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Steelsheen · 02-21-2013, 12:02 PM

SPOILER!!: Gavin

Corin’s gaze shifted to the International Coop Head, arching his brow at the man’s statement. Wow, how incredible was it that he actually considered that Corin had to ability to apparate from DC to London? Permissions and bureaucracy aside, how about the realistic considerations of apparating over that distance? Forget about the very very difficult aspect of even achieving that feat, how about trying not to get torn into shreds by the internal and external pressures of being squeezed into a tube and travelling at the speed of light? “Well, thank you for assuming that I have the ability of doing that Mr Higareda, but I will admit to you right now, I am not that good of Wizard to apparate from DC to London in one go. Nor will I attempt to do so. Apparating between London and Hogsmeade can be quite stressful on a Wizard’s body already, I couldn’t even imagine how apparating across 3000 miles of open waters would do to a Wizard’s body.” Care to experiment? Sure. Just not on him.

“If you must know how I usually travel between the two cities I use the portkey system that we use in America when we need to travel around outside of the usual floo network.” Which understandably isn’t always available to places they need to go, or they just don’t like the dust that goes with it “The portkey system I use is part of the transportation business our family have, with proper licenses in the United States and across every major country and territories.” The Vanderbilt legacy in transportation has grown beyond rail roads, trains and steam ships? Most definitely, they do keep up with the times “And even then, when I travel, it is mandatory to make a few stop-overs between DC and London—smaller islands not obvious to Muggles act as Wizarding ‘ports’ during travel.” So its not a big leap from one city to another, more like a smaller hops along a path.

Ah but of course the last minute aspect, which he didn’t think was such a big deal because the option was really obvious “There is something called conferencing. Many Muggles and some Wizards might use a telephone or a videophone, but in my work we actually use two way mirrors where we can see and talk to the other person wherever they may be.” Three thousand miles away or literally just around the corner. “If this feature is not available in the BOG offices, I would be happy to have one installed.” If he gets elected of course. “But really, the urgency of contacting someone for last minute meetings?.... To do what? Are you actually saying we are prone to make decisions at the spur of the moment? No deliberations?” Eyes shifts momentarily to President Branxton then back to Gavin. Is he again assuming that that is the norm for the BOG? "If a vote is all that’s required of the BOG members, wouldn’t it be simpler to just call it in or send an owl or a patronus? Your physical location would be irrelevant now wouldn’t it?”Not to mention someone's thoughts and opinions on the matter at hand, which kinda makes the whole concept of even having a Board kinda pointless.

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Q7 She also appreciated Corineus' response to the questions about his home abroad. In this age of magical travel, she wasn't sure that Corineus had much to worry about, but at least it appeared he had thought seriously about how to make this new role work for him. "Mr. Vanderbilt, I've been very interested to hear that you chose to attend and review more classes than assigned to you. I'm very interested in your thoughts on what parts of the current curriculum concern you the most, and why?"

He nodded his head at the direction of the BOG President as she started to address him, although there was an imperceptible pause at her question. Thoughts drifted to the classes he observed, and certain matters about those classes, some of which are rather sensitive in nature. Naturally he had the perfect sense of what he can discuss in a public forum and what are best left behind close doors.

“Thank you President Branxton. Let me start off by saying that of the classes I observed, ALL their topics for that day’s discussion I found to be interesting.” he said in all earnest, looking first at the BOG President then at the audience assembled. “What I think could better bolster the curriculum is to relate the topic at hand to something that is relevant to either current or recent events, or even distinguishing moments in Hogwarts or Wizarding history.” He raised a hand to give him a chance to explain just in case what he said didn’t make sense. “For example—man-eating plants possessed by ancient spirits-- what exactly can we learn from that? How does one defend themselves from that?-- not just physically defending but also coming to grips with dealing with it mentally and emotionally? What are the spells, strategies or techniques we can teach our students who found themselves in that situation or might find themselves in a similarly distressing situation? How did a plant get possessed in the first place? What were the plant’s origins? Did that play any significance to its selection as a vessel of the Spirit? Who was that Spirit? What was he about? What magic did he have or did he use to have affected so many people, for events to play out the way they did?” See so many questions, and that was just about ONE Hogwarts news-making event. And doesn’t Hogwarts excel in news-making events. “Even if we couldn’t find exact answers or exact Magical equivalents to what happened, it a great learning springboard to teach basic and advanced Magic for many subjects already taught in Hogwarts. I’m not saying that the current curriculum is lacking, BUT connecting them to something relevant to the students-- something that happened recently, something memorable from the past, or even something significant to their growth as Witches and Wizards in training—it adds a special value to learning, that its not just something out of a textbook. There is relevance to why they are learning something.”

02-21-2013, 12:02 PM	#112 (permalink)
Steelsheen DMT & DIMC Antipodean Opaleye Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Geekdom of Nerdtopia Posts: 9,944 Hogwarts RPG Name: Tenacius "Ace" Salander Graduated x12 x12	Gavin response and sorta question back + Q7 Ability is nothing without Opportunity \| \| Creativity is Intelligence having FUN SPOILER!!: Gavin Quote: Wait, he never even really answered the question! The man had sort of avoided the actual part of the 'last minute'. What was his plans there? When the man finished speaking Gavin still was just curious as to how the man planned on attending last minute meetings or ones that needed a decision immediately. Was he plan on telling the board, that they needed to wait until he was able to be there? "Mr. Vanderbilt, I'm curious how you will be able to make it to emergency called meetings, last minute. I understand that you have dual-citizenship and have properties on both continents. But how do you intend to make it to meetings that the board might require you to be at within minutes or even an hour or two, if you are currently in America." Pausing he shook his head "I'm sure the Transportation department would agree with me, that apparation between countries is illegal unless you have prior permission to be able to apparate, from 'both' countries involved. Those apparation allowances are a one time allowance, meaning that you need to continuously receive permission. And it typically takes 1-2 days to get permission." "So again the question is, how do you plan on making these last minute meetings that might be asked of you to attend?" Corin’s gaze shifted to the International Coop Head, arching his brow at the man’s statement. Wow, how incredible was it that he actually considered that Corin had to ability to apparate from DC to London? Permissions and bureaucracy aside, how about the realistic considerations of apparating over that distance? Forget about the very very difficult aspect of even achieving that feat, how about trying not to get torn into shreds by the internal and external pressures of being squeezed into a tube and travelling at the speed of light? “Well, thank you for assuming that I have the ability of doing that Mr Higareda, but I will admit to you right now, I am not that good of Wizard to apparate from DC to London in one go. Nor will I attempt to do so. Apparating between London and Hogsmeade can be quite stressful on a Wizard’s body already, I couldn’t even imagine how apparating across 3000 miles of open waters would do to a Wizard’s body.” Care to experiment? Sure. Just not on him. “If you must know how I usually travel between the two cities I use the portkey system that we use in America when we need to travel around outside of the usual floo network.” Which understandably isn’t always available to places they need to go, or they just don’t like the dust that goes with it “The portkey system I use is part of the transportation business our family have, with proper licenses in the United States and across every major country and territories.” The Vanderbilt legacy in transportation has grown beyond rail roads, trains and steam ships? Most definitely, they do keep up with the times “And even then, when I travel, it is mandatory to make a few stop-overs between DC and London—smaller islands not obvious to Muggles act as Wizarding ‘ports’ during travel.” So its not a big leap from one city to another, more like a smaller hops along a path. Ah but of course the last minute aspect, which he didn’t think was such a big deal because the option was really obvious “There is something called conferencing. Many Muggles and some Wizards might use a telephone or a videophone, but in my work we actually use two way mirrors where we can see and talk to the other person wherever they may be.” Three thousand miles away or literally just around the corner. “If this feature is not available in the BOG offices, I would be happy to have one installed.” If he gets elected of course. “But really, the urgency of contacting someone for last minute meetings?.... To do what? Are you actually saying we are prone to make decisions at the spur of the moment? No deliberations?” Eyes shifts momentarily to President Branxton then back to Gavin. Is he again assuming that that is the norm for the BOG? "If a vote is all that’s required of the BOG members, wouldn’t it be simpler to just call it in or send an owl or a patronus? Your physical location would be irrelevant now wouldn’t it?”Not to mention someone's thoughts and opinions on the matter at hand, which kinda makes the whole concept of even having a Board kinda pointless. Quote: Q7 She also appreciated Corineus' response to the questions about his home abroad. In this age of magical travel, she wasn't sure that Corineus had much to worry about, but at least it appeared he had thought seriously about how to make this new role work for him. "Mr. Vanderbilt, I've been very interested to hear that you chose to attend and review more classes than assigned to you. I'm very interested in your thoughts on what parts of the current curriculum concern you the most, and why?" He nodded his head at the direction of the BOG President as she started to address him, although there was an imperceptible pause at her question. Thoughts drifted to the classes he observed, and certain matters about those classes, some of which are rather sensitive in nature. Naturally he had the perfect sense of what he can discuss in a public forum and what are best left behind close doors. “Thank you President Branxton. Let me start off by saying that of the classes I observed, ALL their topics for that day’s discussion I found to be interesting.” he said in all earnest, looking first at the BOG President then at the audience assembled. “What I think could better bolster the curriculum is to relate the topic at hand to something that is relevant to either current or recent events, or even distinguishing moments in Hogwarts or Wizarding history.” He raised a hand to give him a chance to explain just in case what he said didn’t make sense. “For example—man-eating plants possessed by ancient spirits-- what exactly can we learn from that? How does one defend themselves from that?-- not just physically defending but also coming to grips with dealing with it mentally and emotionally? What are the spells, strategies or techniques we can teach our students who found themselves in that situation or might find themselves in a similarly distressing situation? How did a plant get possessed in the first place? What were the plant’s origins? Did that play any significance to its selection as a vessel of the Spirit? Who was that Spirit? What was he about? What magic did he have or did he use to have affected so many people, for events to play out the way they did?” See so many questions, and that was just about ONE Hogwarts news-making event. And doesn’t Hogwarts excel in news-making events. “Even if we couldn’t find exact answers or exact Magical equivalents to what happened, it a great learning springboard to teach basic and advanced Magic for many subjects already taught in Hogwarts. I’m not saying that the current curriculum is lacking, BUT connecting them to something relevant to the students-- something that happened recently, something memorable from the past, or even something significant to their growth as Witches and Wizards in training—it adds a special value to learning, that its not just something out of a textbook. There is relevance to why they are learning something.” __________________ ++Tenacius ++🐦++ Salander++🐦++ Deo ++🐦++ Vickers ++🐦++ Huxley ++🐦+ Aquila++ Yeah thats what crazy is, when its broken you say theres nothing to fix++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++And you pray that everything will be okay, while you're making all the same mistakes Last edited by Steelsheen; 02-21-2013 at 12:17 PM. Reason: spelling is your friend ^_^