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[orestes_bride]

My news has nothing on the high drama that is the sex lives of Slytherins, but here it is: I quit my job with the Committee for Experimental Charms

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[pottersfield]

You did what? I think my book is broken?

[orestes_bride]

I listen to your advice every now and again.

[pottersfield]

Yeah but I didn't think you'd listen to me when I said you should quit. Me who has... quit a lot of jobs and other things in his day.

Are you still wearing horns?

[orestes_bride]

You're pretty insightful though, and you know me better than anyone except Ron. I do listen to you even if it doesn't always seem that way.

And wouldn't you just like to know.

[only_eloise]

Mushy lentils really are awful.

[orestes_bride]

I used to love them. That's what really gets me about that assignment. Hour after hour working with burnt lentils kind of spoils them for you.

[only_eloise]

Too much of a good thing! You got sick of the lentils, but not sick of charms themselves. I can't stand Scherzo #2 but I still love Chopin. Anyway, you're much too clever to be de-mushing the legume family.

[orestes_bride]

Says the woman who developed a potion right out of school and saw it snapped up by a large cosmetic company straight away. Maybe freelancing is the answer.

[in_lavender]

Cheers for ridding yourself of a horrible job. It's quite liberating, isn't it?

You might want to check if the twins need your excellent charm work now that you're free. I found a puddle of goo in a corner left over from the celler disaster that started levitating, then giving off the most horrid smell. I'm a bit afraid to be down there alone still, as I've never been comfortable with flying, biting snails on the loose. It could be the start of quite the career in freelance charms work!

[orestes_bride]

Thank you, it really does feel good. I wonder what it's going to feel like tomorrow morning though.

The twins get up to incredibly complex magic and that kind of freedom would suit me to the ground in many ways. At the very least I'll be glad to look in on the flying biting snails - though I'll bet the only reason they're still around is because Fred and George find them amusing.

[in_lavender]

Never fear, you'll pull through just fine. You've also got plenty of friends ready to cheer you up at a pub should you need it.

Thank you! You wouldn't believe half the things those two do for sheer amusement. Never a dull day at work, that's for sure.

[springoffensive]

So what are you going to do now?

[orestes_bride]

I don't know yet. I've been thinking about what it would mean to leave this job for a while but it never seemed real until today. I'm gutted that it ended this way.

[springoffensive]

I think that no matter how much you think out doing something or ending something it's always still hard to do it or end it and you can still be stuck breathless when it actually happens so that's all right.

[orestes_bride]

It really caught me off guard even though I'd thought quite a lot about it. You steel yourself against horrible things and then it's a relatively mild conflict at work that hits you where it hurts.