Thank you, my dear boy; I do try my hardest. Well, you've seen how passionate I am about education, and I can think of fewer things more critical to your Father's vision for the Protectorate as exemplar to the world than a well-educated populace, all of whom have been given every opportunity to develop their gifts to greatest measure.

I have indeed seen much evidence of your shepherding of Hogwarts itself, and of the students who make up her greatest asset, and it is one of the reasons I am approaching you in particular as I build my plans; I can think of few other people who care about Hogwarts as passionately as you do. I am hoping to arrive at a mutually-agreeable plan for (at very least) the year to come, and to persuade you both to utilise your role in service to the school and to lend that passion to the task of picking holes in my plans!

I will say that I am, how shall we put it, quite cognisant of some of the worst examples that have been visited upon the school in recent history, and determined to avoid the same approach. If you mind me, and I believe you do.