er. Towler's quit playing chess with me until I write this letter thing to Director Selwyn 'cause he says I really pretty much have to do whatever it takes to stay in YPL. Says he'd totally be doing it if they'd started with his year, and says it's going to be really, really a bad thing for people who drop out, y'know. Basically all the stuff we've talked about, but I mean, he's older and he thinks the same thing. That it'll help us get jobs or hurt us a lot--one way or the other.

So, yeah.

And anyway, I was only sort of kidding when I asked if you'd write it for me, but, uh, they sort of sat there and watched me while I wrote a draft of it, so I've got this bit written, and it's probably completely naff. So could you take a look and tell me what to say instead?


Uh, so
Dear Director Selwyn.

My name is Ronald Weasley, and you might not remember, but we've talked before. Here in the journals. One time. And I was Mad Eye's Mad Cat in the play this spring, and maybe you remember that since you said Ar your daughter liked the way I played it. Anywiz, I'm writing because I'm in the YPL. You know, the Young Protectors' League. And we're supposed to write a letter to someone who works in a field we're interested in. So I've been thinking a lot about what I might want to do, and I decided probably not working with dragons like my older brother Charlie does because they don't take very many people into that programme and it'd be sort of awful to have to train under my own brother. If you know what I mean. I've met some of the dragon handlers, and they're a pretty rough lot and I think they'd pretty much spend all they'retheir time taking the mickey if I got into training. So not that. And so then I've been thinking about jobs at the Ministry, which you probably know is where my dad and my other brother work. My dad's in the Department of Purity Control and works with the Muggle Domestication department, too, and my brother Bill's in Communications. And I guess those are both good jobs that, you know, make a contribution to the Protectorate and stuff. And Bill got a promotion last year, so I guess he's really good at what he's doing. But I'm not sure I want to always be working in an office indoors, so I've been talking to people about what I like to do and what sort of jobs that might mean I'd be good at, and one of the people in my House said I ought to think about surveying because I like exploring and flying and finding places out in the country that've been left empty and all. And she'd heard that there's a Department of Regional Restoration and Rural Reclamation that's surveying all the places around where Muggles used to live that could be good places for wizards to start new towns of our own since there are getting to be more of us. And I think that'd be a completely wizard job to have! Especially the part where she said she'd heard they're planning to blow up some of the rotten old Muggle places to allow nature to take them back faster so they'll be beautiful again. That'd be amazing to get to blow stuff up. Um, and also to help plan where to build new things or fix and improve places that are okay but just need the Muggle stuff taken away. And, anywiz, I'm writing to you because that's part of your big department, right? And you were nice when we talked before, so I thought you'd probably not be annoyed if I wrote you about this. And I was hoping maybe you'd even write me back to tell me if this'd be a good sort of job for me to try to have someday.

So, yeah. Thank you, sir. I really appreciate your time and everything.

Sincerely,
Ronald Weasley
Gryffindor House
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
So. What'd you think?
alt_ron: (3_wizard!)
D'you think we're really going to study lions in CoMC today? We've done all the other House animals, right? And we finished badgers before hols.

It'll be dead awesome if we do!!
alt_ron: (3_brilliant)
Wizard wizard wizard.

Those charms that make the cat costume's tail swish? Dead wizard.

Too bad they don't have the head made yet. The charms to make the whiskers twitch are going to be amazing.

I think I might want to go into play acting. They have loads of fun, don't they?
alt_ron: (1_ron)
was wizard and how!

Sorry about knocking you off your feet, Bundy. But you got some good hits on me, too. I didn't notice the one on my ear until I went to the loo after: the purple tag marker came right off, though, and I don't think it's going to bruise. Anywiz, good show.
alt_ron: (1_ron)
Anyone want to go out to the pens today and see if those firecrabs have got any bigger? It's probably safer out there than inside today. Especially for you lot in Slytherin.

At least we don't have to go to YPL again this week. Professor Lestrange's lessons are really nift, but that meeting last week was too boring. And Professor Sinistra was so much more, I dunno, 'the Protectorate this' and 'the Protectorate that' than usual. I guess it was because Professor Lestrange was there and she wanted to impress him. But honestly. I hope next month's is better.
alt_ron: (1_ron)
Is anyone else missing Duelling Club?

I was hoping maybe if a mob of us asked for it, Professor Lestrange would let us do it again.

Profile

alt_ron: (Default)
alt_ron

September 2015

S M T W T F S
   12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930   

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated May. 24th, 2025 05:36 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios