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SPOILER!!: Head Boy Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ ExpelliarMOOSE  Oakey sat and listened to The Three Girls Express their opinion on the whole Money-Grubbing Hogwarts Situation. His eyebrows raised when he heard that Gryffindors and Ravenclaws who couldn't pay just slept outside and around the school. He moved his gaze over to the Headmistress who he was sure was not going to like hearing that students were out of their common rooms past curfew.
He had heard that Slytherins, or more specifically Dylan had paid for each of the snakes to get into the common room once already. He himself put out a jar saved up knuts and sickles from over the years for those who couldn't pay on their own. Oakey finally sat up himself and chimed in "I agree that it's not fair." he said bluntly. "and I also think Alice has a point as well, Why not just do another large function like the Library Auction from last year? That was a big success wasn't it?" How did all of that money just vanish? His Grandmother spent half his university savings to win him the vial of liquid luck that rested around his neck still unused.
Now he had some disagreeing to do to. "It really isn't that difficult to clean the Common Rooms." He turned back to Alice. "Just use Scourgify a lot on the dusty surfaces. The Musty smell goes right out if you open the windows as well. If you all have the same issue as ours does I mean." He was going to see Mr.Firth about getting Firewood to the Common Room. So the walk was the only large amount of work he'd have to do to help clean it up.
To him it sounded like the Lions and Eagles needed to pool their money together, and not sleep outside.
.... PAY to get into her common room, and clean it? Dora just gave him a LOOK.
Really Head Boy? Really.
Sigh.
Hufflepuffs. SPOILER!!: Extra Syrup Quote:
Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl Mmmkay, so everyone here CLEARLY didn't look happy to be here, and Bunz wasn't happy to be here, so... why were they all here then? The redhead's blue eyes darted from one student to the next as they all spoke... and what came out of their mouths? NOTHING BUT COMPLAINING. You would THINK that they would have taken her speech at the start of term to heart. BUT NOOOOOOO. Here they all were, WHINING about LIFE not being FAIR.
Anastasia waited until everyone had said their piece... so far... and then she cleared her throat important. She sincerely hoped they had all come to this little tête-à-tête hungry, because they were ABOUT TO GET SERVEDDDD.
With that, which Anastasia had amazingly been to deliver without hardly raising her voice at all, the redhead whirled on the second whiner. The biggest whiner of them all. Miroslaaaava.
"Did you try paying with any other type of coin, Miss Miroslava?" And Annie had to bite her tongue then to keep from throwing some flippant insult the girl's way. Something about being mis-sorted into the oh-so-intelligent house of Ravenclaw was just itching to get out of her mouth, but the redhead held it back. For now.
"If you had actually tried to pay your entrance fee, as so many of your fellow students did, you might realize that the turnstiles automatically adjust themselves to accept any form of coin, and then allow you admittance for as many entrances as the coin is worth. For example, one galleon into the turnstile would allow to walk into your common room FOUR HUNDRED and NINETY-THREE different times."
She miiiiiiight have raised her voice a liiiiiittle bit then, but overall, the Headmistress was still proud of the patience she was exhibiting here. She let out a short snort-sigh as the questions just continued coming.
"I believe that answers the rest of your financial questions, Miss Miroslava, and as I already addressed the issue of fairness with Miss Dixon, I do not think it is necessary to respond to your childish protests of 'why me.' WHY HOGWARTS is what you should be asking, young lady, not WHY ME. At least you still HAVE a school to attend and an excellent teaching staff to learn from. We're all in this boat together. Do you think WE, the staff, like not having the basic supplies we need to teach our lessons? Do you think WE like not knowing from one week to the next whether or not we'll be PAID?!!!"
All right, all right, now the frustration was coming out some. She took a short breath. "The castle and the kitchens are open to all who feel it is necessary to supplement their nutritious, already provided meals with extra junk, should our few remaining house elves permit their entry. As for our plans to save Hogwarts---" She cut herself off and snapped a furious, extremely judgmental glare down the length of the girl's body.
"I would hardly say you have no source of income. And I will not be discussing the stability of the school's financial future with you any further, Miroslava, so have your parents --- YOUR source of income --- owl me if they insist."
"You do NOT have my permission to be out of bounds after curfew and you may NOT abuse the Room of Pay--- Requirement by turning it into an extra dormitory!!!!!!" bellowed the Headmistress who had most definitely lost her cool. Unfair? They wanted to talk unfair? HOW WAS IT FAIR TO BE OUTNUMBERED BY WHINY BRATS IN HER OWN OFFICE SPACE??! HUH?
She inhaled through flared nostrils when the Head Boy, at least, had the sense to jump in and inform the Gryffindor that she herself was very capable of cleaning her own space. "Thank you," the redhead growled toward him, not at all sounding grateful in the moment. But really, oddly, Gunter was acting like the only one here who had a grasp of the situation. Geez.
"It's called cleaning up after yourself, first of all, and second of all," she rolled her eyes heavenward and then returned them to glaring at the four students. "Who says Hogwarts and the Board of Governors do not already HAVE plans to raise funds for the school? We are NOT having another auction, because right now I do not believe we have enough faith and support in the school to host such an event, but REST ASSURED, CHILDREN, that the responsible adults running this school are WORKING on a variety of solutions. PAYMENT CENTERS are only a portion of our plans." And they should be grateful that it wasn't something worse. Yet.
She forced herself to take another breath. Blood pressure, Anastasia, remember your blood pressure. "If you have any more questions, Miss Fischer, I'd suggest taking them up directly with your grandfather. He is on the Board of Governors, is he not?" She wasn't the ONLY PERSON involved in this giant mess.
"As for the rest of you," her eyes once again flicked around the group, "Do me a favor and go directly to your Heads of House FIRST next time, instead of coming to me with your complaints. While I of COURSE am willing to listen to constructive criticism of how I run this school," that was a bald-faced lie, "and any other ideas you MIGHT have for improving conditions, I do NOT take well to WHINERS, BRATS, and STUDENT LEADERS WHO FAIL TO LEAD."
With that rather insulting finish still ringing in the air, the furious redhead turned on her Louboutin heels and disappeared behind her stone gargoyles, most definitely not coming down again for the rest of the night. Maybe even the rest of the week. She was that upset right then.
The thing about the Headmistress when she got this mad, was that she sorta started turning the color of her hair. Not all of her, just her face, but it was enough to fascinate Dora for all of a moment before all of the fiery anger was being directed at her.
There wasn't really much room for her to say anything back, though that didn't stop Dora from THINKING responses, like how come the sign didn't say the machine took other coins? That would have been so helpful. She supposed it was still good to know now, with the term not yet started properly.
And then she went on and on.
......
... and on.
Why Hogwarts? Heh. No, he Headmistress had it right the first way around, but Dora didn't say anything though cause she was patiently waiting for Truebridge to finish ranting on. She wasn't going to her head of house, what good would she do her?
When the speech was finally over, Dora prepared to speak, even sat up, but then the Headmistress was leaving all in a huff like what THEY had to say wasn't important. She deflated back against the couch and turned her head over to Alice. "It takes galleons." Pause. "Why HOGWARTS." Amused pause. "We don't have parents as a source of income, I don't think she knows." And Dora would have told her that, if she stuck around to hear what they had to say.
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