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State of Affairs in Our Schools
What has happened to the respect our students once used to have for the position of Professor? How they used to help each other with their homework assignments and show respect for others who are studying? This reporter started asking that question after a visit to his nephew at HOL. It was a pleasant visit to attend a meet and greet for the Pen Pal Club to encourage new members. The event was going well enough, it was being held in on the grounds of the school and was being beautifully catered by the school house elves, when suddenly this 'student' for lack of a better word, disrupted the festivities by going around and stealing all of the toasted foods. Crumbs from the lightly toasted bits of garlic bread were all that remained after this rampaging hooligan ran through grabbing every platter and secreting the contents in their satchel! I was appalled at this behaviour!
The student vanished quickly and all would have been forgotten if it hadn't been for the depressing discovery that the remaining foods were all fake! The pasteries now squeaked when bitten and the drinks were now conjealed like a jello dish. An unedible jello dish as they were more of a polymer gel than a food.
Students should not be permitted to behave this way. After clearing up the disaster and the prefuse apologies made to the house elves who had worked so hard for our benefit for the Pen Pal Club, we finally got things settled enough to start some of the planned events.
My nephew, Head Prefect for Hufflepuff and Head Boy for HOL, Zoki Phantom, was presenting special awards to past students for thier pariticaption in the previous years club activitites. He stood to walk to where the podium was set up to make the announcements and passed by this beautiful arrangement of foiliage. Only to be attacked by a student masquerading as a bush! They jumped in front of him, nearly causing him to drop the awards he was carrying and screaming out, " I AM A GHOSTREE, I'M SURE YOU FEAR ME! AND IF YOU DON'T, JUST WAIT AND SEE!"
He was startled and stepped back, but the new students in the area all started to scream and run about. That 'student' then left and it took at least 20 minutes to get the situation under control and back on track. Really, what is our Headmaster teaching these students that they think it is good fun to disrupt sanctioned school activities!
Professor Rorey Padfoot, began the official portion of the gathering by attempting to describe the good work the club does and announce my nephew. She started off talking in a beautiful voice, but had to continue and finish off nearly screaming. As she spoke, this horrible sound started to eminate from the air around us. Some may have called it an attempt at music but really it was just quite annoying.
Once the good Professor had finished her introductions, it seemed to fade away into nothing. But the last few notes were missing, as if teasing us with a future return. Really, these students need to be taught respect for official events.
At this point, my nephew, Head Prefect for Hufflepuff and Head Boy for HOL, Zoki Phantom, began to hand out the Rainbow PPCer award to outstanding participation in club activities over the previous years, when this violent hooligan jumped out from under the podium and began hacking and slashing at the beautiful parchments! My poor nephew, Head Prefect for Hufflepuff and Head Boy for HOL, Zoki Phantom, was left standing on stage being showered with shredded bits all over his maroon dress robes.
At this point, pandimonium reigned and the event had to be cancelled. But it wasn't the only event to be interrupted. There was also an alumi meet and greet going on in the main hall that my fellow reporter, Marius Hofman was attending on behalf of the paper. He was laughing uproarously the whole way home about events that happened there. Random soakings in ice water by a student dressed like a ghost in harelquin stockings, a young fellow in ghostly apparel scaring the pants off people and then giving them chocolate to say he was sorry and even levitating sweets! They couldnt' see who was doing it but I'll just bet it was another of those hooligans!
I think it is time we call for a general meeting about this state of affairs in our schools.
My nephew, Head Prefect for Hufflepuff and Head Boy for HOL, Zoki Phantom, deserves better than to be treated like this at school. None of our children deserves to be subjected to this kind of treatment. If our Headmaster is incapable of stopping it, then maybe he needs to be replaced.
Karl Davies
Staff Reporter
[Editors note]
[Since this article appeared in last weeks Daily Prophet, there have been many letters to the editor stating their opinions on what was said.]
[Also, Karl Davies has not been seen since the time of printing. If anyone is aware of his whereabouts, please contact this paper or your local aurors office with information.]