Today's YPL event

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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.

Comments

Re: Private message to Poppy Pomfrey

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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.)

Re: Private message to Poppy Pomfrey

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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.

Re: Private message to Poppy Pomfrey

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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.

Re: Private message to Poppy Pomfrey

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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.)