Given Messrs Weasley and Weasley's confession...

[alt_mcgonagall]

They will be serving detention with Professor Sprout for the next three days, in hopes that closer acquaintance with mud will cool their enthusiasm for it.

Granger has been spoken to about associating with students.

Comments

[alt_percy]

Thank you, Professor.

[alt_lucius]

Dear, dear, Minerva. Not even past the first week and already trouble? Alas, boys will be boys. One learns not to expect much from their sort. How you must tire of the drudgery! Your service does you credit.

But am I to understand that a servant has been entrusted with one of the journals? The Board of Governors, as you know, has tasked me with the unpleasant and time-consuming duty of monitoring the students' ramblings and rants; I do not recall any such proposition on the part of the youth labour force.

Kindly explain how you came to the conclusion that a powerful magical item such as this should be given into the hands of someone beneath the station of the meanest first-year...even one in Gryffindor.

[alt_mcgonagall]

Lucius, you are a support to me in every way, particularly in the monitoring of the journals. I do hope you will alert me to any misdoings that come to light. Two heads, after all, are better than one.

As for how the Mudblood got a journal: I did give it to her. While she hardly deserves it, she is responsible for the upkeep of the magical books within the castle; that includes the journals. I thought it best that she should understand their workings in order to better serve, since she will be expected to fix them when careless students damage them.

As you see, I have spoken with her about fraternizing with students: it shan't happen again or she'll know my displeasure.

[alt_lucius]

Do your job for you, Minerva, how quaint! Naturally, the students must learn the art of public discretion; that is one of the points of this exercise in the first place. Rest assured that I shall take the action I deem appropriate, whatever I may read among these...illuminating...windows to the students' souls.

To your explanation: shrewd, as I should have expected. Very well: Let this young parvenue of yours have her journal. See to it that she understands her limitations in its proper use.

[alt_mcgonagall]

Naturally. On all accounts.