Christmas Holidays

[alt_mcgonagall]

Any student who wishes to remain at Hogwarts for the Christmas holidays is requested and required to sign up. The form is in the care of the gargoyle outside my office.

The form shall be available until 10 December, at which point any student who has not signed up but wishes to remain must arrange to meet with me and discuss the possibility. 

Comments

[alt_poppy]

Well, Headmistress, as it happens, I shall be staying at the school for the holidays this year. Shall I stop by and sign the form, then?

[alt_mcgonagall]

Students, Poppy!

[alt_poppy]

What do you suppose the gargoyle would say to me if I asked to sign? It might be amusing to attempt it, though that would require being able to step out of the ward for more than a moment or two together.

I do wish Lockhart would get on with teaching this duelling business so our young people were not left to create their own, wholly ungoverned occasions for challenging one another. He's awoken their enthusiasm and has failed utterly to channel that energy into an educational programme; instead, he's wound them up and set them loose. My admittance records look as though we've had a week of April Fools, and I've seen no stemming of the tide this morning, despite yesterday's attempt by the Head Boy at using violent retribution as a deterrent.

[alt_mcgonagall]

You haven't been seeing the half of them, Poppy; the professors and I have all been reversing what hexes we can on our own, in an attempt to stem the tide. But, of course, I simply can't do anything about reversed kneecaps, when they're not merely transfigured - and over half the time the students can't say if they had intended to perform a charm or a transfiguration in the first place.