It hasn’t escaped our eagle eyed attention that among the other Big Changes at Hogwarts this year, there’s a long list of new rules. Change is good, especially changing your underpants, but sometimes change is just for the sake of, well, change. Is there a reason we have to sing our way through class, bribe professors with food, or wear whatever the heck pips are?

The answer, in short, is no. No, there is no rhyme or reason, just silly adults exercising their influence on impressionable youth. And when you fail to measure up, they exercise that influence with pouting and punishment. Is someone in this school brave enough to stand against pointlessness and demand some common sense, or are we all so scared of losing house points or spending time in the dungeons that we’ve lost our backbones? What good are Gryffindors without a little rebellion in our midst?