Saturday's YPL event

[alt_sinistra]

YPL students:
Our first meeting with Mrs Pencarrow, for the mural and art project, is on Saturday at 2. She’ll present an overview of the project and common artistic techniques. We’ll then decide on a topic (bring your best ideas).

Finally you’ll have an opportunity to sign up for time to both work on the mural and for the tours of the Hogwarts paintings and portraits she’ll be offering (you’ll be expected to attend two over the next 6 weeks.)

Our guests are welcome to participate as well, of course, to the degree they wish - please come to the meeting and sign up for times that suit you.

Fourth years:
Due to a necessary meeting, I’d like to reschedule our class on Tuesday night the 13th.

I’m open to either meeting at midnight on Sunday (going into Monday) the 11th, or for two hours the following Tuesday (the 20th) beginning at 11 instead of midnight. If you’ve a strong preference, let me know and we’ll decide in our evening class next Tuesday.

Comments

[alt_michael]

Professor, what if we can't draw?

Private message to Raz

[alt_sinistra]

I’ve just gotten the formal list of YPL concerns.

I’m to respond in writing to points from the specific (28th January), to the general (apparently our meetings are inefficient, and the programme is not fulfilling all its expectations), to the personal (how our relationship is impacting work with students, with specific reference to Miss Calderwood, the matter with Stint, and Harry.) That last seems to have been tacked on later.

They also listed out the possible outcomes, from finding me free from blame, to forcing the addition of an assistant, to removing me. (And, if they find cause, taking up whether I should remain here, or face charges before the Wizengamot.) I know they don’t have cause, but that that’s even on the list is, well.

Written response due to them the 6th, meeting on the 13th (with them and ‘other interested’ but unnamed parties) to respond to questions.

On the plus side, Campanella sent the report on the actual instructions Fulton received. They finally confirmed that it’s neither my handwriting nor my likely phrasing, but not said whether they know who it actually was.

Forward, I guess. Somehow. And honestly, I’m sort of glad for something to focus on.

[alt_susan]

Wizard! I'm really looking forward to it.

Do you think she'd mind if we asked her a few questions about how she became an artist, after school and all?

Private message to Poppy and Pomona

[alt_sinistra]

I’ve finally gotten the full list of concerns the YPL oversight board would like me to address. I’ll be scarce until Tuesday evening, after the written response is due.

And Pomona: regarding our conversation Monday night, thank you for treating me like an adult. I do respect where you’re coming from, even when we disagree, and I hope you always know that.

Horace’s approach just brought out my worst hackles. And Bathsheba’s constant references during the meeting to how things worked better twenty years ago didn’t help, either.

That’s not the now we’re living in, is it?

[alt_luna]

I think this project sounds quite exciting!

My father used to allow me to paint all over the cabinets and walls in our home. And I loved it, experimenting with all sorts of crazy colours and designs, and it made the space seem so much more dear and personal to me.

My foster parents don't quite see the point of that sort of thing though, I'm afraid. The walls in my room are bare white, and my foster mother insists thinks it best that they be kept that way.