owl to Terry McGinnis
Aug. 18th, 2006 12:12 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
Mr McGinnis:
As you likely know, Ryuuji Otogi has had occasion to step down from his position as teaching assistant for Potions. I have already an excellent laboratory assistant at present, Miss Williams, who cannot serve in the classroom for personal reasons. After holding a class sans assistant this week, however, I find this arrangement not wholly sufficient.
You have studied independently and intensively with Ryuuji for some months, and he has duly reported your progress to me, which has been more than satisfactory, indeed quite impressive. Perhaps as importantly, I trust you in my laboratory, and have found you to prove worthy of that trust. On this basis, I should like to offer you the position of teaching assistant. I should also continue the lessons you have been taking from Ryuuji, since you are well advanced past the general lessons I am offering in the classroom, and having you rejoin the class would be a waste of your time even should you choose to decline the assistantship.
A teaching assistantship carries no official status with the Board of Governors or the school as an institution. You would not be accorded any official perquisites. However, I am not prohibited from remunerating an assistant on my own initiative, and am fully equipped to do so. My preliminary offer is 2000 Galleons per annum.* Should we find your duties more burdensome than originally projected, we may negotiate further.
I should be greatly obliged if you would send your answer by house-elf, as my companion has a fear of owls.
- S. Maturin.
*((OOC: Other professor muns should not feel bound to this as an example of TA pay. Professor pay is 5000 Galleons a year, and unlike Stephen, many professors are not independently wealthy. I believe Homsar is currently paying Ed Elric in marshmallows... ))
As you likely know, Ryuuji Otogi has had occasion to step down from his position as teaching assistant for Potions. I have already an excellent laboratory assistant at present, Miss Williams, who cannot serve in the classroom for personal reasons. After holding a class sans assistant this week, however, I find this arrangement not wholly sufficient.
You have studied independently and intensively with Ryuuji for some months, and he has duly reported your progress to me, which has been more than satisfactory, indeed quite impressive. Perhaps as importantly, I trust you in my laboratory, and have found you to prove worthy of that trust. On this basis, I should like to offer you the position of teaching assistant. I should also continue the lessons you have been taking from Ryuuji, since you are well advanced past the general lessons I am offering in the classroom, and having you rejoin the class would be a waste of your time even should you choose to decline the assistantship.
A teaching assistantship carries no official status with the Board of Governors or the school as an institution. You would not be accorded any official perquisites. However, I am not prohibited from remunerating an assistant on my own initiative, and am fully equipped to do so. My preliminary offer is 2000 Galleons per annum.* Should we find your duties more burdensome than originally projected, we may negotiate further.
I should be greatly obliged if you would send your answer by house-elf, as my companion has a fear of owls.
- S. Maturin.
*((OOC: Other professor muns should not feel bound to this as an example of TA pay. Professor pay is 5000 Galleons a year, and unlike Stephen, many professors are not independently wealthy. I believe Homsar is currently paying Ed Elric in marshmallows... ))