Quizzes and Essays Everywhere date: 2 October 1997 characters: Minerva McGonagall, others location: Professor McGonagall's office private/semi-private/public: Open! summary: Minerva works on paper work and (hopefully) gets interrupted by students status: Beginning.
Grading quizzes was not good for Minerva's blood pressure. Despite the fact that the students eyes were open during class she was absolutely sure at least a few of them were sleeping through class. She slashed another red line across the paper with her wand and rose to make a cup of tea.
Stirring honey into her china cup Minerva let out a small sigh, something she did not permit herself often. Sometimes she found it straining, there was a fine line to walk between protecting the students and keeping the Carrow's content enough that they did not remove her from her post. It didn't help that the students kept looking for trouble. It certainly didn't help that she had been unable to take charge of Miss Weasley's last detention, Godric only knew what the girl looked like now. She was dreading the next owl she received from Molly.
Minerva took her tea cup back to her desk and pulled the next stack of papers toward her, nothing was ever accomplished by shirking.