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It would be completely rude to ignore Gerald and simply engage in conversation with just Nolan. Besides that fact, Kaysha was genuinely also interested in his work. After all, The Prophet was something she read almost every day. "Working on any exclusive pieces?'' she questioned. "Are you able to share a bit of it if you are?'' She gave him a sweet, innocent smile.
Ah, yes. A Divination book wouldn't hurt. "Divination has always been my weakest subject while at Hogwarts,'' Kay said mildly. "I haven't improved on it one bit though one of my best friends tried to help. She's the current Divination professor here.'' A few minutes after looking, she located the book. "Would you please sign it, ProfessorReynolds?'' He taught her, you know. Surely he remembered how terrible she had been at the subject.
Nolan couldn't help but laugh at that. Professor. Merlin, he hadn't been called Professor in years - and it was always weird running in to his former students, who were all adults and had their own careers now. Had it really been two decades since he'd taught here? Time really did fly when you had kids and a family.
"No one has called me that in years, Miss Stewart," he chuckled, unable to help himself from addressing her as he had as a student as well.
"And of course, I'd be happy to," he scribbled his signature in the cover of the book and handed it to her. He had never pegged her as one to really get in to Divination when she had been at school, but - maybe his book would change that!
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PhoenixRising As a journalist for the quill, writing had definitely been fascinating to the Slytherin Captain, which was why it was really no surprise she ended up at this booth. She wanted to speak to real-life writers about how to be successful in the field, how to make a living.
She blinked at overhearing Professor Stewart though, calling one of the gentlemen, professor. Wait. Reynolds? As in the same surname as Scarlett? She hadn't talked to Scarlett a whole lot, but was the girl's father a professor? Then why was he at the writing booth? And did that mean, Zayn was right? She could do more than one thing by being a journalist?
"Hi there, I'm Skylar Diggory and I'm very interested in a writing career, but I guess, I just wanted to know, did you go to University? Do you need other skills to be successful as a writer? Like, for instance, I also like cursebreaking and creatures and runes and quidditch. So would i be able to use that knowledge set to help me as a reporter? Is being a reporter enough to make a living?" Were they married? She had tons more questions about a writing path, but figured she would leave it at that for now....
Oh finally! A student interested in picking his brain! Nolan loved to talk about himself and his career, which was obviously why he had applied for this
and also to embarrass his kids hehe. He chuckled a bit - this girl was eager and rattled off the questions in one long go. He nodded and listened before addressing her questions, trying to hit on each one.
"I did not go to university, but I was always interested in Divination. I dabbled in quite a few areas of it as soon as I left school before finally teaching it, and it has always been a passion of mine. I practiced so much that I felt I was qualified enough to write a book on crystal orb gazing, which is one of my favorite disciplines of the subject, so you could always end up tying your passions in to your writing," he explained. If you put in enough time and energy to something, you could definitely become well versed in it to the point that you could write a book on it!