Owl to the Board of Governors of Hogwarts

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

Curriculum Vitae of Dr Stephen Maturin, applicant for the recently vacated post of Potions instructor.

Position Desired:
Professor of Potions

Education:

• Trinity College, Dublin


• Ecole de Médecine, Paris

Relevant Job Experience:

• Extensive experience compounding medicines for a variety of clients from British nobility to common sailors


• Research interests and considerable fieldwork in ethnopharmacology

Other Qualifications:

• Internationally known physician and naturalist; routinely sought after to lecture on matters medical and scientific in a number of the world's prominent cities


• Many years of practical experience as a surgeon for the British Royal Navy


• Proficiency in several languages of scholarly usefulness, including Latin, Greek, and French; also proficient in some other languages.
  

Professional Organizations:

• Royal Society, England


• Royal College of Surgeons, England


• Entomological Society of London

Professional References:

• Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, physician, Paris


• Baron Jean Nicolas Corvisart des Marest, physician, Paris


• Sir Joseph Blaine, president of the Entomological Society of London, fellow of the Royal Society


• Dr Harrington, Physician of the Fleet, London

Personal References:

• Captain Jack Aubrey, presently at Hogwarts


• don Patricio Fitzgerald y Saavedra, Corunna

Publications:

• Tar-Water Reconsidered


• Thoughts on the Prevention of the Diseases most usual among Seamen


• New Operation for Suprapubic Cystotomy


• Tractatus de Novae Febris Ingressu


• Remarks on Pezophaps Solitarious


• Modest Proposals for the Preservation of Health in the Navy


• Mariners: Consensus and cohesion in certain states of adversity


• Some Remarks on Peruvian Cirripedes

(( OOC: Yes, all these "publications" are canonical, Tar-Water Reconsidered and all. *facepalm* ))

Comments

[sensiblesusan.livejournal.com]

[ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Dr. Maturin. I will owl your Curriculum Vitae to the Board of Governors immediately.

[ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com]

Dr. Maturin, the Board believes you to have considerable skill and a certain zeal for continued research in the area of potions and that you will make an excellent professor in that subject and Potions Master.

Therefore, Stephen Maturin, you are hereby appointed Professor of Potions of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, for the standard term of one year, to be continued upon application and approval. Your pay is set at the standard rate of *G*5,000 per annum, with room, board and sufficient robes and linens, and a house elf designated to attend to your needs. You may continue to live in Ravenclaw, if you wish. However, you may wish to make use of separate, more private chambers. Your office is located in the Dungeons, as is your classroom. We enclose the keys to your quarters, classroom, office, staffroom and staff bath.

The Board of Governors wishes you the best success in your teaching endeavors.

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

(( Hee, are the chambers in the dungeon too? Also, does this mean Stephen won't be taking classes anymore? ))

[ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com]

((I'm not entirely sure where any of the Chambers are, the books remain silent on the Staffs' personal lives. I'm sure Maturin's will be more interesting than what we would have gotten in the books! ;) Stephen is welcome to take other Professors' classes if he would like to do so. It's purely optional, of course, but it could be a fun sort of continuing education.))

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

(( He's at least going to want to continue taking herbology *snerk* ... Not sure about the chambers issue though, depends on Fillerbunny. ))