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Students: I am delighted to announce that Our Lord has decided to honour us with His presence at Halloween supper on Friday night.
I'm certain that all of you will join me in putting Hogwarts' best face forward.
I'm certain that all of you will join me in putting Hogwarts' best face forward.
Private message to Savitha and Lana
Date: 2014-10-30 01:24 am (UTC)Of course I am delighted and honoured to host Him for the feast, and I am certain you are as well.
We ought to speak tomorrow about the best way to show Him the best Hogwarts has to offer.
Re: Private message to Savitha and Lana
Date: 2014-10-30 01:26 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Savitha and Lana
Date: 2014-10-30 01:33 am (UTC)When was He last here for the Halloween Feast?
Gracious, the elves will have to do very much better than they've been doing with the food. And they've not much time to see to that!
Re: Private message to Savitha and Lana
Date: 2014-10-30 01:35 am (UTC)I've just let the elves know; I'm certain they will pull out all the stops.
Re: Private message to Savitha and Lana
Date: 2014-10-30 02:01 am (UTC)Should we plan any other sort of entertainment? Would He wish to see what our best duellists can do in exhibition? Or- well, we don't want to disappoint.
Re: Private message to Savitha and Lana
Date: 2014-10-30 02:09 am (UTC)Exhibitions -- it will depend upon His mood, but yes, good thought. Savitha, what do you think, Finch-Fletchley and Weasley?
Hydra, Seamus, and Padma ought to be invited to the head table for the meal, as well.
Re: Private message to Savitha and Lana
Date: 2014-10-30 03:39 am (UTC)I'm sure Miss Greengrass will do a fine job expressing welcome. For all our sakes, it may be best if Mr Moon understands his role there to be purely decorative.
Re: Private message to Savitha and Lana
Date: 2014-10-30 06:09 am (UTC)Order Only
Date: 2014-10-30 01:25 am (UTC)Have a nice meal.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2014-10-30 01:38 am (UTC)I mean, why would he want to come here? D'you suppose the elves at Buckingham all decided to take Halloween off? Or his usual fancy dress party cancelled?
It's not as if we're all that entertaining, really.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2014-10-30 02:08 am (UTC)I did ask who else we might expect (one thing I learned with the wedding is that people have some very odd food tastes, and if you get them wrong, it's fearfully insulting. Makes a good excuse to ask for names, though.) He didn't know, but said he'd tell me when he gets the final list.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2014-10-30 02:28 am (UTC)Did Tosha have any insight as to why Voldemort's visiting us?
-F-F
Re: Order Only
Date: 2014-10-30 02:32 am (UTC)It's possible he might share more tomorrow, when I check about details. Or after.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2014-10-30 03:35 am (UTC)I think he honestly doesn't know.
Private message to Headmaster Dolohov
Date: 2014-10-30 01:32 am (UTC)Did He say why He had decided to come?
Re: Private message to Headmaster Dolohov
Date: 2014-10-30 01:45 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Headmaster Dolohov
Date: 2014-10-30 06:21 am (UTC)Private message to Tosha
Date: 2014-10-30 01:48 am (UTC)Except perhaps some really excellent brandy when it's all over.
Re: Private message to Tosha
Date: 2014-10-30 01:54 am (UTC)Can I send the elves to you for decisions on the finer points of the cleaning and cooking? I will need to coordinate with the security team all day tomorrow, and it will preclude the sort of support they are likely to require. (My usual method in dealing with them is to agree with anything they suggest, but they do like to hear it from one of us.)
Re: Private message to Tosha
Date: 2014-10-30 01:58 am (UTC)The elves, certainly.
Are there other people coming, do you know, whose particular tastes we should take into account? (I do remember the wedding planning and the lists of things it was better not to serve particular people unless one actually intended to be rude.)
Re: Private message to Tosha
Date: 2014-10-30 02:03 am (UTC)Private Message to Tosha and Barty
Date: 2014-10-30 01:49 am (UTC)Another point for my list of reasons to release Lucius.
Re: Private Message to Tosha and Barty
Date: 2014-10-30 01:56 am (UTC)No, I've no idea why He decided to grace us with His presence, particularly with such short notice. Let us hope it is simply one of His whims.
Re: Private Message to Tosha and Barty
Date: 2014-10-30 04:50 am (UTC)Could be nothing more than His wanting to see Toshenka head the feast. Or perhaps He's heard enough about the school's new Salle that He wants to see it Himself.
Ran it this evening, myself, and found it refreshing. Creative. Two or three surprises there. Worth my while. And certainly worth the students' efforts to master its challenges.
Re: Private Message to Tosha and Barty
Date: 2014-10-30 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 02:10 am (UTC)Quite an honour for us all, what!
-Finch-Fletchley
no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 06:14 am (UTC)Will you stop by tomorrow afternoon? Bring Mr Weasley with you.
Private message to Miss Greengrass
Date: 2014-10-30 02:15 am (UTC)That having been said, I would like to invite you to say a few brief words of welcome at the beginning of the feast. Professor Sandoval-Pennifold has offered to help you prepare remarks, although of course I am confident you will not need the assistance.
Re: Private message to Miss Greengrass
Date: 2014-10-30 03:25 am (UTC)I will take Professor Sandoval-Pennifold's assistance, as I shouldn't like to offend her on the matter. I thank you, however, for your confidence, and please know that I consider the assignment a remarkable honour.
-DGG
Private message to the Headmaster
Date: 2014-10-30 03:21 am (UTC)Please do let me know if there's any way I can help with preparations.
From,
Hydra
Re: Private message to the Headmaster
Date: 2014-10-30 06:19 am (UTC)Re: Private message to the Headmaster
Date: 2014-10-30 02:56 pm (UTC)Private Message to Professor Dolohov
Date: 2014-10-30 05:59 am (UTC)It's this dratted project of yours, sir, lovely puzzle that it is. The good news is that I think I may have a fruitful analysis for you, finally. The bad news, of course, is that between it and revising and several other little projects, I shan't have the leisure of mind necessary for composing remarks that would properly grace such an august occasion.
I do hope Daphs wouldn't mind awfully -- and that you are not disappointed in me! Truly, I can budget my time adequately; it's just now that I am so close to getting somewhere on this project, I am loathe to let it lie fallow for a moment -- as evidenced by the hour at which I pen this missive!
Re: Private Message to Professor Dolohov
Date: 2014-10-30 06:27 am (UTC)I am quite gratified your work on the analysis is going well -- I had utter confidence that it would, of course; you are the only one I would entrust such a detail-oriented project to. I particularly appreciate your willingness to work with anonymised data. It is not that I do not trust you, of course -- simply that the identity of the organisation whose books I am analysing must remain confidental, and what you do not know, you cannot be forced to disclose.
Re: Private Message to Professor Dolohov
Date: 2014-10-30 06:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-30 02:59 pm (UTC)