 Yeah I broke that mirror, so what? ll NOT backward ll Official Gryfferin ll Lemon's favourite
Last year, he blamed his students' behaviour on being uprooted from the castle and being brought into strange waters with less than friendly hosts. This term, they just seemed to be having a contest to see who could make him lose his marbles first. Hint: Gryffindor was winning.
He gave the Fifth Year a disapproving look once she was out of the portrait and back on her feet. Thank Merlin for that, by the way. He didn't need a whole disaster on his hands. "I expect that sort of poor excuse and poor thinking from First Years, Starson. You wouldn't go "not again" and cover your ears the moment I started speaking--at least not to my face. It's disrespectful." Something he didn't think he'd need to spell out to someone like her who'd always been more keen to follow rules and remain on the good side of her peers and Professors. "Being a portrait does not exclude her from common decency in the same way that I'm sure if you had something you were passionate about and you had others covering their ears--a visual, deliberate and blunt act of shutting someone down--you would be none too pleased either." This was very basic. "I trust you won't go around treating anyone else in the castle this way. It's hurtful behaviour and not to be repeated, am I clear?"
He wouldn't argue when she rolled her eyes. The Headmaster trusted he wouldn't need to tell her that was also disrespectful, regardless. Or maybe he would. He'd have to wait and see on that one and hope the faith he was willing to put in her wouldn't be thrown back in his face because then he'd have to do something about it and he'd rather not with this one. She wasn't outright a trouble maker.
Not like Dredworth.
He scowled at the girl. "A wise person knows the difference between being honest and being disrespectful. Small minded people use the excuse of "being honest" to be nothing more than rude." As she had done. "Put a sock in it, you're making ears bleed" is plainly rude. It's not how you'd speak to a professor," He trusted, "and I hope not how you speak to your peers."
It also didn't escape his attention that she had done neither thing he'd requested of her. "You're not leaving this spot, until you apologize for your poor behaviour and applaud the Fat Lady."
Vance was free to go whenever he pleased. Starson, too, once she confirmed she'd understood what he said, but not this one.
__________________ Imma say all the words inside my head____________________________________
______________________________I'm fired up and tired of the way that things are said.
|