This was a lot of fun, lot of needed changes.
Things seemed to be going well for Hogwarts, and they were in many ways. Augusta was getting literally hundreds of complaints from present students on the way Hogwarts was being run. To her shock, very, very few of them were pointless and whiny. Most if not all were extremely valid and poignant. So many abuses of power, so many violations of code, Hogwarts had ceased to be home and school and turned into a violent cesspool of violence and abuse.
Severus was the worse offender, abusing students, allowing his Snakes to abuse students, not teaching in the slightest. She looked into the past and present number of people passing Potion OWLS and NEWTS, the numbers were a tenth of their previous size now. This weakened their Aurors and their Healers by drastic numbers. She knew, as a Deatheater, this was largely intentional. She actually had enough information to put him in Azkaban, but Albus has enough Star power to keep him out... the foolish man he was.
Minerva was not much better to be honest. She played favorites with people in each year, rendered extreme punishments for pointless things, and would never listen or act the part of Head of House. She had far too many positions of power, and it hampered her power to do her job. That had to be adjusted, and oddly it was Cassius who had the answers. "In the Muggle world, there are far more teachers per student, Maybe hire more to balance things out? One for differencing levels of education." She decided to look into this full force.
Next was Filch, she just fired him after five complaints. He was cruel, worthless and vile. He literally got off on the abuses of the students, abused the rules and was overall not needed. Albus complained she was biased due to his Squib status, she laughed at him coldly. "I am biased on the bases of his abusive personality."
Then there was Binns, who she got rid of. Finding a History Professor was actually rather easy, and she planned on getting several more for other aspects of history.
The other professors were mostly struggling under too much work and a system that did not allow them to help their students. They all loathed the bullying, the point system and so on, but could never do much as Albus prevented progress or any new ideas from being implemented.
Albus was the worst of all. He rapidly allowed the abuses of his students, never helped out and out right forbade anyone from helping students being hurt at home. Madam Pomfrey personally reveled over fifty seven students that needed to be taken from their homes. Albus denied her from even bringing it up to the student... that hit home for Augusta, reminding her of her past failures with Neville...
She could not get Albus out, but what she could do was put him probation... and so, she announced her findings publically to the entirety of Hogwarts.
"Students of Hogwarts, many, many things will be changing when you return next summer. At least one new Professor will be added per class, to reduce the work load on each Professor currently so they can give you the attention you all richly deserve. I have already started looking into the Curse on the DADA classroom, there is an easy work around I will discuss later." She smirked at the cheers, and Albus' enraged look. " Next, the point system is to be scrapped. It is used to force you the students to abuse each other into behaving, a vile system the staff is inconsistently abusing. I will be devising a new system for next year, do not worry.
Now, for other changes. Minerva McGonagall will no longer be the Head of Gryffindor for her extremely failure to notice any of the rampant bullying among you." Minerva almost started to cry when most of her Lions broke out into cheers. "Severus Snape has been fired and will be heading to Azkaban for legitimate abuse of children. I take that crime extremely seriously, he has been charged with three years in the hole." Almost every single student cheered here. "Few know this, but I have a potions Mastery. I will, for the next few weeks only, be taking over as your Potions Professor, however the position for next Year will be filled by three professors, all of which have already been chosen. Including Horace Slughorn, who taught many of your parents.
Binns has been sacked and exorcised, and in his place we already have four Professors who are quite excited to teach. Including more interesting histories, and a more balanced History. No more sleeping, I promise you will find it interesting most of you.
At the advisement of another-' she gave Cassius a smirk. "We will be having a mathematics class taught, so you know how balance your money and take care of your resources. Too many people cannot do this and it dearly costs them. Taxes, account balance and banking. It will be a required class, and I will not hear any complaints on this. Another class, one I am extremely excited for, is a magical culture class that is mandatory for all Muggle raised. You should not be just thrown into our world, and never taught our ways, our culture, and basic things like how our money works, how to summon the Night Bus, or where St. Mungos is...
Lastly, and this is important, there will be a dueling club started." She had to stop due to the raw cheers. "Starting next year, we do not have the staff for it yet. It will be a tiered program started to impress on your all how to protect yourselves in case of attack. This is not an excuse for you to throw stunners at each other, it is serious and will be taken as such. Now, with that, I bid you farewell. I have lesson plans to get to. ."
The room exploded into cheers and she left, feeling the weight of love and life filling her with more youthful energy than she could ever remember having...
That her boys were looking at her with pride only added to that feeling.
Now it was time to move onto the Cerebus, and after that it was the secondary Professors Like that idiot Trewlany.
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Albus never felt so powerless, he had been lambasted by Augusta in such a way that he had no recourse to restoring order. He could not save Severus, the reports were too damning. He could stop Minerva from losing her status as Head of Lions, to her shame, even if he could allow her to stay on a Staff and Deputy Head Mistress. Reading the reports, even he could not deny their damning evidence. No matter how much he wish he could..
Hogwarts was in for a great deal of changes, and he could not really be a part of them...
And that hurt more than anything.
Now, all he could do was react and work through things when Harry and Tom tried for the Philosopher's stone and hope that did not end to badly.
Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.
This was a joy to write.
Love, your Ninja Overlord,
Mika.
