A reminder

[alt_sinistra]

Tonight, I'll have my office open for anyone who wishes to spend part of the evening in conversation. No obligation to attend, of course, but there are refreshments from my favourite bakery to reward a climb up the stairs. No particular topic in mind, but I'll take suggestions for next week.

Tomorrow afternoon and evening, anyone who has concerns about a telescope is welcome to come up. Gilly Chadwick will be here to help me with a few adjustments to the school telescopes, and she has let me know she'll be glad to look at student questions as well. (Any of you who have an interest in magical item construction might also find it interesting.)

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Re: Order Only - Private message to Harry

[alt_sinistra]

When you like. The dorm would be, yeah. And you don't need to make up your mind about Desai yet. She does know her field. And you can learn things from her. You can learn things from anyone.

She started teaching right after I left school, and of course I asked my younger sisters and brother about her, when I started teaching. Sage didn't go past the OWL in Defence, but Temp and Theo both had her. Theo was all over himself wanting to please her, get one of those smiles or a bit of praise. He is such an overgrown puppy.

Temp's more savvy. She said how everyone went on about how glorious it was to go out and fight with her. But no one really talked about the people who died - students, younger than you now. Or about how she treated the people who didn't go, or who aren't made for fighting or just weren't good enough for her to pay attention to.

The school used to be a lot more Gryffindor than it is now. In what people valued and talked about, even those first years of the war. She used that, to shape things the way she wanted. Not sure what that means for now.

Re: Order Only - Private message to Harry

[alt_harry]

Good to know.

I'll keep an eye.

And yeah, she knows her stuff. So I plan on learning as much as I can from her.