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Your assistance in brewing for Moddey these past few weeks has been considerably appreciated. I would not have been able to take on the additional work had you not both risen to the occasion.
Miss Parkinson: the results of your benchwork have proven acceptable in practise. If you are able to free yourself from the pressures of your social calendar over holiday, you would be welcomed in the laboratory, but do not arouse suspicion if your absence would be noted. Over holidays, consider carefully whether your schedule will continue to accomodate our work; if you wish to continue, knowing as you do now the exceptional pressures upon your time it will entail and the exacting nature of my standards and requirements, I am willing to further your tutelage upon return to Hogwarts in January.
The exact nature of that tutelage is up to you: I am content both to teach you just as much as you would need to know to brew only the potions that we require, or to go beyond instruction in mere brewing mechanics and delve more deeply into the underlying theory. The latter is a far more fraught proposition. You would never be allowed to claim the experience I am offering to any representative of the Guild. Should you be interested in a further career in potioneering, you would need to repeat that work under more recognised aegis — likely stultifying, and possibly dangerous should anyone realise you have been studying under a Master of whom they do not approve. I would urge you through the bulk of the NEWT curriculum as quickly as possible, rendering your classes with Slughorn no more than review and requiring you to conceal your experience from him as much as possible. There are undoubtedly other disadvantages I cannot immediately call to mind.
Should you be interested in the proposition despite these disadvantages, you ought first ask Miss Granger about the precision, commitment, and attention to detail I require from an apprentice, and carefully consider whether you are willing to make the sacrifices that would be necessary to enter into such an arrangement. I am an exacting man who does not suffer fools gladly, has little patience with anyone who enters the laboratory with anything less than full commitment, and does not accept mediocrity no matter what the reason. If you are willing to overlook those failings and commit yourself to the learning, however, I believe you to be teachable.
Miss Granger: should Miss Parkinson wish to continue working with us, whether in the capacity of apprentice or merely as brewer, I am minded to turn over the majority of the standard medicinals to her, once she has achieved adequate skill, and begin you brewing the more complex draughts with which you have only assisted thus far — I see no reason why you ought not be able to take over sole responsibility for the brewing of Lupin's Wolfsbane, for instance. Doing so would allow me to return to the matter of unravelling the Sleeper potion, which research I fear has fallen by the wayside without Stephen with whom to collaborate and with the necessity to assume primary responsibility for supplying Moddey's needs having come to land upon our shoulders.
Though it continues to be wholly unjust that no Protectorate authority recognises your birthright, much less your apprenticeship, you remain a student of whom any Master would be proud. I trust you realise I would not push you as fiercely, nor as quickly, if I did not believe you capable of far more than even the more advanced work I am proposing.
Miss Parkinson: the results of your benchwork have proven acceptable in practise. If you are able to free yourself from the pressures of your social calendar over holiday, you would be welcomed in the laboratory, but do not arouse suspicion if your absence would be noted. Over holidays, consider carefully whether your schedule will continue to accomodate our work; if you wish to continue, knowing as you do now the exceptional pressures upon your time it will entail and the exacting nature of my standards and requirements, I am willing to further your tutelage upon return to Hogwarts in January.
The exact nature of that tutelage is up to you: I am content both to teach you just as much as you would need to know to brew only the potions that we require, or to go beyond instruction in mere brewing mechanics and delve more deeply into the underlying theory. The latter is a far more fraught proposition. You would never be allowed to claim the experience I am offering to any representative of the Guild. Should you be interested in a further career in potioneering, you would need to repeat that work under more recognised aegis — likely stultifying, and possibly dangerous should anyone realise you have been studying under a Master of whom they do not approve. I would urge you through the bulk of the NEWT curriculum as quickly as possible, rendering your classes with Slughorn no more than review and requiring you to conceal your experience from him as much as possible. There are undoubtedly other disadvantages I cannot immediately call to mind.
Should you be interested in the proposition despite these disadvantages, you ought first ask Miss Granger about the precision, commitment, and attention to detail I require from an apprentice, and carefully consider whether you are willing to make the sacrifices that would be necessary to enter into such an arrangement. I am an exacting man who does not suffer fools gladly, has little patience with anyone who enters the laboratory with anything less than full commitment, and does not accept mediocrity no matter what the reason. If you are willing to overlook those failings and commit yourself to the learning, however, I believe you to be teachable.
Miss Granger: should Miss Parkinson wish to continue working with us, whether in the capacity of apprentice or merely as brewer, I am minded to turn over the majority of the standard medicinals to her, once she has achieved adequate skill, and begin you brewing the more complex draughts with which you have only assisted thus far — I see no reason why you ought not be able to take over sole responsibility for the brewing of Lupin's Wolfsbane, for instance. Doing so would allow me to return to the matter of unravelling the Sleeper potion, which research I fear has fallen by the wayside without Stephen with whom to collaborate and with the necessity to assume primary responsibility for supplying Moddey's needs having come to land upon our shoulders.
Though it continues to be wholly unjust that no Protectorate authority recognises your birthright, much less your apprenticeship, you remain a student of whom any Master would be proud. I trust you realise I would not push you as fiercely, nor as quickly, if I did not believe you capable of far more than even the more advanced work I am proposing.
