Astoria Malfoy (astral_flower) wrote in breaking_point, @ 2009-07-26 15:42:00 |
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Entry tags: | *complete, 2024 07, character: astoria malfoy |
RP: Three Bags Full
Who: Astoria
Where: Malfoy Manor
When: July 26, 2024, late morning
Rating/Warnings: None
Summary: Astoria considers the meaning of the returned bribes and contemplates her odds of becoming Headmistress
Status: Closed, completed
Astoria had Floo'd to the Ministry that morning to pick up a file she'd left at her desk - and she'd found three silk pouches looped onto the door of her office. Silk pouches containing a fair amount of galleons.
Bribes, that she had given to members of the Board of Education, to the outspoken judges that she thought she could sway. Three had been returned. One had held a note: No amount of gold is worth the education of our children.
It stung. Yes, she knew she wasn't the best candidate, but to have people accept the bribes only to return them? And ... with notes like that?
Astoria shook her head and did her best to shrug it off. Things would turn around after the fundraiser, she was sure of it. Once they saw that she was serious, that she wanted the best for the school - well, the best within Pureblood standards, of course - then everything would be all right.
She'd get the wizarding world set to rights, starting with the first years.
Sighing, settled in at the table in the den, she reached for the owls that had stacked up. The House elves were sorting it now - fundraiser related, support, threats, Ministry related, and so on. Reaching for the support stack first - she was dismayed to see it was barely half the size of the threat stack - she started to read through the owls.