Career Advice - Margo Wright

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Career Advice - Margo Wright; Year 5 - Day 8 - Career Advisory Day
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Margo Wright	Mar 31 2010, 08:46:01 PM Post #1
Sixth Year Posts: 1,108 Group: Gryffindor Member #895 Joined: May 6 2009 Age like 87	On her way to class, Margo decided to stop in for her career advisory meeting. She didn't suppose it would take much time and she was about fifteen minutes ahead of scheduale. Ducking her head in the door to check for occupants, she knocked lightly on the door frame. "Can I come in?" Come in she did, smoothing her skirt down before sitting on a chair and facing the Divination professor. "So..... um..... I've never done this before. What am I supposed to do?"



Deleted User	Apr 2 2010, 10:44:47 PM Post #2
Deleted User	"Of course you can, Miss Wright," said Bannishtar, nodding. He noted that she had held the door open as she poked her head through the doorway, "Do try not to leave the door open too long. It upsets the environment in here." Margo entered, smoothing her skirt down before sitting on a chair and facing the Divination professor. "So..... um..... I've never done this before. What am I supposed to do?" "No worries, Miss Wright," said Banni with an assuring smile, "It is mainly I who must do most of the doing; and you're not the only one. Interesting fact that no one else that has come to me today has done this before, either. As for me, this is my very first day performing this task of my positions, so we're all one big greenhorn family here at Gryffindor." The centaur opened the cabinet marked "W". Not surprisingly, there were very few folders behind this drawer. It was easy enough to locate the one marked "Wright, Margo". Banni opened the folder and took at look at Miss Wright's past history, and nodding at her surprisingly high academic success. It wasn't that Banni had no faith in Miss Wright, but she had a class clown personality that Banni--even in his scant few years of teaching--had already begun to associate with poor academic performance. Perhaps Miss Wright was the exception to the rule. "Before I go into detail on your student history," said the centaur, "I would like to know where you see yourself in a few years--you know what? Scratch that question. I just realized I hate the wording of it. It implies, to my perception, that you somehow are possessed of the ability to view your own future in detail--which is not a talent even I, no any other Watcher possesses. Or, at the very least, it implies that you should be concerned with what you think is possible or likely given the current circumstances, which isn't always an accurate way to tell what the future may hold. It would be much more appropriate, I think, for me to ask what it is you would like to do when you leave school." Banni was, by now, already fed up with the wording of the questions and statements he'd been suggested to say be different staff members and school board members. He was starting to get the hang of this advising business enough to do it his own way.
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Margo Wright	Apr 3 2010, 11:10:43 PM Post #3
Sixth Year Posts: 1,108 Group: Gryffindor Member #895 Joined: May 6 2009 Age like 87	((OOC: I was very, very bored.)) There had been a concern, echoing in the back of her mind, for awhile now. It was really unsettling and she had tried to ignore it for as long as possible, but she couldn't. She debated whether or not to express it to the professor, and in the end decided to trust him. He would probably be most likely to be honest with her anyways. "Uh, to be honest, I'm not really sure if I even want to stay in the wizarding world. I'm a muggle born, see. And I love magic and all, but lately I just feel...... I mean, with everything going on it seems so..... dangerous. And it's just like, what's the point? What would I get out of it? I could just go back to the muggle world and be safe. There's still bad stuff there, sure, but it's far away. It, to be frank, doesn't have a lot to do with me. But here, we're living in the midst of it." Margo swallowed hard. This was bringing up a lot of emotion in her, which was something she didn't expect to happen, and she hadn't even gotten to the worst part yet. "Why shouldn't I just go back to the muggle world and get a job there, a family there, a life there? And if I wanna heat up my cocoa in the morning with my wand, that's fine, but I don't need to live surrounded by magic to be happy. I love it here, I really do, but I don't know if I belong here. In the wizard world. When they picture their lives, they picture being aurors, living in houses with appliances charmed to do housework by themselves, raising kids to go off to Hogwarts. I don't. I can't. I still see myself as a muggle. Not a muggle born, but a muggle." There was a little tear in the corner of her eye. Probably not noticable, but she felt it, and it made her feel like an idiot. For a moment, she debabted wiping it away, but decided it would just draw more attention to it and instead left it alone. "I'm, like, stuck. I'm not a wizard, but I'm not a muggle. I'm inbetween, all alone, and that sucks, you know? I'm, well, I'm not very shy. I'm probably a little bit too not shy. But I'm already so not there that if I don't make myself noticed I feel like I'm not even real. Like I'm nothing. And I guess I'm just scared that if I stay here, it's just gonna become more and more apparent how nothing I am." In that instant, Margo snapped out of it, realising how goopy and mucky and ridiculous she had been. Not to mention unfair to the professor. She shook the thoughts out of her head, as she had been doing the past few days, and moved on to more comfortable ground. She reclasped her hands, recrossed her legs, and refaced the professor. "You know what, never mind. It's not important anyway. Plus, you're, uh, not my shrink. So, um, careers. I guess, uh, something with, like, problem solving, puzzles and stuff? Curse breaker or something? Something along those lines?" Finally, she gave in, wiping the tear from her eye. Edited by Margo Wright, Apr 3 2010, 11:11:20 PM.



Deleted User	Apr 4 2010, 01:25:08 AM Post #4
Deleted User	Silence. The centaur chewed on the girl's words in his mind. His expression was contemplative. She'd gone on a bit of a rant, yet there was a real feeling of fear and uncertainty in her words. Fear and uncertainty. The two things that seemed to be abundant these days, and no more so than in these meetings he'd been having with his students. Most of them were aware that the Ministry was now gone, and that they were, for the most part, being trained to enter a society that was no longer what it was when these standards and methods had been invented. The world was changing, there was danger and chaos at ever turn, and all of this O.W.L. nonsense was just grasping at the straws. Yet, it was that same semblance of normalcy that kept a lot of people going, even Bannishtar himself. One's life cannot be ruled by fear, Banni thought. "Look, Miss Wright," said the centaur, softly "If returning to the Muggle world is what you desire, then that is what you should do. But if you are doing it merely out of fear of what is happening in the Wizarding world, then I must warn against any course of action motivated by fear. The same goes for fear of not belonging." Bannishtar saw that the girl was indeed crying, which only further spoked to him that there was a deep emotion behind what she was saying. With no tissues at hand, the centaur grabbed a rag from inside one of the holes in the trees he used for storage and handed it to Miss Wright. "Fear is never a good thing to base a decision on. You can end up making some pretty bad decisions. The whole of the Wizarding World is fearful of Azariah, and Barrabas DuMaine is playing on that fear, using it to convince people to give up their freedom in the name of a sense of security.I have come to believe that the worst of sentient life's mistakes were made based on fear. My heard followed a leader who played on our fear of what the Ministry was doing to restrict them, and that leader almost lead us to ruin. The centaur spoke passionately, as the danger of basing decisions off of fear was a major belief that he held, and he did want any of his students to make decisions based on running away from something and giving up a change to be happy, or getting into the habit of being so concerned with their own survival that they forget about others around them. "Now I know that you are a bright young woman, your grades are testament to that, so I know that you see the same things happening that I do. Do you really think that, if you returned to the Muggle world, that you would escape from Azariah's shadow? My dear, many Muggles have already fallen prey to Azariah and his Knights. The Ministry's destruction alone killed several in the blast. Azariah does not merely seek to spread his doctrine throughout the wizarding world, but the entire world: Muggle, Wizard, and creature. "So," he concluded, his forest green eyes exhibiting kindness, "returning to the Muggle world is what will make you happy, then do it, but please reconsider if there is even the slightest possibility that you may be running from something." Banni had had some interesting emotional and philosophical conversations today. Of course, he blamed all that on the current situation of the world on top of the stress of O.W.L.s. That was only because the centaur didn't understand teenagers and their capacity to make drama even if there was no cause for it. Still, it was understandable in this case, as he would later muse when he realized just how insane teenagers were. "As for a career in Curse Breaking," said Banni, getting back to the reason why they were meeting while giving Miss Wright a friendly smile, "I need to know if you are serious about a such a career, or if there is something else you really want to do."
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