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.

[perfectprefect]

There are certainly a great deal of complications involved when wizards and witches choose to further their education in Muggle facilities, but you are not the first to face them. I suggest that you write to the Department of Education at the Ministry. They are equipped to handle this sort of situation. Similarly, you may try contacting Penelope Weasley. She is Muggle-born and her mother is a professor at a Muggle university, so I imagine that she would have some advice regarding this issue.

[turpinol]

Thank you, Percy. I will write to the Ministry during the summer. And I will ask Penelope, if I see her around on the journals.

I don't exactly know you, but congratulations on getting married!

[perfectprefect]

Thank you!

[seamus_f]

Percy is right; there must be a way to do it. Surely you are not the first one.

Following bands around sounds like a brilliant way to spend your gap year, too. That's what a Muggle friend of my sister did but I can't remember who she was running around with. Something that sounded like food.

See, that nervousness beforehand is why Friday was my last day of revision. Any more than that, so close to exams, just gets me confused and even more nervous. By now, I know what I know.

[turpinol]

I suppose that's true, although I do find myself reaching for my books a bit reflexively. Although, if you're the one who's been leaving bits of books all over the corridors, we can no longer speak.

I can't decide if I should follow one band or just go see every band that comes around, regardless of if I've heard of them or not. It would be an interesting way to find new music.

[seamus_f]

I would never commit acts of violence toward books. Please.

I reckon if you follow a lot of new bands, you'll find one worth of your devotion.

[wheresmytoad]

I was going to chime in, too, to say surely you're not the first student to have faced this problem, but I see that Seamus and Percey Weasley beat me to it.

Are you thinking of any Muggle university in particular? Might you be in London? I might be, if I take the St. Mungo's job (and assuming I don't flame out on my N.E.W.T.s, of course). Haven't decided yet, though. It is scary, isn't it, trying to decide about the future? I try to tell myself that any decision I make isn't necessarily set in stone; I can always change direction if the first thing I try doesn't suit me.

Hmm. Following bands around for awhile. Scarily enough, that has a certain appeal, too. Clearly, studying is fermenting my brain. (Except for Nada Pipe. Their music I don't like.)

[turpinol]

I haven't anything particular in mind, but part of me would like to go to Oxford. It's a very good school but it's difficult to get accepted. You're right, though, and I think that's what I've come to decide--if I spend five years doing something and hate it, I can just do something else.

Nada Pipe is brilliant. I like the idea that their music is just for me.