Private message to Headmaster Dolohov

[alt_harry]

Last week, Professor Glozeman summoned Sally-Anne and Justin to his office and told them Igraine Archer and Lucas O'Leary were having trouble in Transfiguration class. They were to tutor them, and be held responsible for their performance.

O'Leary was too intimidated by Justin to actually work with him. So Sally-Anne tutored both.

They took a test yesterday, and Archer passed but O'Leary failed. Today Glozeman had all four come to him just before noon, and cruciated O'Leary for failing to learn and Sally-Anne and Justin for failing to teach him adequately. And then he suggested to Archer that she could 'properly' motivate O'Leary by telling him what the mudblood camps are like. Since they are both half-bloods and could be sent there like Thomas Capper if they don't pass enough of their OWLs.

Comments

[alt_harry]

You can't possibly think this is a reasonable way to teach anyone Transfiguration.

Or a reasonable way to treat tutors when their students fail.

Sally-Anne has been tutoring people in Transfiguration since she offered to help Neville Longbottom, our first year. She doesn't need to be threatened to persuade her to help people. She certainly doesn't deserve to be cruciated.

[alt_harry]

And everyone at Hogwarts got new professors for Potions and Defence in the fall. All the OWL students also got a new Noble Arts instructor. Then in December we also got new professors for Herbology, Transfiguration, and Astronomy.

Surely, even if you think it's reasonable to snap the wands of half-bloods who don't pass enough OWLs -- even though Capper was brilliant at Arithmancy, the sort of student who comes along once in a generation, according to Professor Vector -- even if you think that's fair, you have to acknowledge that this year, no one should be sent to the camps, no matter how badly they fail.

Because I think that's Glozeman's goal, here. Not to help them. If he wanted to help them, he wouldn't have cruciated Sally-Anne, Justin, and Lucas O'Leary in front of Igraine Archer.

[alt_antonin]

Thank you for letting me know. As I let you know after breakfast that I intended to do, I've had a few words with Professor Glozeman today about appropriate means of student discipline; I am afraid he is still in the mindset from the last time he was teaching.

Do let me know if matters continue; I am well aware that many students prefer not to appear as though they are running to Mummy about issues they are having with their professors, but as many of our new arrivals are probationary appointments while I look for someone to take the position permanently, every bit of information helps.