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Dear boys and girls,

We have just so very much to do today. After the discombobulations of last night, I require each and every one of you to fill out a copy of form L326-P, indicating where you were between 7 and 10 o’clock last night. Forms have been placed in your common rooms, and should be returned before supper.

Now, no matter what, I expect all of you to be ready and prepared at your assigned times for tonight’s supper, and not to tempt my patience and forbearance any further.

I have a few teensy notes below, as well, for other parties.

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From:

alt_umbridge

I regret that I must inform you that one of our students, one Sarah Fawcett, was involved in a disturbance last night, defied my authority, and went to an area of the grounds students have been expressly forbidden to enter. All indications, including a report from Mr Draco Malfoy, are that she fled into the Forbidden Forest, and was snatched away by those barbarous centaurs.

Carolus Milland, our caretaker, searched last night, and I believe Antonin Dolohov also investigated earlier today, but there is no further indication of where she might have gone, and of course, we do not have the staff or time to conduct a detailed search of those environs.

I am reporting it, of course, as a diligent and attentive steward of all the young lives here at Hogwarts, but I should note that Miss Fawcett is a halfblood. I understand from her records that her mudblood mother (to whom she seems to have had an absurdly sentimental attachment) was killed escaping from the Derby camp in 91 or 92, and she has been no particular credit to the school. While she was expected to do adequately on her OWL exams, little about her stands out as a student. ~~No great loss, surely~~ I am certain, however, that the matter I was questioning her about is entirely an internal affair, unlike that teensy matter with the Fleets.

I would have flooed instead, but my floo is regrettably damaged through an incident of petty vandalism from a student who resented correction. I expect someone from the Floo Network Office will be able to attend to it on Monday at the latest, but in the meantime, Gwendolyn Acton is near her own this afternoon should you wish direct communication outside the journals, and will be glad to fetch me.

I will be available to assist in any teensy questions you have until four this afternoon, and again after eight. Between those two, I must attend to scheduled duties of the school. Our work must continue for those dear students who wish to learn and to improve themselves, of course, without pause.

From:

alt_crouch_jr

Take it you weren't overly concerned that we see this message in a timely way. Lack of urgency noted.

Expect arrival of investigative unit shortly. Four of us.

Require access to missing student's dormitory. Trust nothing has been taken or disturbed since disappearance. Will inventory all of it.

Order Prefects to keep students out of the way, but accessible, throughout. Want to speak with the dormitory mates and any others with first-hand knowledge of events surrounding disappearance.

Have told Acton to expect us via Floo immediately.

From:

alt_umbridge

All students will be occupied from at least five this evening until around eight, but I will ensure that the Prefects are available to assist you when we are done with our evening's educational programme.

I spoke with the girl's dormitory mates last night, but they have been told already that you may wish to speak with them. I am still tracking down whether there is anyone else with relevant information, but expect to have a list later this evening as well.

I do need to be in the Great Hall until eight - I am just up in my rooms to change for a moment - as will all of the other staff. Octavia Anderson, one of our 7th year prefects, will be available to admit your unit to the dormitory itself.

From:

alt_umbridge

Mr Peakes,

I am writing directly to inform you that one of our students - Miss Sarah Fawcett, a fifth year Ravenclaw - has fled from correction and cannot now be found. I have reported it (as above) to the appropriate contacts at MLE, and I am sure they will confirm my view of the matter. If she is found, she will require substantial correction, and if not, it is no great loss, and entirely on the girl’s own shoulders. (She is only a halfblood in fostering: there is no family except some sort of older brother, I believe, and he has no meaningful connections to those who might make trouble.)

I am looking forward to our little plan regarding proper social etiquette tonight, and I will be writing a formal report of the past week tomorrow afternoon. If you need to contact me in the meantime, my floo is out of order, but I expect that will be attended to on Monday. And of course, I know you agree that teensy incidents like this simply confirm just how my guidance and leadership are needed here.