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What are your plans over the summer?

Think we might be able to work in some reasonably serious quidditch practice?

I'll be taking a position on the Cannons' practice squad starting next month, but I can't help but think some additional work beyond that would do me good.

Well, I am finally, finally home.

I have a massive training regime to follow over the next while. As well as appointments with various healers and specialists daily and sometimes twice daily over the next too weeks. Then we'll see which will be retained and which cut.

I look forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight, being pampered by Mum and Jenni, maybe even woken up by the littles in the morning.

I would like to repeat my thanks for all the cards, gifts and well witches.

I'm sure that NEWTs went well for all my year mates and that OWLs continue to go well. I no everyone worked as hard as they could given hour trying circumstances.

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Headmistress,
I have been invited by Minister Selwyn to interview with Mr Cantervale of the International Wizarding Cooperation -- Sport department concerning a summer position for 'promising young wizards'. This would be a wonderful opportunity for me to build my resume and launch my career. Unfortunately as this is a summer position the interviews need to be as soon as possible to allow the selected candidate to begin immediately after we leave school. I therefore need permission leave the grounds by floo next Tuesday morning to arrive for my interview at nine o'clock sharp. I have no obligations until later in the day and no classes scheduled at that time.

May I please have permission to leave the grounds?

I'm sure everyone had a charming day yesterday at Hogsmeade. After a bracing walk over, I finished a spot of shopping and had a nice butterbeer.

I've been thinking about how exciting Hogsmeade day is, how mythic the shops are in our minds. The shops in New London are generally bigger and better stocked than those in Hogsmeade, but I don't hear third years talking about them with the same hushed awe as those in Hogsmeade. Is it because we can only go a few times a year, because it's always a group activity, a drawing ley-line running from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade or something even more fantastic?

We really need to get together and talk sometime this weekend.

I haven’t been a very good boyfriend recently. I know I withdrew this summer rather than talk to you or really anyone about what happened at the end of last year. Since being at school it’s been really hard to find time to be together with all of our various responsibilities.

I feel like the future is battering at me like a rogue bludger and I don’t have beaters keeping it off me. The end of school is coming up and I know what I want to do (Quidditch obviously), but don’t know if I’ll be recruited. I keep having other ideas, building magical stuff with custom enchanting, medi-wizardry planning to try and work for a Quidditch team, and others. But it’s all stuff that take either a pile of galleons with a huge chance of failure if you don’t start with patronage (and you know that’s not coming from my family) or years more training. So I really don’t know what I’ll do with myself if I don’t get recruited.

There are so many expectations that others pile on me, being my parents’ eldest son, being Head Boy, being Quidditch Captain and of course having been a Triwizard Champion with its … complications. All that makes my prospects really difficult, particularly if people think I haven’t lived up to expectations. I know being made Head Boy means that many of the important people who might have taken offence haven’t actually done so, but I’m so afraid that whatever I choose to try and do with my life someone will decide they don’t like me or the choices I’ve made and whatever prospects I’ve managed to build will vanish overnight.

With all of this I don’t think it’s right for me to drag someone else along with me on the sputtering broom of my future. I wish I could write all this better and make you understand. We really need to sit down, soon, maybe Saturday afternoon, and talk about about us and where we go from here.

Cedric

When we both have a spare moment after the craziness of the beginning of term, I’d like to talk with you about future opportunities.

I think you know that I’d like to try to continue with Quidditch but I don’t know if I’m really good enough. I’d like discuss whether you think a Quidditch career is realistic. I know there are loads of people currently in the game that would offer opinions, all the scouts and such, but honestly I don’t trust them to tell me the truth, just whatever spin would be best for their team.

If Quidditch isn’t in my future I need to think hard about what to do after this year and what I can do to make the most of things.