Home again --
Nov. 19th, 2012 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_antonin-- and these past several weeks, difficult as they have been, have shown me that after so many years of working on my own, it is lovely to have the support of those who uphold true wizarding culture and values, both to work with and to return to afterwards.
Too, I must thank those at Hogwarts who kept the home fires burning, often at great inconvenience to themselves (particularly Deputy Headmistress Vector, who is the very model of a servant to the Protectorate's future, and our Head Boy and Head Girl, who have, I have been told, stepped in to show excellent examples of leadership).
I must also take a moment to memorialize my brother in service Glaucus Gibbon, whom I knew since we were children together and whose death diminishes us all. His sacrifice for the future of the Protectorate and in service to Our Lord's vision will not be forgotten.
Students: a reminder to you all that I will expect to collect the assignments you were given in my absence at our first class meeting this week, and we will work to make up the gaps in the curriculum as quickly as possible. Your willingness to be flexible both for the past two weeks and for the remainder of term is greatly appreciated. I will be holding my open hours this week where possible, unless I am called away for additional matters of state: please feel free to avail yourselves of them.
Too, I must thank those at Hogwarts who kept the home fires burning, often at great inconvenience to themselves (particularly Deputy Headmistress Vector, who is the very model of a servant to the Protectorate's future, and our Head Boy and Head Girl, who have, I have been told, stepped in to show excellent examples of leadership).
I must also take a moment to memorialize my brother in service Glaucus Gibbon, whom I knew since we were children together and whose death diminishes us all. His sacrifice for the future of the Protectorate and in service to Our Lord's vision will not be forgotten.
Students: a reminder to you all that I will expect to collect the assignments you were given in my absence at our first class meeting this week, and we will work to make up the gaps in the curriculum as quickly as possible. Your willingness to be flexible both for the past two weeks and for the remainder of term is greatly appreciated. I will be holding my open hours this week where possible, unless I am called away for additional matters of state: please feel free to avail yourselves of them.
Private Message to Minerva McGonagall
Date: 2012-11-19 06:14 pm (UTC)As difficult as the last few weeks have been, I will echo Lucius in saying that it has been delightful to once more be afforded the chance to work with you in service to Our Lord more directly.
It is in service to that vision, and to the bonds we will forever share, that I would like to raise a few matters that are both personal and strategic. You have, no doubt, noticed Dolores Umbridge attempting to consolidate her power, and noticed that she has turned to Hogwarts and to the programmes offered here as source and stronghold of that power. I would not for the life of me stand between her and the enactment of Our Lord's vision, but I have reasons to believe she is stepping beyond what Our Lord has asked of her, and has set her sights on your role.
I will speak plainly: even were you not my own true sister for this life and beyond, I would stand in your corner in this upcoming battle, as I find Dolores's attitudes and vision to alternate between insipid and saccharine. My observations over the past two months have led me to several potential courses to stand quietly against her machinations without escalating into outright warfare, and I would like to begin putting several of them into place.
I would not, however, dream of giving you cause to believe that I am setting myself up as an additional usurper of your authority. And, if I might be so bold: over the past several weeks I believe I have seen signs that the strain of the last several years has been weighing heavily on your shoulders, and in service to the bonds we share, I would like to do whatever I might to ease some of those burdens on you.
Are you free for tea and strategy tomorrow? (Say, 2:30 or so?) I have a gap in my schedule from 2PM to 4PM and would be pleased to join you in your office if you are amenable.
Yours, in service,
T
Re: Private Message to Minerva McGonagall
Date: 2012-11-19 06:31 pm (UTC)As for the strain, I fear that no one can take it from me. However, the knowledge that you would like to try is most gratifying.
Minerva.
Re: Private Message to Minerva McGonagall
Date: 2012-11-19 06:36 pm (UTC)Until then, котенок.
Yours,
T
Private Message to Septima Vector
Date: 2012-11-19 06:27 pm (UTC)In addition to the public commendation, allow me to offer my private thanks for your efforts, on behalf of the school and the Protectorate. Of course I cannot speak for Headmistress McGonagall or Professor Lestrange, but I personally was able to bend my attention to Our Lord's dictates without fear for what disasters I might find upon my return, and the absence of that worry was a considerable help.
Now that I have returned, if there is anything I might do to assist you, you have but to say the word. I do not know how long it will take me to catch up on the educational tasks I have missed for the past two weeks, but what attention I might spare, I am more than willing to bend to your purposes, in appreciation of your efforts.
(Also, in catching up with the paperwork I have missed in my absence, I realised I had not seen the final accounting for Mr Diggory's project for the Hallowe'en feast -- were my contributions to the general fund sufficient to cover the costs when combined with student donations, or are you in need of additional funds? Please, do not be shy in asking -- my desire to keep my contribution quietly anonymous does not mean I am not willing to contribute additional funds as necessary for the students' benefit.)
In service,
T