A Day of Remembrance

[alt_daphne]

Students:

Please join the Head Boy and me at the lake shore this Saturday at sundown, following the Hogsmeade outing. Having attained the Headmaster's permission, we will be holding a student-only Day of Remembrance ceremony, to honour and preserve the memory of those who are no longer with us. December 13th is also St. Lucia's Day, the festival of light, and we will be floating lanterns across the lake's surface in a gesture of hope intended to see us through the long and dark winter.

See you there.

Comments

[alt_harry]

I'll be there. I hope others will come, too.

[alt_linus]

As our esteemed Head Girl has said, this will indeed be an event of honouring memories and expressing hope. No matter how much revising one has yet to do, it will certainly be salubrious to take a bit of time for the -- dare I say it? -- poetic and contemplative ceremony planned.

Lest any of you be disappointed, there will not be any actual poetry involved. I refer merely to the sight of floating lanterns on the lake, the flames borne up in so many individual floating lanterns, separately making their way and yet united by one light, as it were.

(Well, and it ought to be rather pretty, poetry and metaphor aside. In any case, do come, all!)

[alt_ron]

I'll be there, Daphne.

Remembering's good.

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[alt_blaise]

I plan to wear the cloak clasp Draco gave me. And I'll light a candle for him, of course.

Happy to help in advance, if there's anything you'd like extra hands for.

Whatever you need.