Dear Professor Dumbledore

I am very pleased with your timely return. It was complete anarchy in your absence. I am very proud of the part that the Inspections Squad had in the anarchy, and am almost glad that they were put into the undesirable position of having a power mad Headmistress, as they have learned many valuable things about the importance of inspecting.

Some very interesting things happened while you were away, other then Dolores taking over the school, of course, which I am sure you are already aware of.

For one, I have found a very unlikely ally in Peeves. The poltergeist is actually quite charming once you get to know him, and he is not actively throwing foul smelling substances at you. Peeves and I whiled away many an afternoon thinking up and then implementing tactics to oust Dolores and her iron rule from the sacred halls of Hogwarts. I made him a Honorary Member of the Inspection Squad.

And do not worry, I will un-hex your chair at the high table at my earliest convenience. I do hope you have not sat in it yet. It would be very unpleasant for you.

While I must admit that when I heard Dolores was sent to the hospital wing due to centaur induced wounds, I may have been most happy I have ever been in my life, I think we will have to discuss the fact that the centaurs did carry away and harm a member of the castle.

Not that the centaurs were not fully provoked and had every right to do what they did to Dolores, I am just worried that an ill mannered student could wander in and suffer the same fate.

Perhaps we could do something to prevent that.

As I asked in one of my first letters.

When you assured me it would never happen.

Regardless of the Misinformation that I was given, I do hope you have a wonderful summer.

I unfortunately I will not be able to spend it vacationing as I often do, because I am needed for an emergency Inspection. Apparently, someone broke into the Ministry. I have not been up on current events as of late, (hiding in a dungeon can do that) so I have no idea who could have done such a thing, but I plan on finding out as I asses the damage done, and inspect ways to improve the security. It must be comically lapse for something like this to happen, and to the Department of Mysteries no less!

Very happy you are back in charge,

Cygnus Stixrood, Chief Centennial Inspector, Department For Permits And Filing