Private Message to Ginevra Weasley
Jan. 5th, 2013 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_antoninMiss Weasley,
I apologise for not responding to you earlier. And please do allow me to offer my condolences for the death of your father, and in such dreadful and sudden circumstances. I lost my brother, who stood in many ways my father, when I was in early adulthood, and I remember all too well the desire to throw myself into my work and my studies thereafter as distraction; I am in utmost sympathy.
I'm very pleased to hear that you would like to deepen your study of the Arts; I've been quite happy with your practical spellwork, but -- as I am certain you will remember from my classroom lectures! -- I am quite firmly of the opinion that a solid grounding in theory can only benefit you in the practical casting. I would be happy to work with you as much as you'd like. With your year I have the leisure to teach more slowly, and in greater depth, than I do with the fifth-years, many of whom I will only have for a year before they decline to pursue further study, but there are still many areas in which I am glossing considerably over a vast realm of information. If you would like to immerse yourself in some of those areas, I will happily be your guide.
Is there a particular category of practise we have covered in class so far that you are most interested in? Curses, compulsions, blood magic, etcetera? If you aren't yet certain, that is all right as well; we can speak about the options once term starts.
If you are interested in the theoretical underpinnings of the field, meanwhile: later in your year I will be teaching from Peverell and Peverell's De signatura rerum, on spell composition and on unravelling the building-blocks of magic. (It is already in use in the theoretical classes.) Until we are able to meet, you may wish to read that work on your own, and try the deconstructive techniques it speaks of on some (harmless!) spell you have learnt already.
Do stop by my open hours once we return to Hogwarts, and we'll speak of this further. As any of my intimates, and many of your schoolmates, will attest: I am always willing to lend books.
In service,
Professor Dolohov
I apologise for not responding to you earlier. And please do allow me to offer my condolences for the death of your father, and in such dreadful and sudden circumstances. I lost my brother, who stood in many ways my father, when I was in early adulthood, and I remember all too well the desire to throw myself into my work and my studies thereafter as distraction; I am in utmost sympathy.
I'm very pleased to hear that you would like to deepen your study of the Arts; I've been quite happy with your practical spellwork, but -- as I am certain you will remember from my classroom lectures! -- I am quite firmly of the opinion that a solid grounding in theory can only benefit you in the practical casting. I would be happy to work with you as much as you'd like. With your year I have the leisure to teach more slowly, and in greater depth, than I do with the fifth-years, many of whom I will only have for a year before they decline to pursue further study, but there are still many areas in which I am glossing considerably over a vast realm of information. If you would like to immerse yourself in some of those areas, I will happily be your guide.
Is there a particular category of practise we have covered in class so far that you are most interested in? Curses, compulsions, blood magic, etcetera? If you aren't yet certain, that is all right as well; we can speak about the options once term starts.
If you are interested in the theoretical underpinnings of the field, meanwhile: later in your year I will be teaching from Peverell and Peverell's De signatura rerum, on spell composition and on unravelling the building-blocks of magic. (It is already in use in the theoretical classes.) Until we are able to meet, you may wish to read that work on your own, and try the deconstructive techniques it speaks of on some (harmless!) spell you have learnt already.
Do stop by my open hours once we return to Hogwarts, and we'll speak of this further. As any of my intimates, and many of your schoolmates, will attest: I am always willing to lend books.
In service,
Professor Dolohov
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Date: 2013-01-05 06:51 pm (UTC)Thank you for understanding.
Ginny