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[3houseswatson]

I suppose I should be glad that, as tests and finals go, 6th year is kind of a breather year. The OWLs are behind you and the NEWTs are still looming on the horizon but otherwise not an immediate threat. I personally didn't think the OWLs were all that bad, even though my marks were just decent. Nothing to write home about, especially since the family wouldn't know what nocturnal birds have to do with tests anyway. Still, good luck to everyone who's got to square off against the big tests this year, especially if you're still trying to get your head sorted after the school's most recent bout with strangeness.

Ah yeah, about that, the odd mind and body stuff. The only thing I had to deal with was a body that was about 20 years older than it ought've been (and the same height I am now, of course). I remember the whole thing pretty clearly, but I think that's because my mind wasn't changed. So... for those of you who've been told that their brains were mixed up, do you remember anything about those days at all? Is it like you blacked out for a few days, or is it all a little fuzzy, or do you remember all of it clearly?

I ask because I'm sure I'm soon to have a certain conversation, and this'll give me some insight on where that talk will fall on a scale of "awkward" to "stupdendously awkward".

Comments

[3houseswatson]

Dental hygiene, huh? I know you're just taking the piss, but honestly, I wouldn't put it past the school to teach us something like that by trapping a good chunk of its student population in bodies where the wisdom teeth have already come in. No kill like overkill, I suppose.

With me, I think I got off easy. I mostly just looked like an older version of myself, but I couldn't use magic. As for what I got up to... uh. It's something I'd rather not spread around too freely or broadcast too loudly.

[streetsmarts]

Trust me. It's not so much a joke as an informed guess, this place has been pulling shit since I first started. There's gotta be a reason to it, right? Like smoke signals and drum circles, it's like they're communicating with us in the most fucking obscure way.

Now you're making me curious, buddy. Why don't you slap a filter on and tell your old pal Nick?

gah so late

[3houseswatson]

It could all stand to be a bit more direct if the goal is to cram some Important Life Lessons into our skulls, yeah. But then, being so obscure is probably part of what they're going for. Sort of the magical equivalent of your dad taking you on a really awful fishing trip because it "builds character".

Right. I wasn't born yesterday, you know. What'd keep you from turning around and telling others what I said behind the filter?

and late in return

[streetsmarts]

I appreciate that they're trying to turn my life into an after school special while I'm at school, I really do. They've figured out how to replicate the morals we learn from TV movies without technology, it's real admirable.

I really doubt anyone else cares. Don't flatter yourself, it's probably not that special.