No. Well, at least, not dismayed by how I'm doing as a summer intern. I am sort of wondering whether it would have been more useful to the Order if I'd insisted on an internship that was more oriented toward patient care, because nearly everything I've done has been fixing spectacles.
Healer Korotkova is DEFINITELY pleased with me. The thing is, I already knew how to do basic repairs that'll fix a lot of things that aren't working. My father's a magical mechanic, and I used to watch him fix things, when he had work. The first step is to reproduce the problem (because sometimes just being touched by a magical mechanic -- or opthalmancer, if it's spectacles -- will fix the problem). And then the second step is TLC (it stands for 'Tender Loving Care,' because it works better if you talk kindly to the object while you're working). But you look at all the parts that aren't magic and see if any of them need something, like maybe a little rivet's broken or bent, and maybe you take it apart and clean everything really carefully and put it all back together. It's only in step three where you actually fix the magic, and that's what I wouldn't know how to do with eyeglasses and other ocular magical objects and Healer Korotkova's been teaching me. But you know, probably nine out of ten of the things she gives me, all they need is TLC. Like some glasses I got today had a big scratch on them and I polished that out, and the edges of the lenses had gotten all grimy and the nose piece was bent, and I cleaned them up and fixed the nose piece, and after that the charms on them worked beautifully again even though I hadn't done a thing to the magic.
Anyway she's REALLY pleased at how good I am with the repairs and so on and how quickly I've caught on to the basic charmwork. Professor Headmaster Dolohov told her I was excellent with that sort of thing, I guess, because she's told me I'm living up to his glowing recommendation.
And that's really good BUT the thing is how often does the Order need someone to fix glasses? Also she's supposed to write me a recommendation for St Mungo's (apparently she's mates with some of the people on the admissions committee) but if she tells them I'm brilliant at fixing THINGS rather than PATIENTS that's not so good. (I probably shouldn't worry about that; if Headmaster Dolohov thinks she'll do well for me I think it's unlikely he'd pick someone who'd make a mistake like that.)
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Date: 2014-07-17 04:50 am (UTC)Healer Korotkova is DEFINITELY pleased with me. The thing is, I already knew how to do basic repairs that'll fix a lot of things that aren't working. My father's a magical mechanic, and I used to watch him fix things, when he had work. The first step is to reproduce the problem (because sometimes just being touched by a magical mechanic -- or opthalmancer, if it's spectacles -- will fix the problem). And then the second step is TLC (it stands for 'Tender Loving Care,' because it works better if you talk kindly to the object while you're working). But you look at all the parts that aren't magic and see if any of them need something, like maybe a little rivet's broken or bent, and maybe you take it apart and clean everything really carefully and put it all back together. It's only in step three where you actually fix the magic, and that's what I wouldn't know how to do with eyeglasses and other ocular magical objects and Healer Korotkova's been teaching me. But you know, probably nine out of ten of the things she gives me, all they need is TLC. Like some glasses I got today had a big scratch on them and I polished that out, and the edges of the lenses had gotten all grimy and the nose piece was bent, and I cleaned them up and fixed the nose piece, and after that the charms on them worked beautifully again even though I hadn't done a thing to the magic.
Anyway she's REALLY pleased at how good I am with the repairs and so on and how quickly I've caught on to the basic charmwork.
ProfessorHeadmaster Dolohov told her I was excellent with that sort of thing, I guess, because she's told me I'm living up to his glowing recommendation.And that's really good BUT the thing is how often does the Order need someone to fix glasses? Also she's supposed to write me a recommendation for St Mungo's (apparently she's mates with some of the people on the admissions committee) but if she tells them I'm brilliant at fixing THINGS rather than PATIENTS that's not so good. (I probably shouldn't worry about that; if Headmaster Dolohov thinks she'll do well for me I think it's unlikely he'd pick someone who'd make a mistake like that.)