severus snape

[Hogwarts Students and Staff]

Thank you all for your well-wishes. This changeover is more sudden than any of us might have liked, but I assure you any attempts to take advantage during this period of transition will meet only with frustration and the usual disciplinary measures. All proceeds as normal.

Professor Slughorn will be stepping into my duties as Head of Slytherin House. A rotation of faculty members will assume responsibility for Defense Against the Dark Arts classes until a permanent replacement can be appointed.

Any questions can, no doubt, be directed to your respective Heads of House.

[Hestia Carrow]

I need a word with you, Miss Carrow.

[Sirius Black]

I've been thinking - the Order really could use a particularly hot-headed, thick-skulled git with an ego the size of greater London to sit around shooting his mouth off and hoping no one will notice how utterly useless he is.

Oh, wait. We've already got one of those.

That would be redundant.

Roughly half of the essays handed in at Tuesday's lecture will need to be rewritten.

I'm so pleased you all enjoyed your party.

[Private]

Recruit yourself

[Lucius Malfoy]

I need to speak with you.

[Death Eaters]

I don't doubt we'll be enlightened as to what that was about in due course, so allow me to pose a different question - might any of you happen to know anything about the recent disappearance of one of my colleagues? It's proving highly inconvenient.

[Charity]

It occurs to me I haven't seen your rabble-rousing in the papers, of late.

As though there weren't enough trash to read.

[Faculty / Staff]

Can we all agree these journals have been an unmitigated disaster? Or is it too soon?

[DADA NEWT students - 7th year]

It's come to my attention that there was an error in your homework assignment as distributed in class. The reading is pp. 708 - 959, not pp. 759 - 809.

I'm relieved, of course, to hear that Prof. Babbling is safe. A letter of resignation is more traditional, but picking up and packing off without so much as a note to live out one's days in solitude is doubtless every teacher's fantasy. I find it difficult to fault her for it.

[Current/Incoming Hogwarts Students]

This is to remind any student entering sixth year not to bother attempting to enroll in my N.E.W.T. level course unless he or she has achieved an O on his or her O.W.L. Someone always manages to forget.

A few important notes for the upcoming year:

1. If I find any of these journals in my classroom - be they on your person, among your books, under your desk, anywhere - I will confiscate and destroy them. They are not appropriate for use during class, and I will not tolerate them in my classroom.

2. If I discover any evidence after the fact that you have written in said journals during one of my lectures, your journal will be confiscated and destroyed, and the matter will be referred to your Head of House. If I should have the misfortune to be said Head of House, you can expect severe consequences.

3. Once you have arrived on Hogwarts grounds, I and the rest of your professors have the unpleasant task of ensuring your physical and moral well-being. While I, for one, take absolutely no pleasure in reading the drivel that seems to fill the vast majority of your time, journal activity unfortunately must be treated the same way as any other activity. Inappropriate language, suggestions, threats, or any other sort of action will be judged as it would should it have happened in the corridors or common rooms. You will lose House points, you will earn detentions, and you will risk expulsion just as you would had you committed the offense through speech rather than through writing.

Incoming N.E.W.T. students should be prepared to discuss material from the first five chapters of Confronting the Faceless on the first day of classes.

( Antonin Dolohov )

[Warded Against Current Hogwarts Students]

It's been a bit more than ten years, I think, since Jigger's Defense Against the Dark Arts became entirely obsolete. Why none of my predecessors have seen fit to order new stock is quite beyond me, but the situation is dire enough that drastic action is required. I'm compiling my own. Writing publishers for excerpting rights is beyond tedious. But there's not much to be done; Saághy's insight into the transformative processes of vampirism and Scamander's eminently reasonable stance on the neutralization of werewolves are necessary supplements to any existing Dark Creatures curriculum. I'm not sure what about the late 80's, precisely, made men into gutless pedantics, but the past decade has seen a true renaissance in academic writing in the field.

[Prof. Burbage]

I've marked all the essays I physically can, I've found, until Sunday. If you'd like to come by at some point during the weekend, I'm certain I could fit you in.

but you grow up and you calm down and
you start wearing the blue and brown
so you got someone to boss around
and it makes you feel big working
for the ( clampdown. )