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.
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Date: 2008-10-30 05:01 am (UTC)Pansy, of course, is extremely clever and I have - perhaps wrongly - allowed her to pursue her scholastic inclinations without seeing much need for supervision. She has always been a self-sufficient child. I cannot imagine whence this streak of stubborn insolence has suddenly sprung. And there's the matter of her mother. Tragic, that she has never been able to fully recover from losing Anthony. Though in many ways the experience made Pansy more mature than others her age, it has also left her more troubled than I should like to see. Still, I had thought Rosalind put more emphasis on Pansy's education with regard to the Lord Protector's beneficence. I have made sure she is also aware of Pansy's indiscretion and poor judgement.
Minerva, I shall of course wish to speak to the girl on Friday to reinforce the lessons you have brought to bear upon her to-day. I appreciate that you have no wish to quash her inquisitive spirit completely; nor do I. But she must learn that there is a proper time, place, and method to seeking answers. It is most unfortunate that her first foray was conducted in so public a manner.
Perhaps the treatment she is now receiving will help to provide her with some measure of understanding that other teaching has managed to miss.
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Date: 2008-10-30 02:07 pm (UTC)