Private Message to Lionel Moon
Aug. 27th, 2014 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_linusI'm terribly sorry, Father, but I cannot switch the time of our luncheon tomorrow at such late notice. Friday will in fact not do, as I am expected back at Magical Transportation for the interns' farewell at midday on Friday, and today is fully taken up by work at the Astronomy Guild hall -- I am to demonstrate the minutiae of one of the minor chart indexing systems to a trio of researchers, and there are some parchments regarding Arithmantic reference works which Guild Master Bright wishes me to annotate before I leave.
Goodness, my schedule is such a full cauldron of interesting tasks in various places. Not as full as yours, of course! My schedule does not include sudden conferences or luncheon meetings with high ranking personages at the last moment! Who knew that a Governor's life was so demanding? And yet, dare I say, some day I do aspire to take up the work of serving the Protectorate and Our Lord the way you do. It must be so exciting, helping shape Hogwarts into what it must become to meet the future. I daresay Mother is sensible of the honour as well, though of course it plays hob with her own schedule at times -- but as you have always impressed upon me, a Moon rises to the challenge and completes his task with steadiness and accuracy, whatever the cost!
In any case, I am quite willing to sacrifice our luncheon to the cause. I know already the pride you feel in my having been chosen as Head Boy, and I will strive to the utmost to fulfill your expectations, luncheon or no.
Excelsior!
(And besides, we might celebrate later, perhaps the first or second Hogsmeade day, once things have settled into a routine back at Hogwarts. I have no doubt that Daphne and myself will have things humming like a charm-top in short order!)
Goodness, my schedule is such a full cauldron of interesting tasks in various places. Not as full as yours, of course! My schedule does not include sudden conferences or luncheon meetings with high ranking personages at the last moment! Who knew that a Governor's life was so demanding? And yet, dare I say, some day I do aspire to take up the work of serving the Protectorate and Our Lord the way you do. It must be so exciting, helping shape Hogwarts into what it must become to meet the future. I daresay Mother is sensible of the honour as well, though of course it plays hob with her own schedule at times -- but as you have always impressed upon me, a Moon rises to the challenge and completes his task with steadiness and accuracy, whatever the cost!
In any case, I am quite willing to sacrifice our luncheon to the cause. I know already the pride you feel in my having been chosen as Head Boy, and I will strive to the utmost to fulfill your expectations, luncheon or no.
Excelsior!
(And besides, we might celebrate later, perhaps the first or second Hogsmeade day, once things have settled into a routine back at Hogwarts. I have no doubt that Daphne and myself will have things humming like a charm-top in short order!)