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Chapter Ten
Severus and Jackie
Muggle,
WIZARDS ARE REAL. YOU JUST HAVEN'T HEARD OF THEM BEFORE, YOU STUPID MUGGLE.
Severus
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Dear Severus,
My family don't celebrate Christmas, but I had a lovely holiday anyway, thank you for asking. It was very eventful. Instead of telling you all about the wonderful party which I wasn't invited to on New Year's Eve, I'll tell you all about the... interesting gathering I was invited to, which would probably be the wisest option. It was at my auntie's house, and there was the most peculiar boy there. He's a distant cousin of mine, twice removed or something. He had the darkest, greasiest black hair, and he kept coming out with the oddest comments. The thing is, Severus, he reminded me an awful lot like you. He's a major fan of Star Trek, I think it's called. Are you a fan of Star Trek? You seem to me like you are a fan of Star Trek. I reckon that there are all sorts of 'beings' in Star Trek, possibly even wizards. Therefore, this is where you get the idea of you-being-a-wizard from. I am supposing that there are 'muggles' in Star Trek as well? Maybe I should watch Star Trek? I am sure that it will help me to understand you a little better. So, as of now, the first thing on my to-do list is:
Number 1) Watch Star Trek
A few other things include:
Number 2) Join the Debate Club
Number 3) Hand in my Geography assignment early
And number 4) Ask Mrs. Howard what I could possibly do for extra-credit in Mathematics.
These are just a few things on my to-do list, and I am sure that they do not interest you in the slightest, so I shall stop telling you about my daily life now.
Though, just in case you care, I want to join the Debate Club because two girls from my class are on the Debate team, and I know for a fact that the 'coolest' kid in the year used to go, so I am going to Debate Club in the hope that it will:
a) Make me more popular
b) Help me make some friends.
I have to hand in my Geography assignment early because I feel that these things are a first-come-first-serve type of thing. What I mean to say is that if I hand in my report early, my teacher will read it first, and therefore he will not be bored so much by the amount of reports he has read that he won't read it properly, or grade it to its full potential. Therefore, I will get the best mark I possibly can by handing it in early. I try to make a habit of handing in all of my reports, assignments, and essays in early.
I need extra-credit in Mathematics just in case I fail my next test. I don't really think I will fail my next test, as I feel I'm quite clever in Mathematics, but just in case I do. Also, the boy who sits next to me – Marcus – likes to copy off me in Mathematics, and if I make an extra effort, Mrs. Howard won't suspect me of copying off him.
Finally, we have reached the end of my letter. I hope you found it both enjoyable and readable.
Adieu, adieu, adieu
Jackie x
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Do you think I care about your pathetic muggle ways? Well, I have a lesson for you here, now, muggle. I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LOSER LIFESTYLE, ABOUT HOW YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS, YOU WILL NEVER BE POPULAR, AND YOU HAND IN YOUR PATHETIC, SAD REPORTS EARLY. I'm sorry, but what kind of a person hands in their reports early?! A person who clearly has too much time on their hands! AND WHO WANTS TO CORRESPOND WITH A LOSER LIKE THAT? NOT ME.
Severus
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Dear Severus,
I completed my to-do list, and I watched Star Trek. I have now learnt that there are no muggles in Star Trek. There are no wizards. There are no spells. There are no classes called 'Potions' – which you wrote about in your first letter, for your information.
I joined the Debate Club, and I have so concluded that it is:
a) A waste of my time.
b) A waste of my effort.
c) Boring.
d) Not a place where the cool kids go to hang out.
e) Not a place where there are nice, kind, loving people who want to make friends.
f) Not a place for me.
So therefore, I am never going to Debate Club again.
I handed in my Geography assignment early, and the result of this, was yet another A. I am quite happy with my result, though I would like to push for an A*.
I asked Mrs. Howard what I could possibly do for extra-credit in Mathematics, and she told me that I should 'get out more'. I have so concluded that Mrs. Howard is:
a) Trying to relive her sad life through her students.
b) Unfair and cruel.
c) Stupid.
d) A bad teacher.
So therefore, I will no longer talk to Mrs. Howard until it is necessary to do so, and after I have finished this letter, I shall head on over to the headmaster's office to complain about her low teaching standards. I am under the impression that Mrs. Howard and Dr. King had an on-going relationship last year, but she ended it due to her love for another teacher, Mr. Boatman. Therefore, it should not be easy to persuade Dr. King to fire that awful woman.
In my next letter, I shall be informing you all about my run-in with Dr. King.
Au revoir, mon ami,
Jackie x
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Ok, so your letter wasn't fun to read. I'm sure it was even less fun to write. So why don't you stop writing to me now, muggle? I ALREADY HAVE BLACK AND POTTER TO TORTURE ME, I DO NOT NEED YOU AS WELL. I shall not be even opening your next letter. I hope this puts you off.
Adios non-amigo,
Severus
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Dear Severus,
Why don't you stop writing first? Ha.
I went over to the headmaster's office, and this is how it went:
I knocked on the door, and once he had uttered, "Come in," I responded by doing so. He asked me to sit down on entering, and so I did. He offered me a slice of lemon tart. I politely declined. This was a business meeting.
"Why have you come here today, Jacqueline?" Dr. King asked me. I hate the fact that teachers use my full name. But I was not one to detest, or behave rudely, so I ignored this.
"I would like to submit a formal complaint," I began, "Against one of the teachers at this school."
"You would?" he asked, seeming quite amused.
"Yes," I said, firmly but respectfully, "Please," I added.
"Ok. Which one?" Dr. King said, sounding rather jolly.
"Erm, Mrs. Howard," I said, slightly more uncertain now.
"Mrs. Howard!" he exclaimed happily, "What has she done this time?"
"Erm, well... when I asked her what I could possibly do for extra-credit in Mathematics, she told me to 'get out more'," I told him quietly.
"And what would you like me to do about this?" he asked, but not in a sarcastic, or rude way.
"Well, I would really like you to fire her, or perhaps issue her with a warning?" I suggested, quite fairly, in my opinion. She really deserved to be dropped from the top of a building.
"I'm afraid there's nothing I can do. This really isn't serious enough to destroy a person's life over. Unless... she's not, bullying you in some way, is she? Are there other things she has done to you? Do not feel afraid to speak. Everything said in this office is entirely confidential. There must be something," he pressed. I told him, regrettably, that there was nothing.
I'm a little confused, Severus, and I was thinking maybe you could help me out a little? Was Dr. King asking me to lie about Mrs. Howard? Surely this cannot be correct. Dr. King would never be so illegitimate. I don't know. I'll have to take this up with the Deputy.
I'll send you a report on how I my meeting with the Deputy Head went in my next letter.
Love,
Jackie xx
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