Exams and other things

[alt_megan]

Exams: I didn't fail charms. I'm sure of it. Even if I can't remember what I put for the biting hex question. Unless it was the stinging hex question. I still didn't fail.

Other things: I didn't act like a baboon at Pansy's party. Everyone was already acting like wolves.

Exams: I don't think I failed History of Magic. But I'm not sure of it. But I liked all my answers. But I may have left something out.

Other things: I skipped chess. But I came to watch the very end. It's fun to watch! And I ate a piece of Ernie's cake. It was very good. Thank you, Ernie.

Exams: I didn't fail Herbology. I think. But I'm not sure. One of the questions was hard. It was the long one.

Other things: Pansy's really good at potions. We practised together, it was lovely. Perhaps some of her being good at it rubbed off. I wish I could be more like Pansy, except I mean because she's so serious and clever. She probably thinks I'm silly.

Exams: Transfigurations next. I'm nervous. Nervous nervous jittery oh dear so nervous But I'm trying really hard not to think about failing.

Comments

[alt_pansy]

Don't think about failing. Think about what you do know, rather than what you don't know. It's all in your head, see. And if you can, listen to some music before the exam. Classical is good. For me, it kind of wakes my brain up and also makes me relax. If you're stressed during an exam, that's not going to help you out.

Though Professor Carrow's exam was beyond anything I've ever experienced.

[alt_megan]

I'm trying not to. I wish I knew what happens if you fail. I keep thinking of things. I dreamed about it last night, and my guardian was there. They were going to feed me to werewolves. I don't think that's really what happens.

Listening to music is a good idea. Something not too loud. And not surprising. Thank you.





I think I failed. I couldn't think of anything.

[alt_pansy]

I doubt you failed. That's just stress talking. Maybe you did and maybe you didn't, though you seemed to know what you were talking about this weekend. In any case, it's done now. I can pretty much guarantee that you won't be fed to werewolves.

[alt_megan]

I know. I mean I know about the werewolves. It was really scary in my dream. Especially when my guardian just watched. But as soon as I woke up, I knew it was a dream. I thought really they might not let me come back to school.

I really don't know how I did. I can't remember anything except staring at the question about fish and all I could think of was how fish eyes look. All googly. And that wasn't the answer.

I did finish everything.

[alt_pansy]

That fish question made me loopy too. I finally just scribbled something and moved on.

And it's good that you finished. I've heard of people who didn't.

I've never seen a werewolf, though. Have you?

[alt_sally_anne]

Sod it, we forgot to go look this month. The full moon was last week. I suppose it was too cold to be much fun anyway.

[alt_pansy]

It is. But there's always next month! I forgot too. But you know how I forget things sometimes.

[alt_megan]

Oh, but I'm sure you got it right.

Oh! Really? Maybe I wasn't worst. If I'm not worst, I couldn't fail, could I?

No. Not a werewolf with wolf teeth for eating people. They looked like big dogs with really long teeth in my dream. And they howled. I've seen the werewolf that's here, when he's not a wolf.

[alt_sally_anne]

I actually asked Professor Slughorn about this months ago and you don't get expelled if you fail an exam. If you fail everything you might have to repeat the year but that doesn't happen very often. He said that the exams and marks are to let you and your guardian know how you're progressing and what really counts are your OWLs. Except he wouldn't tell me what would happen if you failed all your OWLs, he just laughed and told me he was certain that I wouldn't.

Definitely no werewolves though. But we have to 'successfully complete a magical education' and I think that means we really do have to pass our OWLs to become subjects and I don't know if failing them all means they take away our wand and And OWLs are years away so Professor Slughorn is right, there's no point worrying about that yet.

[alt_megan]

Oh! Really? You just have to do it over? That's-- I suppose that'd be embarrassing. But not nearly as bad as some things I thought of.

Of course you're not going to fail anything.

OWLs are years away. I don't even know what to worry about, with OWLs. They've got to be much harder than our exams now. I don't have any idea what we'll have learned by then. But they're so far away. If I fail them after that long, I'll deserve it.

What did you scratch out?

[alt_sally_anne]

He said every few years there's someone who has to do a year over. So yes it would be embarrassing but not as bad as being expelled.

What I scratched out - well the rules say we have to complete our magical education to become subjects. You and me, I mean. And the other halfbloods. And I expect that probably means we HAVE to pass our OWLs, at least some of them.

But they're years away.

[alt_megan]

Oh.

Five years is a long time. But I should remember that. In case I ever don't work as hard as I should. If I remember that, I won't do that.