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Private Message to Alexa Bawsley
Oct. 18th, 2014 10:37 amTrust you made it to sleep eventually last night. Not sleeping is undoubtedly part of your problem--you can't be rational when you're exhausted. But if you did the things we discussed--sealed your bed drapes and put the aversion charms on, you should have been quite all right. You saw for yourself that the charms on your amulet are all sound as can be, so you should have been well protected from any mischief.
Seriously, Bawsley, you've got to get hold of yourself. We're studying conjuration with spirits, not practising it. No one's using the castle ghosts to spy on you, and it's completely impossible they'd be conjuring malevolent shades. I can't see that anyone would find whatever you get up to interesting enough they'd bother taking that sort of trouble. Did you pay attention to what you read this week? And what I explained in lessons? There's always a very high cost to that sort of magic, and spirits are nothing if not shrewd negotiators. I hardly think you've got enemies sophisticated enough or powerful enough to be marshalling that sort of surveillance against you. (Then again, one might not have to promise much to that ridiculous flop-headed ghost in your tower, but surely you're not having all this panic about Sir Nicholas peeping at you?)
Of course, I don't mind your writing me when you're feeling anxious. Better you should do that than become one of the people Madam Pomfrey labels neurotic. Seriously, you want to hold off visiting her for when you've cut off an arm or at least been properly hexed.
But most of all, you'll want to face these fears of yours and get beyond them. You certainly don't want your parents to learn what a basketcase you're becoming.
Seriously, Bawsley, you've got to get hold of yourself. We're studying conjuration with spirits, not practising it. No one's using the castle ghosts to spy on you, and it's completely impossible they'd be conjuring malevolent shades. I can't see that anyone would find whatever you get up to interesting enough they'd bother taking that sort of trouble. Did you pay attention to what you read this week? And what I explained in lessons? There's always a very high cost to that sort of magic, and spirits are nothing if not shrewd negotiators. I hardly think you've got enemies sophisticated enough or powerful enough to be marshalling that sort of surveillance against you. (Then again, one might not have to promise much to that ridiculous flop-headed ghost in your tower, but surely you're not having all this panic about Sir Nicholas peeping at you?)
Of course, I don't mind your writing me when you're feeling anxious. Better you should do that than become one of the people Madam Pomfrey labels neurotic. Seriously, you want to hold off visiting her for when you've cut off an arm or at least been properly hexed.
But most of all, you'll want to face these fears of yours and get beyond them. You certainly don't want your parents to learn what a basketcase you're becoming.
