Private Message to Seamus Finnigan

[alt_padma]

Did you see what Bulstrode wrote? Sounds like other people have seen a black dog, so I'm sure it's the same as the one you saw that time and it's not a Grim at all. Just a stray.

Have you written your letter yet? I'm still trying to perfect mine before I send it. But I'm not completely certain whether it would work better if I sent it to Mr Rookwood in the Department of Mysteries or Mr Leach at the Potioneers' Guild. What do you think? Mr Rookwood's rather more prominent than Mr Leach but I'm not sure I really fancy the Ministry as much as Potioneering.

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[alt_seamus]

I'd missed it till you pointed it out -- thanks! I reckon you're right, it's just a stray. I'm a little surprised the Weasley twins haven't hunted it down to adopt it like they did with Carrow's mudblood when he was a dog.

I've been owling with Mr Rosier, trying to work out who best to write to. I think you should write to Mr Leach if you'd prefer Potioneering. Surely you'll get into the summer YPL training regardless, so why not write to whomever you're interested in?

Here's the thing: when I finish school, I want to go back to Ireland and set things a bit more right, but in loads of different ways. I could write to Mr Scrimgeour to say I want to go into MLE in Ireland to put a stop to the Muggle uprising once and for all. Or I could write to Mr Selwyn to say I want to work in his department, overseeing Ireland. (Ireland's in the Protectorate so the Department of Protectorate Affairs includes them but in reality they're left to their own devices quite a lot.) Or I could write to Mr Malfoy who doesn't have an official Ministry job -- Mr Rosier seems to think he'd be a good person to write to, anyway.

I don't know. It's irritating that Weasley's got his done already. I thought surely he'd be one of the last ones in.

[alt_padma]

I do think I'd prefer to be a Potioner in the Department of Mysteries but I'm not sure they even have a lot of them. Potions, I mean. I dunno.

I'm doing better than Corner, anyway. He's written three drafts so far and burned each one up in the common room fire.

I mean, sure, I'm not worried about going on, like he is, but this is sort of important. The leter could mean the difference between a really good career and scrubbing bogs like Draco's cousin Tonks. Before she got married, I mean.

And knowing Weasley, he never wrote whatever he sent. I'd stake my wand that Perks or Parkinson wrote it for him. Probably Perks, actually. First off, she's more or less their lackey anyway, but second, Parkinson's not having a good week of it.