Author's note: I know, I'm sorry. It's been a while, I will try and get updates to you faster. Life just likes to be really quiet and then suddenly throw itself at me with full force. Oh and before I forget the last two letters contain ideas given to me by Lucky's Girl! Thanks Lucky! So anyway, they belong to her and are not mine. Anyway, this is chapter 7! I hope you enjoy it! Please R&R!!!!
Chapter 7.
Dear Dori and Charlie,
I have written more to you than any other parents this year… and last year… and the year before. I have actually written to you more than I wrote to the Blacks and that is saying a lot. This time I am afraid even you, Dori, will not be able to come up with an excuse for James. He has received detention for graffiti-ing. I think he needs a howler to remind him that the words 'James 4 Lily' are not appropriate in the Transfiguration courtyard. No one is happier than me (except perhaps James) that they are together but I hardly think they need to use the walls to proclaim it. James will be serving detention for the next week washing and then repainting the wall. I have my suspicions that Miss Evans was also involved but James denies it vehemently so there is little I can do about it. I do hope Charlie's new job is going well.
Minerva
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Dear Dori and Charlie,
Another letter so soon, I think James is getting worse. I was rather hoping for a break, I have a lot of essays that I need to mark and get back to the students before the start of OWLs and NEWTs. However even I could not let this particular deed pass. This letter is about gambling, yes gambling. On Hogwarts premises! It seems that James and Sirius have been taking bets on the fate of this year's Defence teacher. Not only is this tasteless but it could also be classed as offensive. James and Sirius have received a week's worth of detentions to remind them of this and they also must pay back all of the money they took with added interest (which certain people are very happy about). Unfortunately it has not seemed to dampen their spirits at all (I suppose the money is nothing at all to James with the amount of money you insist on sending him despite my disapproval) as they were laughing about something very loudly outside my door a few hours ago. They had better not have done anything to my office or they will be in detention for the rest of their lives!
Minerva
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Dear Dori and Charlie,
I think you should remind your son (as Charlie had to be reminded constantly) that drinking alcohol (whether it is his and Lily's one month anniversary or not) is strictly forbidden and that no alcohol is allowed on the premises in the first place! It is extremely dangerous as being intoxicated lowers reactions time and makes you do things that you normally wouldn't do (in James' case this list is short but Lily certainly would not normally throw books out of the window at passing Slytherins and yell 'strike one! Strike two! Etc) I sincerely hope I do not have to write to you concerning alcohol again but in James' case it is probable.
Minerva
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Dear Dori and Charlie,
I have no idea where James gets his ideas from but they are nothing short of ridiculous. He actually put a first year on Fang's back and told him to 'giddy up'. This is completely unacceptable not to mention dangerous! I shudder to think what injuries the child would have got had he fallen off from that height and before you start making excuses for James think about how you would feel if it had been him someone put on an oversized, over-energetic dog, if you can call Fang a dog. James has received a week's worth of detentions and has to write the boy's parents a letter of apology. Sirius has received a detention as well for finding the whole episode hilarious and for encouraging James.
Minerva
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Dear Dori and Charlie,
I could practically write letters to you in my sleep now, in fact I think half of the time I do. James really ought to be a little more responsible and a little less infantile now that he is in fifth year. His continued use of pranks gets, quite frankly, tiring. This time is no different, though I was rather impressed with his charms work. Shame he doesn't display a bit of Transfiguration within his pranks more often. He has charmed suits of armour to chase first years which is unacceptable especially as I was the teacher on duty and it took me three hours to chase each knight down and remove the spell, every time I turned around there was another one or another first year in tears.
Minerva
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Dear Dori and Charlie,
I must say your James has a rather warped sense of humour which unfortunately many of the students share. His newest prank, while displaying excellent spell work, could be considered cruel as it embarrassed a lot of people and caused offence to others. He enchanted the boy's toilets to suck people up and then spit them out in the great hall with their trousers still down, this is not funny to the victims, the victim's parents, the teachers and everyone who suffers from the dramatic loss of house points and the subsequent detentions it evoked for James as well as a number of other students he pulled into the prank with him including of course, Black.
Minerva
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Dear Dori and Charlie,
I had hoped that your howler would prove effective but apparently not as James has gone and done exactly the same to the girl's toilet! Which is not funny either! I have had to write dozens of letters of apology to angry complaining parents all day though thankfully I am now getting a break as James is now replying to them for his detention, he will be in serious trouble if he is anything less than polite and apologetic. I had better go and check actually, I certainly don't want any more letters of complaint.
Minerva
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Dear Dori and Charlie,
James has once again been baiting poor Severus Snape. This morning at breakfast he put fireworks under his chair causing the poor boy a lot of fright and anxiety especially as all his classmates could do was roll around the floor laughing. He is currently in the hospital wing being treated for shock and James is once again in my office serving detention. The day those boys truce will certainly be a cause for celebration.
Minerva
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Dear Dori and Charlie,
I know how you feel about Eileen Prince but her son is nothing like her and your son treats him abysmally. In fact he treats all of the Slytherins abysmally, today he made a plant grow out of Crabbe's head. Yes, it was amusing, yes, it demonstrated Herbology and Charms skills but it took hours to remove and Crabbe's parents are coming into school to complain personally which while has the benefit of meaning I do not have to write more also means I will have to get shouted out for hours on end which is not my preferred way of spending an evening!
Minerva
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