Order Only: Tutoring

[alt_molly]

Regarding the tutoring that Remus mentioned: Alice, I know Fred and George gave you a list of names of who should be included. After giving it some thought, I think the best way to handle it is for me to contact the childrens' parents and say that I've arranged tutorial assistance for my own children and I'm willing to host sessions over at the Burrow. Shall we start on Monday, at noon? Then, Alice if you can write fidelius notes giving them permission to find 12 Grimmauld Place, I can distribute them, and we can move the lessons there. How does that sound?

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[alt_nymphadora]

Wotcher, Charlie.

No beasts in the library? I suppose the beasts that live here don't spend as much time in the library as in other rooms, but we haven't made rules against their looking at the books when they want to.

Really, it's a shame OWLs don't ask much about dogs or werewolves. I could do animal faces, if that would help.

[alt_charlie]

It might do! How's your hippogriff impression?

[alt_nymphadora]

I've got the beak and the beady stare down cold, and I think I'm not entirely crap at the roaring.

They do roar, don't they? Or is it more a loud squawk?

[alt_charlie]

Kind of a squawk, but it's loud enough that a lot of people call it a roar anyway. Unless you make friends with one of them, in which case you can sometimes get it to do this really rumbly kind of almost-purr if you can convince it to let you scratch behind its ears. Mind, it takes a arseload of convincing.

Uh. Sorry, Mum.

Actually, come to think of it, I think I remember firecrabs and knarls being on the OWLs. Don't think I could turn up a firecrab on short notice, but I might be able to scrounge the knarls and hedgehogs. Shouldn't be much risk to the library, as long as you remember not to feed them.

[alt_nymphadora]

Aw. Bea would love it if you brought her a hedgehog!

Mind you, I doubt the hedgehog would be as eager to meet Bea.

[alt_bill]

Animal faces? That I'd like to see!

(Almost makes me want to go back to school, if only because I don't remember revising for O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s being that much fun.)

[alt_charlie]

Well, there were the stupid mnemonic songs we came up with to remember the order of the Goblin Wars. Remember those? "In 1713, Urg the Unclean lay waste in the Battle of Bendings; with his captain Elaisrn they got all the tribes in and lasted until the beheadings..."

Can't remember what comes after that, but I can still sing you the tune!

[alt_bill]

'But Krunkak the Unsteady called the goblins to ready the Armour of Chars
And thundered o'er them till the twilight was gloaming
and landed smack flat on his...'

No, I don't remember the rest, either.

Or at least that's what I'm telling Mum.

[alt_sirius]

...And his wand snapped in two
Which was sad.


(Isn't that how they all end?)

[alt_charlie]

Well, if you listened to Binns, they all ended with a bunch of people in a dusty room writing treaties that nobody ever read.

...Not that anyone ever listened to Binns, mind you.

[alt_bill]

NOBODY listened to Binns!

[alt_nymphadora]

Too right. No one ever stayed awake long enough to listen to Binns.

I don't remember anything about school being that much fun. Or, really, any fun at all.

I'm glad every first of September I don't have to go back!

[alt_charlie]

And I taught them to the rest of my year, and we all got into the exam and turned over the papers and stared at the questions in horror, until someone started humming and we all took it up ...