Friday, March 10th, 1989
Filius finally finished the completed proposal for turning a classroom into a dueling arena, and it is even more thorough than I had hoped. Beyond the outline of additional charms and other spells he plans to show the students, he has a list of the protections required for both the area cleared to be the dueling ring and the rest of the room, and—this is what I am most please with—a list of charms and wards that combined, should bring about those effects. Hogwarts' budget will not bend enough for us to bring in a professional warder to make a room dueling standard, but this we should be able to do and do without bringing in outside assistance, so I will not need to wait on the Board's approval.
This will have to be a joint effort; it will take more time than any one teacher has without making them sacrifice grading, but it would need to be multiple people because of separate masteries anyway.
Filius will need to do some of the more complicated shield charms and Rolanda's experience with testing and anchoring wards for the quidditch pitch should make her able to anchor those charms to base wards once Filius casts them. Babbling and Vector should be helpful in working these together…
Most of this spell list is fairly basic as long as you are completely competent in the fields. Once I choose a day to start this, as long as none of the teachers are sick and need a substitute, Wilhelmina should be able to do a large portion of this, with others popping in and out as their class schedules allow.
I'm going to either need to grant a number of favors or pay out some larger than normal bonuses at the end of this week.