alt_umbridge | Entries tagged with staff behaving badly

First, I am delighted to announce that progress on the Memorial Garden is proceeding adequately enough. We shall all gather together on Sunday, May 12th, for a formal programme dedicating the space to the memory of those members of Our Lord’s Council who have given their lives to his work. We have a number of teensy details to arrange between now and then: if you are interested in being on the programme committee, please tell me within the next two days.

Second, I remind you that we will again be having a formal supper on Saturday. I believe you will be delighted by our speaker, and that we will not have the interruptions and difficulties of our first attempt.

Since I have had dozens of questions regarding our new forms, allow me to lay it out in more detail. Each day, you are expected to fill out form A111-B, which outlines your daily schedule. Should something cause you to deviate from scheduled appointments (which is to say, attendance at class, a meeting with a member of staff, YPL exercise sessions, scheduled detentions, and so forth), you are then required to fill out form V928-A, and to have any other parties with due authority to do so (members of the HJC, and yes, I suppose, members of staff) complete form V932-B.

If you miss a meal, for any reason whatsoever, you are expected to complete form M265-B, M265-L, or M265-S (depending on which meal), If you are present at a meal, but do not for some reason eat at that meal (most wasteful), then you must complete form M373-B, M373-L, or M373-S.

At the end of each week - which is to say, Sunday, you fill out forms A231-A (schedule grid) and A231-D (narrative explanation). For those of you requiring Healer Kerr’s assistance, there is a pamphlet in his waiting area describing the necessary forms. Should staff require you to serve a detention, they have now been informed about the necessary documentation as well.

I trust this is clear? Further questions may be addressed to member of the HJC, who have again been fully briefed.

Tonight's staff meeting is cancelled. That is all.

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.

Gentlemen -

Why does the world not bend to our will? Honestly, you would think that no one else at all had a brain in their heads, nor used it. Incompetents, imbeciles, idiots, all.

First, Latimer, I have had more than a few owls pestering me for assistance in finding a certified tutor, and I am sending them all to that Delphinia - oh, what's her name, in your department. Do come up with some form letter, even if you can't resolve the process further. It is taking up time I should use for far more important matters.

On that note, the Ministry still stubbornly refuses to budge on the matter of the private messages, no matter what evidence I provide that it is fundamental, necessary, and essential that I be able to act myself on the smallest sign of inappropriate behaviour. Selwyn's aide was utterly resistant to every persuasion I tried (and me, with the award, four times running, for best launch of a new Ministry initiative.) When I have more overt power once again, he will regret that.

I do not intend to let the matter drop, mind you, but I need more incidents like the Fleets to make my case.

On that note, I made a full and thorough search of the staff rooms, though again, regrettably without immediate result. Most of them are disturbingly similar, focused on their own trifling interests, almost as if one made a line of duplicate potions with only minor variations in colour. Pomona, Bathsheba, Septima - all about their fields, nothing else.

Horace's rooms were somewhat more interesting, all the past students he's kept up with. I do wish he were being more sensible, but I'm simply sure he'll come round to my way of thinking again properly after the holidays. I'm right, of course, about the proper direction for the school.

I didn't bother with dear Gwendolyn's or Rolanda's, of course - I trust their loyalty utterly. Nor, as you insisted, Marston, with Antonin or Rabastan's, even though I am quite certain, I know in my heart of hearts, that the latter would surely have revealed some true infamy one might use against him. Where there's a cauldron, there must be magic, as my father used to say.

Aurora's were - goodness, the woman is prone to frippery. An absurd number of books, and a number of entirely sentimental pieces (can you imagine, a woman her age keeping an old stuffed bear, even on a high shelf?) Quite informative, though, to know that she might have that many weak points - I had not realised she took the gossip papers (deplorable habit) or set such stock by her appearance as her wardrobe suggested. I shall set dear Gwendolyn on some of that, I think.

And alas, neither Mina nor that Brutka gave me much to work with, either. I really had hoped that his rooms, at least, might give me some hint, as he's entirely too enigmatic for my tastes. You'd think the man had never had an honest conversation in his life.

And somewhere in the process, I seem to have stumbled into some idiotic charm, and my eyebrows are purple. I am more and more convinced that we must ban any magic outside that necessary for daily life and classroom study, for the good of the entire building. Honestly, it might have been any number of far more disturbing things, rather than something that merely gave me a shock.

Now, I do hope you've got Bagnold under control regarding the budget, and that I needn't take further time to resolve that teensy issue. There's just so much I must still find out and do before everyone returns, you know. And I must meet with Peakes this week, to shore up any little attempts there.

Effective immediately:

Students are restricted from practising magics being studied in classes outside of scheduled class times and locations. All revision groups may discuss the theory only. There is no exception for staff supervision.

In addition, those students who have been disregarding my teensy guidelines regarding appropriate food at meals for different portions of our community are advised to reform their actions immediately, or face serious consequences.

Dear students,

I am most disappointed. I remind you that while you are under my care, here in Hogwarts, that you are expected to obey the direct rules and guidelines we - the adults charged with your education and proper development - set. Beyond that, you are expected to obey the spirit and essence of our instructions.

Those who have failed in this have been encouraged to avoid the problem - or anything else of the kind, I do hope that no further corrections will become necessary.

That said, I must commend the diligent attention of the Hogwarts Junior Council members in assisting all of us to consider the impact of each and every action we take.

I have a few teensy notes on other topics - I do hope those mentioned will attend to them promptly.

Luxovius,

First, I am just so very glad indeed that you alerted me just as soon as you became aware of the potentially far-reaching implications of your examination of Mr Goyle this afternoon.

Now, I know you came here to concentrate on your very interesting research, but at the same time it is a regrettable reality that students will present themselves at the least convenient times. I do hope that as we transmute the school into the purified and perfected form some of us here seek, these teensy little distractions to our greater work will become fewer and further between. I do appreciate your patience, truly.

As to Mr Goyle, I realise that we have not had sufficient time for me to fully acquaint you with the various irregular and highly problematic events of this school year. I do believe I had referred to irresponsible, ill-considered, and self-serving displays of magic that tempted our more impressionable students into unwise private exploration. (This, of course, is yet another reason for my recent decrees.)

The trouble was substantial, though I am sure you will be vastly more effective at finding a speedier treatment regimen than our former matron managed to be - of course you will, having greater training and wider exposure to all the best minds at St Mungo's. Really, she might have served well enough thirty years ago, but in this enlightened age, I'm sure we can do a great deal better.

I'm certain she did leave some notes somewhere about the details, and that all the fuss made over the treatments were entirely to cover her own potential mishandling should there be problems. I cannot imagine why you are fussing over it - surely a teensy little stomach problem can't possibly be linked to the previous injury, that blood-changing curse? The stomach and the blood are entirely different, surely. One being liquid, and all.

Finally, on your question about the political ramifications. Well, of course it would be most inconvenient and troublesome if any lasting harm came to a child from one of the most notable families. But at the same time, the children - misled though they were - did make their own choices, and I would hope that the most dedicated of families would recognise the importance of that lesson.

Now, do let me know if there are any other trifling concerns.

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.

Madam Pomfrey,

I thought I had made it extremely clear just this week that I wished you to report all professional matters that affect Hogwarts. Yet I find myself led to the inescapeable conclusion that you have, again, omitted crucial information, and on a grave matter.

As you know, we here at Hogwarts have standards and traditions to maintain. Our staff must be above reproach. I trust you take my meaning.

Explain yourself, as promptly as possible.

I demand to know where you are, this instant. I have extremely serious concerns about a matter that came to my attention this evening, a matter you did not see fit to inform me about at all.

I had thought that you understood the complete importance of discipline, of explicit supervision of students, and of the enforcement of those little rules and regulations I have put in place for the well-being of all those here in the castle. I take my role of stewardship most seriously, and I am stunned to find that you have withheld critical information from me.

I am extraordinarily disappointed in you.

If you are unable to leave the Infirmary, please explain yourself here, as promptly as possible. If you are able to, my office would be preferable.