Private message to Savitha and Lana

[alt_antonin]

Not a bad showing from the children, was it?

I've let Septima know that the three of us will not be teaching classes until at least noon. Sleep in just as we've told the children to sleep in. Septima will also pass along to the other staff that the ducklings will not be in class until they wake naturally. I'll send the elves with restoratives for the children for when they wake up, and if either of you need a dose, just ask for one. (Even if you have your own, you may want mine anyway; I have Snape's variation, and it is a noticeable improvement.)

Auri says that she and Septima between them have sorted out patrol and prefect issues, and that she's let the prefects of both Gryffindor and Slytherin know that they should come to her, rather than you, until you have recovered well enough to resume your duties there.

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Re: Private message to Savitha

[alt_antonin]

No, that makes sense. I don't remember any of the others, although I did of course know Percy, through Lucius. (And a more transparently desperate desire for recognition I have never seen. It's a pity he did not absorb any of the lessons in cunning along with it.) I did try what I could -- it helps that Ron is one of the ones with a natural gift for the Arts -- but perhaps with his father's death he wasn't interested in a male role model. (With that mother, he's predisposed to following strong women, I suppose.)

Ah, well; this is the reason I asked you back to Hogwarts, after all, to have someone else here with the skill necessary to cultivate those students whom I could not reach and lure them into the glory of service instead of allowing them to fade away into the mundanity of private employ. And there, I'm just as exhausted as you are: have confession for confession.

Sleep, my dear. You've certainly earned it.

Re: Private message to Savitha

[alt_savitha]

You may be right about Ron's willingness to follow strong women. Those two Slytherin girls have him well wrapped around their fingers, and only one's his girlfriend. Maybe they bludgeoned a few lessons in cunning into his Gryffindor head -- his brothers might have stood to befriend a few Slytherin girls themselves, back in the day.

I'll go to sleep as soon as that last potion wears off, naturally. Should be any time now.