I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_draco]

So who of us has been invited to CCF camp? I already know that Harry and I have been, and Daphs told me yesterday that she was in, too.

I wonder what sort of excitement is in store for us this time around.

Harry, you missed an utterly posh gathering at Avery's yesterday. Plenty of drinks, food, music, and games. No deep topics of conversation whatsoever. It was restful, in a way.

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[alt_justin]

I say, I thought I had done. I even debated a point with the examiners. They made me repeat the spell--I thought I'd bally well made certain I wouldn't receive an excellent mark after all that.

But I got an 'Outstanding' all the same. I suppose arguing with the examiners impressed them, dash it all.

I thought I'd simply not elect to continue, what, but Draco says Professor Dolohov insisted that I be listed on his rolls. Which rather indicates that even had I received a sub-par mark, he might have made the choice for me, regardless.

I say, it's not that I don't think he's a good teacher or even that the subject has no practical application, given our present and future goals. It's just that I thought with enough others taking the lessons, we could manage to learn what we needed without all of us taking them.

Well, and I never expected he would be so jolly well imperious about whom he wanted in his class. There's no doubt he's diabolically persuasive, what, but I've never before found him to be so dashed peremptory!

-Justin

[alt_sally_anne]

Yes, it's interesting that he put you in the class when you didn't sign up for it.

Are you going to have to drop something you DID sign up for?

[alt_justin]

I'm not sure I want to withdraw from anything else. Without Dark Arts I was taking seven subjects, so I believe one may be able to withstand the load but it'll be dashed difficult.

As Draco says, one could always refuse to attend lessons but that could lead to worse problems than letting him think he's changed my mind. It might be best to make him think he's won, this time round.

Not before I make the point that he was wrong to take the decision for me, though, what?

-Justin

[alt_sally_anne]

Wait, you're going to argue with him even though you're planning to go ahead and take the class?

Well, it worked out well enough with the OWL examiners.

[alt_justin]

Oh, yes, absolutely. He might suspect something otherwise, what?

You see, we others can behave like Slytherins when we put our minds to it!

-Justin