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Jasper Hart
First Year
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|  AR lesson activity post 4 ½ EagleBrain ♥ Creeperdoodle ♥ Raven Dor ♥ Berry ♥ ½ Team House Elf
SPOILER!!: Janelle Quote:
Originally Posted by Daydreamer11  Janelle returned Zeke's smile when he said that he had siblings. For some reason, she was extremely glad for that. "I have an older sister and brother and I love them to death. Not exactly crazy about being the baby though." And that led into the next question, but not yet. "My sister went to Beauxbatons for a few years, but she ended up here at Hogwarts." Since she was older, she may have been gone before Zeke's sisters got there.
Janelle could barely contain her laughter, as Zeke guessed which professor she was imitating. She liked Professor Cassie, but she was one perky lady. "You got me. How did you ever guess?" That question was asked with a wink.
They were rolling along and Zeke jumped right into the next question..........the next two questions actually. Janelle's head popped up when Zeke revealed his greatest worry. She wasn't really excited about question number three, but when he began to speak, she nodded her head. "We have something in common then. The usual things don't bother me. I'm not afraid of spiders or the dark or anything like that. I'm afraid of failing too. I don't want to let anyone down, especially my family. I have a very overachieving sister. She's smart, always got fantastic grades. She was a Prefect here too, you know. I just want to do as well as she has done and she's a hard act to follow. Don't get me wrong. It's not a comptitive thing and she's very supportive of me. It's just that.........well, I get what you mean about pressure. Mostly it's pressure I put on myself." Whew. That was more than Zeke probably cared to know, but that was her answer so what could she do?
Zeke slid right into the next question. She could understand where he was coming from, not being sure about what he wanted to do in the future. "You know what? I think it's OK not to know right now. We're young. There's still time to figure out what you want." Lots of people took time to figure out what they wanted to do. There was nothing wrong with that.
Janelle had an idea of what she wanted to be doing in ten years."For me, in ten years, I want to have graduated from a university. I love animals so I would really like to be working with them in some way. I think studying Magizoology would be the best way to reach that goal. If I'm not doing that, I think I might like to be an Auror." Janelle knew that those were two completely different careers and neither one was easy, but both of them interested her. She figured if she kept her grades up, she could have a chance at either one.
They only had one more question to go. Would this one be the hardest of all? Zeke beamed, it was something that came easy when discussing family, the good parts at least. Somehow knowing that Janelle had older siblings was, refreshing, even if she didn't much fancy being the youngest. "I'm the oldest of mine, if it makes you feel any better, I wish I wasn't." Being oldest wasn't always best, though he supposed being youngest wouldn't be too flash either. Perhaps middle child was the way to be? Not that anyone could really control that. He had hoped that Ashley and Avery would join him here, but it didn't seem likely, especially after last term... on top of everything else that had happened at the school before then.
It occurred to him that they probably looked ridiculous from a distance. Between him channeling Flamsteed, and Janelle channeling Cassie, they probably looked mildly insane. At least it was short lived. "It must have been luck," he replied, smirking.
Revealing his fear of failure wasn't something he had planned to do today, or any other day for that matter, so it meant a lot that Janelle could understand, it meant he wasn't alone in this. A part of him did think himself foolish though, like Janelle, he put pressure on himself... but she had a big sister's standards to live up to, whereas he didn't, not really. "I get that, I mean, I know I probably shouldn't worry, but it's hard... my adopted mum was a Ravenclaw, super smart, and though she wasn't Prefect or Head Girl or anything, I just... feel like I need to do as well as her, or better than her," the latter of which was not possible. "She says she expects me to do well, to hold my own, and I know those expectations aren't to get all O's on my exams, but I don't know where to draw the line." What was good enough? But more importantly, what was NOT good enough? And where did he rate at the moment?
He was thankful though, that Janelle was of the opinion they had plenty of time to figure things out, he was banking on that. It didn't stop him from watching her with awe though. The girl knew what she wanted. THAT, was impressive. "That's awesome, though as cool as Aurors are, it's not the life for everyone... my adopted mum was an Auror, she's more the Head boss now though." But yeah, he had a lot to live up to. One of the things he was thankful for though, was that he didn't feel any pressure to follow in her footsteps, if anything, she was encouraging him not to do so.
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But... they were pretty much done, right? A quick glance at his watch told him they were running out of time. So much for wandering AWAY from the classroom, not that there was anything wrong with loitering down corridors, he still got to stretch his legs.
The last question/prompt was probably the hardest one. Share a secret. It wasn't hard in terms of trusting Janelle enough to reveal something SECRET... but it was the fact that he didn't keep secrets to begin with. Not really. Not by choice. And certainly not about himself. "I don't know what secret to share with you," he stated honestly, staring at the flash-card before looking back up at her. "I don't have secrets... I really don't, at least, they're not my secrets to tell." So.... .... did he have to make something up? Share something random? "Do you want to ask me a question instead?"
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