Do you MIND????

[alt_percy]

Will people stop making so much NOISE in the Common Room? Rattling crisp bags, popcorn in the fireplace, nattering over stupid games of chess and Merlin, Exploding Snap? Now????!! Some people are trying to prepare for a very important test, one that could determine the course of their entire future.

SHOW A LITTLE CONSIDERATION!

Comments

[alt_neville]

Maybe you'd be a lot happier in the library?

[alt_percy]

Madam Pince kicked us out. Clearwater and me, I mean.

[alt_neville]

She did? Right before O.W.L.s? Why?

[alt_percy]

She caught Clearwater trying to smuggle in contraband, worse luck.

[alt_neville]

What's 'contraband'?

[alt_percy]

In this case, chocolate.

[alt_neville]

Oh.

Anyway, good luck when the O.W.L.s start tomorrow.

[alt_percy]

Thanks, Neville.

[alt_penelope]

If you hadn't been looking so nervous and sweaty, we would have gotten away with it.

[alt_percy]

I'm not so sure. Madam Pince has a truly uncanny way of spotting smuggled in food. I'm starting to suspect she might have an alert hex on the doorway to the library.

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[alt_molly]

Oh, dear. I thought it was about time for his cauldron to explode, judging from his last letter. Right on cue, I think.

Arthur, could you say something to calm him down? I think he'd take it better from you than having his Mum fussing over him right now.

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[alt_arthur]

Right, I expected this, too. He's always been the nerviest one of the boys.

Can't imagine where he gets it from, Molly.

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[alt_molly]

Oh, shush.

[alt_arthur]

I'm sure it doesn't feel like it today, son, but you will get through your O.W.L.s, and your mother and I have every confidence that you'll do well. I haven't forgotten sitting down with you over Easter break on those flashcard drills and how well you did then. I know you've studied hard, my boy. Try not to let yourself get absolutely overwhelmed by the stress of the thing. We know you'll do fine.

[alt_percy]

Thanks, Dad.