Is everyone else

[alt_padma]

having as much trouble concentrating in lessons as I am? Only it seems like things that are normally terribly interesting, like switching spells and cheering charms and the theory of relative tonality just aren't nearly as fun to think about as the ball.

I've been practising the charms to do up my hair the way I want for next week. Edgecombe, I think I overheard you and Chang in the girls' bathroom this afternoon. It was you two, wasn't it? I wouldn't ask except I thought I heard her say that she thought her eyes were getting puffy from all the crying and I have some of that creme that you borrowed last year after Carmichael. I've also got plenty of clips, if you or she wanted to borrow anything.

I don't think I've ever wanted lessons to be over and done for the term before! I'm sure I'm going to utterly fail every test, I just can't think. Does anyone else need extra revising?

Oh, and CCF, don't forget that we've a meeting this evening, after dinner!

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[alt_hydra]

It is hard to concentrate, and i'm not sure it's fair to give us so much to think about, like dancing and feasts and live music when we still have lessons to study for. Though it helps that I'm the only one in my dorm going to the ball, and when I'm in my room with Norma and Cressida things are the same as always.

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Hydra

[alt_padma]

That's right, you're going with Finch-Fletchley. He seems quite nice, I guess.

Other years, it's been like our lessons and exams and things are the good sorts of distraction. You know, they've kept us going and given us reasons not to worry too much about other things--because no matter what sort of plague was happening out there, or Dementors searching for that horrid Snape or whatever, you knew exams were coming like it or not, so it was a way to not have to think about everything else.

But this year I would much rather think about the something else. You know?

[alt_hydra]

He actually is quite nice.

I suppose you're right and this is the first year where there hasn't been anything troubling for everyone to think about. I wonder if all of our marks will get worse because of it, though. That would be an odd and unexpected sort of result, that.

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Hydra