Oct 11, 2002 01:43
With the exception of the sixth-years, detention will be served Monday following your final class of the day. As with all detentions, magic is not allowed, and as an added bonus, you will complete your tasks utilising the most Muggle methods possible.
First years will spent the evening organising my private stores of Deadly and Debilitating Diseases and Infections. You will take extreme caution, for Pneumonic Plague is quite impossible to get out of one's robes.
Second years, you are to report to Professor Lupin, as his Menagerie requires a thorough cleaning. The Erumpent calf has dysentery.
Third and fourth years, you have the distinct honour of serving as practise dummies for Professor Black's Defence Against the Dark Arts Hexing Trials. To put it in more monosyllabic Muggle terms, you are to stand still and while the vapid and the addle-brained fling poorly-constructed jinxes at you.
Fifth years, I give you the privilege of cleaning and repainting the Astronomy Tower, as it has become quite fetid and well-used over the years. Do not ask any questions about the stains on the carpeting as you remove it.
Which leaves the sixth years. Your individual detentions will be announced in short order. Again, you would do well to remember that incessent complaints and whinging is not the Slytherin coping mechanism. I am confident that you all are well-versed in other more dignified means of consoling yourselves. I would expect nothing less from my House.
I bid you good evening, Hogwarts.