Private message to Dolores Umbridge

[alt_selwyn]

Are you utterly mad? To mete out something like that as a punishment for trivial schoolboy pranks? Those young men lost their father a mere five months ago. Their mother, given half a chance, would doubtless expel your entrails, and let me be clear in noting that she would have the assistance of several Councilwizards who are experts in the relevant curse.

In addition to still being in grief for their father, Fred and George Weasley are about to SIT THEIR NEWTS. If you are utterly devoid of human decency or simple compassion for their loss, ordinary common sense might have directed you to choose a punishment that did not MEDDLE WITH THEIR MEMORIES.

Let me point out to you that the ONLY students who cannot be withdrawn from Hogwarts are half-bloods in fostering who have not yet passed their OWLs. Unless you wish to preside over a school consisting of first through fifth-year students of the most questionable possible background -- who are not yet so desperate to escape you that they've fled into the Forbidden Forest -- I urge you to IMMEDIATELY rethink your approach to this particular incidence of misbehaviour.

Comments

[alt_selwyn]

Oh, by all means, Dolores, tell Our Lord precisely how you have steadfastly maintained discipline in the face of challenges and difficulties from everyone around you. I have no doubt you'll find Him a sympathetic ear.