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Hogwarts Life: back into the fray!
How splendid it is to be back! And yet how fleeting the joys of returning, when one is plunged immediately into the rigors of scheduling and academic endeavour. I trust all of you will put effort where effort is due, and I wish you the best as we enter fully into the joys and adventures of this academic year.
Speaking briefly as a Prefect, might I remind the firsties of a particularly salient point during the first month back at school with its inevitable spate of prankery and foolishness? To wit: any of the droll amusements at the expense of your fellow students that you come up with have almost certainly been done before, and there are known penalties in the form of cleaning up messes which Mr Milland will no doubt be quite willing to explain to you in detail. Innovation, while welcomed in almost every other area of your endeavours at Hogwarts, is likely to cost you dearly here, as I understand that Mr Milland has ceased to be gratified by novelty a considerable time past.
For those of you in Ravenclaw, a particular treat awaits! See me or Miss Padma Patil for an explanation of the traditions of Ravenclaw Corner and how you might aspire to join this bastion of honoured tradition in scholastic aspiration and application.
Excelsior!
Speaking briefly as a Prefect, might I remind the firsties of a particularly salient point during the first month back at school with its inevitable spate of prankery and foolishness? To wit: any of the droll amusements at the expense of your fellow students that you come up with have almost certainly been done before, and there are known penalties in the form of cleaning up messes which Mr Milland will no doubt be quite willing to explain to you in detail. Innovation, while welcomed in almost every other area of your endeavours at Hogwarts, is likely to cost you dearly here, as I understand that Mr Milland has ceased to be gratified by novelty a considerable time past.
For those of you in Ravenclaw, a particular treat awaits! See me or Miss Padma Patil for an explanation of the traditions of Ravenclaw Corner and how you might aspire to join this bastion of honoured tradition in scholastic aspiration and application.
Excelsior!
Private Message to Padma
You're not still put out about the Quidditch try-out thing, are you? I really did trust that I was quite safe from actually being picked, you know; it was truly research, as I mentioned. And frankly, it might also have been serendipitously useful to appear in a humorous light (as when Lovegood knocked my hat off) and prove a fellow of good nature, able to laugh at one's own predicaments -- it could set the firsties at ease, eh what? In any case, not too much harm done, I hope.
Re: Private Message to Padma
If I'm cross about anything it's that you're inviting firsties to ask us about joining Ravenclaw Corner, as if they've got any right to it.
And you really want to be careful about being one of Siz's pets. First Diggory, now you? She's married, you know. And I don't think he'd be very threatened by the idea of having to kill you.
Re: Private Message to Padma
As for Professor Siz, really, you are reading quite a bit too much into a gift of school supplies, nift though they may be. Her intentions are quite correct and appropriate. She may fall into a somewhat over-egalitarian sort of friendly manner sometimes, but she can scarcely be expected to do otherwise now and again; after all, she is a Hufflepuff.
Besides, Professor Raz is sufficiently friendly with Professor Dolohov that I think he'd be reluctant to inconvenience him by killing one of his more helpful students. Even if he did have some reason to kill said student. Which he does not. Besides, if I ever did stray (with someone more appropriate to my age and station, I hasten to add!), Lav would kill me before Professor Raz had the chance.
Speaking of such calumnies, though, is that bit of talk about Diggory and Professor Siz still going around? Wherever did it get started, do you recall?
Private Message to Cedric Diggory