Educational Decree Number 24

[alt_umbridge]

Staff are hereby banned from giving students any information that is not strictly related to the subjects they are paid to teach.

In addition to the above decree, I wish to note a staffing change. We are delighted to welcome Healer Luxovius Kerr as our new Healer in Residence. As I noted at supper, he is delighted to join us, bringing his honed and polished skills to the service of the young people of Hogwarts. I'm sure we'll all make him very welcome as he settles into the Infirmary.

Hogwarts Junior Council members: I have a few teensy matters to attend to this evening, but if you have questions about your current duties, you may check at my office.

Comments

Re: Private Message to Dolores Umbridge and Josiah Peakes

[alt_umbridge]

As to the matter of appropriate exchange of information, I expect each and every staff member under my supervision to inform me of matters that affect the school as a whole. How else are we to avoid the lamentable dangers of some previous years, when staff were allowed to run amuck in the school (Quirrell. Macnair. Lockhart. Need I continue?)

The more I've reviewed past events with those here at that time, the more disturbed I become about the choices Minerva made. Clearly her descent began long before the Board considered any action at all. Disgraceful.

As to your latter, I was assured by Poppy Pomfrey only on Friday that Antonin was well able to take up his duties. In fact, she said, and I quote, "I have no reason to think him anything less than entirely capable of going on with his duties."

Re: Private Message to Dolores Umbridge and Josiah Peakes

[alt_lucius]

To my knowledge, Quirrell, Macnair and Lockhart had no medical ailments to which Madam Pomfrey would have been privy, which might have made any difference in the outcomes.

And for Toshenka, never would I intimate he is incapable of the tasks Our Lord has asked of him; on the other hand, perhaps you are unaware that he recently refused St Mungo's interventions in favour of Madam Pomfrey's, making her, in effect, his personal Healer. Therefore, you see that you have created a conflict in approach to his continued recovery. Had you consulted anyone before undertaking this decision, rather than bumbling through things you do not understand, there are those who could have set you straight and avoided any potential embarrassment.