Looking forward
Apr. 16th, 2013 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sinistraAs promised, 5th and 7th years, I am extending my regular office hours as you continue to review for your upcoming exams. A schedule of chances to practice charting with the projection stones (or outside, if the weather allows) is also posted. If you need additional time, or the scheduled times don’t work for you, please let me know, and we’ll find a time that does.
In addition, I have my own list of topics we’ll be reviewing in class, but please let me know about any areas where you would like additional time or conversation.
7th years: I am also reminded by a chat last night that many of you are looking ahead to life after Hogwarts. I do know of a few possible apprenticeships requiring good results on the Astronomy NEWT exam, but I also sometimes hear of others, and plan to do my usual asking around at the next Astronomy Guild meeting. If you are considering future plans, do let me know your interests and I’ll be glad to see what I can do to put you in touch with people with related positions.
My other years: please do be considerate of the exam year students. I am of course always glad to help you, or to discuss astronomy, but for the next month or so, do need to give priority to exam-related questions during office hours.
In addition, I have my own list of topics we’ll be reviewing in class, but please let me know about any areas where you would like additional time or conversation.
7th years: I am also reminded by a chat last night that many of you are looking ahead to life after Hogwarts. I do know of a few possible apprenticeships requiring good results on the Astronomy NEWT exam, but I also sometimes hear of others, and plan to do my usual asking around at the next Astronomy Guild meeting. If you are considering future plans, do let me know your interests and I’ll be glad to see what I can do to put you in touch with people with related positions.
My other years: please do be considerate of the exam year students. I am of course always glad to help you, or to discuss astronomy, but for the next month or so, do need to give priority to exam-related questions during office hours.
Private message to Chloe Selwyn
Date: 2013-04-16 05:59 pm (UTC)I'm sorry we didn't get more chance to talk and follow up at the wedding, but Raz and I were doing our very best to put some of the gossip to rest. (Looking at the papers since, not nearly enough, but I suppose every bit helps.)
I do keep thinking over what we talked about at tea. About what it means to marry in. The implications. The costs. What you said about the constant maneuvering and power struggles, and how that affects everything around, even when nothing actually changes. And I do appreciate your honesty, truly.
And yet, as I pointed out to a friend this past winter, what would change if I said no to him? (Not that I want to: it's not Raz himself who's the difficulty at all.) Everything else would still be as it is, and being slightly more distant from it isn't that much of a salve to the soul, really. This year at Hogwarts has brought that home and home again.
And I - stars and planets, of course I won't share about your worries. It's not like I don't have worries too, the ones that keep me up at night. I told Raz we talked a bit, about what being a Council wife is like, but not anything in detail.
I've never put much stock in Divination, which is why I didn't say much when you brought it up, what you remember seeing. Not seeing. But if it's worrying at you so much - would you feel better if you tried again, or worse? (I'd ask if there were someone you trusted, family or whoever - but I know what you'd say to that, so never mind.)
The thing I keep coming back to is making the most of the days we do get, however many of them there are. I'm not sure anyone anywhere can do better than that, even without the other pieces in play that you've lived with, and I'm learning to.