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Was the finale of the duel as brilliant as everyone says?
I missed the whole latter bit because I was out in the antechamber consoling Thalia West, and tearing a strip off Delia Forney and Kelley Drumgoole for daring her to come with them.
They were well shaken up themselves (well, Delia was, I get the impression Kelley's seen a fair amount of duelling at home) so they listened better than they might have otherwise.
I expected some foolhardy younger ones to get in, but I figured it'd be Gryffindors. Shows what I know.
Third years are the worst! First and second years are still a bit in awe of prefects, mostly, and fourth years aren't, but have the sense to keep their heads down most of the time.
Third years, as far as I can tell, have neither awe nor sense. It occurs to me that we were third years your first year prefecting--I feel like I should apologize on behalf of our whole year!
Please tell me it gets easier at some point.
I missed the whole latter bit because I was out in the antechamber consoling Thalia West, and tearing a strip off Delia Forney and Kelley Drumgoole for daring her to come with them.
They were well shaken up themselves (well, Delia was, I get the impression Kelley's seen a fair amount of duelling at home) so they listened better than they might have otherwise.
I expected some foolhardy younger ones to get in, but I figured it'd be Gryffindors. Shows what I know.
Third years are the worst! First and second years are still a bit in awe of prefects, mostly, and fourth years aren't, but have the sense to keep their heads down most of the time.
Third years, as far as I can tell, have neither awe nor sense. It occurs to me that we were third years your first year prefecting--I feel like I should apologize on behalf of our whole year!
Please tell me it gets easier at some point.
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Do you think that Forney and Drumgoole are properly chastised or does someone else need to have a word?
Every year is different. Fifth and seventh years panic about exams and are supremely stressed. Sixths think they don't have to do anything until they randomly panic about the future. It's also particularly hard for prefects dealing with students older than themselves. (Get me if you ever run into that problem and I'll bludger it out of them) You'd think the fourth and fifth years would be better but the problem is that when they get a little crazy do something they are better and smarter about it. Much harder to keep their quaffles out of the goal.
It gets different and you get more experience. You get more used to exercising the authority you have.
However, the more you see of the world the more problems you see.If you want to talk about this part more come see me in person. I'm having trouble writing down what needs to be said.