ORDER ONLY: ANTONIN SODDING DOLOHOV!?!!!

[alt_molly]

ANTONIN DOLOHOV TEACHING AT HOGWARTS? TEACHING DARK ARTS AS A REQUIRED CLASS?

MY CHILDREN TO TAKE CLASSES FROM THEIR UNCLES' MURDERER!? AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO SPEND ARTHUR'S HARD-EARNED MONEY ON HIS VILE, LOATHSOME DARK ARTS TEXTBOOKS?!

WHY DOESN'T THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS JUST PUT THEIR WANDS TO OUR CHILDREN'S TEMPLES AND BLAST THEIR BRAINS OUT WHILE THEY'RE AT IT?!

THAT DEGENERATE EVIL DISGUSTING MAGGOT, THAT SMARMY CARBUNCLE, THAT STINKING PUSTULE--HE'S ALREADY SUCKING UP TO PERCY!

ANTONIN SODDING NIKOLAEVICH BLOODY DOLOHOV IS NOT GOING TO OOZE HIS SLIMY WAY INTO MY CHILDREN'S--

HE DESERVES TO BE--

OOO, HE--

IF I HAD--

HE DESERVES TO BE TORN LIMB FROM LIMB! HE SHOULD BE--SHOULD BE BURIED UNDER A THOUSAND YEARS OF ROTTING DRAGON GUTS!! DRAGON SHITE!!!

HE CAN GO SUCK A DEMENTOR'S ARSE!!!!

Minerva, how could you ALLOW THIS!

Comments

[alt_bill]

Blimey, Mum.

[alt_gredforge]

Yeah, why don't you tell us how you really feel.

He killed our uncles? Really?!

[alt_arthur]

Yes, he did. Which is a fact you are not to share with anyone else, boys.

Molly...take some deep breaths. Do you need me to come home?

[alt_gredforge]

Why not?

[alt_arthur]

Because they were killed while doing Order business. And an Order source told us so, specifically Minerva. So the official story, which you will stick to, is that it was an accident.

[alt_gredforge]

Blimey.

[alt_molly]

I NEED YOU TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING!!!

[alt_molly]

OH! ARTHUR! GIDEON AND FABIAN...

WE CAN'T LET THIS HAPPEN!

[alt_alice]

Oh dear.

I'm sorry, Molly. That's awful.

I'll say that I was significantly worried on Neville and Evelyn's behalf when Rabastan Lestrange came on staff. To be completely fair, he's been far more even-handed than I thought he'd be, but from what I know of Dolohov... he's far more dangerous, and I don't trust his motives one bit.

And requiring it for all students... that's something that doesn't sit very well with me either. At all.

Perhaps we ought to contact the auxiliary with some words of advice? I know Frank and I will be writing Neville and Evelyn, but seeing as how Molly and Arthur can't be quite as straightforward in their advice, we could send a message through Hermione to make sure they have some tools at their disposal to handle a course like that. And that they know a bit more about what they'd be facing with Dolohov.

[alt_sirius]

That's what I've been thinking.

Morgana, the idea that he'd be recalled just to teach ....

I think I preferred it when the prevailing philosophy was that the Dark Arts were only for the elite.

[alt_alice]

They're certainly being re-labeled as Noble, love, but I see it a deliberate attempt to make it both more desirable and that much more normal for everyone to be around. And that's just terrifying.

It's awful to consider how quickly people's views of the cardinals changed. I didn't ever think it would be that easy.