Today's lessons.
Dec. 9th, 2012 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_umbridgeDear boys and girls,
How fast our time together has flown! I can scarcely believe we are nearly at the end of our first term working together. Now, I do hope you are all prepared to do just your very best on your coming exams, and that the little notes and study tips from our session in November are still fresh in your mind.
We also covered such a great deal of information today. And so I wanted to give you this space, here, through the wonder of the journals, that if you have any teensy etiquette questions we did not get to this afternoon, that you should feel free to ask them here.
I want to send you back to your parents demonstrating the very best of what the YPL Programme has to offer, encouraging you to be courteous, well-behaved young witches and wizards, a credit to the Protectorate. And of course, the Protectorate traditions of valuing the very best that pure Wizarding blood can bring to our building a bright future.
Dear parents,
Let me take the opportunity to let you know about a few teensy advances. You should all have the latest newsletter in hand by now, and I do appreciate each and every letter you’ve sent. Some of you will even see your letters excerpted in our subsequent newsletters. I have been giving a great deal of thought to something that clearly concerns a number of you, the quality of education here at dear old Hogwarts.
To that end, I have begun observing each of the professors here, getting a better sense of their skill and mastery of material. Thus far, I’ve had the opportunity to observe Professors Vector, Sinistra, and Acton, and will be observing Professor Grubbly-Plank this week, with the rest to follow once we return from our holidays. And of course, I am teaching myself, now. Our first two weeks of Civics classes have gone splendily, and I look forward to our next sessions. With that, I have also begun attending staff meetings, and it is just so very intriguing what conversations happen there.
Now, again, any little questions or concerns, you know just where to find me. I will be continuing to respond to YPL business and correspondance over the holidays - there is no rest for those truly seeking to build our strongest future, of course!
How fast our time together has flown! I can scarcely believe we are nearly at the end of our first term working together. Now, I do hope you are all prepared to do just your very best on your coming exams, and that the little notes and study tips from our session in November are still fresh in your mind.
We also covered such a great deal of information today. And so I wanted to give you this space, here, through the wonder of the journals, that if you have any teensy etiquette questions we did not get to this afternoon, that you should feel free to ask them here.
I want to send you back to your parents demonstrating the very best of what the YPL Programme has to offer, encouraging you to be courteous, well-behaved young witches and wizards, a credit to the Protectorate. And of course, the Protectorate traditions of valuing the very best that pure Wizarding blood can bring to our building a bright future.
Dear parents,
Let me take the opportunity to let you know about a few teensy advances. You should all have the latest newsletter in hand by now, and I do appreciate each and every letter you’ve sent. Some of you will even see your letters excerpted in our subsequent newsletters. I have been giving a great deal of thought to something that clearly concerns a number of you, the quality of education here at dear old Hogwarts.
To that end, I have begun observing each of the professors here, getting a better sense of their skill and mastery of material. Thus far, I’ve had the opportunity to observe Professors Vector, Sinistra, and Acton, and will be observing Professor Grubbly-Plank this week, with the rest to follow once we return from our holidays. And of course, I am teaching myself, now. Our first two weeks of Civics classes have gone splendily, and I look forward to our next sessions. With that, I have also begun attending staff meetings, and it is just so very intriguing what conversations happen there.
Now, again, any little questions or concerns, you know just where to find me. I will be continuing to respond to YPL business and correspondance over the holidays - there is no rest for those truly seeking to build our strongest future, of course!
Re: Private message to Poppy Pomfrey
Date: 2012-12-11 03:23 am (UTC)To answer your other questions briefly:
Bedbugs, really? I do hope that is not actually a common problem. Or else the habits of the house-elves here need a great deal of attention indeed.
As to diet, I suppose that is possible. You are quite right that the amount of transfigured food at the staff table is suprising to me, though I generally limit myself to the better ingredients.
I've not purchased new garments since the end of the summer, and the sheets on my bed are my own, from my own little house south of New London. Nor have I received any particular gifts. I've started to see a few coming in - it is that time of year, of course - but they all are quite ordinary baskets from widely used businesses. Nothing as yet unusual or even unexpected.
Ah, well. I am glad you have come to some sort of balance with the demands of your position. I must say it's quite a challenge to adapt, myself. There always seems to be one more conversation to have.