Private Message to Professor Sinistra
Aug. 12th, 2013 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_linusDear Professor Siz,
Although I will naturally not be sending my customary Weekly Planning summary for our project during the CCF exercises, I am taking advantage of these few free moments between events to send you this message of greeting, and express my hopes that your own summer endeavours are fruitful and refreshing. Working with Guildmaster Bright has been a tremendous opportunity, and I thank you again for the chance to serve in this capacity. It is especially gratifying to contribute one's skills to the detection of corruption in research and reference data, and thus lay the groundwork for its remediation. Such work is balm to my Ravenclaw soul! The project is nearly complete, at least as far as the primary works by the two principal persons of concern, and even working in between classes I should be able to finish up and have it in final form no more than two weeks after the CCF relinquishes us from its rather strenuous grasp.
Lest I give you the wrong impression, let me assure you that events here are actually quite jolly. Professor Dolohov and Auror Desai are working us to the edges of our potential, true, but there is exhilaration in pushing oneself and great satisfaction in discovering, for example, that one can indeed remember three separate rules for combining the spells that will enable one's teammates to achieve a desired objective. (And there is, might I add, an extra filip of joy in proving one's worth to the captain who selected one rather early in the choosing. Father will be quite pleased with me! My only sorrow is that Lavender was not here to see it.) As it happens, my notion of combining a spell we learned in Herbology (one which allows one to tag certain bits of foliage and track it wherever that plant winds up in the greenhouses -- most useful if one's fellows sometimes play pranks and switch pots on one) with a follow-me spell was most efficacious, as it allowed us to track the progress of nearly half the opposing team, who walked right through our booby-trapped grass patch. Unfortunately, it was not enough to lead us to victory, but we made them fight for it, yes indeed.
Obviously I do not have my notes with me here, but I believe Guildmaster Bright has directed me to check some records which I will have to obtain from you, since they are listed as being in Master Bobbin's collection of files. Student records, I believe? If you will set me up with the appropriate documents upon my return, I shall have that for you both with all alacrity.
Must go -- they are calling us to do something, and there's no telling what it might be. Such excitement!
Although I will naturally not be sending my customary Weekly Planning summary for our project during the CCF exercises, I am taking advantage of these few free moments between events to send you this message of greeting, and express my hopes that your own summer endeavours are fruitful and refreshing. Working with Guildmaster Bright has been a tremendous opportunity, and I thank you again for the chance to serve in this capacity. It is especially gratifying to contribute one's skills to the detection of corruption in research and reference data, and thus lay the groundwork for its remediation. Such work is balm to my Ravenclaw soul! The project is nearly complete, at least as far as the primary works by the two principal persons of concern, and even working in between classes I should be able to finish up and have it in final form no more than two weeks after the CCF relinquishes us from its rather strenuous grasp.
Lest I give you the wrong impression, let me assure you that events here are actually quite jolly. Professor Dolohov and Auror Desai are working us to the edges of our potential, true, but there is exhilaration in pushing oneself and great satisfaction in discovering, for example, that one can indeed remember three separate rules for combining the spells that will enable one's teammates to achieve a desired objective. (And there is, might I add, an extra filip of joy in proving one's worth to the captain who selected one rather early in the choosing. Father will be quite pleased with me! My only sorrow is that Lavender was not here to see it.) As it happens, my notion of combining a spell we learned in Herbology (one which allows one to tag certain bits of foliage and track it wherever that plant winds up in the greenhouses -- most useful if one's fellows sometimes play pranks and switch pots on one) with a follow-me spell was most efficacious, as it allowed us to track the progress of nearly half the opposing team, who walked right through our booby-trapped grass patch. Unfortunately, it was not enough to lead us to victory, but we made them fight for it, yes indeed.
Obviously I do not have my notes with me here, but I believe Guildmaster Bright has directed me to check some records which I will have to obtain from you, since they are listed as being in Master Bobbin's collection of files. Student records, I believe? If you will set me up with the appropriate documents upon my return, I shall have that for you both with all alacrity.
Must go -- they are calling us to do something, and there's no telling what it might be. Such excitement!
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on 2013-08-13 02:41 am (UTC)Please don't worry about the research: we can pick up again when your time is your own again. (Or as much your own as your schedule will allow when we return to Hogwarts - )
It's interesting to hear how they're approaching the CCF this year: I hope it continues to be everything you might want.
As to the files: we're talking files from 1949. I'll need to dig them out, and that might be better done when we're back at Hogwarts properly. I'll check, but I suspect Georg will be fine with a brief delay. (Last I heard, he was still working through the previous report: he has been rather taken with his comet recently, as well as wrapping up the Guild projects for the summer.)
In the meantime, do save your energies for your work at CCF - I'm quite sure it will need every bit of your attention and focus.
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on 2013-08-14 02:44 am (UTC)CCF is indeed much improved by not having influences of a certain hue involved. Since we arrived this year, there's been nary a uniform in sight, nor have we been directed to march or sing anthems. (To be scrupulously accurate, I have heard the phrase "tow row row" uttered once, but I believe the usage to have been humorous in an ironic vein, and it certainly was not sung.) However, the freedom from particular malign influences go only so far to console the participants for the lamented absence of specific positive influences, or should I say influence. In short, I believe you are much missed. Not, I hasten to add, because you are needed to stand between us and an ill-conceived and poorly planned programme of events, but because you would rejoice to see CCF become once again a locus of learning-by-doing under trustworthy instructors. That, and because you would enjoy certain moments particularly. I suspect that Professor Dolohov is likely to accidentally omit from any missive a description of precisely how Auror Desai's expression changed when he charmed her shoelaces together. To forestall any shocked look of your own, I hasten to assure you that he only did so as fitting response to Auror Desai's jocular allegation that he had grown old before his time. Truly, it was absolute glitter-charmed hilarity.