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[alt_sinistra]

I'm not even sure how to start or what to say, except thank you for your trust, and thank you for giving me a chance to be useful.

I've started reading things. There's rather a lot to take in, before I say much else.

I'm sorry about Percy.

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[alt_evelyn]

Oh, Professor Siz.

I was hoping you'd say yes with all my heart.

I'm so very glad.

[alt_sinistra]

Thank you.

And clearly, I should be sorting out some additional reading for you. I got a very brief summary last night, but I gather locational magics are very much on the agenda.

[alt_evelyn]

Yes please. So much of what I've read so far, well, it's like everyone who knows about what the wards are doing also know that they can't talk about it, so there are just enormous gaps, and because I don't quite know enough about what's not being said, it's frustrating as anything.

[alt_sinistra]

Most of the people who know much of it are in Mysteries, and they both don't talk and barely publish. It's very tedious for the rest of us. (I know a number of them, through my Guild.)

I lent you my NEWT paper, yes, the version that got published? I had to redo the measurements before it actually went to press, in 83, because the wards changed a whole lot of things. (And not always predictably, either.)

I do have some books from before then which might help with the gaps, but I need to sort out which ones I'd suggest, but of course no one had ever done anything quite so far reaching as warding off an entire rather large bit of land before.