#newt may or may not be evan 😔😔

[troyssix]

tmr but like dear evan hansen au

[birlwrites]

what were the other slytherins' career meetings with slughorn like?

the way i had half of this typed out and then lost it 😔 we soldier on

most of the career meetings were pretty uneventful because most of the slytherins know exactly what they're doing - they're going to graduate and become full-time aristocrats. whether they're CONTENT with this is another matter - emma in particular is itching to go pro in quidditch, she just hasn't worked out her angle, and charlotte's considering a variety of masteries because she's uncomfortable with the idea of suddenly having No More School - but they were still uneventful

which leaves barty and lucinda!!!

barty's meeting was straightforward enough in that they talked about potential future careers using runes, slughorn told him babbling would be delighted to help him out with that since it is after all her field of study, and as far as the 'what newts you need to take' conversation, it was literally just 'make sure you get into newt runes. getting an o on the owl is a good idea. take some other classes too to be well-rounded on mastery applications, the traditional supplemental subjects are transfiguration and charms but runes are an inherently interdisciplinary field so you can basically get away with anything as long as you're decent at it and can sell them on it in your application'

lucinda, on the other hand, was basically vibrating out of her seat the entire time, stressed out of her mind at being The Only One in their year who really needs to Do Something Special to be successful in life. maeve has jokingly (she was dead serious) offered lucinda her own set of rooms in the bulstrodes' ancestral home, but lucinda hates the idea of just sitting around all day living off of her best friend So Much. So Fucking Much. so she needs a CAREER and she needs to be GOOD AT IT and her friends don't UNDERSTAND because they are SACRED TWENTY-EIGHT ARISTOCRATS WITH FORTUNES (and barty is. barty. he'd probably gladly live in maeve's house for the rest of his life and his only regret would be that it wasn't regulus's)

so slughorn had 4 totally straightforward very chill career meetings (regulus, maeve, barty, and evan), then BAM LUCINDA!!!!!!!, then 2 basically straightforward very chill career meetings (emma and charlotte)

emma hasn't really. Externalized her desire to become a professional quidditch player to anyone other than evan and like. geoff. house vanity isn't suuuuuuuuper conventional so it's not like it's hopeless (like - can you imagine regulus being like 'mother, father, i shall not become lord black, i am abdicating so that i can play seeker for the falmouth falcons'), but they're not... *un*conventional. emma's not the heir which gives her more freedom but she's also part of a family that is very much In the sacred twenty-eight, unlike, for example, the weasleys. so it would be pushing boundaries for her to become a pro athlete and mentioning it to slughorn would feel a little. embarrassingly optimistic to her

slughorn may be able to connect lucinda with someone at witch weekly, and if she plays her cards right, she could probably get an internship there the summer after her sixth year, which plays very well into both her love of accessorizing and her newfound interest in journalism as a viable profession (thanks geoff!! team dad all the way. even for people who aren't on the team yet)

charlotte can't decide which mastery she wants to pursue (first)