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To my fellow classmates,

I say, here we go.

This week shall test our mettle in a number of ways. The measure of our success lies not only in how well we bear up under the trials of our examinations, but how well we are able to set aside all the turmoil of the recent days to focus on the job at hand.

There's not a person among us who is not vastly affected by our losses, the betrayals we have suffered, the ways in which our thoughts about the world as we know it have been challenged.

Let us not dishonour the memory of all who have sacrificed, but rather do our level best, so that we may not disappoint them, or let their sacrifices be in vain.

We are all wizards, and in this, we are all equals. Prove that this week.

Courage, mes amis, et bonchance.

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alt_justin

Oh, my exam went well enough. Though at present I don't think I could tell you anything from the written portion this morning.

As for the practical...I think the examiners had already been told something about me, what. Everything they requested was relatively simple, as if they'd gone back to the beginning of our 6th-year. Or further, really. I can't make up my mind whether they were making it elementary on purpose because they've heard that I'm an assumptive candidate to receive the Mark, or because they know I'm in favour with Professor Dolohov, or if they mean to claim I can't perform any of the more complicated spells.

At any rate, it went jolly well smoothly, as far as that goes.

I say, did Ron have a similar experience, do you know? Has he come and found you yet?

-Justin

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alt_sally_anne

It would make sense for them to want to ensure you did well, so as not to embarrass the Headmaster.

Mine was quite difficult, but that was fine. I was pretty sure the examiner was impressed, and I'm pretty sure I got everything right on the written, or close enough, anyway.

I haven't seen Ron yet. I assume he's still waiting his turn.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Though he might have been sent off somewhere to do something for someone, seeing as he's one of the handful of students allowed to keep his wand right now.

I'm waiting for him and Pansy in the library, since they can't really complain about us being in the library, can they? Even if we are sitting together.

From:

alt_justin

Yes, he was still waiting when they called me in, but I thought he might have been next or shortly after me, at any rate. There were only about eight of us left when I went in.

Brilliant, I'll join you, shall I? Hydra's just gone in to her Defence lesson.

I say, if anyone gets shirty with us, we can simply tell them you needed a steady wand hand.

-J

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alt_sally_anne

You must have been intercepted by someone who needed you to help them with their hair or clean some stain out of their shirt or some such. (You know what I was missing last night? Being able to warm up my bed before I get into it. It's May, it's not even that cold out, but ugh, cold sheets are the worst.)

Ron's here. He said most of his Charms practical was straight out of Auror training but THEN they gave him a charm that's actually a rather complex household charm you use to properly clean a rug. Like from your floor. Not an everyday charm for that, but the one you'd use if you'd hauled your rug outside and really wanted to blow loose every last bit of debris from it.

He knew it cold, of course. As IF one of Mrs Weasley's children wouldn't know every possible cleaning charm.

He thinks he got nearly everything right on the written, even if he quit writing long before the two of us did.