Todays YPL meeting
Sep. 26th, 2009 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_seamusI went to the YPL meeting today and it was wizard! There were two aurors who came. They told a story about tracking down the Glasgow vampire five years ago which was dead exciting. Then they talked about a case two years ago where someone was putting sedicious leaflets into books at Flourish and Blotts. It sounds like they never caught him but they scared him off doing it again. And then they talked about the most useful spells they know, you know the stuff they do most often, and demonstrated a couple of really advanced charms they used for investigating the vampire. And then they talked about how they became aurors, what they studied in school and how high they had to score on their NEWTs.
During question time someone asked about your disciplinary record at school. You know do they look at marks or do they care if you got detention every week? And the aurors kind of looked at each other and chuckled and said that of course they want you to behave properly but it does depend on what you got detention FOR. They'd both gotten in some trouble at school, but one of them it was for supporting the Lord Protector back before the war and of course that didn't keep him from becoming an auror when the Lord Protector came to power. The younger one said he got in some trouble his second year because he got mixed up with the wrong crowd but he straightened himself out.
Anyway Neville its a shame you couldn't come and I'm sorry again about your great-grandma. They say there will be lots more meetings and they'll all be interesting though so I'm sure you'll get to hear other stuff. I heard next month they might have a healer from St Mungo's which doesn't sound as nift as aurors but I reckon it'll still be interesting.
During question time someone asked about your disciplinary record at school. You know do they look at marks or do they care if you got detention every week? And the aurors kind of looked at each other and chuckled and said that of course they want you to behave properly but it does depend on what you got detention FOR. They'd both gotten in some trouble at school, but one of them it was for supporting the Lord Protector back before the war and of course that didn't keep him from becoming an auror when the Lord Protector came to power. The younger one said he got in some trouble his second year because he got mixed up with the wrong crowd but he straightened himself out.
Anyway Neville its a shame you couldn't come and I'm sorry again about your great-grandma. They say there will be lots more meetings and they'll all be interesting though so I'm sure you'll get to hear other stuff. I heard next month they might have a healer from St Mungo's which doesn't sound as nift as aurors but I reckon it'll still be interesting.
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Date: 2009-09-27 04:00 pm (UTC)LockhProfessor Lockhart how he's fought sixteen vampires at once and did it all with much cleverer charms than the Aurors used. Oi!My favourite bit, though was when Peeves crashed in while Professor Sinistra was introducing the Aurors. Now that was a totally wizard spell they used on him! I bet the Headmistress would like to know that one! Though I reckon she wasn't too happy about all the stuff he broke after he went zooming out the meeting.
You've got to admit, though, it was dead funny, him spinning round and round like a top, spouting purple smoke and screeching!
Marvolo and I were trying to remember the spell afterward, but it never came out right. He got some purple sparks once, but we couldn't find anything but a couple of spiders to try it out on, so we didn't get very far with it. I told him he should ask Professor Acton about it this week, cause she always likes it when he asks questions, but I'm not sure he will.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-28 02:50 am (UTC)Heh.
It'd be almost worth it just to see what Bulstrode would do, yeah?!
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Date: 2009-09-28 12:50 pm (UTC)