Is Fair and Wise and Good and Gay
Minerva McGonagall – Sunday, 4 October 1925
"Headmistress?"
Minerva doesn't answer.
"Headmistress?"
Finally, Minerva realises Poppy is talking to her. "It's a bit premature for that, isn't it? The Governors might want some say in the matter," she responds wryly.
Poppy shrugs, mutters something about Snape and doubting the Governors' judgment, then begins rattling off problems that required a solution hours ago, expecting Minerva to make the impossible decisions.
Minerva would protest that Poppy should ask someone who's actually in charge—Kingsley, perhaps—but she suspects it wouldn't do any good. And besides, she doubts anyone left alive knows her school and its needs as well as she does.
