Private Message to Percy Weasley
Jun. 8th, 2012 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_penelopeThank MERLIN that's over.
I don't know if you saw or heard--I mean, I don't know if anyone's informed Mr Malfoy--but Alecto Carrow has gone right off the edge.
Honestly, I don't think she's fit to teach anymore. Physically, I mean, not just--well, even if there weren't already questions about her competence.
It's been so much worse than usual, but the last two weeks have been truly frightening. Last week she threatened to make her 6th-years eat dung beetles. Professor Vector said that when McGonagall asked her to explain herself in the staff meeting, she started screeching at her about the 'medicinal benefits' and her right to push her students using any means she deemed necessary. Luckily the whole staff backed up the Headmistress on that one, even Razzer and Sluggy. Even Hooch, and you can bet she's had a run-in or two with McGonagall this year, over losing Quidditch for the season and all.
Well, Professor Vector didn't say how, but they got her calmed down in the staff meeting, I guess. But then today, in the middle of the Dark Arts examination period, she--collapsed, I guess, is the best term for it. She had some sort of attack, according to the students in the exam hall. All I know is that by the time someone came to find me, she was a total disaster. She'd vommed all over the place and then--ugh, it's so disgusting. I hope you're not reading this while you're eating!--she made little animals out of the piles of vom. I'm telling you, she's completely unhinged. Someone's got to tell Mr Malfoy and the other Governors. I'm sure the Headmistress will say something but. Well. It hasn't changed anything in the past, is all.
Anyway. That aside, exams are OVER and the year's nearly done. You did say I'd survive. I wasn't quite sure during that last Transfiguration practical. I thought the NEWTs were the hard bit but Brutka's exam was dead exhausting! And now there's just the Task and the Feast and a few days when everyone will be out around the lake anyway.
Oh! I've got an interview the first week I'm home, too. With Siz's cousin, but still. It's an interview.
I can't wait to see you.
I don't know if you saw or heard--I mean, I don't know if anyone's informed Mr Malfoy--but Alecto Carrow has gone right off the edge.
Honestly, I don't think she's fit to teach anymore. Physically, I mean, not just--well, even if there weren't already questions about her competence.
It's been so much worse than usual, but the last two weeks have been truly frightening. Last week she threatened to make her 6th-years eat dung beetles. Professor Vector said that when McGonagall asked her to explain herself in the staff meeting, she started screeching at her about the 'medicinal benefits' and her right to push her students using any means she deemed necessary. Luckily the whole staff backed up the Headmistress on that one, even Razzer and Sluggy. Even Hooch, and you can bet she's had a run-in or two with McGonagall this year, over losing Quidditch for the season and all.
Well, Professor Vector didn't say how, but they got her calmed down in the staff meeting, I guess. But then today, in the middle of the Dark Arts examination period, she--collapsed, I guess, is the best term for it. She had some sort of attack, according to the students in the exam hall. All I know is that by the time someone came to find me, she was a total disaster. She'd vommed all over the place and then--ugh, it's so disgusting. I hope you're not reading this while you're eating!--she made little animals out of the piles of vom. I'm telling you, she's completely unhinged. Someone's got to tell Mr Malfoy and the other Governors. I'm sure the Headmistress will say something but. Well. It hasn't changed anything in the past, is all.
Anyway. That aside, exams are OVER and the year's nearly done. You did say I'd survive. I wasn't quite sure during that last Transfiguration practical. I thought the NEWTs were the hard bit but Brutka's exam was dead exhausting! And now there's just the Task and the Feast and a few days when everyone will be out around the lake anyway.
Oh! I've got an interview the first week I'm home, too. With Siz's cousin, but still. It's an interview.
I can't wait to see you.
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Date: 2012-06-09 01:13 am (UTC)Mr Malfoy hasn't said anything, so I don't know what's been reported to him. But you're right, the Governors can't ignore this. Do you want me to say anything to him, or do you think the Headmistress will inform him? I would think that she would.
He has always been strange (her brother, I mean, not Mr Malfoy!), and I suppose it's not surprising that she has become more unhinged, too. Dad has always warned of the consequences of dabbling too much without caution in the Dark Arts, and she's never struck me as someone who believes much in caution.
Well, it will be exceedingly interesting to see what the school decides to do about it. But I think you're right; they simply can't keep her on.
Congratulations about finishing exams. Doesn't it feel wonderful? And congratulations, too, about the interview. I know you'll do a splendid job. And yes, I'm very much looking forward to seeing you as well.
Is there much excitement building about the Third Task? Have there been any announcements about what to expect?
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Date: 2012-06-09 02:25 am (UTC)Thanks. I think on the whole this interview will be a good one to start out, since from what Professor Siz says, Mrs Cumberhatch is a fairly easy-going sort.
On the Task...no, everyone's being relatively tight-lipped about it. We've been told that the Pitch is going to be used but not for flying. And of course, the Security team have already arrived to begin preparations throughout the weekend. I know Diggory's well concerned. He knows he's got the stuff to win, but--well. You know what happened last time when Marvolo didn't do as well as the Lord Protector expected.
If it comes down to Marvolo and Diggory racing for the finish line, and I were Diggory, I'd 'trip' if you know what I mean.
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Date: 2012-06-09 03:05 am (UTC)I wish I could see it, but I'm sure there will be all sorts of reporters there, so I'll certainly be able to read the coverage afterward.
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Date: 2012-06-09 03:11 am (UTC)Why wouldn't you be able to come? Are they limiting the guests--or don't tell me you'll be working?
Merlin, you're not still at the office now, are you? At this hour?