Julien Dorny (daydorning) wrote in changedrpg, @ 2011-10-24 21:18:00 |
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Entry tags: | !date: 1997 - october, alfie cattermole, julien dorny |
Who: Alfie & Julien
What: Tutoring in Herbology
When: Monday after dinner
Where: Random classroom in which Peeves once locked Alfie in
Rating: PG?
Although he was still dubious about how useful he was going to be, Julien still agreed to tutor Alfie. His friend didn't mind the fact that Julien himsel felt he needed tutoring, although knowing that the subject matter Julien wanted to be tutored on was for next year's classes may have swayed anyone's mind on that. Or they would have thought Julien crazy which, yeah, okay, maybe a little.
The closer it got to the end of his school life the more panicked Julien became about the work - he was keeping up in classes admirably considering the fact that he was trying to do another lot of work for next year that he didn't even have to do. It was the practise that was important, or so he kept telling himself, but every time he failed to understand something in next year's course he felt as though he were failing in everything. He should have just stopped putting so much pessure on himself but he couldn't help himself; he wanted to do well more than anything and currently, classes were his life.
Tutoring Alfie was probably the most relaxing thing he'd done in two weeks next to eating (with a book at the table), sleeping and Daydream Charms, the latter of which he'd been going through like a demon. He still thought that Alfie didn't give himself enough credit when it came to his studying because Julien thought there was definitely a clever mind and a willingness to put in the work in the boy, which he though was more than could be said for him.
"I wasn't going too fast, was I?" he asked at the end of the chapter they'd been working on, concerned that he'd babbled on too much. He couldn't help it, he saw how this lay in the grand scheme of things and he couldn't teach without explaining why they were learning about this stuff in the first place. "Are you all okay with that chapter?"