Attention Notable Students of Hogwarts!

[ewoodhouse]

A notice appears in the Great Hall, written in beautiful but precise hand-writing.

I, Miss Emma Woodhouse, am currently interviewing students, and our conversations are to be recorded and reproduced in Hogwarts's newspaper.

Comments

[pdbw]

((*snerk!* Man, I wish the members of my current menagerie qualified! The one that might would not volunteer. XD))

[ewoodhouse]

((Emma might consider Lord Peter to be what she would define as 'heroic,' as long as he would describe his adventures for the amusement of the readers. XD))

[pdbw]

((Hee! Well, he just volunteered to write an "Ethicist"-style column for the paper, and doesn't want to look too much like he's blowing his own horn so soon after the prefect elections. ^_^))

[ewoodhouse]

((Interviews are going to be published of a rate of about one or two (at most) a week. By the time Wimsey's turn rolls around, prefect elections should be over for over a month. So please feel free to have Wimsey (or any one of your characters) to apply if you wish. ~_^))

[pdbw]

Miss Woodhouse,

As I recall, you once expressed interest in my career as an amateur detective. I have given the matter some thought, and if it would be useful to your column for the Hogwarts paper, I should be happy to discuss some of the more interesting and amusing anecdotes for your readership -- the pirate's treasure of Yelsall Manor, for instance, or the unique manner in which an old gentleman willed his diamonds to his grandson. I am available at your convenience.

Sincerely,
Lord Peter Wimsey

((These stories and more are related in the collection Lord Peter Views the Body.))

[ewoodhouse]

Dear Lord Peter,

Oh, I would be delighted! If not for the interview, then for myself. You are one of the few gentlemen left in this school, and therefore I am sure you have much more to provide this school than just tales of your adventures (though that is quite a boon as well).

Is there anything you would rather not speak of?

Sincerely,

Miss Emma Woodhouse

[pdbw]

Dear Miss Woodhouse,

You are most kind; I shall certainly do my best to not disappoint you or your readership.

I should strongly prefer to not discuss my experiences in the Great War, as you might guess from the unfortunate incident in Professor Snape's Potions class some months back -- such matter isn't really fit for genteel company in any case. For similar reasons, I prefer not to discuss the murders I've investigated in detail, although I don't mind mentioning any instructive lessons in human nature that might have been gleaned in the process. The details, however, are rather more for the sensationalist, and I surmise that it is not in your nature to stoop so low.

Thank you, and I look forward to speaking with you.

Sincerely,
Lord Peter Wimsey