Discipline
Oct. 29th, 2008 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_mcgonagall Miss Parkinson has been disciplined for her infractions, not so much against Hogwarts' rules, but against pure good taste.
I realise that she has been raised in a haphazard fashion, and I am very grateful to Lucius for stepping in. She requires a strong guiding hand, and I fear that with an entire school to oversee (not to mention a birthday feast to plan) I am not the person who can provide it for her.
Nevertheless, she has been given an assignment that will hopefully help her mend her ways. She ought very well to know that the proper recourse for having one's questions answered is research and thereby understanding the great work that one's forbears have done. Even at the age of eleven! If she had addressed her queries to an encyclopaedia, or even to the Daily Prophet, they would have been answered immediately.
In future, I imagine that she will avoid all such public doubting and inciting of negative energies and pursue any questions she may have in a more constructive manner. If she does not, of course, as she grows older, she will suffer much greater consequences than merely penning a few lines.
Lucius, I do believe you have your work cut out for you; she seemed almost sullen in my office, not as if she had fully understood the lesson I was attempting to teach. Nevertheless, I have hope that the essay she is writing will do some small amount to mend the situation. A sharp young girl like Miss Parkinson must have her inquiring mind honed and pointed towards the right influences; my punishment for her is, naturally, intended to do so without crudely preventing all inquiry.
I realise that she has been raised in a haphazard fashion, and I am very grateful to Lucius for stepping in. She requires a strong guiding hand, and I fear that with an entire school to oversee (not to mention a birthday feast to plan) I am not the person who can provide it for her.
Nevertheless, she has been given an assignment that will hopefully help her mend her ways. She ought very well to know that the proper recourse for having one's questions answered is research and thereby understanding the great work that one's forbears have done. Even at the age of eleven! If she had addressed her queries to an encyclopaedia, or even to the Daily Prophet, they would have been answered immediately.
In future, I imagine that she will avoid all such public doubting and inciting of negative energies and pursue any questions she may have in a more constructive manner. If she does not, of course, as she grows older, she will suffer much greater consequences than merely penning a few lines.
Lucius, I do believe you have your work cut out for you; she seemed almost sullen in my office, not as if she had fully understood the lesson I was attempting to teach. Nevertheless, I have hope that the essay she is writing will do some small amount to mend the situation. A sharp young girl like Miss Parkinson must have her inquiring mind honed and pointed towards the right influences; my punishment for her is, naturally, intended to do so without crudely preventing all inquiry.
Order Only
Date: 2008-10-30 01:47 am (UTC)There's some hope there, if her guardians don't knock it out of her entirely, if only you can maneuver her into continuing to think for herself. And without blurting out awkward and unwelcome questions for the wrong people to hear. I know it is a difficult line for you to balance.
How are your nerves holding up for Friday? I'm sure this didn't help.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2008-10-30 03:02 am (UTC)My nerves are as they always are. Better after nine PM.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2008-10-30 03:16 am (UTC)Friday will go well, don't worry. Only take care not to dip too deeply into your usual comfort, especially Thursday night. You know you'll need all your wits about you to face the monsters you'll be entertaining the next day.
Fortunately, you have plenty of wit to spare.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2008-10-30 03:21 am (UTC)Not to mention it would be a jolly lovely revenge on Malfoy for what he did to Xeno.
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Date: 2008-10-30 03:29 am (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2008-10-30 03:29 am (UTC)I shall do my best. If nothing else, the fear of him will keep me from the bottle that night, you know. I really cannot be impaired for Friday, it's true.