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in_the_grass ([info]in_the_grass) wrote in [info]wished,
@ 2010-07-13 23:07:00

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Entry tags:!2003: 07, !incomplete, essery oakby, severus snape

Who: Severus & Esserby
What: New Head of Hufflepuff!
Where: Hogwarts, Headmaster's office
When: This afternoon
Warnings/Rating: TBA/Low

Severus remembered when the summer holidays - ages and ages ago, it seemed - had been holidays. It wasn't that he missed them; the extra work was more than worth being allowed to trade a classroom for an office. Still, it seemed that every time he sat to finish something, there was some other matter that had to be addressed immediately, some other end to tie up before the students came streaming back in. One day it was some inexplicable shortfall in the ink budget, the next a faculty spat over whether the curtains in the lounge ought to be kept drawn, and the next Hufflepuff needed a Head. Irritations all, and the thought of leaving a quarter of the student body sitting bewildered and alone in the Great Hall after the sorting was tempting, but ... it would likely have produced complaint letters, and he didn't need any more of those, either. The number of parents with time to submit trivial grievances was distressing.

Hufflepuff would be easy enough to fix, at least. Oakby would do decently, he thought, if she'd agree to it - well-liked, as far as he knew about that sort of thing, but not so besotted with her own students that she couldn't bear to hand out detention on occasion. He had summoned her to his office hoping that the free room and board and moderate hike in salary would be enough to take this particular issue off his plate. Hiring from the inside was so much less problematic, and would almost certainly leave his evening free. He shuffled through the last term's disciplinary records as he waited for his appointment to arrive - at least he could assure her that they weren't the worst of the lot.



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[info]in_the_grass
2010-07-16 10:15 pm UTC (link)
Severus nodded; one less task on his agenda at the end of the day. "Very well. You have time - you'll need to be settled in a few days before the start of term. I'll have your papers sent to you within the week. If you have any further questions, you can direct them to your peers, current and former." Which included him, of course, but he wasn't one for volunteering. "Neville Longbottom has accepted the Gryffindor position; any assistance you can give him in struggling through will no doubt be greatly appreciated. You're blessed with a rather less troublesome House." And then, old biases died hard, and as far as he could remember Longbottom had always needed all the help he could get.

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[info]oakbye
2010-07-16 10:19 pm UTC (link)
"Longbottom? Sprout's assistant?" She'd assumed that he'd be taking over the place of Herbology, because that made a good deal of sense, but as Head of House right away? At least she wasn't the youngest of them...

"What about Ravenclaw?" She assumed Slughorn would still be taking responsibility for Slytherin.

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*totally needs to ask who HoH for Ravenclaw is* >>
[info]in_the_grass
2010-07-19 02:39 am UTC (link)
"The very same. He is ... enthusiastic." He didn't sound as though he meant it to be a compliment. The best intentions in the hands of someone over-eager could be disastrous, and most things Longbottom touched that weren't plants had always seemed to him to end up in very poor shape indeed. "Ravenclaw won't have such a new hand at the helm." Not everyone had been newly hired, thankfully, although sometimes it felt like it. Severus had never been one to sell himself short, but he knew it was impossible to hope to make up for the loss of the last two Headmasters' experience - not in the space of a few years. "I think you'll find it isn't so different, in any case, from what you've done before; only on a larger, more exasperating scale." The expulsion powers had always been rather gratifying.

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