To be quite honest, I did not expect coherency from you at first blush, given that the past few years have clearly been a tangle of tangles and you have clearly not been given much chance to process your thoughts on each incident before the next one came calling. You've given me a start, and a good sense of whose feet I should glue to the floor to demand further answers from; that alone is incredibly valuable. Thank you.
I would like to pick your brain, meanwhile -- the children will be selecting their own course of study, but I may overrule a few of them if I feel their presence in the practical would be too disturbing to the learning of others. (Mr Nott, for instance, is a leading candidate for being remanded to the theoretical class, where hopefully he will learn the theory behind why you do not cast curses that not only are not on the approved list, but require a dark-magic-specialist healer's intervention to undo, on your teacher in class, no matter that he has invited you to hex him.) At very least I will want to discuss those in fourth and fifth year who are taking the practical class with no background in the subject to see what methods they might best respond to -- though, the more I learn about prior instruction, the more I realise that is perhaps not as much of a disadvantage as it might otherwise be.
As for the rest -- come down whenever you'd like; I have been picking through your notes on the projection stones all afternoon rather than doing any of the marking I should be doing and I do have a few questions, and possibly a few suggestions, if you had not already tried and discarded the idea. There are also a few techniques my mother taught me, generally unknown in Britain the Protectorate, that might make some portions of the process slightly less exhausting for you, though I can't venture a guess whether they might affect the fidelity of the image.
(I will say it again, having dug more into the details: this is astonishing, and if I ever hear you downplaying it so strongly in my hearing again, I shall hex you so that you are only able to answer compliments on the work with "Thank you very much; I am rather proud of it, yes.")
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Date: 2012-09-22 08:05 pm (UTC)To be quite honest, I did not expect coherency from you at first blush, given that the past few years have clearly been a tangle of tangles and you have clearly not been given much chance to process your thoughts on each incident before the next one came calling. You've given me a start, and a good sense of whose feet I should glue to the floor to demand further answers from; that alone is incredibly valuable. Thank you.
I would like to pick your brain, meanwhile -- the children will be selecting their own course of study, but I may overrule a few of them if I feel their presence in the practical would be too disturbing to the learning of others. (Mr Nott, for instance, is a leading candidate for being remanded to the theoretical class, where hopefully he will learn the theory behind why you do not cast curses that not only are not on the approved list, but require a dark-magic-specialist healer's intervention to undo, on your teacher in class, no matter that he has invited you to hex him.) At very least I will want to discuss those in fourth and fifth year who are taking the practical class with no background in the subject to see what methods they might best respond to -- though, the more I learn about prior instruction, the more I realise that is perhaps not as much of a disadvantage as it might otherwise be.
As for the rest -- come down whenever you'd like; I have been picking through your notes on the projection stones all afternoon rather than doing any of the marking I should be doing and I do have a few questions, and possibly a few suggestions, if you had not already tried and discarded the idea. There are also a few techniques my mother taught me, generally unknown in
Britainthe Protectorate, that might make some portions of the process slightly less exhausting for you, though I can't venture a guess whether they might affect the fidelity of the image.(I will say it again, having dug more into the details: this is astonishing, and if I ever hear you downplaying it so strongly in my hearing again, I shall hex you so that you are only able to answer compliments on the work with "Thank you very much; I am rather proud of it, yes.")
In researcher's heaven,
T