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Have you looked at the application?

I mean, it's simple enough but why do you think they want to know how many hours a week we spend reading? or exercising? I thought the point was to demonstrate fitness with the actual exercises.

And then those situation questions! 'You see a fork in the path. One path leads to a forest, the other to a castle. Which do you pick?' Oh, and the one about walking down the sreet at night and witnessing a robbery? What do they want you to say?

It's like they don't give you enough information to choose, you know? Is the robber a wizard? Is the castle as far away as the forest? Is it day or evening and would there be any shelter?

At least there's a proper essay topic. And no more PMs to famous people.

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alt_seamus

Well, I think you can just assume whatever you want, for those questions. They probably want to see us reason something out. If you're seeing a robbery you might not know right off whether it's a wizard or not, but petrificus totallis will work on muggles too, right? And surely they'd want YPL leaders to be the sort of people who'd intervene and would have a sensible plan, too.

I picked the castle because people are more interesting than trees. I forget what I actually said for that question, though.

I think the weirdest one was about the turnips.

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alt_lavender

Agreed! Fancy imagining myself as a turnip! I said I'd be chocolate mousse, because it was the most luxurious thing I could thing of right then.

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alt_padma

Right, but what if it turns out that it's not a robbery at all, it's a pureblood wizard disciplining his mudblood? Then it wouldn't be right to intervene at all, you know?

I said that transfigured turnips always have a vaguely turnippy aftertaste so it hardly mattered. Have you noticed?

And I said that it depended on which castle it was and how far away and what time of day it was and whether I had a broom with me to fly over the forest instead.

What about the lunch question? I said Merlin, of course, and Shiva and Rowena Ravenclaw.

Oh, and what about the one asking for a time when you helped people resolve differences? I probably gave the worst answer ever to that, I just talked about how we worked on History Club so people could bring whatever books they wanted to talk about.

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alt_lavender

I think your History Club answer is a good one, because it shows that you've already done a lot of things for the school. Which you have!

I said that I'd absolutely love to have lunch with Kirley McCormick, but also Madame Malkin, and...one of the great Seers, I forget which.

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alt_lavender

I thought the PMs to famous people were very nice! I got a lovely reply from that lady at the Ministry. Which reminds me that I really do need to apply myself more to my Divination...

As far as the questions, well, I think they're a bit naff, but if you just say something that sounds clever you'll be fine, especially on the forest one.