Saturday evening
Apr. 19th, 2013 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_umbridgeDear children,
As you move forward into adulthood and the larger world, it is just so very important that you be aware of social graces and proper etiquette. To that end, supper tomorrow (Saturday) will be a time for us to practice these skills and behaviours, in the proudest traditions of wizarding society.
Halfblood students should present themselves at 4pm to the Great Hall, wearing school robes from which all house insignia have been removed. You will be instructed on proper service technique by myself and Madam Hooch. You will be allowed to eat at the conclusion of the evening.
Pureblood students, you will receive a printed invitation (placed on each of your beds this afternoon). Kindly present your invitation on arrival at the Great Hall at 5pm and you will be shown to your assigned place. You are to wear formal robes, and otherwise be appropriate in demeanor and action. (I hope I need not make it clear that anyone failing at these things will receive prompt correction and be required to behave appropriately thenceforth.)
Staff, kindly present yourselves in the anteroom off the entrance hall promptly at 5pm, in dress robes. We will review a few teensy points, and then process in once all students are seated.
During the meal, members of the HJC and other chosen students will encourage socially appropriate conversation. Following the meal, we will have a brief presentation and reading from Mr Xavier Marchbanks, who has written the forthcoming Of Greatness Woven: Pivotal Moments in Wizarding History. Your diligent attention is naturally required.
At that point, pureblood students will be dismissed, while halfblood students will remain, tend to some last details, and then have the opportunity to eat.
As you move forward into adulthood and the larger world, it is just so very important that you be aware of social graces and proper etiquette. To that end, supper tomorrow (Saturday) will be a time for us to practice these skills and behaviours, in the proudest traditions of wizarding society.
Halfblood students should present themselves at 4pm to the Great Hall, wearing school robes from which all house insignia have been removed. You will be instructed on proper service technique by myself and Madam Hooch. You will be allowed to eat at the conclusion of the evening.
Pureblood students, you will receive a printed invitation (placed on each of your beds this afternoon). Kindly present your invitation on arrival at the Great Hall at 5pm and you will be shown to your assigned place. You are to wear formal robes, and otherwise be appropriate in demeanor and action. (I hope I need not make it clear that anyone failing at these things will receive prompt correction and be required to behave appropriately thenceforth.)
Staff, kindly present yourselves in the anteroom off the entrance hall promptly at 5pm, in dress robes. We will review a few teensy points, and then process in once all students are seated.
During the meal, members of the HJC and other chosen students will encourage socially appropriate conversation. Following the meal, we will have a brief presentation and reading from Mr Xavier Marchbanks, who has written the forthcoming Of Greatness Woven: Pivotal Moments in Wizarding History. Your diligent attention is naturally required.
At that point, pureblood students will be dismissed, while halfblood students will remain, tend to some last details, and then have the opportunity to eat.
Private message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-04-19 04:30 pm (UTC)Re: Private message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-04-19 05:34 pm (UTC)I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-04-19 08:38 pm (UTC)What do you think?
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-04-19 08:41 pm (UTC)That's what I think.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-04-19 08:44 pm (UTC)But we could protest in other ways, perhaps. If we observe total silence. If we all refuse to eat, and get as many of the others to sit like stones as well, that sends a message without singling ourselves out. We'd be technically doing what we're meant to do, except that we're simply not going to join her choir, if you follow me.
-Justin
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-04-19 09:10 pm (UTC)That's clever. And I think we could get more of the galleoners to come along with that. It's not as risky, but it's still defying her.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-04-19 09:24 pm (UTC)I mean, one can lead a horse to water but one can't make it drink.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-04-19 10:30 pm (UTC)If she wants me to eat or talk, she's going to have to make me.
And if she has to make a load of us do it, it'll be ridiculous, and make her look like the joke she is.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-04-19 09:08 pm (UTC)You're right.