Goodness, I must have made quite the impression. Truly, trying to be something I’m not has never appealed, though I had long conversations with both the Professor and Alde over the years about how to go about being most fully myself. (I will say I am changed from the wholly-star-obsessed and entirely awkward first year who arrived at school twenty years ago, and for the better.)
I’d quite look forward to that conversation on traits and characteristics, mind you. And on that note, I do enjoy talking about topics besides my beloved sky. Alas, Gwendolyn Acton (Charms) is not much of a theorist, and Bathsheba (Babbling, Runes) and Septima (Vector, Arithmancy and Ravenclaw Head of House) prefer to stick to their own subjects where I am more of a synthesist by nature (and a generalist in my field by training.)
But beyond that, I read, and so does Raz for that matter, more than you might have guessed from previous acquaintance. We overlap most in history (popular and otherwise), and if my collection offers anything of interest to you, I’m glad to lend. I also, often to my despair, read most of the gossip magazines in an attempt to keep the players in various social circles straight. (And a number of trifles - mystery novels for pleasure, romance novels to mock, some books our students recommend.)
I thought you might have been one of the circle Alde knew better. She talked very little about her work for Our Lord, especially in ‘82 and ‘83 (something Raz has comment on: I was far too much protected in those years, though with the best of intentions), but she was an excellent astronomer and mentor, and the charts of her final years remain magnificent.
As to supper companions: I do try to rotate (and insist that Raz do likewise: it is too small a castle for anything else to serve.) I sit most often with Pomona (Sprout, Herbology) and Poppy (Pomfrey, Matron) - both good friends - and Raz, of course, but also enjoy conversation with Septima, Bathsheba, and Mina (Grubbly-Plank, Creatures) in particular. Adding you to the mix will be most enjoyable, even without the assistance dealing with Dolores. (And I do promise you my take on our colleagues on Friday, though there are a few delicate places.)
On that note: Dolores is of my own house, though a rather different breed of it than I try to be. I think I’ll have to turn my attention to a better way to approach her, and see if I can’t improve the situation. If nothing else, it’s probably good for me somehow. (And surely more interesting than at least half the wedding planning on my list.)
Right. I hope in my own rooms in the tower tonight. May your preparations likewise go smoothly. A.
Re: Private message to Antonin Dolohov
Goodness, I must have made quite the impression. Truly, trying to be something I’m not has never appealed, though I had long conversations with both the Professor and Alde over the years about how to go about being most fully myself. (I will say I am changed from the wholly-star-obsessed and entirely awkward first year who arrived at school twenty years ago, and for the better.)
I’d quite look forward to that conversation on traits and characteristics, mind you. And on that note, I do enjoy talking about topics besides my beloved sky. Alas, Gwendolyn Acton (Charms) is not much of a theorist, and Bathsheba (Babbling, Runes) and Septima (Vector, Arithmancy and Ravenclaw Head of House) prefer to stick to their own subjects where I am more of a synthesist by nature (and a generalist in my field by training.)
But beyond that, I read, and so does Raz for that matter, more than you might have guessed from previous acquaintance. We overlap most in history (popular and otherwise), and if my collection offers anything of interest to you, I’m glad to lend. I also, often to my despair, read most of the gossip magazines in an attempt to keep the players in various social circles straight. (And a number of trifles - mystery novels for pleasure, romance novels to mock, some books our students recommend.)
I thought you might have been one of the circle Alde knew better. She talked very little about her work for Our Lord, especially in ‘82 and ‘83 (something Raz has comment on: I was far too much protected in those years, though with the best of intentions), but she was an excellent astronomer and mentor, and the charts of her final years remain magnificent.
As to supper companions: I do try to rotate (and insist that Raz do likewise: it is too small a castle for anything else to serve.) I sit most often with Pomona (Sprout, Herbology) and Poppy (Pomfrey, Matron) - both good friends - and Raz, of course, but also enjoy conversation with Septima, Bathsheba, and Mina (Grubbly-Plank, Creatures) in particular. Adding you to the mix will be most enjoyable, even without the assistance dealing with Dolores. (And I do promise you my take on our colleagues on Friday, though there are a few delicate places.)
On that note: Dolores is of my own house, though a rather different breed of it than I try to be. I think I’ll have to turn my attention to a better way to approach her, and see if I can’t improve the situation. If nothing else, it’s probably good for me somehow. (And surely more interesting than at least half the wedding planning on my list.)
Right. I hope in my own rooms in the tower tonight. May your preparations likewise go smoothly.
A.