I suppose you’re right. One cannot please everyone, and there are always people who will disagree, no matter what you do.

How fascinating! You do seem to have it all planned out. I hope your career goes just the way you plan it. I confess I cannot say I know much about hosting yet, either! I think I have drunk more cups of tea in Divination that I have at tea parties yet, and I cannot begin to imagine how much work goes into anything as grand as a ball! I think I could manage something like a garden party, though. I hope that if I were one day to see you there, whoever you are, that it would be as a guest and not to save us from a grand catastrophe!

But this exercise is to be followed by a dinner party next term, is it not? That ought to be good practice for the dinner parties at which we might one day find ourselves.

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