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Will the following students please stop in to see me at your earliest convenience:

Cassandra Calderwood
Melinda Pennifold
Jack Sloper
Steven Capper
Sally-Anne Perks
Harry Marvolo
Norma Stein

Additionally, from now until the OWLs and NEWTs, I will be conducting a series of review sessions for the essay portion of the exams, to provide information on how to construct a well-reasoned argument in answer to the questions on the Noble Arts that you will be asked. Lectures will be held Monday and Friday at lunch-time, in my classroom. Students in third, fourth or sixth years may also attend if they would like to begin their exam preparations early, although you may be asked to cede your seat to a fifth or seventh year should we reach the classroom's capacity.

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alt_antonin

I am going to bind that woman to the outer walls, remove her entrails slowly and feed them to the beasts in the Forest, and use her blood-covered body to teach the children an object lesson in how long you can keep someone alive without intestines.

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alt_crouch_jr

Reserve a front row space for me, Batya. I look forward to the spectacle.

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alt_antonin

Milaya -- Lucius suggested we press you into service as chaperon to avoid further scandal. It is well past time we sit down with Miss Calderwood and find out, in detail, exactly what she believes has happened and whether she is complicit in the accusations against Raz or whether she, too, is a victim of that intolerable baggage's insatiable need to attempt to manipulate everything around her. Badly, I might add.

Are you both free at any point this weekend?

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alt_narcissa

Of course, dear. Simply name the time.

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alt_antonin

Shall we say Saturday at two?

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alt_antonin

I have had enough of this.

Not only does the woman have the insufferable gall to attempt to assign me homework, not only has she cursed Miss Parkinson to be as cruel as possible and disruptive to those around her, but now I have been visited by Mr Moon, who has been cursed to illiteracy. I do not suppose she knows that we have both been encouraging (and relying upon) Mr Moon's talents for analysis, but it is damned inconvenient nonetheless.

I am done playing the long game.

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alt_sinistra

Tosha -

Entirely intolerable.

Look. I'm willing to push things with her. About the disruption to teaching. ~~There were a couple of conversations, over hols, that. Oh, never mind the why.~~ I'm sure she won't like it, but I've had enough too. And I'd like to push the point at tonight's staff meeting, assuming she gives any opening at all.

(I am not brave. And I have no practice going against authority. But it turns out loyalty is perhaps enough of a substitute.)

Pansy - class this morning was miserable. And Crabbe and Goyle and Nott would not stop prodding at her, until I made them all shut up entirely.

As to Linus, he's now installed in my office, quite distressed. I've got class until 2, but I'll do what I can to settle him down and keep him distracted. (I left him with a projection and some music, and told him he could study the stars, and ask me about any he didn't remember when I got back.)

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alt_sinistra

Well, I thought it was a moderate and politely framed request for exactly what she's up to.

But did you see? She just cancelled the staff meeting. I, for one, would certainly like to discuss matters further with respected and thoughtful colleagues. Would you have a word with Septima and Horace, and I'll have a word with Pomona and Mina. Bathsheba and Irma too, maybe?

And as usual, I can't decide about Brutka, but Sally-Anne mentioned something this morning that makes me think it might be worth it in this case. That he was trying to make it better for the two of them, I mean.

I... I hope I don't regret this. I don't think I will.

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alt_antonin

I'll speak with Septima and Horace, and Bathsheba and Brutka as well. My quarters, after supper?

At this point I am ready to enlist everyone save Acton and Carpenter -- and I may be paying them a visit sometime this week to discuss when it is prudent to cut one's losses.

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alt_sinistra

Your quarters, yes. I've plenty of baked goods, to go with. And if I could add Raz to your list rather than mine? I suspect I am about to need to do some very careful dancing around where and how I spent my hols, and there's no reason to make things even harder there.

I'll do Irma, gladly.

And I wonder... if you had a word with the Bloody Baron, would he, perhaps, encourage Peeves for a change? In the right way? (I am feeling remarkably childish, really, but it would be some small satisfaction for a number of people.)

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alt_antonin

Yes, of course I'll have a word with Raz.

I told her where to stuff her fucking homework. Or rather, I told her she needed to apply to Our Lord for authorisation to know the details. I am hardly one to call anything childish. (I am desperately resisting the urge to taunt her on her post cancelling the meeting, but I'm certain she would lash out at the students if I did.)

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alt_sinistra

Consider this a virtual kick under the table, then?

I have had to go out and climb my stairs three times to get myself to calm down enough. And yes, treading very carefully, because the students do not deserve worse from her than they've already gotten.

I think I've an idea how to answer, though I wish I could manage your same appeal to authority. (Appeal to expert advice on security and privacy, however, will be making an appearance.)

Linus also asks if there's a magic to read things out loud to someone. I had a thought about a dictation quill, but I wasn't sure about the other.