Locked to the safehouses

[diane_archer]

Note to self: In future, do not:

a) Make a journal password entirely of random letters and numbers, with no useful aides to memory.
b) Having made such a password, think that writing the sequence on one's forearm is the best way of keeping it close.
c) Having written on the forearm, have odious bovines inflicted upon oneselfmilk cows, getting

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Locked to Di Archer.

[padma]

I can sympathise, truly. It's an unsettling position at first, but I'm sure there's something you can do besides milking! Perhaps you could have a word with Professor Flitwick or Professor McGonagall?

It's a shame to waste that Ravenclaw brain on a cow, sacred or no!

Re: Locked to Di Archer.

[diane_archer]

I've spoken to Professor McGonagall sort of about helping out with staff shortages, etc.
Although given my occasional wish that it was acceptable to hex the jaws shut of some of my study group, it might just be that teaching isn't a sensible long-term plan!

Locked to Diane Archer

[badger_ernie]

I'm curious. When you say "hack" what exactly do you mean? Did you manage somehow to get in without knowing the password, or did you know roughly what it was, and just work around it until you got it right.

If you managed without knowing the password at all, then that strikes me as a skill that might prove very useful in the future. In Malfoy's journal for example

Re: Locked to Ernie MacMillan

[diane_archer]

I knew roughly what it was. Well, sort of, and I had a spare hour to spend typing slightly different variations into the compuwter. 'Hack' might be a slight overstatement from too much Uncle-related corespondance.

To think about it, there'd probably be ways of getting someone else's password if you had access to their keysboard. A variant of tracking charm on the keys, then you'd know have what keys they pressed.
Of course, the keyboard might just explode horribly with another layer of magic.

Locked to the Safehouses.

[val_visconti]

Have you thought of perhaps approaching one of the teachers and asking if it is possible to serve an apprenticeship?
Or, if your preferred specialisation is not available, whether they would be willing to set you work that might count towards a future apprenticeship with a different master?
They might even know people on the outside who would be willing to help.

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[diane_archer]

That would be an option, certainly.
It would rather help if I had any idea what area I'd like to go into, of course. So far, it seems to be narrowed down to 'not farming', and 'avoid nitwits'.

Besides, does it really make sense to think about blue-sky research when trying to make my practical defence and theoretical defence on an equal footing is more likely to keep me alive.
Throwing a different set of books isn't going to make much difference.

Sometimes I think my parents have the right idea - bugger off to Nicaragua at random intervals, and avoid politics.
Come to that, I sometimes think Uncle Dave has better life-plans than I do.

Oh, never mind.

Locked to Diane Archer.

[val_visconti]

Well, I did not have much of an idea once I left school either. Once I had taken the path which would take me away from the future which my parents had planned for me, I found myself at a complete loss. I had devoted so much of my time and energy into getting away from what I did not want to do, that I had quite neglected to think about what I might actually want for myself.
In addition, my specialisation was in a subject for which Hogwarts offers no exams.
I am currently apprenticing in Potions. It helps to focus my mind and keeps me out of trouble. I would certainly recommend some form of further study.

Actually, I have a private research project which you might be able to help with. How well do you know Luna Lovegood? She was in your year, and your house, wasn't she?

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[diane_archer]

She was, although the most accurate estimate of our familiarlity would probably be: 'could be better, mostly if Di had managed many conversations over three minutes long in her earlier teen years'.
Although surely the rumour mill would have it that you know her well enough yourself?
What exactly would this 'private project' entail?