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Aug. 20th, 2014 08:05 pmI'm up. I'm dressed. I'm sorry, everyone, but I think I will be all right, now.
Anyway.
I've been thinking about this all day. Percy's birthday is the day after tomorrow.
I wonder if there is a way that we can use that.
Bill has been taking Percy's things to the secondhand shops, all his possessions that none of us wanted to keep, since I couldn't bear to do it myself. With all of his books, and his robes, furniture and household items and such, we have a modest sum left over, above and beyond the funeral expenses, and I have been thinking: what if I used it as a pretext to approachthat Headmaster Dolohov?
I could send him a letter, saying that I want to set up something at Hogwarts in memory of Percy. The Percy Weasley Memorial Award. A student would be chosen each year, perhaps the Headmaster's choice of a deserving prefect. I think with Bill's help, I can write some bunk about how I want the award to honour students following Percy's example in showing their devotion to Our Lord's service. (It might be a stipend to assist the poorer students, to help them pay their school fees, but of course that needn't be announced generally.)
With the stipend, I'd provide a plaque. The students' names would be inscribed on it each year. Maybe I could convince him to put it in the Headmaster's office, but if not, perhaps it would end up in the trophy room?
My idea was that I might weave some charms on the plaque: subtle or innocent or small enough to slip past Dolohov, yet something that might still be a help to our cause at Hogwarts. Dumbledore, what would be useful to plant in the Headmaster's office? Or if the plaque ends up in the trophy room, maybe it's something that could only be triggered by one of our Galleon holders? I wish we could make it into an emergency portkey, but I doubt he would miss that, even if we knew how.
I'm willing to grovel to our new Headmaster to accomplish this (and won't he love that), if we could think of any way this might be useful for planting a hidden charm or two. I just thought...Percy's birthday might provide a good pretext. And Dolohov is good, I know. Anything added to the plaque would have to be able to pass any test he could give it.
I'd welcome hearing your thoughts on this.
Anyway.
I've been thinking about this all day. Percy's birthday is the day after tomorrow.
I wonder if there is a way that we can use that.
Bill has been taking Percy's things to the secondhand shops, all his possessions that none of us wanted to keep, since I couldn't bear to do it myself. With all of his books, and his robes, furniture and household items and such, we have a modest sum left over, above and beyond the funeral expenses, and I have been thinking: what if I used it as a pretext to approach
I could send him a letter, saying that I want to set up something at Hogwarts in memory of Percy. The Percy Weasley Memorial Award. A student would be chosen each year, perhaps the Headmaster's choice of a deserving prefect. I think with Bill's help, I can write some bunk about how I want the award to honour students following Percy's example in showing their devotion to Our Lord's service. (It might be a stipend to assist the poorer students, to help them pay their school fees, but of course that needn't be announced generally.)
With the stipend, I'd provide a plaque. The students' names would be inscribed on it each year. Maybe I could convince him to put it in the Headmaster's office, but if not, perhaps it would end up in the trophy room?
My idea was that I might weave some charms on the plaque: subtle or innocent or small enough to slip past Dolohov, yet something that might still be a help to our cause at Hogwarts. Dumbledore, what would be useful to plant in the Headmaster's office? Or if the plaque ends up in the trophy room, maybe it's something that could only be triggered by one of our Galleon holders? I wish we could make it into an emergency portkey, but I doubt he would miss that, even if we knew how.
I'm willing to grovel to our new Headmaster to accomplish this (and won't he love that), if we could think of any way this might be useful for planting a hidden charm or two. I just thought...Percy's birthday might provide a good pretext. And Dolohov is good, I know. Anything added to the plaque would have to be able to pass any test he could give it.
I'd welcome hearing your thoughts on this.