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[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

Storm remembered that she was supposed to be in class, but felt that a double spare was much more fun than spending her class with annoying Hufflepuffs.

"What year is your brother in?" she asked her.

[Reed Brennan]

"Oh, we're both in seventh." Reed said as she stopped looking for him. "I had to study so hard to get into the same grade as him when I came. They don't teach quite the same things at a muggle school." Reed said, though she didn't suppose Calculus would be much more fun than Arithmancy.

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

"Is it boring in muggle schools, I mean no magic, no spells, don't you get bored taking notes while teacher drone on. Storm hated note taking, it was one of the major setbacks in school, not including actually attending classes.

[Reed Brennan]

"Yes, it's worse than death." Reed sighed. "In elementary school we always had recess, but then as we got older they took it away. It was the only time of day when we didn't have to acually learn anything from a book."

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

STorm hadn't heard of recess, they had lunches and spares, but that was it.

"Ele... elementry school?" she asked her unaware of what the term meant.

[Reed Brennan]

"Oh, right." Reed said before she began her explanation. "Recess is like a short period of time to play outside and run around. We only had it in elementatry school, though." She siad beforing explaining the muggle school system by where she lived. "There are four levels of school in the muggle world that are pretty much mandatory, but you can go on if you wish. You start when you're three years old and end around eighteen at the least." Reed took a breath. "You start in Pre-school at the age of three. Preschool consists of a Nursery and Pre-Kendergarten. The next level is Elementary school which starts when you're are around four-six years of age. You go to Kindergarten, and Grades one through six. Each grade takes a year to complete. When you finish elementary school the kids are usually eleven or twelve years old." Reed said. "The next level is middle school, also known as junior high. It usually consists of only seventh and eighth grade. By the time you are done with middle school the kids are usually around thirteen or fourteen years old. The next, and from the one year I've participated in it, the worse is high school. You have grades 9-12, and the curriculum is a bit more difficult. You're usually about eighteen when you're done with high school. If you want to continue your education, you go to college for four years or more. There are also different kinds and levels in college." Reed briefed not wanting to explain the whole system.

"I came to Hogwarts in the middle of my Freshman year in high school, which is ninth grade. I was glad for the hcange, but it was a difficult transistion."

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

Still confused Storm replied with a 'right' she felt sorry for muggle students, they had so much schooling to go through while in the wizarding world, you only had seven.

"How did you feel when you found out you were a witch?" she asked her.

[Reed Brennan]

"Well," Reed said trying to think back. "I thought it was a joke, a prank one of the idiots across the street had pulled. I didn't tell anyone about it and tried to burn it so my parents wouldn't find it and want to get involved, only it wouldn't burn. Then my brother showed me the one he got, and it didn't seem so fake anymore. He wrote a letter to the school and it was responded by the HM itself." Reed said. "He was obsessed with at least looking at the school as a possibility, so my parents gave in and decided to l'let him get his own dreams broken.' They wanted to prove him wrong, but it was real. Eventually they let him go, but they wouldn't let me. My brother came home telling me god-awful stories, but they all seemed so amazing. He lied and told my parents how perfect i was so eventually I got in." She finished catching her breath.

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

Storm shook her head and laughed.

"Well this world isn't perfect, and neither is the muggle world, so it really doesn't make a difference." Storm played with a rock on the ground with her foot absentmindedly.

[Reed Brennan]

"Not in my parents' eyes. They deny anything horrible. Our house caught on fire once and they shrugged it off as a warning of what their afterlife will be if the don't stop 'acting foolish.'" Reed said almost laughing. "I guess nothing's perfect...I don't even know the true meaning of the word."

[Lucretia 'Storm' Seyrrou]

"Perfect, yes and odd word, I suppose it means the unattainable, something so close, yet we cannot grasp it, I think something perfect is what we have, the best things that we have our perfect to us, it's not trying to perfect others, but to see everything in a better light." sh paused as she looked away.

"Well I guess you should try to burn their house down, maybe they might get the message." she joked.

[Reed Brennan]

Reed forced a small laugh. She had already felt guilty for the way she was lying to them constantly, even now. She supposed some of her parents must've rubbed off on her somewhere along the way. "Perfection is impossible to acheive, yes, but so is imperfection, I suppose. There is always a little of both in everyone."