Not one board member looked amused by the Slytherin girl's snark. If looks could kill, the little girl might not have dropped dead but paralysed at Mungo's would be a possibility. "Healer Poppy had fine credentials." The woman responded curtly. "Her references checked out and she certainly had more training than your current school healer as well as the last. That she got a little overzealous in her pursuits was...unfortunate. Nothing more."

The chairman looked to the Headmaster, clearly displeased.

"I see the students have gotten no more polite with the years. What are they being taught?"

Academics were well and good but if this was the future of the wizarding world then the future was dismal indeed.