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So what does everyone else think
about all the reports in the news and on the journals? Did you see how Master Arkadinov says he predicted those dogstar captures, which Parvati thinks is proof he's a genius. I say it's proof he's full of himself! Last year he claimed he predicted that Auror Lestrange would kill Sirius Black - but I noticed that he didn't actually say that's what his prediction meant until after it happened. Just like now he's saying he knew all those dogstar people would be caught, but if you look at what he actually said, it just says that the Protectorate's fortunes will rise as stars fall. Well. Anyone who studies Arithmancy knows that there are meteor showers this time of year every year! I think it's awfully cheeky to say that they're linked to anything in particular. (But then I don't think Arkadinov is his real name, either!) Lav, I'm sorry, but he's really too much, even if he is supposedly very famous and Madam Carpenter says he's Talented. Your predictions are going to be ever so much more accurate and interesting, I'm sure!
But the reaction to the Aurors is really really nift, isn't it? Lana, I hope you saw that snitch entry Mrs Dapplemyre wrote about all the trainees, particularly you and Reethi Singh and how important it is that our young witches prove they're just as good as warlocks in the field. (I don't know if anyone else reads Mrs Dapplemyre regularly, but her entries are always interesting and really, really thoughtful about how witches can have brilliant careers and still be wives and mothers and all that. I just love how she writes about all the really amazing witches from the past and the ones we celebrate now in the Protectorate.)
And Seamus, did you see that long post by that bloke, whats-his-name, Orestes Skym? Well, he's Welsh so I'm not surprised at all that he thought MLE should have let well enough alone in the Vale of Glamorgan. But did you read the whole thing? Because toward the end he even compared his people's struggle to Ireland and how it would have continued to be peaceful and happy if MLE would just let them all be. And he had a choice thing or two to say about the Kestrels, on top of everything else!
I'm getting ready to go to the CCF next week, how about the rest of us who got in? Actually, I've kept up the exercises that we started when we were going to be tested - and Parvati sometimes comes along, too. We've convinced Mum that we're old enough we can take little jogs round the neighbourhood and no one will bother us. She even designed us some nift running robes, so that it's easier to go long distances. She might even put a line in for the autumn.
What's everyone else doing to prepare?
But the reaction to the Aurors is really really nift, isn't it? Lana, I hope you saw that snitch entry Mrs Dapplemyre wrote about all the trainees, particularly you and Reethi Singh and how important it is that our young witches prove they're just as good as warlocks in the field. (I don't know if anyone else reads Mrs Dapplemyre regularly, but her entries are always interesting and really, really thoughtful about how witches can have brilliant careers and still be wives and mothers and all that. I just love how she writes about all the really amazing witches from the past and the ones we celebrate now in the Protectorate.)
And Seamus, did you see that long post by that bloke, whats-his-name, Orestes Skym? Well, he's Welsh so I'm not surprised at all that he thought MLE should have let well enough alone in the Vale of Glamorgan. But did you read the whole thing? Because toward the end he even compared his people's struggle to Ireland and how it would have continued to be peaceful and happy if MLE would just let them all be. And he had a choice thing or two to say about the Kestrels, on top of everything else!
I'm getting ready to go to the CCF next week, how about the rest of us who got in? Actually, I've kept up the exercises that we started when we were going to be tested - and Parvati sometimes comes along, too. We've convinced Mum that we're old enough we can take little jogs round the neighbourhood and no one will bother us. She even designed us some nift running robes, so that it's easier to go long distances. She might even put a line in for the autumn.
What's everyone else doing to prepare?
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I think that's why people like Skym can be let go by the Ministry, though, don't you? Because what they've got to say is just so obviously daft. It's almost like it makes the reverse argument for the reader. Sometimes I think it's good to hear the opposition's opinion, like in Future Interrogators. You have to let someone try to defend the other side, if only to show how utterly wrong and mad they are and how their arguments don't hold up to any sort of scrutiny.
I can't believe that's the same tutor who drilled you in spelling and regular lessons! I mean, it's hard to imagine someone like Professor Raz also getting all meticulous about grammar.
What else are you planning to do this summer? After next week, I mean. Do you think Hooper will want to hang about with you in New London or anything? I mean, he must have his own plans, too. But I guess you and he are fairly good mates, right? It's too bad Page turned out to be a berk.
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Hooper and I met up yesterday in New London and we'll probably see each other a few more times, he's busy too but it's nice to see friends. Do you want to come over for a visit once we're back from CCF? You'd be welcome any time, you know.
As far as people like Skym go, you're probably right but I hate seeing them go on in public. I worry people will start thinking it's NORMAL to want to coddle muggles like pets. And hardly anyone here really understands what's going on in Ireland, anyway, so it really makes me cross when someone's going on like they do know, and they obviously don't.
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Do you know anyone who's been going to those weight loss clinics? Because Hooper had some pretty appalling stories from his brother about what goes on in them. Apparently they make you lose weight by putting the Imperius Curse on you so you eat less and exercise properly. Which I can almost understand, I mean there are days when the LAST thing I want to do is go out running no matter what my tutor says.
But, it gets worse. Because of course if you're under the Imperius curse you'll do ANYTHING, so apparently they're taking hair from people and things like that and selling them to shops that want them for Dark Arts.
Anyway there isn't anyone in your family who's going to one of those places, is there? They sound dodgy. Worse than dodgy. I think the Ministry's planning to shut them down soon, fortunately. I don't know why they've let them go on as long as they have. I sort of wonder if someone (not Mr Malfoy, of course, but someone below him) is taking bribes? Or maybe the clinic wizards are using Imperius on the Ministry inspectors, but if they'd worked that out I'd have thought everyone would've had their license revoked by now.
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My mum has a bunch of clients who she says ballooned over the last year but then a few of them went to those clinics and dropped the weight again like anything. Some even tried to return their larger-size robes because they said they'd only worn them once or twice!
Mum figured that the clinics were dodgy because anyone who can make you lose weight that fast has to be using some unsafe spell. But Imperius? Wow. That would be why it's well expensive, I guess.
And oh! I bet some people break through the curse - and that's why so many bakeries and tea shops have been broken into lately! Huh.
Wonder if Sandoval knows anything about it? She's been working with Mr Lestrange, you know, on cursed objects, but I bet one of the other trainees in her cohort is working on something to do with those clinics, if they've got enough to shut them down soon. I wonder if any of them went...what-do-you-call-it, undercover? That'd be well snitch, wouldn't it? Spying on a place like that?