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[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

So the year is almost ending and people here pretty much are living at least.

[Pence here is holding a video camera, recording everything and everyone ever he comes across]

And yet, still no sign of my friends. Oh well. At least Twilight Town is here.

[Recoooordiiiing]

Comments

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

It's a much wider field. For example.

[a swish and a spell, and a nearby book sprouts legs and scurries across the table it's on.]

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

[just watches lol, camera forgotten]

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

[and then undoes the spell before the book runs off the table.]

There are quite a few different subjects. That was an example of transfiguration.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That's awesome. What else can you do?

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

[taps the wand against her cheek thoughtfully.]

Many things, really.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

So you can do all this stuff naturally?

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

I attend a school to learn how to do spells, but the magic is innate, yes.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

Like a school for magic?

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

[pauses.]

Needlessly long, since there's no difference between what they teach males and females, but wizards are quite fond of needless things. In any case, it's a boarding school inside a castle.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. So the subjects would be like...?

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

The core classes are Charms, Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Herbology, Potions, Astronomy, and History of Magic. The electives are Muggle Studies, Arithmancy, Divination, Ancient Runes, and Care of Magical Creatures.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

Those all sound fun...

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

Perhaps to a non-magical person. School is school, though. And Transfiguration, for example, starts off with rather useless things like turning a matchstick into a needle.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

That's still awesome!

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

It comes with homework.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind homework if it was magic.

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

It's not very exciting at all. Essays on why you have to wave your wand a certain way, or say certain words, or why you can turn something into one thing but not another. It can be quite tiring. Not to mention exams, and OWLS in fifth year, and NEWTS in seventh.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

..OWLS?

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

It stands for Ordinary Wizarding Levels. They're standardized tests administered by the Wizarding Examinations Authority. NEWTS stands for Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

Oh. I thought you meant the animals.

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. Owls are used for delivering mail.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

...mail?

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

Yes. Mail owls are a good deal more intelligent than the regular kind and can find almost anyone if the letter they're carrying has an address on it.

[twilightsmarts.livejournal.com]

They can do that?

[sane-as-me.livejournal.com]

Yes. Magic is quite amazing like that.