Post by parvati patil macmillan on Feb 18, 2022 21:44:49 GMT -7
November 18, 2026
Going into the discussions of what it would take to rebuild Hogwarts, Parvati had known that it wasn't going to be easy. It didn't get any easier. Every time she considered how she was expected to move forward as though Shreya hadn't been killed, she just couldn't do it. Even if they rebuilt Hogwarts exactly as it had been (which wasn't the plan that they were gradually developing), it wouldn't bring her daughter back to life. The closest thing that she might have gotten to experiencing that might have been Samhain, the Druid festival during which the deceased were supposed to return to the living, but Parvati had decided against it. It was hard enough to pick up the pieces, and she couldn't bear to have Shreya torn away from her again.
The most recent meeting of the Hogwarts Rebuilding Efforts Council had been fruitful, though some of what was being discussed felt too lofty under the circumstances. Rebuilding Hogwarts and taking the opportunity to alter its structure and curricular offerings from a pedagogical standpoint was possible; Parvati had never been against it, but it seemed like too much too soon. Then again, would there ever be a good time? The students would have to readjust to Hogwarts one way or another. Would that be asking too much of them? Internally, Parvati had remain torn.
As the last of her colleagues left the room in which they'd been meeting, Parvati looked up from reviewing the notes she'd been taking to see that Frank Lancaster was still seated, too. She looked over to him with a small, closed-lipped smile, looked back at what she'd written, and paused. "Would it be a terrible idea to propose some of these changes to the students?" she wondered aloud. There was no way to keep everyone happy, of course. The higher levels of the Ministry and the Hogwarts Board of Governors would no doubt want the final say, but there was nothing prohibiting them from reaching out to some of the students who had left Hogwarts and would be returning after their unintended year away. "I don't know," Parvati continued before Frank had said a thing. "Am I wrong to think that some of them really aren't… tenable?" Their colleagues had had some good ideas, and she didn't want to be too critical of them when they were all trying to do what they felt was best. Parvati, though, felt pretty sure that Professor McGonagall would sooner retire to Dorset than spend the next five or ten years seeing through the changes that were being proposed right and left—if the Board of Governors got through half of them to approve them.
@frank
The most recent meeting of the Hogwarts Rebuilding Efforts Council had been fruitful, though some of what was being discussed felt too lofty under the circumstances. Rebuilding Hogwarts and taking the opportunity to alter its structure and curricular offerings from a pedagogical standpoint was possible; Parvati had never been against it, but it seemed like too much too soon. Then again, would there ever be a good time? The students would have to readjust to Hogwarts one way or another. Would that be asking too much of them? Internally, Parvati had remain torn.
As the last of her colleagues left the room in which they'd been meeting, Parvati looked up from reviewing the notes she'd been taking to see that Frank Lancaster was still seated, too. She looked over to him with a small, closed-lipped smile, looked back at what she'd written, and paused. "Would it be a terrible idea to propose some of these changes to the students?" she wondered aloud. There was no way to keep everyone happy, of course. The higher levels of the Ministry and the Hogwarts Board of Governors would no doubt want the final say, but there was nothing prohibiting them from reaching out to some of the students who had left Hogwarts and would be returning after their unintended year away. "I don't know," Parvati continued before Frank had said a thing. "Am I wrong to think that some of them really aren't… tenable?" Their colleagues had had some good ideas, and she didn't want to be too critical of them when they were all trying to do what they felt was best. Parvati, though, felt pretty sure that Professor McGonagall would sooner retire to Dorset than spend the next five or ten years seeing through the changes that were being proposed right and left—if the Board of Governors got through half of them to approve them.
@frank
