Word to your mother.

[turpinol]

Today has been mercifully N.E.W.T. and O.W.L. free, which has meant that everyone spent the day either lying around and doing nothing or running amok and doing everything. I wish that the seventh years would stop using dungbombs and magic fireworks in the corridors. It's still a rule, and Filch has had it out with me several times today because I

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[legit_regit]

Lisa, you can't be serious. Following bands around is no way to spend your life!

What did you get on your journal, by the way?

[turpinol]

Oh, but I am. It would make me happy, which I think is a high priority in life.

I got an A, likely due to that mess last year. And yourself?

[legit_regit]

But you could be working at the Ministry or aiming to be a professor at Hogwarts. You're really clever and it seems like you would be wasting it this way. I don't know anything about Muggle schools, but why can't you go this autumn? It's only June, so I don't see how you've missed autumn.

Oh, I couldn't tell you! It's embarrassing!

[turpinol]

You know, the more I discuss this, the better the idea sounds.

Muggle universities are for further education after secondary school. You pick a subject that you'd like to focus on--your course--and you choose your modules around that. However, you have to apply and give them information about your previous schooling, and I don't know that I could just lie and say I've been to a public school all this time. I don't think a couple of months are going to give me enough time. I could apply at Clearance, and maybe I will, but for now I'd rather wait until next autumn.

Does that mean you got a D? Don't be embarrassed about it. Lots of people got a D. I know that Daphne Greengrass did and Dean Thomas and Harry Potter said they did as well.

[legit_regit]

I am confused. What will you do with a Muggle education? Are you intending to get a job in the wizarding world after this? Is it another full seven years? I'd love to have seven more years of school!

Yes, I did. I have always kept a journal in a book and I wrote in that so often that there was little left to say here. I wish I'd known that we were going to be graded!

[turpinol]

I don't know what I'll do afterwards. I could do something as a Muggle or a witch, which I feel makes being a halfblood pretty convenient.

It's generally three years, but sometimes it's less and sometimes it's more, if you choose certain courses. If I went to school to be a doctor I'd probably be there for eight or twelve years or something, but I don't want to be a doctor. A doctor is a Healer.

[legit_regit]

Eight or twelve years?? But Healers don't require that much schooling!

[turpinol]

Well, doctors don't use magic, so I would expect that's quite a hindrance.