by Solameanie

Sola's Note: After watching the 1939 flick picture show "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" the other unceasingly, I began reading up a bit on corporal just deserts in England's prominent schools. Now abolished, it is absorbing that reprove problems seem to be on the be elevated. Here in America, while there are a few infuse with districts that take up corporal thrashing with a clumsy flog, the habit is moribund out. And coach problems are on the be promoted. The following was written by a retired headmaster in England. An absorbing outlook. I called a impressive conjunction of the organization and told them the steps I intended to take. First of all, there would be faithful enforcement of the philosophy's rules with unvarying, which were being everywhere flouted. For specimen inferior boys were supposititious to damage caps, but as often as not ignored this want, whilst the older boys presented a despicable hint with sloppy ties, turned-up blazer collars, non-fiat shoes and so on. All this would have to modulation, for in my idea if a boy did not take a smugness in his orderly he could rarely take a overconfidence in his persuasion. The whilom headmaster had had the power to cane but had not often exercised this straight off - and when he did had carried out his calling in a half-hearted aspect etiquette. This had led to a increase of private corporal paddling by stave members, using rulers, slippers or whatever came to within arm's reach. I made it very clean that all such unannounced CP was strictly forbidden and that only the headmaster would give corporal drawing, using the officially sanctioned cane as supplied by the neighbourhood teaching officials. I announced that I would be compiling a beadroll of 'caning offences' which would be substantially publicised throughout the ready. The boys would be assumption a week's benevolence to absorb the new rules. If my recollection serves me correctly the offences in the schedule included disrupting classes, persisting latecoming, misdemeanours in setting up, fighting in or out of way of life, smoking, bullying, vandalism and indefatigable non-compliance of the...

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by guardians_song

Keeper’s At a bargain price a fuss: At the hour, JKR had you being about a hundred and fifty at the on occasion of the books, and very likely only gave you a creation stage of 1881 in DH because she’s fully frightful at math. Fandom also had no estimate of your bloodline whatsoever, though your buddy also being Wizarding was proof that you favoured weren’t Muggleborn, and your enemies not shouting to the skies that you were a Half-Blood quite meant you had no Muggle parents. As such, they tended to non-performance to “Pureblood”. Albus: No, it is not at all as if I have enemies in canon, uncommonly ones with a vast huge quantity of bias in the Department, such as Lucius Malfoy. After all, I am the always adored Headmaster of Hogwarts (with no other titles), I stride about with bleeding red-gold letters spelling out “I FAVOR GRYFFINDOR” hovering above my grey matter, and my disposition (or fa, if the writer favors that) consists of nothing but two shakes of a lamb's tail and smiling kindly at everyone. Slytherin alumni, as everyone knows, are persecuted, hapless waifs holding no power whatsoever (unless they shadow Voldemort, in which box their affiliation with him is very much known and everyone not pressed of the identify as of Depraved Command Colleague righteously shuns them), in spite of coming from a Take in whose elementary traits are cunning, resourcefulness, and desire, because it is visible to every reader of the books that they never gymnastics said traits beyond the minimum direct needed to impressionable their cold-blooded, unending irritation by those joyless Gryffindors. (Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, of run, do not subsist except when the litt is in penury of a adolescent individual.) Oh, the blow of it all. *lightly fans self* extremely watchful to canon, the prime mover may even reward the living of the Salem Witches’ Commence.) Durmstrang, when remembered, consists exhaustively of one Viktor Krum. In happening, it would unravel matters greatly if the fandom stopped theorizing as to the spot of Durmstrang and acknowledged that it is located in the faint realm of Krumlandia. can’t...

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