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JustAlice · 11-24-2014, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by AmbiguouslyMe

Emrys nodded knowingly. "I had a hard time with there being so many people around while I was trying to focus," he said. When he was alone, he could zero in on something and just run with it for hours. But with all the comments and questions around him, he just couldn't keep the thread of a lesson. Which had meant far too much study time on his own trying to keep up. He'd... not had people. Well, maybe Kurumi and Louisa, but after that seminar, he hadn't been able to look at Kurumi for weeks... and then the orb and... He'd had no people. And so nothing kept him there. "People are important," he offered, knowing it to be true because he knew how different things could have been had he'd even just kept in touch.

She was certainly challenging his, admittedly ill-informed, preconceptions of professional quidditch players. Not take the job? Not want to be at the centre of attention? Wasn't that sort of the point? "I very much get the not wanting the attention," he mused. In fact, if no one noticed he'd even been in the room until after he left, so much the better. "What do you think you'd be doing if you hadn't taken it?" Since asking what she did for fun going to be his question until she'd said she didn't have time for much other than quidditch. "First match I ever saw was at Hogwarts and I had a hard time following the actual game even after I understood how it was played." So much going on. "And after I left, it wasn't really something that was a thing in my family so I never really picked it up." He shrugged. What he really needed was someone to sit through a whole match with him and talk him through it. Then.. maybe.

He sipped his tea and ran his hand through his hair. "My sister.. had similar concerns, it would seem," he said, chuckling a bit embarrassedly. She'd threatened to submit the forms herself if he didn't, and so had gone through with it, so at least it had been his words. But now that he was starting to get a little more comfortable, he wasn't sorry she had.

Derry'd had a hard time with there being so many people around in general when she'd first started. She'd been to muggle school, yes, but people usually avoided her there since she was that weird farm girl who was homeschooled four days a week and only came in for maths and science lessons. "I think it was the homework that got me, at home I always had my parents to help... My mam's a physicist so I was always good at science in muggle school..." Was it weird she'd done muggle exams too? She was never sure... but she was glad she had done - it helped her connect with her muggle mother. As for people... "Yeah, I mean... I definitely wouldn't be playing Quidditch if it wasn't for the people at Hogwarts." West, mainly... he'd supported her whole heartedly and it was the thought of him that finally made her accept the Magpie's offer.

She nodded at his agreement to the attention thing. It didn't surprise her... attention was... difficult. It put a lot of pressure on and Derry did not usually do well under pressure. She'd gone almost to pieces over her NEWTs... and over the muggle A levels she'd tried to take. In fact... that was part of why she was playing quidditch and not following the plan she'd made when she was ten years old. Which brought her onto the next question. "Veterinary science and care of magical creatures." she said, scuffing her shoe a little as they walked. "I might go back to it after quidditch... as a mature student maybe. I mean... a quidditch career cannae exactly last your whole working life." Like any sports career, she would have to retire before she was old. "I've always loved animals... I've wanted to be a vet since I was about six and I was helping my dad with lambing - I grew up on a farm.." The whole lambing thing needed context, probably. "So yeah... that. Though I'd have to go back and retake my muggle A-levels." Because for veterinary science she'd definitely need biology. Maybe she'd start soon. She could study alongside quidditch, right? Unofficially at least. Hm...

"Quidditch is fairly simple really, it just gets a bit... tangled up when you see everyone flying around out there. I've always thought about it as three separate games together. Like... there's the chasers and keepers game, the beaters game and the seekers game... and they kind of... intertwine." It made it easier than trying to get all the scoring and fouls and stuff to make sense in her head, anyway.

Ah... that was... sort of a relief actually. At least she wasn't the only one who'd been pretty much thrown into this. "Maybe she worries about you, it's hard being away from your family all term." She'd missed her own a lot when she was at Hogwarts. Now that she was forced to spend so much time with them? Not so much.

11-24-2014, 11:00 AM	#205 (permalink)
JustAlice Doxy Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: [GMT] Posts: 6,186 Hogwarts RPG Name: Dalia Turay Fourth Year	Zing Quote: Originally Posted by AmbiguouslyMe Emrys nodded knowingly. "I had a hard time with there being so many people around while I was trying to focus," he said. When he was alone, he could zero in on something and just run with it for hours. But with all the comments and questions around him, he just couldn't keep the thread of a lesson. Which had meant far too much study time on his own trying to keep up. He'd... not had people. Well, maybe Kurumi and Louisa, but after that seminar, he hadn't been able to look at Kurumi for weeks... and then the orb and... He'd had no people. And so nothing kept him there. "People are important," he offered, knowing it to be true because he knew how different things could have been had he'd even just kept in touch. She was certainly challenging his, admittedly ill-informed, preconceptions of professional quidditch players. Not take the job? Not want to be at the centre of attention? Wasn't that sort of the point? "I very much get the not wanting the attention," he mused. In fact, if no one noticed he'd even been in the room until after he left, so much the better. "What do you think you'd be doing if you hadn't taken it?" Since asking what she did for fun going to be his question until she'd said she didn't have time for much other than quidditch. *"First match I ever saw was at Hogwarts and I had a hard time following the actual game even after I understood how* it was played." So much going on. "And after I left, it wasn't really something that was a thing in my family so I never really picked it up." He shrugged. What he really needed was someone to sit through a whole match with him and talk him through it. Then.. maybe. He sipped his tea and ran his hand through his hair. "My sister.. had similar concerns, it would seem," he said, chuckling a bit embarrassedly. She'd threatened to submit the forms herself if he didn't, and so had gone through with it, so at least it had been his words. But now that he was starting to get a little more comfortable, he wasn't sorry she had. Derry'd had a hard time with there being so many people around in general when she'd first started. She'd been to muggle school, yes, but people usually avoided her there since she was that weird farm girl who was homeschooled four days a week and only came in for maths and science lessons. "I think it was the homework that got me, at home I always had my parents to help... My mam's a physicist so I was always good at science in muggle school..." Was it weird she'd done muggle exams too? She was never sure... but she was glad she had done - it helped her connect with her muggle mother. As for people... "Yeah, I mean... I definitely wouldn't be playing Quidditch if it wasn't for the people at Hogwarts." West, mainly... he'd supported her whole heartedly and it was the thought of him that finally made her accept the Magpie's offer. She nodded at his agreement to the attention thing. It didn't surprise her... attention was... difficult. It put a lot of pressure on and Derry did not usually do well under pressure. She'd gone almost to pieces over her NEWTs... and over the muggle A levels she'd tried to take. In fact... that was part of why she was playing quidditch and not following the plan she'd made when she was ten years old. Which brought her onto the next question. "Veterinary science and care of magical creatures." she said, scuffing her shoe a little as they walked. "I might go back to it after quidditch... as a mature student maybe. I mean... a quidditch career cannae exactly last your whole working life." Like any sports career, she would have to retire before she was old. "I've always loved animals... I've wanted to be a vet since I was about six and I was helping my dad with lambing - I grew up on a farm.." The whole lambing thing needed context, probably. "So yeah... that. Though I'd have to go back and retake my muggle A-levels." Because for veterinary science she'd definitely need biology. Maybe she'd start soon. She could study alongside quidditch, right? Unofficially at least. Hm... "Quidditch is fairly simple really, it just gets a bit... tangled up when you see everyone flying around out there. I've always thought about it as three separate games together. Like... there's the chasers and keepers game, the beaters game and the seekers game... and they kind of... intertwine." It made it easier than trying to get all the scoring and fouls and stuff to make sense in her head, anyway. Ah... that was... sort of a relief actually. At least she wasn't the only one who'd been pretty much thrown into this. "Maybe she worries about you, it's hard being away from your family all term."** She'd missed her own a lot when she was at Hogwarts. Now that she was forced to spend so much time with them? Not so much.