Various matters

[alt_umbridge]

I am deeply disappointed in the actions of Mr Linus Moon and Miss Lavender Brown. Both have been removed as members of the Hogwarts Junior Council, and I am reviewing whether either of them should have additional punishment beyond that already applied.

Now, dear boys and girls, I so deeply appreciate those of you who gave me such thorough and detailed accountings of your holidays. Mr Diggory and Miss Pennifold set good examples, while Mr Finnigan, Miss Calderwood, Miss Robins, and Miss Rohani turned in truly exemplary reports. Mr Fred and George Weasley, I was quite surprised by your attention to detail - I wonder if you might encourage your brother and sister to do better. (Mr Ron Weasley, I expect to see you in my office at 4pm.)

Miss Lovegood, Mr Malfoy, Mr Marks, McLaggen, Mr Montague, Miss Postlethwaite - kindly plan to come see me at your earliest opportunity about your submissions. Also Miss Jones. Mr Crabbe and Mr Goyle, please come see me on Thursday at 1pm to discuss your deplorable writing ability.

I will be following up with those of you - including staff - who did not make a thorough report, as I review each and every essay. Naturally, this may take a couple of days, as I am just so very busy with all manner of other tasks. And I do see that some of you spent quite a lot of time together, and I do want to compare what you said about it. No detail is too small, dear children, to be important.

I remind you that we do have tutors in attendance (kindly report them immediately to the HJC members on duty should you see any unexpected or inappropriate behaviour), and that each and every one of you is expected to follow all my teensy rules and regulations, or there will indeed be consequences. I also remind those of you with locked items that it is imperative you be ready at your assigned time, or I will be forced to assume you do, in fact, have something to hide that requires correction and instruction.

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Re: Private message to Aurora Sinistra

[alt_sinistra]

Madam Headmistress, my apologies for a delay. I was attending to a number of matters directly affecting students.

As to my location during hols, I have been advised to make a practice of not revealing unnecessary information relating to security and privacy, even in those cases where there is no possibility of a threat. I am glad to tell you that I was resident in New London, no more than a mile from the Astronomy Guild Hall. My parents were delighted I could stay this year with someone they consider a member of the family.

As for who I met, they are all busy professionals, respected in their fields, and in a number of cases honoured by their Protectorate for their skills and service. It would be rude of me to expose them to time-consuming and needless inquiries that can have no bearing on my ability to teach or fulfill my other duties here.

As to your last, Madam Headmistress, surely you can't imagine I'd try and hide something that made the papers from you. He did escort me to Karoline Moon and Ptolemy Baddock's wedding. Quite the lovely affair it was, for everyone who was there.

Now, I know you've pressured us to have every thought as to propriety. We naturally consulted with trusted family on both sides, who could not imagine a more appropriate and proper outing. (And of course, since we were both invited in our own right, it would have been extremely odd not to attend with each other.)

We are, after all, still engaged to be married, and looking forward to that eventual moment, no matter what gossip might suggest.

Re: Private message to Aurora Sinistra

[alt_umbridge]

I am surprised at the advice you received. Really, I had thought your mother and father more sensible than that. That surely they'd encourage you - I assume you have told them the details - to extract yourself from a tighter connection, rather than continue it.

Really, Sizzie, dear, this is ludicrous.

What can you provide more detail on then? You were not even very detailed about your projects. No details about your textbook discussions. Or - I don't even understand what this means, "the effects of inertia and gravitational attraction" or "the mechanisms of binary stars and other moving celestial bodies", or what was this other one, the "interaction of variables in the development of stars of the same class".

Kindly provide as much detail as you can, about whatever you can, or I will take steps.

Re: Private message to Aurora Sinistra

[alt_sinistra]

I am glad to provide as much detail on my research and professional obligations as you might desire.

It will take me a few days, however, since I would need to cover the fundamentals of the relevant aspects to make sure you could understand the actual research.