urn:lj:scribbld.com:atom1:boywholived smiting dark lords before it became fashionable gryffindorrobes@aol.com Harry J. Potter 2008-08-02T02:39:16Z urn:lj:scribbld.com:atom1:boywholived:430 2008-08-02T02:39:16Z 2008-08-02T02:39:16Z There isn't much I'm allowed to write about training, but I don't reckon they'd mind if I just didn't say too much about certain things. It's every bit as difficult as I expected it to be. <s>Thank you, Hermione, for years of extra study sessions.</s> Not just that, though. It's difficult not to look back and think about the what ifs: what if various victims of the war had had even one-tenth of this training... What then? It boggles the mind. Someone wise once told me that it didn't do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. I reckon that's the most fitting tribute. Just do it, don't think about it: it's the most Gryffindor thing I've ever heard, and wouldn't you know it? It works.<br /><br />It's so busy there's barely any time to sleep, much less visit my friends or keep track of my own thoughts. I'm not so preoccupied with the latter as I am with the former, though. Ron and <s>especially</s> Hermione both know that I'm not the most reliable when it comes to owling... I don't think they'd let me get away with it now, though. Now that I've been given the chance, it's probably something I should work on.<br /><br /><s><i>Neither can live while the other survives.</i></s> Probably one thing of many I should work on, come to think of it.