Chapter Fifteen: Meeting

"How the hell did this place not get shut down?!" Verdona demanded of the faculty at the new mandatory bi-weekly faculty meeting. She was pale and disheveled, still not even halfway through the papers on Hogwarts. (Evidently a thousand years could leave quite a paper trail).

"Excuse me?" Pomona squeaked out.
"Oh c'mon!" Verdona blustered, "Do you honestly think this is a safe school according to any definition of the word 'safe'?" She stood up and began circling her staff.

"First off, the castle itself is always changing, mutating, how many kids have gotten injured because of that?"

The teachers looked at each other warily; there was always the odd first year falling from the shifting staircases…

"Then this Quidditch sport! You have flying cannon balls going after the players and possibly the spectators! Then there's the falls and brutalities…And don't get me started on the classes! Care of Magical Creatures, Potions, and Transfiguration are the worst offenders—"

"Now wait just a minute!" Hagrid bellowed, standing up, "Me class is—"

"You will not interrupt me when I am talking!" Verdona let her eyes go back to pure condensed energies, "Sit down Rubeus!"

Hagrid did as told, stunned, as Verdona continued, "I've done some digging into your background and I don't see why Dumbledore even considered hiring you, let alone actually hiring you! Barring the incident fifty years ago that you were proven innocent of, you are known for, have been charged and found guilty of, breaking international laws in dealing with transporting, possessing, obtaining, selling, trading, and breeding magical creatures. You hatched a dragon in your hut. And a man-eating spider in the castle! But barring your…criminal record in dealing with magical creatures you are not even a fully qualified wizard, having not re-enrolled in any school of magic, boarding, day or, correspondent, and graduated. You may be a good person, a loyal friend, but you sir are the worst possible choice for a teaching job!"

She rounded on Snape, who had been smirking, "And you! Barring your known status as a former Death Eater you have consistently shown nothing but contempt for the students you teach, your colleagues, and your job. You are known for blatantly favoring those of your house and prosecuting everyone else. You are tormenting students based upon personal vendettas and are currently doing your damnedest to expose one of your fellow teachers as a werewolf despite knowing that other than this job he has no employment prospects elsewhere just because of a, albeit serious, incident that happened decades ago and that he had no fault in! And you deliberately set your standards far too high for your N.E.W.T classes! Kids are failing because of how little you actually teach them!"

She moved on to McGonagall, calming, "Minerva, I have no problems with your methods of teaching as it appears that kids can and will succeed in your class if they put some effort into it, my issue is the high casualty rate of minor and major accidental Transfigurations. I know accidents happen and kids can be stupid little asses but seriously, isn't there something you can do to curb the accidents?"

And then she looked at the room at large, "And why, for the love of all things holy and good, if you guys want to stay hidden from the muggles so badly, isn't MUGGLE STUDIES a MANDATORY CLASS?!"

She caught sight of Binns, "Oh and you, I won't have some senile old ghost teaching my students the same lesson plans over and over again just because he can't remember if it's Monday or Tuesday! So buh-bye!" she snapped her fingers and exorcised the ghost of Professor Binns, forcing him to move on to the afterlife, "History of Magic is cancelled until further notice."

"Now, the fact that I have yet to sit in on any class at all and yet I have found all these issues is really terrifying, especially since I'm still skimming the top of the problems. Things will end this year like last but be prepared for some major shake-ups…You all will be working with me during the summer to correct things. Meeting over."