Trouble in The Staff Room
Chapter Five: The Situation Worsens

The new term loomed closer style; little had changed around the castle. Hagrid had brought Severus Snape out of his drunken state and he had finally got some work done for his new term teaching.
He still continued to get death threats, mostly now only in the cut out owl form, not the howler form. The villagers had got the message he was staying put by the fact he had not moved from the school or left the school in anyway.
Filch had tried his hardest to put Snape of staying in the castle. But, Snape had decided that the best way they learned that they would have to put up with him the way he is was by staying here in the castle and not wielding to their threats or demands.
How can you keep this up? Snape told himself again for the fourth time in at least an hour. I can't

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I tried my hardest today not to let them see that they had got to me. I need to prove that I can I am still the person I was. I can still teach and act the way I should. Just because I am different doesn't mean that I don't want tooh I can't write down how I feel, there aren't words to describe it.

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Dear Prof. Dumbledore,
Sir, I must tell you that we here at Hogwarts have come across a few small difficulties about Prof. Snape. He (and I) has been receiving threats from an anonymous source and on the first week Mr Filch informed the village about Severus. He had been banned from the Hogs Head, simply because he is different.
He keeps saying that he is fine and that he's not going to let them get the better of him and drive him out. I believe that he is beginning to give up. He spent the whole of the last three weeks in a drunkard state.
Headmaster, you are willing to show your appreciation for Severus and how you are willing to accept him at Hogwarts. If you came back and showed your acceptance of him in public then maybe the village, who respect your word, may realise that he is the same as you or I.
Your humble servant
R. Hagrid

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MEMO
To: Professor Albus Dumbledore, headmaster H.S.W.W
CC: H.S.W.W Board of Governors
BC: Professor Minerva McGonagall, deputy headmistress H.S.W.W
From: The Board of Magical Education, The Ministry of Magic
Subject: Professor Severus Snape
Professor,
We beg to press upon you the matter of Severus Snape, your Potions Master. We, the Board of Magical Education, believe that someone who has shown him/herself to be a homosexual cannot work with children. Under Section 3A part B it clearly states:
Those people who/are have/a certain qualities/personalities cannot work with children under the age of 18. This restricts him/her from teaching in Junior and Secondary Magical Academies.
Thereby, employing professor Snape will be in restriction of the law and we cannot allow that to take place. We have suggested the following options for your disposal:

Voluntary resignation
Status as a teacher revoked
Dismissal from the School

We shall let you make the final decisions, but we severely recommend that you take one of the above actions.

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SnApE,
GeT oUt Of HoGwArTs BeForE yOu ArE dRiVeN oUt. No PaReNt WoUlD aLoW tHeRe ChIlD tO bE tAuGhT bY a GaY mAn WhO cOuLd InTeRfEaR wItH tHeIr MaLe ChIlDrEn. HeEd OuR wArNiNgS.

He stood back and admired his work, perhaps this time the threat was not as strong as the others, but still it would bring out the desired affect. He put away the paste and old newspaper and took up another book. This one was his diary.

My dear Diary,
I believe the traitor is beginning to wield to my threats. Soon he will come running back to Voldemort and we shall accept him back, he will then turn on his once friends, and well it's self explanatory.

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Professor Dumbledore smeared more sun cream on his long crooked nose. He was laying on a sun swept beach in Barbados. He had avoided all contact with the magical word this holiday and managed to live as a muggle, something which he hadn't done in a long time.
He sighed as he placed the clip-ons, onto his half moon spectacles and leaned back in his deck chair to read The Times. Sadly the holiday record was interrupted by the arrival of a barn owl. It swooped over head and dropped several letters into his lap.
"Oh blast." He muttered, opening the first letter. It was from Flitwick. He sat up suddenly in shock. Flitwick was resigning because he refused to work with Snape, the Magical Education Committee were on his back, the Board of Magical Education had sent a memo to him and the board the list of who wanted Snape to go went on and on. Finally he came across Hagrids letter.
"Dear god, what have I made you go through."

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Mr Argus Filch looked down at his mangy cat.
"Soon my sweet that bastard will be out of the school. We can't allow people who break gods law in this school can we my precious? After all he is a filthy fag, so we can finally have our way." He smiled a toothless smile.