So what about Remus?

[donnaimmaculata]

You know, before OotP and HBP respectively, I was totally sure (and very freaked out) that Remus would die. Now, that DH is approaching fast, I no longer am. I wonder why. It's either a) a false sense of security or b) I assume that now, with the Tonks plotline, JKR has something else for him in store than dying or c) I stopped caring about Remus. Hm. (Well, I'm certainly no longer madly in love with him like I used to. Now, it's more the comfortable "Oh-we've-been-married-forever-and-of-course-we-love-each-other-we'll-spend-the-rest-of-our-lives-together" feeling rather than burning hot passion, which is a bit sad, but not unusual.)

It is a bit sad, though, that I seem to use LJ only to talk about my crushes on fictional men. And that there are so many of them. What am I, twelve?

Anyway. If Remus isn't dying - who is? And why? (Apart from Snape, because - duh!)

Comments

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

That's really fantastic, thank you so much!

Another probably random question that may or may not be answerable is whether or not this free education is available to foreigners. I'm thinking specifically primary school here is free, but I don't know if I'd need to pay for Della to go to school in a different country or if I could just randomly enrol her.

Oh, and when does the school year start? It's February here, or sometimes late January.

Thanks again. :)

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I've honestly no idea how the education system works for foreigners. If you're a foreigner living in the country, it's free, but I don't know what the conditions are if you want to send your child to school in Germany if you don't live here. - You don't have to pay, that's for sure, but I'm likewise sure that there are plenty of other conditions and regulations.

The school year starts in August or September. It varies from year to year and from Federal State to Federal State.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Oh, *facepalm*. This is the point where I reailse that I should have mentioned--Bill's looking at getting transferred to Norway or Germany next year. Della's four in a couple of weeks, so she'll turn five just after we move, and we're trying to figure out education. :)

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Ah, in that case, sending her to school in Germany would be no problem. Children of foreigners living in Germany receive the same education as Germans. (Of course, after they finished school and university, they are sent back to where they came from, on account on not having German blood, which is a weird and disturbing aspect of the German legal system.)

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Ooer, how strange. So even if we worked there long enough to get permanent residence or something (I don't know how difficult it is to get it there) we couldn't get the same for our kids?

Oh well. Good thing we weren't planning on staying there forever! :)

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I don't know exactly what it's like if you're from Australia. Traditionally, Germany has granted right of residence based on the jus sanguinis principle, not jus soli. It was changed a couple of years ago, but it's still difficult for foreigners to obtain German citizenship, even if they were born in the country.

But as you're not aiming at getting citizenship anyway, staying in Germany shouldn't be a problem. And anyway, Australians are not considered problematic immigrants who breed like crazy and spread their false beliefs ;-)

Is it Bill's choice whether he wants to be transferred to Germany or Norway? (My bitterness about residence laws aside, Germany is a good country to live in. I rather like it, and I'm from an immigrant family, so there.) And Della most likely would not start school immediately after coming to Germany. Basically, five-year-olds are offered the possibility to undergo some tests to check whether they've got the necessary abilities to go to school (e.g. cognitive, motoric and speech capacities). Seeing as Della would not speak German at that point, she'd spend one year in kindergarten and start school at the age of six, which is the average age in any case.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Australians seem to be relatively welcome. Especially from the view of quarantine. I can take my dog almost anywhere without having to stick him in quarantine, which I'm very impressed about. When we come back, however, I'll have to lock him in another bloody state for a month. *cry*

We'll more than likely go to Norway. I think we'd perhaps prefer Germany, but I'm very excited about Norway and that's where the company would prefer he be anyway. To be honest, we'd mostly just go to Germany for the goth cred (although we do know bits of the language which is more than we can say for Norway!).

Shit, I wonder what'd happen if we moved there when Della was older and couldn't speak the language. That'd suck a bit.