xxxASTRONOMY ~ Oxxx
- ■ Billie absolutely loves Astronomy. She's not really sure if it's actually very useful, except in relation to knowing when full moons are, but never let that stop her. She's a night owl naturally, so it was easy for her to do well in a class that she was both interested in and properly awake for. Her score was actually surprisingly impressive.
xxxCHARMS ~ EExxx
- ■ Charms is the easiest form of wandwork for Billie. It's no cakewalk, but she's good enough that a little advice from her spell-inventor mother was all she needed to do well. Her score wasn't too far off the mark from an O, actually, which she was both surprised and pleased to discover.
xxxDEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS ~ Pxxx
- ■ Billie is, to put it mildly, terrible at defensive magic. She's more likely to go at someone with her fists (and teeth) in a pique of rage than to try for her wand. Trying to focus enough to get a spell to work was usually met with frustration and impatience. The rare occasions she could get it to work at all, she tended to overdo it, and often was unable to replicate the results if she succeeded properly. If she'd gotten one more question right on the written, she'd have passed, but alas, books aren't exactly her friend, either.
xxxHERBOLOGY ~ Oxxx
- ■ Billie excelled at this course. It helped that, unlike many of her classmates, she had no trouble whatsoever with Professor Hill, having grown up with him. He's basically her grumpy uncle, and is actually the father of her two best friends, so focusing on the course was easy. Whenever she needed help, Aspen gave it to her, so she never struggled at all with the material.
xxxHISTORY OF MAGIC ~ Axxx
- ■ Billie's not great at history. She's actually just passable, and barely at that. She tends to get easily distracted by tangents when studying, often spotting a reference to a name or event she doesn't know about and ending up in the magical-library equivalent of a 3 am wikipedia binge. She knows a lot, but most of it isn't what was covered in class. What she does remember from class tends to get mixed up easily as well.
xxxPOTIONS ~ Axxx
- ■ Honestly, the only reason Billie applied herself to this class at all was because, well. Her father and most of his friends are werewolves. She figured, having enough skill to successfully brew a Wolfsbane potion is a handy skill to have. Even if she's unlikely to ever get bitten compared to most people, there's always the concern in the back of her mind. Plus, what if one day her dad can't make his own, and she has to swoop in to save the day? That said, her study in this area was, like history, rather focused on the wrong thing. Her written exam suffered a little for neglect of the actual coursework.
xxxTRANSFIGURATION ~ Pxxx
- ■ Frankly, Billie's lucky she can transfigure anything. She tried asking her Aunt Gypsy for help and got basically nowhere, same result from asking her son Jack and nephew Tris. She might have passed if it'd just been the written, but she point blank refused to even attempt the practical, knowing it would go extremely poorly, and was docked points for that.
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xxxALCHEMY ~ Axxx
- ■ Billie took this course mostly out of curiosity, but found she had no real natural talent for it. She's not the best at either potions or spellwork, so there was nothing of skill in one to cover her weakness in the other while taking the class. She wasn't overly worried about it, either, but did study with the hopes of at least passing, having long since determined she was going to fail at least one exam, and wanting to keep the number down as much as possible.
xxxCARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES ~ Oxxx
- ■ This is, by far, Billie's best course. She loves animals, always has, and is extremely dedicated to the study of them, their habits and diets and history and care. She's basically a walking encyclopedia of random animal fun facts, both magical creatures and non. She determined at a very young age she wanted to either be a vet or a Magizoologist, and that desire hasn't changed as she's gotten older, so even if she wasn't already good at this class, she was diligent with her studies.
xxxHEALING ~ Axxx
- ■ Billie took this course in case she decided on being a vet, but her lack of skill here combined with her abysmal performance in Defense pretty much told her she wasn't going to manage that. But, she was determined that, if she couldn't use defensive magic, she did at least want to be able to clean up the mess after. Animals are dangerous, after all, so it's handy to know how to at least heal basic injuries. She's not planning on taking the NEWT level, but a passing OWL score is nice.
xxxMYTHOLOGY ~ EExxx
- ■ Billie likes this course, and finds it easier than history, but not by much. She's more interested in mythical beasts than the stories themselves, and kind of coasted on her exam with the crossover between mythology and magizoology. She does enjoy the course, but it's not not her area of expertise. Still, she kept track of enough via her enjoyment of myths involving monsters and the like to manage a low EE.
xxxWANDLESS ~ Axxx
- ■ Billie took this course because it is both practical and cool, and because her "Uncle" Jer and "cousins" can all do wandless magic pretty easily. Obviously, she wanted to do well, but she struggled a lot with the class, even with Jack's help. Luckily for her, Jer started teaching the class the same year she took her OWL's, so she was able to get a much better grasp on the class. She's not great, but good enough to pass, at least.
