I hope this will be good advice and not sound as if I'm being critical, because I do want to help. Only I think to some people your journal entry might come across as if you're feeling unappreciative of all the changes we've got at Hogwarts this year. I saw what my mother said on Professor Desai's posting, about how the faculty who've been here a long time are used to more 'indulgent methods.' That's her way of saying that professors like Brutka, Acton, and Sprout are all rubbish, and in your entry those are the only professors you're truly complimentary of.
So if my mother was to read this posting she might think you were insinuating that things were better before, and that the professors you've always had are the professors who are always going to be the best.
Fortunately I don't think she'll be bothered to read it.
I don't mean that you ought to behave as if you agree with my mother, only that you might say something complimentary about the new Professors when you feel the time is right.
I'm sorry - I don't want to sound patronising, really. It makes me nervous when I see her leave a comment in the journals. It means she's reading and paying attention, and wants us to know. And there's always a reason she wants that.
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I hope this will be good advice and not sound as if I'm being critical, because I do want to help. Only I think to some people your journal entry might come across as if you're feeling unappreciative of all the changes we've got at Hogwarts this year. I saw what my mother said on Professor Desai's posting, about how the faculty who've been here a long time are used to more 'indulgent methods.' That's her way of saying that professors like Brutka, Acton, and Sprout are all rubbish, and in your entry those are the only professors you're truly complimentary of.
So if my mother was to read this posting she might think you were insinuating that things were better before, and that the professors you've always had are the professors who are always going to be the best.
Fortunately I don't think she'll be bothered to read it.
I don't mean that you ought to behave as if you agree with my mother, only that you might say something complimentary about the new Professors when you feel the time is right.
I'm sorry - I don't want to sound patronising, really. It makes me nervous when I see her leave a comment in the journals. It means she's reading and paying attention, and wants us to know. And there's always a reason she wants that.