the_debt_of_time

"I'd be fine with watching what you've learnt and offering any advice, but not until
later," she said, cutting him off before he really began to assume that she had the time to
teach him things he should be relying on his trainers to do. "I still have a lot to do here
with Draco, and I promised to meet with Narcissa about getting the paperwork put
together to lift the restrictions on the Malfoy vaults."
Ron's expression immediately turned sour. "So a couple of Malfoys are more
important than me now?"
"No," she said clearly though her patience was already being tested. "But since this
is your exam for your career, and I'm not even an Auror, what I'm doing is currently more
important to me. If you need help why don't you ask Harry?"
"They've got us on different schedules, and since he's taken a temporary leave, he's
already behind."
"Then Tonks?"
"She's at work."
"Fine, go and ask Sirius. He was an Auror, and he can help you, I'm sure."
"Sirius was an Auror?" Ron asked. "Okay, but... he just left. C'mon, 'Mione, just
mess about with the ferret another time. You see him every bloody day."
"No!" Pent-up memories of her first time through Hogwarts came rushing back to
her in a flood. "What I'm doing with Draco is more important than playing catch up with
your education and work because you're always too lazy to do it on your own the first
time!"
Ron's eyes widened. "Oi! I'm not lazy! If Sirius used to be an Auror, I bet you bloody
helped him!"
"As a matter of fact, I didn't. Because I didn't have to. I didn't help him with his
homework at Hogwarts, either. Somehow, despite all the wonderful stories about pranking
and troublemaking that Sirius and Remus love to regale you and your brothers with, they
actually managed to squeeze in revising, writing essays, Quidditch, and getting to the top
of our class all without ever once whining for my help or copying my notes!"
Ron's face turned red.
Draco laughed.
The noise drew Ron's attention, and he snarled. "And you. I know what you're
down here making her do. If you ask me, I think it's bollocks that she's removing it."