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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.)

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I barely remember what Minerva told me in Careers Advice. Probably 'Stay out of Azkaban.'

Harry wants to make it a weekly occurrence, so we'll all know to plan on them coming round. Not sure if he cares which days.

Oh, and I'm not sure about the others but Dora, didn't that Jugson boy say Justin did quite well?

Anyway. Yes, Moony. We're old. I'm not sure how that happened.

So you're saying she didn't tell you to go into Quidditch commentary? Or give you helpful advice on being a wanted fugitive?

Now I'm trying to work out what would be good advice for someone planning to go into a career as a wanted fugitive. 'Learn the animagus transformation' seems like a good place to start, though.

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Ha, no. I remember that James and I wanted to be Aurors. I think actually it might have been - well. So, I'd just left home, remember, and I'd stayed with James for the rest of the Christmas hols.

No, it was too early for Dumbledore to talk to us about joining the Order. But I do remember Minerva being worried that I'd wind up on the mean muggle streets or something similarly dramatic.

I'm fairly certain the words, 'Murder earns a life sentence,' were part of the conversation. I can't remember if she meant my father or Snape.

Apparation, Occlumency, Animagus Tranformation .... Camping. Starting a fire without a wand. Dead useful. Breaking and entering. Scavenging.

Not particularly lawful but definitely skills needed for a life on the run.

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Hmm.

Maybe we should offer classes on some of THAT to the Juniors, this summer. Camping, fire starting, scavenging, breaking and entering -- these aren't skills they'll learn in school. Hopefully none of them will have to go on the run, mind you, but it could happen. Rather suddenly, as we saw with Sarah Fawcett.

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Well, yes. So let's add 'Staging Bloody Murder Scenes' and 'Covering Your Tracks If You Can't Apparate'.

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Weren't we going to do a post-mortem with them? Originally we were just going to talk through their rescue of Sarah, but now there's that expedition to the Ministry to cover, as well.

Now that they're properly in the Order it might be easier to do it in the journals than to find a time when they can all come to 12GP.

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That, at least, would save them having Rudy pin them to the wall with that eye of his whenever one of them says she decided to take a risky decision.

Saves us all the lecture.

You've got my vote.

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These days Auror candidates are probably required to get an O on the Dark Arts NEWT.

It's a shame. I can imagine Justin making an excellent Auror. Or Harry. I can imagine Neville or Sally-Anne working for MLE, in the old days, and being rather good at it.

I'd rather not imagine them working for Yaxley. Or Barty Crouch.

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Oh, you're ancient. Both of you. Bea and I were just saying yesterday that it wouldn't be long now before we had to send you off to the care home.

And, yes. Remy Jugson said Justin came third in the whole fifth year with six OWLs.

The hearing's first to go. And the memory just after.

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Oi. I'm over two hundred and sixty in dog years, you know.

That's older than Dumbledore and all.

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What's the conversion rate on wolf years, then? Does that make Himself older or younger than you?

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I think by a similar calculation I'd be eight hundred and twenty-two.

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You're awfully well preserved, then. I'd be proud of that if I were you!

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Now THAT is an excellent point.

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Ouch.

You're not - I mean, when you said you were feeling old, you do feel all right, though. Right?

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I've been feeling better as the day's gone on, and it's four weeks until I have to transform again, which is comforting. So yes, I feel all right.

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September