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alt_justinHello,
I've been thinking about Stretton and Bill all day, what.
I can't help but feel that I've, well, 'dodged a bullet,' is how Muggles would say it, having done so poorly in my Aurors' interview.
On the other hand, one does want to do the job well, and if any of us are to position ourselves favourably in the Ministry, we shall simply have to compromise ourselves to some extent, what? I mean to say, after all, neither Bill nor Jeremy are working in MLE. It's simply that they're working for a sadist.
(By the way, Ron, did Professor Dolohov ask you how your interview went? That's why he held me back yesterday, to ask. He bally well confirmed that Sandoval thought him a fool for recommending me in the first place. He wasn't half disappointed.)
I keep thinking there has to be something else we can do to help, though, that doesn't necessarily require us to...to subvert ourselves in the process. I'm dashed if I can come up with much, though, apart from all going and joining Terry in Sherwood.
I say, it's jolly frustrating, knowing we've got more than a year before we can finish N.E.W.T.s and start making a difference.
-F-F
I've been thinking about Stretton and Bill all day, what.
I can't help but feel that I've, well, 'dodged a bullet,' is how Muggles would say it, having done so poorly in my Aurors' interview.
On the other hand, one does want to do the job well, and if any of us are to position ourselves favourably in the Ministry, we shall simply have to compromise ourselves to some extent, what? I mean to say, after all, neither Bill nor Jeremy are working in MLE. It's simply that they're working for a sadist.
(By the way, Ron, did Professor Dolohov ask you how your interview went? That's why he held me back yesterday, to ask. He bally well confirmed that Sandoval thought him a fool for recommending me in the first place. He wasn't half disappointed.)
I keep thinking there has to be something else we can do to help, though, that doesn't necessarily require us to...to subvert ourselves in the process. I'm dashed if I can come up with much, though, apart from all going and joining Terry in Sherwood.
I say, it's jolly frustrating, knowing we've got more than a year before we can finish N.E.W.T.s and start making a difference.
-F-F
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Date: 2013-11-29 07:50 pm (UTC)Then again, perhaps it doesn't affect them like it affects Bill. Come to think of it, he was dashed wrecked after the ritual last year--that's when he laid into Ron, wasn't it? I say, dashed bad form, that was. And that was after exposure to Dark Arts.
-J
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Date: 2013-11-29 08:27 pm (UTC)He was wrecked, and that's when he laid into Ron.
And you know, if you've properly studied the Dark Arts you'll be familiar with how it makes you feel. After class, if we cast a load of dark spells, I have a harder time settling down to sleep or to do revision on other subjects. And I know this now so I'll drink a soothing tisane and I know it'll be a good day for organising my trunk and practicing quidditch and not as good a day for working on Charms homework. You know? I know I'll have a bit of extra energy that day and but it's not terribly useful for certain things.
If you never studied Dark Arts because it wasn't available when you were in school, and if you're convinced that having that reaction means you're a terrible person and you're being utterly corrupted and it's going to turn you into Carrow while you sleep -- THAT'S NOT GOOD. And do you imagine Bill's going to say to himself after he's cast cruciatus on some poor sod who stumbled in late, 'well! extra energy! guess it'll be a good day for doing all the weeding when I get home!'
So yeah, if he gets a very strong reaction that makes what happened with Ron make more sense, doesn't it? Because he had all that energy, he didn't know what to do with it, and it turned him into one of those potions that'll blow up if you leave it in the cauldron too long. And Ron was the person who poked the cauldron and got the spillover.
That right there, THAT is why I think Bill Weasley shouldn't be doing Dark Arts in his job, but you're right that he might not be the only one.