CCF Reminders

[alt_penelope]

It may only be the third day of your CCF training but already the counselors have noted a few things:

1. You may not store your personal toiletry items in the washrooms. These are common space areas. Please remove everything from the washrooms when you've finished.


2. Team leaders' authority expires at the end of each activity. You may not use your leadership during a challenge to demand that members of your team - or the losing team - to do your assigned chores for you.


3. No moving about the campsites after lights out. (Honestly, you lot.)


4. Please respect each other's property. This really should go without saying as well.


5. Members of the CCF are expected to conduct themselves as gentlewizards and -witches at all times. No bullying of other members of any kind will be tolerated.


6. Remember that Friday, you'll have an afternoon of self-study. Use this time wisely.

I'm glad to see that most of you are taking your exercises seriously and that you are dedicated to the process the instructors have devised for you. As with all YPL activities, this is an excellent opportunity for you all to reach beyond your House affiliations and forge lasting alliances that will, with luck, extend far beyond your years of education. I urge you all to suspend your traditional rivalries, particularly as you are mixed together in different combinations, so that you can meet your challenges with maximum effectiveness and success.

Carry on.

Comments

Private Message to Percy

[alt_penelope]

Going any better this week? Was Mr Malfoy still cross with you or not?

I think the only saving grace of the CCF is that most of them are far too nackered at the end of the day to get up to much mischief. And that by and large they're the best of their class. But Merlin, some of them need a good hexing.

Wasn't MacMillan in a strop this morning, though? All because someone (I've theories as to whom) helped himself to String Mints he'd brought for floss. It's his own fault for leaving them in the bathhouse this morning! Honestly.

Anyway. They had a challenge today, so I was able to get in a bit of reading for next term. And practise Apparating.

How's your week going, truly?

Re: Private Message to Percy

[alt_percy]

It's been much better than I feared it would be. I managed to do a few things that anticipated his needs, which always pleases him. So I'm feeling a bit more confident. I did have to consult with Mr Crispin on one question, but he's always affable about being approached, and I'd rather ask and get it right than guess and get it wrong. As long as it's not Mr Malfoy that I'm pestering, that is!

How is Ronald doing? It's been noticeably quieter around here this week without him. He seemed to be quite serious about the whole thing before he left. It was rather a pleasure seeing him applying himself to the conditioning practice.

Re: Private Message to Percy

[alt_penelope]

You see? I told you the best strategy was to simply breathe and move along. He surely can't expect you to get everything right all the time. You're still learning - and he's still learning what you're capable of doing, remember.

Ronald? He's doing better than I expected. He did take a fall this afternoon but it wasn't entirely his fault.

They were supposed to each run an obstacle course, in turn, that we erected overhead. The course had a hidden cantrip that would temporarily blind each person, however, and his team members were told to help him get to the other side. (And of course, we changed the point at which the cantrip would go off, and the course itself, each time, so they couldn't use their memories of doing it to help the next person.)

Well, Ron volunteered to go second on his team, once he saw what they had to do, but he didn't realise that the course would change. He and his team members tried to recreate the same route as his first teammate. He stepped right when the ropebridge was swinging to the left. Down he went. Fortunately we were prepared for a lot of falls today, so no harm done.

He's really very friendly with Parkinson and Perks, isn't he?

Re: Private Message to Percy

[alt_percy]

That sounds exactly like Ronald. Hope he wasn't hurt too badly.

Yes, he gets along with Parkinson and Perks quite well. They've come over for Quidditch several times at the Burrow, and the three of them are thick as pixies together. I had a few doubts about Perks at first, given her background. But she's certainly perfectly respectful, and almost painfully polite to my mother.

I've heard good things about her knack at dark arts, too.

And of course, I'm quite pleased to see him cultivating a relationship with Parkinson; now there's a connection it will do him good to foster.

Re: Private Message to Percy

[alt_penelope]

He had a cracked wrist but we fixed it right back up. No need to give him any excuse to cry to the girls!

I still don't quite know about Perks. Sometimes I think she's too perfect. Then again, she did attack Patil that time, when you caught her red-handed. I suppose she's learned her lesson. Still, she's well clever - clever enough to say the right things to the right people. And she's certainly put herself firmly in Parkinson's pocket, they're inseparable.

As for Parkinson, well. You're right that the family are unimpeachable. She's just so odd.

I'll say one thing about them. It's hard to tell sometimes which is really the third foot on the cauldron.

And you'd think that if he's that close to Parkinson, he'd get along better with Malfoy and Marvolo, as well. I'm really not sure what your brother has against either of them.