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Today's YPL event

Students and guests:

We look forward to gathering today at 1pm in the Great Hall. From there, we’ll split up into some other nearby spaces for the presentations. You may wish to bring something for notes. We have some excellent specialists coming, and I’m sure they’ll have a great deal to share.

Again, please remember that you will be divided into four groups, and that our CCF students will remain for an extra hour for some additional training.

I have had a question about how graphic the material might be. I’ve been told that while the instructors will be medically precise, you needn’t worry in this session about looking at injuries or anything of the kind. (The exception may be our CCF sessions, depending on the case studies they choose.) Should you feel queasy for any reason, please quietly excuse yourself as needed without disturbing others.

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Miss Perks -

Thank you again for making the excellent suggestion regarding the medwizardy topic: you’re quite right that it’s a subject more of us should know about, though of course everyone hopes not to have to deal with a sudden emergency. I think you'll find the planned sessions quite interesting.

I do have another reason for writing, however - two, rather, and both a little delicate, so I do hope you won’t take offense.

First:
I realised this morning that I had not seen you stop by for help with dress robes for the ball. I know you’re quite resourceful, and I’m sure you have something well in hand, but I wanted to reassure you that if you do have a need, even last minute, that I’d be glad to help the best I can.

Second:
This year, I find myself quite behind with some routine tasks in the tower, and it occured to me that you might be willing to help me out. Most of it is not very difficult - cleaning lenses, polishing brass fittings, and filing charts. Not exciting, but not unpleasant, either.

I’d pay, of course, for your time. The scheduling is quite flexible, as well. I’ve a few smaller things (they’ll take an hour or two with both of us working) that I’d like to get done early this week, but the rest could happen any time before the Ball. The one thing is that I need to be nearby, as there are some protective charms I’d need to lift for you.

If you’re interested, do let me know, and we can talk further about the work and schedule. If you don’t feel you have the time or interest, that’s just fine, but I’d like to know so I could approach a second choice.

Oh -- thank you for your concern, but Pansy gave me some dress robes as a gift and I'm quite happy with them. And we both tried on our outfits for the Yule Ball the other evening to make sure everything fit and looked nice, so I know I have stockings that match and shoes that fit and everything. But thank you

About helping with tasks, I'd love to help ~~especially if you're paying me~~ with the things you mentioned. In addition to the usual classes I'm in Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes, and Dark Arts, and I go to YPL of course and Pansy and I are still doing those study sessions where we offer to help younger students with Transfiguration (although there are a lot fewer people needing help these days) and so on but we move those around a bit anyway because everyone's got so much going on. Anyway, I don't know when you're free but I'm sure there's a time that would work.

I'm really looking forward to the YPL meeting today, thank you so much for organising it!

Oh, excellent. I thought something like that might be the case. I look forward to seeing them at the Ball.

As to the tasks - today is obviously quite busy, but perhaps tomorrow afternoon, for an hour or two, at 4? I'd be able to show you what I have in mind, and we can discuss payment as well. Otherwise, Monday the same time would also work well for me.

I'll see you this afternoon.

Healer Stint is here early, and has asked to be shown around the school. We’ll have to end up with you - he’s quite firm on that - but I’ll take him everywhere else, first. Just wanted to give you a little warning.

Thank you for the warning. I appreciated it.

I think the afternoon went well as far as the seminars are concerned. The students seemed interested, most all of them, and the presenters were excellent. I wish I could have sat in for the whole of it.

Stint, as you know, is another matter altogether, and I've no idea whether to breathe freely now or not. Bother him.

He's not staying beyond supper, is he?

It certainly was as good a choice of topic as I can think of recently. I'll make the argument next week that something along these lines would be a good yearly addition to the schedule.

On Stint - no, thankfully. He implied heavily, before we came up to see you, that he would like to take me out to Hogsmeade for the evening, but I was firm that I have other plans and commitments.

I'm sorry that meant he stayed for supper here, but there is only so much of him I can take at once by myself.

Of course, then he attempted to ask me out for both the Sunday evening and Monday evening next week, when I'm in New London for meetings. Thankfully, Campanella and I have plans for a concert on Sunday since her husband's doing field work at the moment for latest research project, and my parents, of all things, asked to see me when I'm done with the meetings on Monday.

Campanella and I might end up having to dine with Stint beforehand if he keeps being quite that persistent, though. I suppose it's too much to hope for some emergency to require his skills that evening.

Was he very difficult with you? I missed a bit of it since I had to run down and make sure everything was set up properly.

Well. He wasn't terribly pleased by the reports filed about my performance during the First Task.

I told you that St Mungo's insisted on sending someone to be a 'resource' to me in the event that more than one of the Champions should be injured, or any of them severely. As if they weren't going to have trauma and burn teams standing by in case they'd be needed--which they did in any case.

Anyhow, they sent Albertus Behm, who was perfectly lovely. Made himself helpful. Was in no way intrusive or obnoxious. And, in the end, submitted a fully positive report of the proceedings that highlighted aspects of my performance that I had not myself boasted of in my own parchmentwork on the event.

This seems to have aggravated Stint and his cronies, and I daresay Healer Behm will not be asked to cover the next Task. Naturally, Stint took every opportunity to disparage the seriousness of the injuries suffered--as if the dragons had somehow fallen short and failed to challenge me as expected.

He's demanded copies of all my parchment work, my inventories before and after the Task, my requisition reports, all intake and discharge records for the term. And. He wants me to write up detailed treatment reports on two student he pulled completely at random from my records: one hexing injury and one allergic reaction to broom oil. Honestly.

And then, well, you saw what he was like when he got his hooks into Mr Marvolo.

Oh, goodness. As if you don't have better uses for your time than making all those copies and reports. (I mean, I understand that some reporting is necessary. But that sounds entirely unnecessary.)

And that's a pity about Healer Behm, too. I thought he looked like a nice sort, the few glimpses I got, and I'm glad that was true. (I seem to remember Campanella thinks highly of him too, and she's certainly seen enough trauma injury to recognise the best.)

And yes, I did catch the bit with Mr Marvolo. How difficult. I'm glad the healer did finally get control back: I was having trouble figuring out how to do so without Stint being primed to be difficult next week.

I didn't catch the beginning of the hex Mr Finnegan suffered, however. (At least I had an excuse for being elsewhere at that point: getting Peeves out of the classroom so we could use it really does require someone familiar with his ways.)

It's so like Stint to seize the spotlight, but to completely overthrow both the schedule and the topic for the session--that was beyond arrogant.

It was rich, though, when he finally persuaded Mr Marvolo to let him examine his shoulder and found no scarring at all after carrying on and on about how it requires the highest expertise to manage shoulder wounds and how ticklish it is to heal dragon injuries, especially.

And then didn't he talked himself in gyrations when there was only that feathery line of newly healed skin! Then it was 'how fortunate that it was the tail spikes and not the claws' and 'how exceedingly lucky he'd only been grazed and not impaled'.

He was just digging in with how the boy could expect to suffer residual pain when using magic and how his range of motion might be permanently impaired when Healer Mytens made it clear she had her own presentation to make and he could take his fascination with Mr Marvolo's injury out into the corridor if he wished to pursue his inquiries with the boy.

I thought the session with Mr Finnigan was excellent. I do wonder if that was merely fortuitous or whether Grandin talked the boy into allowing himself to be hexed in order to have such a vivid injury for demonstrating primary, secondary, and tertiary treatments.

I apologise for going on about him, Aurora.

It's one thing to suffer his professional antagonism, but having to bear his unwelcome interest must be especially difficult.

What an odious, irritating, horrible boor.

Oh, don't worry about that. Better to get it out of your system, no? Or isn't that what you've told me about toxins, or they fester? (And honestly, it's a relief to have someone who shares my opinion of him to talk to.)

But it was very like Stint to try and claim the spotlight like that, and refuse to budge over. (And after he'd gone on in meetings about how important it is to have a clear idea of what material to cover, and sequence it, too.)

I'll have to remember Healer Mytens and her technique though - our agenda is packed next week, and I refuse to build in too much extra time for people like Stint to use up without warning.

I did think Mr Marvolo handled it with exceedingly good grace, all things considered. As to Mr Finnigan, I'm not sure - the expression I caught from him suggests he was not pleased by the state of affairs, but I admit I don't know him as well as some of the others of his year.

I did think Healer Grandin's teaching technique and explanations very nicely done, the few minutes I caught before circulating through the sessions again. Very clear and precise, neither overstating the problem or ignoring the potential concerns.

I'm glad I had a more pleasant evening to look forward to - I do enjoy my Saturdays of marking (and a drink and good chat) with Raz, though at the moment he's off doing a round of the building.

(Though, I have to say: tonight's essays are rather abysmal. The Yule Ball's already distracting people no end, apparently. Makes for amusing errors to read out loud to Raz, but we'll have to recover some material in class.)

That was a really nift programme, Professor Sinistra.

I think Sally Anne Perks shouldn't have to take end of term exams since she had such a good idea.

Oh, come on!

If that's all it took to get out of exams, Weasley, you'd be stuck in 4th year forever.

Or are you hoping that if she doesn't have to sit her own exams, she could take yours for you?

I just think it would be a nice way to reward people who contribute ideas for YPL programmes.

No need to be nasty, Patil.

I am very glad you found it so interesting, Mr Weasley. (And certainly, I have given Miss Perks credit for the idea.) I'll be proposing that something on the topic be a regular part of future years.

As to exams - alas, were it so easy to get out of them.

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