Private message to Barty
Jun. 13th, 2014 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_antoninCalled to Court, for private audience with Our Lord. I am to be honoured with the position of Headmaster, to ensure the ferreting out of the slightest scraps of heterodoxy and treason that may have crept in to the curriculum while His attention was elsewhere.
I am of course delighted for the chance to be of service and entirely certain I will be able to integrate the necessary work into my already complex schedule without difficulty. Possibly I will first need to develop new methods of control over space and time, but that shan't take more than a week or two, I imagine.
This is not yet public -- not that I think you will go telling tales out of turn, but I will need to handle matters with at least a modicum of delicacy. Step one: find a way to inform Septima Vector that she has been passed over for the position. Step two: hope she is not in league with Snape and decides to poison my tea.
I will almost certainly be spending the night at Auri's temporary refuge; she is still suffering the effects of the broken bond. If you are free tomorrow afternoon I am planning on an extensive library search for our other impossible task; I would welcome your company.
I am of course delighted for the chance to be of service and entirely certain I will be able to integrate the necessary work into my already complex schedule without difficulty. Possibly I will first need to develop new methods of control over space and time, but that shan't take more than a week or two, I imagine.
This is not yet public -- not that I think you will go telling tales out of turn, but I will need to handle matters with at least a modicum of delicacy. Step one: find a way to inform Septima Vector that she has been passed over for the position. Step two: hope she is not in league with Snape and decides to poison my tea.
I will almost certainly be spending the night at Auri's temporary refuge; she is still suffering the effects of the broken bond. If you are free tomorrow afternoon I am planning on an extensive library search for our other impossible task; I would welcome your company.
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Date: 2014-06-13 11:52 pm (UTC)Suggest you do not drink the tea. Feign sipping.
Have news of my own new duties (assigned by Bella). Will share them tomorrow afternoon. Can think of nothing I'd rather do than join you in that research.
Will miss your company tonight. Accept, however, your obligation to the grieving astronomer.
Apologies.
Still entirely out of sorts with Raz for letting himself be out-duelled by Nott. Dammit.
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Date: 2014-06-14 12:59 pm (UTC)Vector was more resigned than anything else, but I will need to keep an eye on her; something about her seemed almost defeated. At least I need not fear the tea.
And you are not the only one who cannot believe Nott emerged victorious from that duel; I would not have thought that Raz, even distracted, could have lost against him. I have promised Auri that Nott's victory would not go unrewarded. She seemed to find the thought a consolation. (As to that, my thought is to give him several weeks before we call upon him. Not only will it allow him more time to think he has got away without retaliation, I rather think Auri will appreciate the sentiment more once she is no longer losing entire slices of time to the backlash syndrome.)
I am awake now; once I have turned Auri's supervision back over to the next shift, I will meet you back at the house.