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[alt_daphne]

Good news!

I've been named as Head Girl for the next school year. The titles have not, as we feared, gone to Seamus and Padma. Linus Moon is Head Boy, and he ought to be easy enough to work with. He's very much all bluster and Byron, but is decidedly not someone who will go around Cruciating firsties. The worst I anticipate from him is getting in the way. Oh, and the fact that Padma has a history of manipulating him for her own agenda is something else to watch out for, to say nothing of his boot-licking worship of Headmaster Dolohov. If I can stay on good terms with Padma, then hopefully Moon's friendship with her won't be a problem.

One thing I am uncertain about is what role Head Boy and Girl will fill now that three (student) council members will be at school? Surely they must outrank the Head Boy and Head Girl, but to what extent are they expected to enforce school rules and policy? Hydra, do you know? If not, I suppose this is probably a good question to bring to the Headmaster.

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[alt_daphne]

I'm sorry to insult a student you think highly of, Professor Sinistra. But the way he presents himself is truly difficult to take seriously, at times; it's one thing to adopt a certain persona for the stage or for subterfuge, and quite another to adopt it for the sake of self-delusion. If he can be distracted from acting out in ways that contribute to his delusions of grandeur, all the better. I shall keep your advice readily in mind!

[alt_sinistra]

One of the things I've learned over the years is that people are complicated. I can admire (and make use of) Linus's analytical skills while entirely agreeing that how he comes across is rather difficult at times. And likely to cause him trouble. And on the whole, I prefer a world where we as staff don't get to make students into our image of the perfect person, even if it would solve certain problems.

Linus does have a good heart under there, even if it's rather buried by flowery language and a lack of understanding of the world much of the time. That's more than you can say of rather a number of our recent Head Boys and Girls.

While I'm reminded of it, though - there are some plans for the coming year I was meaning to ask if you'd be interested in helping with. A series of lectures from artists, writers, people in theatre and the other performing arts. We've put out some initial invitations, but there'll be more to come. If you think it's too much, perhaps you might suggest someone suitable to help? (It'd likely mean a few meetings, and then helping out when the actual events take place, nothing too tedious.)

I'll say here that I have a rather freer hand with deciding who to invite than I did with the YPL, so I have reason to hope it will be along the line of the better of those kinds of things, rather than the horrible ones.

[alt_daphne]

Of course people are complicated. And it's assuring to hear that you believe Moon to be inherently good of heart. I commiserate with Hydra's perception of him as untroubled by the larger miseries of this world, but indeed, one of the reasons Mrs Longbottom felt that I would be of use to the Order was my potential to reach out to people in such 'untroubled' positions. By working closely with Moon, perhaps I'll have better opportunity to make him more aware of the Protectorate's more diabolical features.

I would be delighted to assist you in your Lecture Series! While it's true that I will be busy this year, in the past I've never let that stop me from taking on more than I can handle.