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Slytherin Fifth Year |  Essay/Presentation Professor Pink | Mrs. Bruce Wayne | I'm on a Goat | Glitterpuff | Dumbledore's Defense Squad | BHB
Well, Davie had asked five questions exactly, so... it wasn't his fault Miss Bulstrode didn't answer his last one. It had been kind of last-minute. He nodded respectfully to the portrait, murmured a soft, "Thank you, ma'am," and went off to write his paragraph. Thank MERLIN he didn't have to work with the group he'd sat with. He'd quite liked the Ravenclaw girl and Dot and Hady (the GOOD Hady) and Esme. They made a good team.
But anyway, time to write. Time to suck it up and deal with his smudged hand-notes. Davie sighed at the sight of them and tucked his quick-quotes-quill away for now. He got out a regular quill instead, and took his time to slowly write things on his parchment and to scrub away at his inked-out arm. Eventually, he had a solid essay to present. When it was his turn, he stood up, pushed his glasses up his nose with his clean hand, and read from his parchment as calmly as possible.
"I had the pleasure of speaking with Ms. Violetta Bulstrode, a very famous graduate of the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts, or WADA, as it is called. Ms. Bulstrode's greatest contribution to the art world is not her beautiful portrait, as one might assume." He paused here for dramatic effect, and also because, c'mon, that was a decent pun. "No, Ms. Bulstrode's most famous accomplishment is her musical Who Cast the Spell on Music?, in which she sings and simultaneously performs 15 different musical instruments." Impressive, no?
"The youngest of four, Ms. Bulstrode was born in 2000 in the village of Castamere," his notes had smudged here, so he'd had to guess the town's name. "She attended WADA from 2011 to 2018, which is where she learned to play the instruments, including her favorite, the harp. She is from a proud pureblood family, and if I may hypothesize," even though he hadn't been asked to, he was going to, "she could be related to Millicent Bulstrode, a classmate and distant relative of Harry Potter." Davie couldn't resist throwing a bit of shade at Haddie Dunceaker, if she were even listening right now. And even if he were wrong about guessing this portrait's family history, it had been worth it to drop HP's name. Harry had loved History of Magic class, right? WHO DIDN'T? C'mon!
Time to wrap things up, though, so other people could talk about Bulstrode. "Ms. Bulstrode retired not long before her painting was painted. She believes that great success takes talent AND hard work, and also gave me the advice to always believe in yourself and to not be afraid of the stage. She said that if you have prepared for your performance with talent and hard work, then you just have to remember how wonderful you are at what you do. You DESERVE the spotlight and attention. She said that. To me. So in conclusion, Ms. Bulstrode is a great performer, and her portrait should be hanging in the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts, if it is not there already. The end."
Davie may have held his paper too close to his mouth and probably didn't talk as loudly as he should have, but hey. He tried. He'd gotten through it. He'd lived. He'd done a good job, and had (probably) just succeeded at making Haddie really mad. And now that he was ALL done, he felt a lot better, and he felt very confident in his writing talent, per Ms. Bulstrode's advice. So it was a good class.
When everyone was done, Davie got up to hand his essay in. "Do you need any help putting the portraits away, sir?" He paused by Professor Finch's desk for just a moment. He was kinda curious if Ms. Bulstrode had heard his essay or not. Text Cut: Full Essay Text Violetta Bulstrode
an essay by Davie Truebridge I had the pleasure of speaking with Ms. Violetta Bulstrode, a very famous graduate of the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts, or WADA, as it is called. Ms. Bulstrode's greatest contribution to the art world is not her beautiful portrait, as one might assume. No, Ms. Bulstrode's most famous accomplishment is her musical Who Cast the Spell on Music?, in which she sings and simultaneously performs 15 different musical instruments.
The youngest of four, Ms. Bulstrode was born in 2000 in the village of Castamere. She attended WADA from 2011 to 2018, which is where she learned to play the instruments, including her favorite, the harp. She is from a proud pureblood family, and if I may hypothesize, she could be related to Millicent Bulstrode, a classmate and distant relative of Harry Potter.
Ms. Bulstrode retired not long before her painting was painted. She believes that great success takes talent AND hard work, and also gave me the advice to always believe in yourself and to not be afraid of the stage. She said that if you have prepared for your performance with talent and hard work, then you just have to remember how wonderful you are at what you do. You DESERVE the spotlight and attention. She said that. To me. So in conclusion, Ms. Bulstrode is a great performer, and her portrait should be hanging in the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts, if it is not there already. The end.
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