It would be hypocritcal of me in the utmost to object to students entering Our Lord's service, of course. I knew you were destined for greatness within months of first meeting you, and I was one of the loudest voices urging Our Lord to accept your dedication so young when He first raised the possibility. (A championing you have more than proven worthy of.) But you, my dear heart, are one in a million, and although there are some flowers of possibility in the garden that has been gathered (and others our younger comrades missed in their plucking) none of them are what I would call ready.
The difference between war and peace, I suppose.
Still. I don't like that we were blindsided. Raz, Minerva -- none of us knew. And given that at least part of my task here is to separate the wheat from the chaff, that bodes ill. And Our Lord's favour ought not be a game, and everything I have coaxed the children into telling me says it is being treated as such.
My efforts to make myself more of a resource ought, perhaps, be increased.
Private message to Barty
It would be hypocritcal of me in the utmost to object to students entering Our Lord's service, of course. I knew you were destined for greatness within months of first meeting you, and I was one of the loudest voices urging Our Lord to accept your dedication so young when He first raised the possibility. (A championing you have more than proven worthy of.) But you, my dear heart, are one in a million, and although there are some flowers of possibility in the garden that has been gathered (and others our younger comrades missed in their plucking) none of them are what I would call ready.
The difference between war and peace, I suppose.
Still. I don't like that we were blindsided. Raz, Minerva -- none of us knew. And given that at least part of my task here is to separate the wheat from the chaff, that bodes ill. And Our Lord's favour ought not be a game, and everything I have coaxed the children into telling me says it is being treated as such.
My efforts to make myself more of a resource ought, perhaps, be increased.