Who: Professor James Walsh and Bill Ford
What: Parents Weekend! Old friends catch up.
Where: Professor Walsh's office, St George's Pub
When: Afternoon-to-evening, Saturday 24th September.
Rating: PG? SFW...ish? Those teachers are a lot more interesting out of student earshot.
Parents’ Weekend was a yearly ritual that James Walsh could do without. It had originally started as a way for the new students to reassure their parents that they were in good hands and to show them the type of environment they were leaving their children in, but had soon become almost a publicity event for the school. Advanced students were poked and prodded into showing off the marvelous things they’d been taught, and the sporting teams played rough to show off who was the toughest and best before any in-season punishments could be dealt out. He’d very strongly encouraged (read: ordered) the Champlain Quodpot team not to participate in the exhibition match because knowing Lars, he would have very carefully
not recommended that the Clemons players take out their biggest rivals by means of in-game ‘accidents’.
The worst part though, was the overinvolved parents who took the opportunity to harrass the teachers about their child’s progress (or in most cases, lack thereof). He got it more often than other professors, if by virtue of the classes he led. Wandless Magic was a particularly difficult subject at the best of times, and because of the dangers an irresponsible user presented to other witches and wizards, he did not take even the slightest misbehavior lightly. Just as many kids had been thrown out on their asses as had passed the class.
( Apparation was far worse, because any student at all could take it. )
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