Naturally he is far too elegant and sophisticated ever actually to make such a gesture, but the BW this week took the opportunity presented by his end of year exams to stick two metaphorical fingers up to the infinitely wise Hogwarts DPs who chose not to honour him with an academic scholarship a little over a month ago.
Showing the wisdom and priority management to which we have become accustomed, he opted for mid-table mediocrity in his RS exam, scoring a reasonable but unthreatening 63%. However, in all of the other subjects for which he has thus far received results - Geography was still pending as the PO went to press - his performance was not so much Premier League as Champions' League.
Consider the facts. In every major subject - Maths, History, French, Greek, English, Music, Latin - he finished in the top four, with two second places and four first places. Across these seven subject combined he dropped only 53 percentage points, with a lowest mark of 85% and five scores over ninety per cent. In English he scored 96% and in Music and Latin 97%.
When asked by the PO how he felt - Did he feel vindicated ? Was he proud to have responded to the DPs' snub in such an impressive manner ? - the BW responded with characteristic modesty, and not a little humour.
"Well, Dad," he said thoughtfully. "I think I'm playing my role of dark horse pretty well, don't you ?"
It will be interesting to see how these performances are reflected in his end of term report - coming soon to a blog near you...
Congrats on the high marks -- sounds like quite a mature and thoughtful young man. I love hearing his comments -- it's touching, sweet, funny and surprising, sometimes, what we hear our kids say. Best to you ... (although we miss you over there ...)
Posted by: Caryn | June 24, 2006 at 03:46 PM
Congrats BW! You are academic champion by stealth and we like your style! We look forward to celebrating with you this summer ~ The Lovebirds xxx
Posted by: Missy | June 27, 2006 at 08:04 PM