Private message to Dominic Selwyn

[alt_molly]

TO: HOGWARTS BOARD OF GOVERNORS

I LOOKED AT MY JOURNAL THIS MORNING AND FOUND MY TWIN SONS, FRED AND GEORGE WEASLEY, EACH POSTING THAT THE OTHER WAS DEAD.

THIS WAS NO JOKE. THEY WERE HEXED BY DOLORES UMBRIDGE TO REALLY BELIEVE IT.

HOW COULD YOU PUT THIS IRRESPONSIBLE, HEARTLESS MONSTER IN CHARGE OF THE EDUCATION, GUIDANCE AND SAFETY OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN?

SHE LAID A HEX ON THEM WHICH LED TO PROFOUND TRAUMA FOR MY SONS. SHE INTERFERED WITH THEIR MEMORIES AND THEIR VERY PERCEPTION OF REALITY A MERE MONTH BEFORE THEY ARE TO TAKE THEIR NEWT EXAM!! AND ONLY A FEW MONTHS AFTER THEY LOST THEIR FATHER IN A HORRIFIC ACCIDENT!

I DEMAND THAT THIS RIDICULOUS HEX BE LIFTED FROM MY SONS AT ONCE. OR I WILL WITHDRAW MY CHILDREN FROM HOGWARTS. AND I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO CONVINCE OTHER PARENTS TO WITHDRAW THEIR CHILDREN AS WELL.

I DEMAND THAT DOLORES UMBRIDGE BE SACKED FROM THE POSITION OF HEADMISTRESS OF HOGWARTS. SHE IS NOT FIT IN ANY WAY FOR THE ROLE.

DO SOMETHING!!!

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[alt_selwyn]

I apologise for not responding to this immediately, Mrs Weasley. I decided I needed to write to Dolores Umbridge first.

If it's any consolation, I think this may be the last straw. I never would have wished this curse on any of your children, but paradoxically this may be good news for those of us who want her removed (and let me assure you I've been working on that since she was first appointed; she is utterly unsuited to manage staff, students, or really anything other than possibly a small crew of house-elves dedicated to maintaining the wallpaper at one of the larger London homes.)

She's apparently being summoned to appear before Our Lord to account for her actions and decisions regarding Hogwarts.

I do not expect her to return from Buckingham to her Hogwarts office. In fact, she'll be lucky if she walks out

[alt_molly]

When is she being summoned before Our Lord? Percy tells me there's no Court on Sunday, so of course I know it isn't today.

I am so relieved to have your support in this. My present chief concern at present--well, aside from their desperate state of mind of course--is that the spell isn't reapplied. I'm told that her pattern is to let these punishments run for three days, and the punishment hexes are reapplied each morning.

I'll leave them in school for now, since you tell me she's being called to account. But if she tries to reapply the spell tomorrow morning, I'm pulling them out immediately.

[alt_selwyn]

No, it won't be today or tomorrow. Not that quickly. My best guess would be a week from tomorrow.

In the meantime I wrote to Umbridge expressing my concerns about the punishment given; I share your desire not to see it re-applied tomorrow. I also tried to firecall Umbridge but apparently her floo isn't working.

She is precisely the sort of petty self-important tyrant who will ignore urgent messages with the pretense that she hasn't noticed them (because her desire to audit the quill supply was so vastly more important than her need to respond to messages from the Board of Governors) but nonetheless I expect we'll hear from her well before morning.

[alt_selwyn]

Mrs Weasley, I'm not sure whether she wrote to you as well, but she told me that she's decided there's no need to renew the spell on them tomorrow.

If there are lingering effects, let me know if you would like a referral to a Healer from the Curse Damage ward at St Mungo's. Meddling with someone's memory shortly before they're to sit exams is no joke.

[alt_molly]

I will keep that in mind. Once again, thank you for your continued kindness to my family.