Our return to school
Jan. 6th, 2013 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_umbridgeDear boys and girls,
I am sure we are all so very glad to be returning to school where we can again devote our attentions and focus to becoming the very best possible citizens of the Protectorate we can be. I have been working very hard while all of you have been on holidays to arrange a number of exciting new plans for each and every one of you.
Before I talk about our upcoming exercises together, I do want to mention one teensy thing. I could not help but notice that so very many of you make excessive use of the private messaging function in the journals. Now, it is understandable that important people may need to use the function to conduct critical business, and Our Gracious Lord makes that possible, as Our Lord makes all things possible.
But dear children, you should understand that using the private message function can feel so terribly exclusionary. When you write to only one or two other people, you cut yourself off from others, and you make those others feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Surely, you want to demonstrate the very best of the Protectorate’s welcoming and affirming ideas!
To that end, let us all make a resolution to make at least one public post in our journals each and every week, so that others may learn about what we’re doing. In this way, we may also, if we are very fortunate, hear the guidance of older and wiser heads in our community most directly. To aid in this, I will be providing little essay prompts, delivered at random to students, to encourage us to have something to discuss as a larger community.
Upcoming activities
First, our regular exercise sessions will begin promptly again on Monday afternoon. Now, I’m sure some of you have slacked over the holidays, but I trust that the counsellors will set every example and create a particularly strenuous programme of exercises this week.
Second, we will gather on Sunday to be of great use to our village schools. We will travel by port-key (I am assured that the little difficulties of this weekend will be resolved) in small groups to a number of schools, each group lead by several YPL counsellors. There, you will assist the teachers with any number of teensy tasks. Rearranging furniture or woodpiles for greater efficiency, repairing books and other items, and of course making sure that absolutely everything is tidy and organised. By being of service in these small ways, you will learn to be of service in greater ones.
Third, I remind our CCF students of our upcoming day-long session on January 27th. While there are some similarities to your exercise last year, there are some changes this year, including the fact it will take place at Hogwarts itself. Please be prepared to assemble at 10am in the front hall, wearing appropriate clothing, as we will be outside until nearly supper.
Finally, I am in the process of discussing a substantial new project, with the support of the Board and several members of the Council. While it is not quite ready to be revealed, I hope to have much more information for you within the fortnight.
I am sure we are all so very glad to be returning to school where we can again devote our attentions and focus to becoming the very best possible citizens of the Protectorate we can be. I have been working very hard while all of you have been on holidays to arrange a number of exciting new plans for each and every one of you.
Before I talk about our upcoming exercises together, I do want to mention one teensy thing. I could not help but notice that so very many of you make excessive use of the private messaging function in the journals. Now, it is understandable that important people may need to use the function to conduct critical business, and Our Gracious Lord makes that possible, as Our Lord makes all things possible.
But dear children, you should understand that using the private message function can feel so terribly exclusionary. When you write to only one or two other people, you cut yourself off from others, and you make those others feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Surely, you want to demonstrate the very best of the Protectorate’s welcoming and affirming ideas!
To that end, let us all make a resolution to make at least one public post in our journals each and every week, so that others may learn about what we’re doing. In this way, we may also, if we are very fortunate, hear the guidance of older and wiser heads in our community most directly. To aid in this, I will be providing little essay prompts, delivered at random to students, to encourage us to have something to discuss as a larger community.
Upcoming activities
First, our regular exercise sessions will begin promptly again on Monday afternoon. Now, I’m sure some of you have slacked over the holidays, but I trust that the counsellors will set every example and create a particularly strenuous programme of exercises this week.
Second, we will gather on Sunday to be of great use to our village schools. We will travel by port-key (I am assured that the little difficulties of this weekend will be resolved) in small groups to a number of schools, each group lead by several YPL counsellors. There, you will assist the teachers with any number of teensy tasks. Rearranging furniture or woodpiles for greater efficiency, repairing books and other items, and of course making sure that absolutely everything is tidy and organised. By being of service in these small ways, you will learn to be of service in greater ones.
Third, I remind our CCF students of our upcoming day-long session on January 27th. While there are some similarities to your exercise last year, there are some changes this year, including the fact it will take place at Hogwarts itself. Please be prepared to assemble at 10am in the front hall, wearing appropriate clothing, as we will be outside until nearly supper.
Finally, I am in the process of discussing a substantial new project, with the support of the Board and several members of the Council. While it is not quite ready to be revealed, I hope to have much more information for you within the fortnight.
Private message to Marston Strangeweale and Latimer Caldwell
Date: 2013-01-06 07:01 pm (UTC)However, I do need to update you both on my various conversations over the holidays.
I have now spoken to Peakes (extensively, including two separate visits at his New London home this week), Atkinson, Burroughs, Evan, Fleet, Jenkins, Rickett, Sedgewick, Shaw, and Vandemar. Fleet is still uncertain (implications for her husband), and Vandemar wants more details on the fiscal impact (I will be providing further information to him within the fortnight) but I believe plans are solidly in place once we find the slightest excuse. I will of course update as soon as I have anything new.
We’ve a solid majority, anyway, even if someone else gets Rickett on their side. She is so annoyingly fickle.
I also have our new student project firmly in hand. Briefly, I intend to invite some three dozen students initially, and then winnow down substantially to those who can be of greatest use. After significant consideration, I do expect to include some of the children involved in that abhorrent duelling club: I believe it is more than worth giving Theodore Nott Sr. reason to back us, and that means adding Crabbe and Goyle’s children as well, and a few others in their position. The power of redemption and giving their energies a proper focus should stand us in good stead if there’s any argument.
In mutual service,
Dolores
I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-01-06 07:15 pm (UTC)Huh. I'd forgotten what a windbag she is.
Anyone read it?
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
From:Private message to Cassandra Calderwood
Date: 2013-01-06 07:16 pm (UTC)Do stop by my office once you are settled in at school. I had a delightful conversation with your mother on Friday, as I’m sure she’s made clear to you, and I have promised my every assistance in ensuring you do your very best this coming term.
I am at home to students from three to five pm each weekday afternoon, or by appointment.
Dolores Umbridge
Private message to Rabastan Lestrange and Antonin Dolohov
Date: 2013-01-06 08:01 pm (UTC)I just wanted to update you both on the plans for the memorial garden. Despite the fact you were both too busy to meet, I have forged ahead, and I am delighted to say that there is a great deal of support for the project. We are still in the very earliest stages of the actual design, but I will of course inform you of planning sessions, since I am certain you would wish to be there and will be glad to assist.
In particular, I would appreciate your help in devising brief biographies of the following, suitable for building into the memorial. If for whatever reason you are unable to assist me directly - and I do hope this is not the case - please inform me who would be the best alternate source to approach. And of course, if there are any names I’m missing. I currently expect to include Serena Baddock, Regulus Black, Alecto Carrow, Amycus Carrow, Glaucus Gibbon, Julius Mulciber, Tony Parkinson, Evan Rosier, Malvasius Travers and Lycus Warrington.
There is also the question of whether we should include those who were students (or who had just left school) who fought for Our Lord and died heroically for the Protectorate but who were not made one of his Council before their deaths. (Should I perhaps speak to Savitha Desai about them, as all were her students?) Those would include Cormac Hedigan, Paxton Urquhart, and Dirk Vaisey, but I may be missing a few names.
Second, I am sure you both remember my plans for a CCF afternoon activity. Antonin, I could not help but notice you seemed greatly recovered over the holidays. I am therefore asking again whether you would be willing to assist - both of you - in providing challenges and supervision for the event. Rabastan, I understand from Campanella Wright that you should be informed of the specific tasks to ensure Mr Marvolo’s security, in any case.
Perhaps we could meet later this week and discuss both projects and how you might be of great service? Thursday after supper would work well for me. (Antonin, that is also the day I hope to observe your classes, of course.)
Yours in Our Lord’s service,
Dolores
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