Hogwarts Life: back into the fray!
Sep. 23rd, 2013 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_linusHow 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!
Re: Private Message to Padma
on 2013-09-25 08:47 am (UTC)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?