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Jun 04, 2024 07:50

We're entirely out of calming draughts.

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dep_headmaster June 4 2024, 15:36:40 UTC

Not anymore. [He levitates a box in behind him.] Sorry. The last couple of days have been busy. I made a bunch though. It shouldn't be a problem for a while.

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ringaroundthe June 4 2024, 15:52:31 UTC

Oh, thank you! Right over here, if you don't mind. *She's cleared out room by the apothecary shelves, which she's completely moved around. Rosie hasn't been shy about neatening and rearranging, and in her opinion the infirmary makes much more sense this way.* It's been quite busy, hasn't it? Is it like this every year?

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dep_headmaster June 4 2024, 16:15:24 UTC

[He puts the boxes down.] It is, yeah. I'm used to it though.

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ringaroundthe June 4 2024, 16:19:32 UTC

I suppose the body gets used to most anything. How long have you worked at Hogwarts? *Two spells, and she has the daughts sorting themselves on the shelf.*

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dep_headmaster June 4 2024, 16:30:46 UTC

Um...forty-two years? Wow, that sounds like a long time when I say it out loud.

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ringaroundthe June 4 2024, 16:37:28 UTC

Goodness, I'm sure it must. You must really love it to do it so long. *Very helpfully she doesn't say anything about how that's longer than she's been alive.*

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dep_headmaster June 4 2024, 16:42:17 UTC

Yeah, I do love it. I've always loved teaching. Before I was teaching here I had a job helping tutoring people for exams. Kids who were homeschooled and such. It's rewarding and I'm good at it. [He didn't mean for his career to swallow his life but it just kind of happened somewhere along the way.] How do you like it here?

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ringaroundthe June 4 2024, 16:53:56 UTC

I enjoy it much more than I expected to, although Blake does say she expected it entirely and she's always right, of course. Normally I have rather intense but short relationships with my patients, but then, all the children here aren't really patients, are they? They're rather people who need an occasional pepper-up or counter-jinxing. It's quite a big change.

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dep_headmaster June 4 2024, 17:01:54 UTC

I imagine it is a big change. I'm glad it's been a pleasant one. The kids can definitely grow on you.

And yes, Blake is almost always right and please tell her I said so.

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ringaroundthe June 4 2024, 18:58:31 UTC

Yes they can and I would be happy to.

Oh, I had a question earlier about the student handbook? I found a copy here, you see, only I wasn't sure if it's out of date.

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dep_headmaster June 4 2024, 19:08:22 UTC

Let me see it. I can tell you. I have one in my office, but I've it memorized. [Dylan has an extremely good memory.]

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ringaroundthe June 4 2024, 19:26:57 UTC

Oh, do you? That's very impressive, just a minute. *She'd kept the handbook at her desk, it's a rather slim little thing--giving more zine than book, honestly.*

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dep_headmaster June 4 2024, 19:39:41 UTC

[He flips through it and makes it face. It's out of date and he doesn't understand why.] This is from...five years ago? I'll get you a new one.

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ringaroundthe June 4 2024, 19:51:33 UTC

I would appreciate that. As I say, I just found it here, I was talking to a student and he didn't even know there was a handbook to begin with. I don't suppose it's very popular.

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dep_headmaster June 5 2024, 14:12:14 UTC

They're supposed to be distributed to the first years. I guess that's not happening. I'll talk to the headmaster about it.

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ringaroundthe June 5 2024, 14:22:04 UTC

That sounds like an excellent idea. *Rosie has seen the headmaster maybe...twice since she started working here? She'd be shocked if he turned out to be some kind of simulacra put up by the board of directors, but she wouldn't be surprised.*

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