Our first YPL gathering
Sep. 16th, 2012 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_umbridgeDear children: Thank you so much for your attention and diligence during our meeting. I am just looking foward so much to what we will accomplish together this year. You all looked so smart and trim in your new sashes, and I know you’re all just yearning to fill them up with badges and honours.
Now, remember that we will be meeting again in a fortnight, and I will have something new for you to do, and an exciting anouncement! Won’t that be fun for everyone? Do remember that if you have any teensy questions about the programme at all, you know just where to find me. I’m so enjoying my conversations with our counsellors and CCF corps, and I look forward to having more time to speak to each and every one of you after that.
Remember as well that you all will be expected to say the new YPL pledge at that meeting. Again, it is:
By my wand, I swear to always strive my best,
use my magic only in service to our realm,
and keep myself ever strong, ready, and able to respond to Our Lord’s call.
Those who did not attend: Now, I do understand that some may have mistakenly felt that the available opportunities weren’t for them. I do hope to make it clear that the YPL can offer something to everyone so that together we may make our Protectorate the very best that it can possibly be.
To see your bright and shining faces as you join together and temper the connections of hard work and accomplishment is such a joy! And likewise, I know that in a few years, when you are all walking out into the world, you will want the connections, references, and opportunities that the YPL can open to you. If you did not come this week, stop by my office for your sash, and I’ll hope - even expect! - to see each and every first through fifth year next time.
Parents: I just know you will be bursting with pride as your children develop their skills, learn discipline, and show their mettle. I do encourage you, in your little notes to your children, to ask all about what they’ve learned. After all, our goal with the YPL is to be a source of improvement and growth not just for our young boys and girls, but for all the Protectorate.
Especially if you still have little ones at home, the skills, talents, and topics we discuss will be a wonderful guide for your own discussions around the supper table, and will give your youngest ones a hint of what they can aspire to. My office is glad to provide some materials for home discussion on request. Anything, to be of help.
Now, remember that we will be meeting again in a fortnight, and I will have something new for you to do, and an exciting anouncement! Won’t that be fun for everyone? Do remember that if you have any teensy questions about the programme at all, you know just where to find me. I’m so enjoying my conversations with our counsellors and CCF corps, and I look forward to having more time to speak to each and every one of you after that.
Remember as well that you all will be expected to say the new YPL pledge at that meeting. Again, it is:
By my wand, I swear to always strive my best,
use my magic only in service to our realm,
and keep myself ever strong, ready, and able to respond to Our Lord’s call.
Those who did not attend: Now, I do understand that some may have mistakenly felt that the available opportunities weren’t for them. I do hope to make it clear that the YPL can offer something to everyone so that together we may make our Protectorate the very best that it can possibly be.
To see your bright and shining faces as you join together and temper the connections of hard work and accomplishment is such a joy! And likewise, I know that in a few years, when you are all walking out into the world, you will want the connections, references, and opportunities that the YPL can open to you. If you did not come this week, stop by my office for your sash, and I’ll hope - even expect! - to see each and every first through fifth year next time.
Parents: I just know you will be bursting with pride as your children develop their skills, learn discipline, and show their mettle. I do encourage you, in your little notes to your children, to ask all about what they’ve learned. After all, our goal with the YPL is to be a source of improvement and growth not just for our young boys and girls, but for all the Protectorate.
Especially if you still have little ones at home, the skills, talents, and topics we discuss will be a wonderful guide for your own discussions around the supper table, and will give your youngest ones a hint of what they can aspire to. My office is glad to provide some materials for home discussion on request. Anything, to be of help.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-17 02:02 am (UTC)I think it's a bit strange that everyone's gone a bit silly over that book. I mean, Mummy was always very frank about things of that sort, no matter how much Daddy protested. She always made it sound
almost- well, very not-mysterious, if you see what I mean.Anyway, I wish people would stop talking about it. Especially if they're going to be so charmless about it, like Zacharias Smith.
I hope so, too. This is still Hogwarts, after all. It isn't the YPL Institute.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-17 02:04 am (UTC)He asked me for advice, in point of fact. I hadn't the first idea what to say to him because 'Be yourself' didn't seem the best thing to offer, what?
Anyway. He's all right. He's simply never had to look over his shoulder, if you follow me.
-J
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-17 02:12 am (UTC)He might as well be himself, though, since everyone more or less knows what he's like by now. But that doesn't mean that someone out there might not find him...quaint, somehow.
He is all right. But he is charmless.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-17 02:24 am (UTC)I let him look through that book JP gave me before he left. Not that I think it should help him greatly but I thought it could hardly hurt. But I don't think it's Daphne, what, or he wouldn't have been so quick to fence with her.
I gather Diggory called him on the carpet for starting all those cracks. I don't well look forward to the dormitory tonight. But at least there are a number of us, though he tends not to have much to do with Hopkins, Summers or Stebbins.
I've my meetings with Madam Umbridge and Professor Dolohov this week. I say, I've no idea what to expect from either of them.
-J