A lovely day.
Feb. 6th, 2013 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_mcgonagallAnd many thanks to Diane Haley, architect of the day.
Although I might have been short with you on my first day back in New London, Diane, you were quite right to say that what I truly needed was some witches' chatter, and this was precisely what you provided.
It seems only yesterday that Diane—along with Mrs. Geoffrey Dunstan—was sitting in the Transfiguration classroom, and now her children are at Hogwarts! (Some of them, in any case). But it is quite the privilege to have the opportunity to catch back up with one's old students, and I am pleased to discover that they have occupied themselves extremely well since leaving school. It was pleasant, also, to encounter Mrs. Nigel Corbyn, who was so kind to me over the Christmas holidays.
All in all, I am quite satisfied to have taken leave of Hogwarts, if it brings me these friends.
Although I might have been short with you on my first day back in New London, Diane, you were quite right to say that what I truly needed was some witches' chatter, and this was precisely what you provided.
It seems only yesterday that Diane—along with Mrs. Geoffrey Dunstan—was sitting in the Transfiguration classroom, and now her children are at Hogwarts! (Some of them, in any case). But it is quite the privilege to have the opportunity to catch back up with one's old students, and I am pleased to discover that they have occupied themselves extremely well since leaving school. It was pleasant, also, to encounter Mrs. Nigel Corbyn, who was so kind to me over the Christmas holidays.
All in all, I am quite satisfied to have taken leave of Hogwarts, if it brings me these friends.
Private message to Minerva
Date: 2013-02-07 03:52 am (UTC)I've been meaning to write, and this gives me a reason that even Dolores can't complain overmuch about. (Thank you, for that.)
Diane mentioned she was doing her best to be helpful in her last owl, and I do hope she's being actually helpful. If it's the other kind, I would be glad to do whatever I can to stop her being a nuisance. (I am not mistress of the art, but I do, at least, have thirty odd years practice. It's got to be good for something.) But truly, in this case, she means well, really, and she is very good-hearted when she's not on a tear about something.
The castle misses you a very great deal, I think, fanciful as that sounds. Certainly, a number of people inside it do, myself very much included.
A.