Remus Lupin

I feel old.

I don't know if it's just that it was a particularly trying transformation this month, or if it's seeing the juniors popping up with comments on the Order lock. But I feel like I'm about a hundred and thirty-six years old, today.

Dora says they're planning on dropping in at Doughty Conduit to appreciate tea. Not quite sure when. Have any of them told either of you their OWL results? I keep wanting to ask, or see if Alice will ask, but it seems a bit nosy unless we have some good reason (like we want to give them our own variety of Careers Advice. Remember those meetings? Mine was utterly sodding useless, but then, I expected it to be.)

So I had a chat this afternoon with Sirius and Tonks. Now that our youngest members are in the Order, and done with their OWLs, we had a couple of thoughts.

1. That post-mortem that Kingsley proposed, after they rescued Sarah Fawcett: it might be easier to conduct in the journal than in person, simply because getting them all to 12GP at one time can be so difficult. I'm going to suggest that we try to do a post-mortem strictly of the rescue of Sarah, first, and then consider doing one for that expedition to the Ministry. The presence of Felix Felicis that night makes it difficult to analyse the decisions properly -- but also, I think the older Order members were rather more pleased with them after that first adventure than after the second, and the knowledge that OVERALL we think they did a fine job might make our critique easier to swallow.

2. Perhaps we might offer the lot of them some careers advising. We could all do it as a group, or perhaps we might invite each of them to send a PM to whichever among us might have useful ideas for them. I suppose that wouldn't be ideal if they wanted advice from more than two people, but -- well. I don't want to be pushy -- there's nothing quite as irritating as advice you didn't want in the first place -- but perhaps they might appreciate the invitation?

3. Sirius and I chatted about skills that come in useful if one winds up on the run. He mentioned camping, starting a fire without a wand, breaking and entering, and scavenging. Also the Animagus transformation -- that's dead useful in quite a few ways, though difficult to teach and even more difficult to master. Camping and fire starting, though -- those are rather easier, and we could offer instruction to anyone who wants it. Sherwood might be a good spot for those classes, if Davidson doesn't object.

As I understand it, all the current Hogwarts students who sat OWLs last month should have received their results last week, and are expected to select NEWT subjects to study by July 1. At school, I think you were all offered a Careers Advice session with your Head of House and an additional adviser of your choice.

If you would also like a Careers Advice session with Order members, we are at your disposal. Please feel free to PM any two of us (or if you are less concerned about privacy than completeness, you can simply Order Lock your post and we'll all chime in).

I'll note that this is an offer, not a demand; you certainly aren't required to want our advice, nor to take it if you ask for it. We welcome all the talents and skills you bring to the table, and whether you want to put them in the Order's service remains your choice, in any case.