Besides bouncing between constant depression, or at the high points, just a crushing feel of mediocrity? And being terrified of school starting again? Nothing really.
hey, thanks for your comment on A Better Man :D i guess i was looking to modernise hogwarts, lol, since beauxbatons get taught other languages. i mean, we dont get to see all lessons in hogwarts in the books, so i thought, yeah cool. i wanted to put that letter into context; this is how she's feeling, why she's writing it, and then the letter gave me a chance to show Aurore in her previous job/environment before shifting her life around. it's forced because it's in English! these people would normally use French exclusively, so i'm trying to get across that Aurore's been teaching them English and insisting that they only speak in English to each other. in French, i'm sure they would have said a lot more, but the student's difficulty with speaking English on the spot with no support from a textbook etc stunted the conversation. I did write it originally with Aurore just starting at Hogwarts, but it was too important later on to show her relationship with the students and especially the other teaching staff, as is seen in her first night at hogwarts. that was kind of crucial because the staff would and will come to play a major part in the later plot and sub-storylines. i also just wanted that little bit of depth and symbolism - leaving a secure, safe place with friends and going to a place where she doesn't know anybody and the language is her second. i wanted all this in there, so i went with having Aurore leave beauxbatons and enter somewhere completely new, which would be an allusion to a later romantic plot line.