"I don't think Professor Dumbledore would have accepted her into the school if she'd had the elder Crouch's sense of justice." She makes a slightly ashamed face. "Remind me what happened to him? I may be thinking of someone else."
"Why incompleteness? I think we all know he was a proud, nasty little bastard in school; you weren't seeing much of him by the time he matured a little. I vastly prefer Margate's version of him." She nods, looking serious. "How much need we be concerned about Malfoy and Lestrange in the area of gathering stormclouds?"
"Well done," she says quite sincerely. "I went to a few such dinners myself -- I could have killed the man sometimes."
Val, on the other hand, claims that in the last thousand-or-so years there have been periods where he was absolutely, heartbreakingly bored to tears for years on end. Rare, and far between, but present. Minerva will not allow Sev to get himself crushed. Answer is no. Five points from Slytherin for considering. However, I'd love to see both of them deal with Gaav.