A parting of ways
Urgent business called me away from the school for a week or so (much against my will and better judgement, might I add), and what was I to find upon my return?
Students missing, students taken ill, students neglecting to turn up for classes, students threatening the lives of other students...
This must cease.
Rarely will you find me the sort of individual prone to losing his temper, but with the current climate of things it is difficult not to.
I am, frankly, aghast at what I have found since I have returned.
Of course, I cannot help but feel partially responsible. I should never have left, at such a time...
It is not acceptable, under any circumstance, for you to threaten or carry out threats on the life of another student, or proffessor here at Hogwarts. It is something we take very seriously, at the best of times - and these, children, I feel the need to warn you are not the best of times.
Voldemort has returned - has been 'returned' for three solid years, whether or not you wish to believe it, and even Hogwarts is not completely safe. In a climate such as this, to be running around espousing threats and so fourth to fellow students is not only callous and distasteful, it is downright dangerous.
I should inform you all that eighth year Slytherin, Star Ruet, has been asked to leave the school. I felt I was given no choice, and her head of house agreed with me. Things had gone too far and she may, in the end, be better off at home.
I have nothing more to say, here.
Yours in disappointment, frustration and anger,
~Dumbledore, A
The order has information that suggests Voldemort may be very close to the school. His presence has been felt - like a dark shadow creeping ever closer. We cannot pinpoint his location, but I feel it myself - a chill in the halls, an uneasy groaning on the evening breeze.
I had, foolishly, begun to think we were out of the woods - perhaps, I thought - perhaps, this year will be a good one. A safe one.
Perculiar, but safe.
Harry's disappearance is, of course, of great concern - to myself, and to The Order. People are searching for him, using whatever methods they can to track him down. Naturally, he won't like this - he will, in all likelihood, turn up safe and sound and rather irritable at the fact that we are still keeping such close tabs on him...
But what does he expect?
...he's still only a boy.
The Ruet girl, too - her pattern of behaviour, her manner of speech, was so unlike anything i've seen before. There was a method to her madness, almost - as if she were trying to impart something, without being harmed. I received no answers from her, of course - merely mumblings, and ramblings - something about her father? I simply do not know.
I wonder if her 'threats' against Lavender Brown were really threats at all, or something else...
But Mr. Sneevely will not talk me out of her expulsion, on this occasion. I cannot afford to ignore the warning signs.
And she is ill.
Perhaps it was the pressure of the ministry's little 'Club' extension program...perhaps it is just all too much...
I must ask Sneevely if I may sit in on a session. I have an uneasy feeling that they may be dealing with subject matter too advanced, and too taxing, and too dark for students of this age..
Students missing, students taken ill, students neglecting to turn up for classes, students threatening the lives of other students...
This must cease.
Rarely will you find me the sort of individual prone to losing his temper, but with the current climate of things it is difficult not to.
I am, frankly, aghast at what I have found since I have returned.
Of course, I cannot help but feel partially responsible. I should never have left, at such a time...
It is not acceptable, under any circumstance, for you to threaten or carry out threats on the life of another student, or proffessor here at Hogwarts. It is something we take very seriously, at the best of times - and these, children, I feel the need to warn you are not the best of times.
Voldemort has returned - has been 'returned' for three solid years, whether or not you wish to believe it, and even Hogwarts is not completely safe. In a climate such as this, to be running around espousing threats and so fourth to fellow students is not only callous and distasteful, it is downright dangerous.
I should inform you all that eighth year Slytherin, Star Ruet, has been asked to leave the school. I felt I was given no choice, and her head of house agreed with me. Things had gone too far and she may, in the end, be better off at home.
I have nothing more to say, here.
Yours in disappointment, frustration and anger,
~Dumbledore, A
The order has information that suggests Voldemort may be very close to the school. His presence has been felt - like a dark shadow creeping ever closer. We cannot pinpoint his location, but I feel it myself - a chill in the halls, an uneasy groaning on the evening breeze.
I had, foolishly, begun to think we were out of the woods - perhaps, I thought - perhaps, this year will be a good one. A safe one.
Perculiar, but safe.
Harry's disappearance is, of course, of great concern - to myself, and to The Order. People are searching for him, using whatever methods they can to track him down. Naturally, he won't like this - he will, in all likelihood, turn up safe and sound and rather irritable at the fact that we are still keeping such close tabs on him...
But what does he expect?
...he's still only a boy.
The Ruet girl, too - her pattern of behaviour, her manner of speech, was so unlike anything i've seen before. There was a method to her madness, almost - as if she were trying to impart something, without being harmed. I received no answers from her, of course - merely mumblings, and ramblings - something about her father? I simply do not know.
I wonder if her 'threats' against Lavender Brown were really threats at all, or something else...
But Mr. Sneevely will not talk me out of her expulsion, on this occasion. I cannot afford to ignore the warning signs.
And she is ill.
Perhaps it was the pressure of the ministry's little 'Club' extension program...perhaps it is just all too much...
I must ask Sneevely if I may sit in on a session. I have an uneasy feeling that they may be dealing with subject matter too advanced, and too taxing, and too dark for students of this age..