Attention, Hogwarts
Feb. 11th, 2013 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_gredforgeAs we Weasleys need a lesson concerning the necessity of appreciating our family, and especially our noble pureblood heritage, Madam Umbridge is forc requesting that we make the following announcement:
For the next three days, we Weasleys are to be considered half-bloods, so that we can discover for ourselves and meditate upon the proper stratifcations of the Protectorate society which Our Lord finds so very proper and valuable.
As half-bloods, we are not allowed to acknowlege or associate with members of our original family of origin. Instead, we have been assigned pureblood siblings, and it is to be our solemn duty to serve these siblings, in order that proper precedence may be maintained.
As our blood is no longer considered pure, we are allowed to sit in the Great Hall only if we stay as far from the Head Table as possible.
We will be attending the Basic Defence class for half-bloods instead of our usual Defence classes.
Thank you for your attention.
For the next three days, we Weasleys are to be considered half-bloods, so that we can discover for ourselves and meditate upon the proper stratifcations of the Protectorate society which Our Lord finds so very proper and valuable.
As half-bloods, we are not allowed to acknowlege or associate with members of our original family of origin. Instead, we have been assigned pureblood siblings, and it is to be our solemn duty to serve these siblings, in order that proper precedence may be maintained.
As our blood is no longer considered pure, we are allowed to sit in the Great Hall only if we stay as far from the Head Table as possible.
We will be attending the Basic Defence class for half-bloods instead of our usual Defence classes.
Thank you for your attention.
Order Only
Date: 2013-02-11 07:16 pm (UTC)I'd ask if you were kidding, but you wouldn't. Not about something like this.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2013-02-11 08:38 pm (UTC)Since we can't get close to each other, but we all have to eat at the foot of the table, we have to eat in shifts. Ron didn't bother though, for lunch: he was so hacked off that he just made himself a sandwich and left the Great Hall.
Of course, the two of us share a dorm room. And the charm's distance is set so that we have to stay away from each other. Which means that if we're up there together, we have to sidle along the walls on opposite sides of the room. One of us will have to swap beds with Lee, too.
And the 'purebred sibling' stuff: essentially, she's assigning us to students she favours as their own personal house elves. We get to shine their shoes, fetch and carry for them, and so on.
It's bloody ridiculous.
I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-11 08:34 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-11 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-12 02:32 am (UTC)I say, this little social experiment sounds most interesting. As one who, as you know, is eagerly awaiting the confirmation of my own change in status, upon completion of O.W.L.s, one might say I am conducting the same sort of exercise over a longer term, what?
I wonder if you might be willing to share some of the observations you have made or shall make over the course of the next few days. I say, it's well true that walking in the shoes, as it were, of another, may be the best method of coming to understand that person's point of view.
In fact, one can only imagine what might happen if every pureblooded wizard were to spend three days or a week being treated as if halfblooded. Or even muggleborn, I daresay! It should be most instructive to all, I should think.
-Justin
I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-12 03:08 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-12 03:18 am (UTC)Yes, let's keep our collective bear-poking to a minimum, what!
You're quite right about that bally old 'Defence' text--I say, if it can even be called a textbook, what--and about not caring at all if any halfblood actually manages to pass a single O.W.L.
-Justin
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-12 03:23 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-12 03:26 am (UTC)We had to listen to the utterly boring people from the Floo Network and Purity Control and Administration, but there was also that lady Mrs Provim from the Wizarding Education Authority who made it clear that no matter what Umbridge says we'll be tested fairly.
On the other hand, she also said they don't compromise anything because an instructor has changed, which is just BRILLIANT where Defence is concerned, you know? It's not as if the Pureblood students are getting much of a better deal than we are. Umbridge as a Defence professor -- brilliant. I'm sure she's spending a lot of time on her lesson plans, too, it's not as if she's got anything else to be getting on with like leading the bloody school.
no subject
Date: 2013-02-12 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-12 03:48 am (UTC)Well, when the three days are over, there's no doubt you'll understand quite well the worth of your pure blood status.
no subject
Date: 2013-02-12 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-12 03:49 am (UTC)Of course.
Order Only
Date: 2013-02-12 03:50 am (UTC)A fat lot of nothing, you berk.
Or it would be, if the world was a properly run place.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2013-02-12 03:52 am (UTC)I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-12 04:03 am (UTC)I still don't understand how someone like this came out of the Burrow.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-12 04:28 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-12 04:31 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-12 05:16 am (UTC)What a prat.
Say. What's this book we're meant to have for Defence? I've got it tomorrow, but I don't have the book. And I'm not asking Finnicky or Thomas to look on with them, am I?
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2013-02-12 05:32 am (UTC)You'll have to get it back to me before Wednesday, that's when I have Defence and I'm sure I'll get in trouble if I don't have my book.