May 30, 1997 20:02
well yeah, right so i suppose i should be on about quidditch or something but hermione has me all wound up about exams, stupid stupid stupid never should have started seeing her she's got me a pocket schedule book and makes me USE it and i TOLD her how bloody useless it is i can't remember which day is which much less what i'm supposed to be doing tomorrow, which i think on my little schedule says something like "snazzle gacks" and i can't remember what that was supposed to be...if it was anything. i'm going to cross it out and write in "bother ginny by following her around and breathing loudly"!
but yes, exams are very important, and i need a bit of help from any of you in creation of magical creatures. see because i am a stupid bloody fool and picked to study BEASTS instead of fungi or something, i've had to deal with mating season, which was bad enough when it was my natter, but turns out is AWFUL when it is anything else, bowtrunkles and boomslangs and sometimes even horklumps and that's just odd, moving little mushrooms things...they like to eat my fingers, but right so i think the idea is going to be that we get a couple of things to cross on the test, right? because i keep forgetting what sort of stuff is going to be on there, although honestly they can't have picked the manticore and lobalug not that it wouldn't be everyone's idea of fun to just say "ALL RIGHT RON, here you are! time to cross a nundu and a pogrebin! see if you can't make us a giant, man-eating cat that also sucks your soul right out your eyeballs!" or something, you know. because you can cross some really awful things, fire crabs and kneazles would be a stupid one, cats that breathe fire you know and probably have eight legs or something how should i know i've never crossed them but anyway can anyone remember what they told us would be on there? i think mokes, obviously as they are pretty harmless and i wouldn't be at all surprised to find streelers and horklumps (just don't cross the two together because then you'll get a shriveled up little useless thing, i already tried that one. although maybe you can make the horklumps resistant to venom, which would be funny. all of a sudden taking away the natural predator probably ought to invest in a few gnomes if that's the case.)