Class on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Sep. 5th, 2012 06:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_antoninAs there was some confusion with the third-year classes yesterday, please allow me to clarify: the timetables you have been issued are not in error. Due to the difficulty involved in integrating the changes to the curriculum, we have indeed been forced to schedule several classes through the lunch hour. In addition to yesterday's third-year students, this also affects the fifth-year Gryffindor class on Thursdays.
As I'm aware that in many cases, your schedule does not permit you to eat earlier or later, you may arrange with the elves for lunch to be delivered to the classroom, and eat quietly and unobtrusively through our discussion. (I will likely be doing the same.) I know this is less than optimal; I apologise profusely for the inconvenience and will do my utmost to keep the situation from becoming too untenable.
As always, if you have any concerns, please stop in my office during my scheduled open hours, arrange with me privately for evening or weekend hours, or contact me via private message. I remember from my own school days how reluctant we always were to disturb our professors, but you will not be a disturbance to me in the least: I would far rather clarify the issue early when whatever problem can still be easily solved.
As I'm aware that in many cases, your schedule does not permit you to eat earlier or later, you may arrange with the elves for lunch to be delivered to the classroom, and eat quietly and unobtrusively through our discussion. (I will likely be doing the same.) I know this is less than optimal; I apologise profusely for the inconvenience and will do my utmost to keep the situation from becoming too untenable.
As always, if you have any concerns, please stop in my office during my scheduled open hours, arrange with me privately for evening or weekend hours, or contact me via private message. I remember from my own school days how reluctant we always were to disturb our professors, but you will not be a disturbance to me in the least: I would far rather clarify the issue early when whatever problem can still be easily solved.
Re: Private Message to Rabastan Lestrange
Date: 2012-09-05 05:59 pm (UTC)From what I've gathered of the last few years, a year where none of the people who are trying to kill you are sharing bed and board would be a novel change, yes. As disasters seem to beset the castle regularly of late, let us all hope that whatever enemy is no doubt plotting to arise should at least have the good manners to give us ample warning.
Have been favorably impressed thus far, actually -- I'd braced myself to have to start at barest beginnings, but there's more than a few of them thus far having demonstrated at least a hint of intellectual curiosity. (We've been covering the basics -- what are the Arts -- and after the shock of me disagreeing with their textbook definitions wears off, several classes thus far have rallied with suggestions I suspect them to have learned from you, actually.) I have high hopes. Now if only I can get them to stop flinching whenever I show my wand...
Would be quite grateful for the loan. As to size, "something that can be passed around" is my only thought -- was contemplating offering a substantial sum of House points for anyone who can get the box open once I've locked it to my hand, then sitting back and watching the inventive little darlings work. (Must confess, that exercise has always been one of my favorites for that very reason: watching the methods tried is often as telling as any manner of deeper analyses.)
And yes, do invite Rod along if you'd like -- once we've cleared the Direst of Closets, there's her former quarters as well, the less said about which the better. (There is a reason I am rooming elsewhere.)
Ah, and another group of young minds to pry open settles down and looks eager (and apprehensive). Time for me to pretend I know what I'm talking about.
Eternally yours,
T