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November 15th found Minerva McGonigal waking up fearing her imminent migraine, She knew this would happen for a single simple reason: That evening would be the Hogwarts staff quarterly meeting to discuss the happenings around, and running of the school. And while under normal circumstance that amounted to a few mentions of minor incidents, mostly pranks from a duo of redhaired twins. This meeting promised to be anything but ordinary,

So when the meeting inevitably began Minerva conjured up a comfortable armchair and placed a few drops of headache-relief potion into her brandy and waited or Albus to arrive to open up the discussion.

Albus entered the door, wearing yet another garish robe decorated with a thousand tiny broomstick-riders chasing even tinier golden specks. Holding in his left hand a large bottle of champagne, an ornate golden sable in the right hand. A house elf popped into the room and deposited a plate with a model of Hogwarts castle made entirely of champagne glasses on the table. Clearly Albus had something to celebrate, he hadn't worn his quidditch robes since the war had ended, it had always been one of Albus' favourite robes that he'd kept in his seemingly bottomless closet for especially jubilant occasions.

"Good evening everyone, Before we get into the matters you have no doubt prepared, I would like to take chance to pre-empt your usual request Rolanda. As I am pleased to announce that, after years of politics the ministry has finally seen fit to agree to return our budget to the amount we had before the war." The sable slid past the neck of the bottle, and with a resounding pop the champagne flew into the uppermost glass of the astronomy tower, the other towers peaks filling from within until they overflowed champagne cascading down towards the bottom in a waterfall.

"Wait, you mean we finally have the budget for new brooms?" a shocked Rolanda Hooch said, her mouth hanging open wide-eyed, a single hand reaching for a glass from the top of Ravenclaw tower. "In that you'd be correct Rolanda, I look forward to reading your no-doubt well considered recommendations in, let's say two weeks?" a jovial Albus said, reaching out to pull a glass from the headmaster's office, before stepping aside to allow Minerva access to Gryffindor tower. He turned around to face her colleagues "And of course I expect similar recommendations from all of you, I know our previously tight budget has made teaching hard for all of you".

"As a result of our newly returned budget, I am also pleased to announce we'll be able to hire teaching assistants" Albus went on to say "and to once again organise our formerly annual educational excursions, And with 7 years of students each expected to have a different excursion I must regretfully announce that I'll be delegating some of that labour onto you all, while under normal circumstances I'd be more than willing to assist in this matter. I fear I may be much too busy for the foreseeable future vetting applicants for additional staffing positions, as I'm sure you'll understand".

Upon hearing this she put her champagne, and took a sip from her brandy. There it was, the inevitable headache she had come to expect. They were already 2 months into this year and she'd have to organise 7 different excursions, one a month for the remainder of the year, and with no assistance from Albus in the matter. She'd need to find 7 venues, each of them providing sufficient educational value and work out the logistics of getting four dozen children to each of them.

She'd have to further delegate this, the transfiguration's teacher decided. Maybe have every teacher work on organising a single outing, themed around their specific field. It would place a burden on the rest of the staff, but assuming Albus managed to find the assistants he was looking for it would at least be a workable solution.

As Minerva concluded her train of thought, she realised Albus had fallen silent and was currently respectfully awaiting her opinion on the feasibility. So she took another sip and answered with a curt nod. " Now with the budgetary issues addressed, I would like to ask about the incident this Halloween." The headmaster turned to face their resident potions master who stepped forward out of the corner he'd been standing in.

"As you are all no doubt aware," he drawled derisively addressing the gathered professors "Headmaster Dumbledore had requested me to investigate the Hogwarts wards and attempt to find a clue as to how the troll managed to get onto the premises…"

"Luckily for all of us, Trolls infamously lack in subtlety. Which made it a rather simple endeavour to track the path of wanton destruction from the 2nd floor bathroom all the way through the dungeons, where I found a passage leading to an old storage shack whose walls had been shattered into splinters. I then instructed the Hogwarts elves to clean up any and all furniture damaged during the incident and floo-called the department of magical law enforcement…" Severus gestured towards the headmaster who answered with a nod of his head.

"The DMLE have investigated the site, and concluded that the long forgotten storage shed had been ill-maintained, resulting in ward failure." Albus explained, looking towards the rest of the staff. "I've already hired a specialist to give repair the wards, and perform a routine inspection of our school each summer so as to prevent inconvenience to the students." Albus glanced around the room. "Does anyone here have any further concerns regarding the incident?"

Upon hearing this Filius stepped forward, "While I'm pleased to hear the cause of the incident has been identified, and will soon be fixed. Wouldn't it be more prudent to have the inspection over the winter holiday? Most students will be at home, and the few that remain won't be learning anything over the holiday so it shouldn't cause problems."

Inwardly Minerva agreed with Flitwick's assertion. At least in theory, it would make more sense to have the school inspected over the winter holliday, but she knew there was probably a horde of logistical issues involved, she was just about to stand up to explain those issues when Albus did it for her.

"Indeed Fillius, while I agree that would be ideal. I am sad to say it's unlikely to succeed for multiple reasons." Albus asserted, while carefully removing the wrapper from a piece of candy. "Firstly there's the issue of the time, the winter holiday is rather short, and our school is admittedly rather large, and I fear that a rushed inspection might be worse than no inspection at all as it could make us believe ourselves safer then we truly are. Also there's the issue of the students themselves, who in their boundless curiosity might end up hampering the inspection."

"But wouldn't it still be better to at least allow a cursory initial investigation? So that the inspectors already know what to look for come summer?" Pomona opined, "that way we can be sure that any immediate and large-scale threats have been identified while the inspectors are prepared come summer".

Albus only nodded in response, before moving the conversation onto other subjects.

Apologies for the long wait between chapters.

And we see the first things changing from canon as Harry's presence causes the Witangemot with a T to influence the Wizangemot with a Z. To explain whats going on in a bit more detail: The T-angemot has agents in the wizarding world, mainly for purchase of reagents and warning them should a Dark lord type situation occur. T-angemot know that Harry's emotionally invested in his heritage, and are trying to ensure he's not disappointed with the wizarding world by having their agents put pressure on the Zangemot to get Harry's education back up to snuff.

Meanwhile Albus and Friends believe the increase in budget to be the result of him finally getting the ministry to listen to reason after they saw the state of disrepair on the storage shack,

End result: Hogwarts (at least as of second year) wont be as terrible as it is in canon. There'll still be adventures but responses will be more competent,