Macadrian nodded and replied, "No need to thank me. I believe everyone deserves a second chance, but I must impress upon you the seriousness of what you've done. If you were to do anything like this again, at the very least you'd be suspended, if not expelled. I don't want to see that happen to you, so please play by the rules... and yes, one hundred times please."

As Reese sat there writing, Macadrian retrieved another quill from her desk and a separate ink well and began writing the first lesson plan for the term. She was using this term to teach some predictive uses of numbers. Perhaps if she'd paid attention to the numbers last term, she would have seen this coming and might have been able to do something about it. Probably not, considering the Minister always gets what he wants no matter what, but even so, it would have been worth a shot. Well, she wasn't making the same mistake twice. This term the students would definitely be exploring what the numbers could be telling them about their own futures and that of the wizarding world.