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Melina had once again been late- today was just not her day- and took a seat as the forms of those she knew to be Professors Sprout, Flitwick, Trelawney, Hagrid and Snape spoke to other employees about... being fired. And the notorious Professor Umbridge. Judging by the Professor's reactions, Melina guessed that they would be evaluating the teaching skills and abilities of the past mentors. As she soon found an evaluation sheet, she looked it over twice, took a quill out of her pocket and then began to write down her thoughts.

Each Professor has his or her own flaws and wonders.

Professor Flitwick: I must say that I do not agree with the High Inquestor, though it ma just be my style but I believe that a positive and cheerful learning environment is one that leads to successful pupils. However, the Professor does need to maintain more strict disiplinary actions. Also, some would say that more mishaps than necessary have occured in this classroom. As to who's fault that is, I cannot solely put the blame on Professor Flitwick.

Professor Hagrid: I find that this class is one of the more entertaining classes as opposed to say, History of Magic. Hagrid's teaching style is a more... relaxed one than most and makes the learning environment an easier one than a quicker paced class. Also, it is more involved and interactive. I understand that Hagrid's class has lead to injuries, but when dealing with wild animals what are you going to do?

Professor Snape: Professor Snape seems to have a superb knowledge of Potions as well has a firm hand on the classroom. Although Professor Snape is a man who knows how to get his point across, the potions that he has taught seem to be a little advanced for the students that he taught. Having been a Gryffindor/Slytherin rivalry, Snape tended to be biased toward Gryffindors aspecially. Other than that, he is very qualified for his position.

Professor Sprout: I certainly agree about the astound knowledge of herbology and the ability to share that knowledge are key features to the success of Professor Sprout. I do think that the language is a bit disruptive and the students would benefit from a cleaner environment. In my opinion, groupwork is a way to build character but it would be good to do some individual work as students will need to take initiative to do things for themselves in the "real" world.

Professor Trelawney: Though her predictions may seem random and the subject might seem ridiculous to some, it is not a pointless subject. Professor Trelawney might want to work on honing her skills to become a more accurate Seer, and the death/harm predictions should definetly be left out. And even though Trelawney may not be the most lucid seeming professor, she interests the class and gets them involved.

Professor/High Inquestor Umbridge: I believe that Umbridge has made some fair desicions in her examining the other Professors, but she has also used the power of her position to her own personal advantage. This is both unprofessional and unethical. Students also never got the chance to practice what they were learning, and you know what they say: practice makes perfect.

This was a difficult desicion and you are all very unique and wonderful in your own way, but please do not think this makes me think any less of you. If given the option, I would fire Professor Umbridge, and if not given the option, I would fire Professor Trelawney who seemed to be the weaker link of the bunch.

Capping the quill and putting it back in the designated pocket, Melina sat back: done.

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Through the door stumbles the bugged eye glasses wearing Divination Professor. She was slightly slack jawed and already starting to cry. "You would have me fired? Taken from my home? Why would you do such a thing?" the Trelawney illusion asked in a quiet, sad voice as she fidgeted with the many layers of bead necklaces around her neck.[/CENTER]

"I'm afraid so Professor Trelawney" said Oliver. "Admittedly you have been at Hogwarts for a number of years as the Divination Teacher" said Oliver. "However during that period of time you have managed to waste an endless number of students education. Since you started teaching at Hogwarts there have been hundreds of students passing through your class, and not one of them has learned a single thing. Whether it be for the classroom, or in the real world. Educators see this as a problem. If you can't teach your subject than we have no reason to keep you. Your class is a joke, people are falling asleep, and talking about things unrelated to the subject matter. Your the only person that seems to know what's going on in the classroom, and that's only half the time" said Oliver. If you would like to call yourself a true seer than by all means you can continue to do so, but you no longer will be working as a seer or a Professor at Hogwarts. Professor Trelawney you are fired!" said Oliver.

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Professor Snape turned and loped toward the person who had chosen to fire him. If he was one for laughing he would have just them. As it were, he was not that type of person. "Okay you insolent fool, let me hear why you think I should be let go," Snape sneered at everyone. "You all had better have a better reason than 'You were mean to the Gryffindors. I was only doing as any good professor would have done, weed out the bad seeds," he sneered yet again.

Lilah had been watching the others and the illusions appearing, and disappearing. The lady wasn't kidding when she said they had to fire a teacher. Lilah was too nice to fire somebody! Couldn't she stand as a backup for someone instead?

But, no. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the dreaded moment arrive. Oh great. Great great great. "Weed out the bad seeds? Is that what you call it?" she said in disbelief, organizing the things on her desk before staring straight into his...unbelievably dark eyes. Wow, they matched his heart. "Professor Snape, you are teaching a subject that requires patience, precision, and one needs to be comfortable with what their doing and in their environment in order to succeed in the subject. I know, I know. Don't tell me that you already know this, because obviously you don't if these kids are sitting in their seats and just counting down the seconds where they could leave the classroom and hide in their dormitories for the rest of the day instead of focusing on the task at hand. Fear, humiliation, the fact that sometimes these kids don't even feel safe...this is not the way a Professor should be teaching his class. Especially one that deals with a few certain ingredients that one should be extremely careful with. I am sorry, with all due respect Professor Snape, I really would fire you."

Oh dear Merlin, she was done right? Done?! That all just...came out! Out of nowhere! Now she just needed to, calm down. Let her heart beat settle down and, maybe a black hole could just swallow her up?

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Trelawney looked at the man and blinked... "You too wish to fire me and drive me from my home? WHay might I ask?" she said in her odd voice.

Darius stood, his hands loose behind his back his face calm and soothing as the illusion of Trelawney appeared. It was then he knew his decision was correct. Clearing his throat he stared at her blankly, amazed that they had kept her on for so long. "My Dear Professor, you must understand, the times have changed since you began teaching." he began in his most soothing voice. "As with all changes, sacrifices must be made, and I'm afraid you are one of those sacrifices. Teaching young children about the importance of divination is more than just theatrics or voice changes. You see professor, as I'm sure you're aware, these students will be out in the real world soon, do you really want them to fail? I sure don't; the way you've been teaching these children have been wrong, you should have helped more, been more curious towards them." he explained, his hands now moving on their own accord. He was flying by the seat of his pants right now, having no clue what he was talking about. "You yourself teach of things to come, having premonitions, surely you must have known that this was coming." he added with a quirked up eyebrow.

This was apparently harder than he thought, as Darius looked on staring the woman in the eye. "You've done a wonderful job teaching our youth, however..." he paused, his face smoothing out into an incredible smile, his hazel eyes soft "It's time for you to move on. We will forever be grateful for your wonderful service to our school." he finished, clearly out of his element. However Darius was good at hiding his emotions, using his good looks to ease everyone. Why couldn't he just take out his comic book and find something useful there? Surely Superman had been through something like this before?

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Originally Posted by The Announcer (Post 9265324)

Through the door swept the greasy form of Severus Snape, his typical scowl locked into place as he surveyed the man who was choosing to fire him. In his uncaring voice he asked, "Why would you, an obvious imbecile, even be here within the Ministry of Magic to begin with? Much less to fire a man with my obvious skill as a potions master?" That was obviously all Snape had to say about things because then he commenced to scowling and eyeing all of the other imbecile's in the room.

At first Prometheus thought a large black bat had swooped through the door, however as it drew closer, he realised it was Severus Snape.
"Professor Snape, I am sorry but your position at Hogwarts is no longer available. Your Fatal flaw was your inability to be neither loved, liked nor respected by your students, due to your prickly and rude demeanor. However I am not here today to talk about the past, I am here to discuss your options for the future. After so many years at the school as both staff and student you should seize this opportunity to go away and reevaluate your life, and if you decide you really wish to continue teaching, then the Ministry will be more than happy to help you find your softer side." he said with a smile.

"Oh and Professor Snape, the reason I work for the Ministry, is due to the fact that i was taught by teachers i loved and respected. Teachers who saw potential in me and gave me the chance to succeed and not once put me down, as you have done with some many other students."

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Armen was a little nervous when he found out that they needed to start out here on the Ground Floor, the Education Department. He was NOT an educator and wasn't prepared for this. He was going to hypervenalate, he knew! How could this happen to him. He watched and listened the woman in front of the group as they were handed the pamphlet written by the Umbridge woman. A much younger verion of himself had learned how horrible the woman was.

After reading through the reports, he stared at the blank page on the back and then after some long deliberation he began to write.

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Armen Recard's Parchment
After reading and disecting each report on the educational standards and actions of each Professor I have found that it would deam fit to fire Professor Filius Flitwick. In the report it mentions his very enthusiastic and friendly nature, but it has been mentioned that there is a fine line between teacher and friend; which in my opinion the Professor has crossed or is very close to doing so. There is too much riding on the education and training of our youth to have them playing silly games and waving the wands around without knowing what they are doing.

It is mentioned that Professor Flitwick often lets the children working unsupervised and without much direction. This is an extremely dangerous truth that needs to be erradicated as soon as possible. There should be no tolerance for such unnecessarily, dangerous, educational neglec.

A Professor that I believe is well sutied for their position is Professor Rubeus Hagrid. Although some of his teaching styles have been deamed 'unsafe', he is by far one of the most passionate Professors at the School for young witches and wizards. I think that his excited, and nurturing attitude allows him to exel in his feild. And physically he fits the job perfectly; being half-giant he is very sturdy and can withstand much of anything that may come his way. Overall a very well-meaning and responsible teacher; as long as he continues to check his curriculum with the Ministry.
After placing down his quill, he waited nervously for his essay to be judged.

Odd enough the small figure of Proffesser Filius Flitwick appeared in front of the man and in his squeaky voice said, "You would have me, one of the defenders of Hogwarts fired? I hope that you have a good excuse for it!"

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The image of Professor Trelawney gasped and spluttered in utter shock before shimmering and disappearing.

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Hagrid sobbed a few times into a handkerchief the size of a table cloth and nodded his head before his image shimmered and disappeared.

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The image of Severus Snape popped into being in front of Sam. THe scowl on his face was immense and he pulled the sleeves of his robes up jerkily as he sneered. "Well, I certainly hope that you can find a suitable reason to dismiss a tenured Potions Master," he said in his drawling voice as he glared.

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The image of Trelawney looked heart broken and she clutched at her chest and spluttered a few times before the image of her disappeared with a shimmer.

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The image of Trelawney was instantly enraged at the mention of the centaur, Firenze. "How dare you say that that HORSE is better suited to teach Divination than I. What prediction are you referring to that was over the top. I was a true Seer, child. I made predictions that were true," she said and looked at the woman angrily from behind her bug eye glasses as she muttered to herself.

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The image of Professor Trelawney shimmered and faded.

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The image of Severus Snape sneered and opened it's mouth to say something but instead shimmered and disappeared.

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The image of Professor Trelawney looked at the woman in rage and grasped at the front of her

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Nothing happened... all of the choices the man made on his parchment were all NOT options.

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Pippa had taken a seat, and caught the speech!thing that the Department Head of Education had given, and nodded in places where she seemed to approve. She had some good points, some not so good points. But they were mostly nothing. Only one or two. So, on the entirety, Pippa did agree with her on all of her points about teaching, and differentiated between a good one and a bad one.

Her eyes scanned the parchment with Umbridge’s reports, and she strummed her nails on the desk while doing so. This Umbridge woman was a loon, and that was all Pippa had to think about her. A stark raving loon. Once she had finally finished reading it, the nail strumming stopped, and she reached for her quill and started to write on the blank parchment.

The parchment she hated, parchment was silly. Muggle paper was better. Hehe.

To be fired :: Professor Hagrid
Reasoning :: The main reason that jumped out at me about Rubeus Hagrid, was the fact he never graduated a Wizarding school in his lifetime. This means that he himself, was not fully educated in the subject he was/is(er. Grammar failing) teaching. Sure. He knew things about the creatures he taught about, but he had never learnt how it was taught, nor all the small things students did need to know. Once expelled from Hogwarts, his wand was snapped, this means he would have had no access to magic, and if in trouble during a class, he wouldn’t have been able to use magic to help, through the fact or being wandless and that he himself wasn’t educated fully.

Sure, Professor’s should have a bond with their students so that they want to listen to them of their own accord, but Professor Hagrid was/is too close to his students and therefore his friendship would come across in class and he would have his ‘favourite students’. This would lower the self esteem of other pupils and boost it of the ‘favourites’.

In my mind, Professor Hagrid should have been kept as Groundskeeper, and not moved onto CoMC teacher, as he was never properly educated in the subject himself nor picked up any qualifications.

Most suitable :: Professor Sprout
Reasoning :: Through personal actions, I have found that teaching in groups works much better than one teacher to a whole class, simply because if a student is able to explain their decisions to other pupils, and explain how and why something is like it is, then they can assure their Professor that they know it themselves. Yes, this can be achieved through written assignments, but there is always a chance to cheat in these. Group work, defines whether they know it or not.

I agree that her allowance to foul language being used in her lessons is wrong, and yes- work is needed to improve this. But she is the Professor I think is the most suitable for her job.

THe image of Rubeus Hagrid came into being in front of the woman and shuffled his feet slightly. "Ya wan fire me too, eh? Why you wan do that fur?" Hagrid asked as he cried into his beard, huge teardrops that actually made a splatting noise when they hit.

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THe image of Hagrid shuffled his feet and then shifted a few times before blowing his nose like a foghorn into his HUGE handkercief. THe image them shimmered and disappeared.

OOC: THis is The Announcer's last post for the evening you lot. My sincerest apologies. I will get to thos of you who were posting as I was first thing in the AM.

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Odd enough the small figure of Proffesser Filius Flitwick appeared in front of the man and in his squeaky voice said, "You would have me, one of the defenders of Hogwarts fired? I hope that you have a good excuse for it!"

Armen was shocked speechless when the little figure of Professor Flitwick walked towards him. He was stuck between mumbleing uncoherently and wanting to pat the poor old dwarf's head. He was torn about this, but by what he had read in the report this needed to be done.

He took a deep breath for confidence and then gave it to them man as best as he could. "Well Filius according to your report you are known to let the students work on advanced charm work unsupervised. And wouldn't you want the students in your classes actually learn from a teacher who actually instructs them?" he asked the tiny man sincerely. "Wouldn't you want them to be prepared to defend Hogwarts if the situation arise?"

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OHHHHH, that image looked so real! Sam just stared at Snape for a moment or two, deciding whether or not he just wanted to poke him to see if he was real. But since he was a grown Division Head in his 20s, he decided it was best NOT to do that.

"I do have a suitable reason to dismiss you, Mr. Snape," he replied. "This report --" He tapped his index finger against the Initial Report of the Hogwarts High Inquisitor that was on his desk. "-- states that you have been teaching young students very advanced Potion making lessons. This is intolerable, sir." He paused for a moment to let Snape's brain soak in what he was saying before continuing, "And if the students in your class doesn't understand what's going on being it's too ADVANCED for them, then they might fail their exams and everything. Which isn't good...and it will be your fault."

"But you do have a really good knowledge in Potions, Mr. Snape. So maybe you can pick up another job somewhere? There's got to be places looking for someone with your knowledge in Potions," he explained. "Hogwarts just isn't the place to be teaching young students advanced subjects, sir." He paused one last time before adding, "I'm sorry."

Antigone smiled as she watched her pupils with a bit of pride. *Sigh* They were doing great and people were completing her task left and right! She couldn't be happier. She saw a few that had finished and no illusion came to them. "For those of you who have not had an image appear... there are a few reasons this can be. 1) YOu have no t given enough information and 2) you have chosen somone who is not an option. Please try to elaborate and you will do just fine," she said in a cheery voice.

OOC: The Announcer sends his apologies for missing a few posts... :erm: Will be fixed tomorrow. It was too late for him and he got a millte confuddled :)

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Antigone smoothed down the front of her jacket and leaned over Malachi's shoulder, her chain hanging down revealing the phail and the pendant. "Great work, Malachi. Wait for the cue to start your next task," she said sweetly as she squeezed his shoulder gently and gave him an indulgant smile.

"Thank you Miss McArdle." He returned her smile and tried again to work out what the phial on her necklace contained. It swirled almost like a memory... but why on earth would Antigone wear a memory?

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Trelawney turned and looked weepily at the man and shook as she asked, "You would have me taken from the castle as well? Shucked out of my home. Was I not a real seer? Why am I not fit to teach the noble art of Divination?" She hicupped a little sob and looked at the man with sad pleading bug eyes.

Malachi was impressed with the strength of Antigone's spellwork, this illusion was throughly convincing. He cleared his throat.

"My good lady forgive me, but I can only judge on the evidence presented to me. While Professor Hagrid also gave pause for thought, he at least had a through working knowledge of his subject. There is also the matter of your your skills with discipline. You seem to be totally deficient in that area. I am left with no option but to terminate your employment."

He felt like a total swine for having fired the woman... but it had to be done.

Chloe followed the group into the next room and sat down. When Antigone stood up to speak, she simply smiled. This was a challenge about teaching. Chloe had this one in the bag because this was, after all, her department's job. After listening carefully to the instructions, she began to extensively read through the pamphlet, annotating it by circling the good things about each teacher and putting rectangles around the bad ones, and she wrote notes to herself in the margins. When she got to the back page, she flipped through her pamphlet once again, trying to make a decision.

Hmph! Obviously this Umbridge woman is the one who should be fired! Chloe thought to herself, though several people had tried this approach now, and she wasn't sure that this was the point of the exercise. After thinking for a few more moments, she put ink on her quill and began to write.

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Being a great teacher is not something that just happens overnight. Being a great teacher is a destiny, a skill predetermined by your birth. Not just anyone is capable of becoming a great teacher. It takes dedication, compassion, self-sacrifice, intelligence, poise, stage presence, acting, maturity, a level head, impeccable communication skills, an ability to be engaging, an understanding of your students, adaptability, responsibility, believability, approachability, as well as a whole host of innumerable other attributes. That being said, it is my opinion that at such a fine a school as Hogwarts, we should only be hiring the greatest teachers. They should not be people who simply need a way to make a living. They should be people who are as passionate about their students as they are about their subjects.

In light of these points, I am of the opinion that the professor in need of being fired is Professor Trelawney. Though she seems to be well-versed in the different denominations of divination (though according to the information given, we have no proof she is capable of applying the various methods), she lacks the proper disposition to be a great teacher. It is not apparent to me how students could take her or her class seriously, nor, I imagine, do they find her interesting and engaging as she seems to be more of a joke than a figure worthy of their respect and attention. Based on the information received, she lacks few, if any, of the traits I have mentioned above for what I consider to be a great teacher. Nor, would I venture to say does she fit any of the criteria discussed by Ms. McArdle except perhaps the negative traits.

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Sybill's bottom lip quivered as she nodded her head in understanding. "Thank you... I suppose I understand," she said in her crazy voice as she wiped tears from her cheeks.

He nodded at her, "Good then. Goodbye," he told her. He gave her a small smile. He looked around for the exit. IT was time to go, and he hoped he was headed to a germ free environment. Which he highly doubted, but his mother always told him to have hope.

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Smiling tightly she then continued, "These pamphlets are excerpts from ,the once High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, Delores Jane Umbridge's reports on the Professors. What I want you all to do is look over these reports and decide whether or not you agree with her reports. Knowing what we do about the fine educators of that time period I think it might be an easy task."

She had begun to make her way around the room watching as the reports landed on desk after desk after desk. "You will find that the back page is blank. The reason for this is that I wish for each of you to tell me here which of these professors you would fire and why. Also please tell me which one you think is the best suited for their job, she said with a grin.

"Once you have completed your task and I feel it is to the Education Department's standards you will be given the chance to fire your chosen Professor. This of course will be an illusion. I want to see how you all would handle such a situation," she said with a crooked grin as she made her way back to the desk in front of the room and took a seat.

Well, this was boring.

Dan found himself almost nodding off as he heard some woman rambling on about teachers and how they should teach. Like this woman was really any authority on anything. Pfft!

He rolled his eyes as he waited for her to finish, thinking of how he could next torture his brother. Maybe he could put something in his coffee...

He smiled to himself, but frowned as soon as he heard mention of evaluations. What did this have to do with anything? Honestly. A waste of his time.

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Charms:While Professor Flitwick is cheerful and welcoming, the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, feel that this demeanor encourages the wrong sort of learning environment. While the students were focused on their studies, there were more mishaps than one would have expected, all of which resulted in far too much merriment.

Points for improvement: Professor Flitwick should focus on disciplining his classes when they step out of line, and conduct his lessons with a serious manner.

Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.

Professor Flitwick should be fired because he is an incompetent teacher who doesn't know how to discipline his students and keep them in line. He also isn't serious, and what teacher isn't serious? I'll tell you... a joke of one!

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Divination: Professor Trelawney lacks the basic skills of divination and teaching. Her predictions are a mixture of deduction and wild guesses. Her class control is minimal, she resorts to making ghoulish predictions in order to scare or bore her students into submission. She is also unable to make predictions on request.

Points for improvement: Professor Trelawney needs to revisit some tried and tested, ministry approved disciplinary procedures and apply them. She must also become more accurate in her predictions and teaching methods.

Action to be taken: Further inspection is required. Probation may be a necessary measure.

Professor Trelawney should be fired because she is a fraud. What next? A fake Astronomy teacher? What do we go to school for? To be taught by incompetent twits? I know I didn't go to school for that.

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Care of Magical Creatures:Professor Hagrid is difficult to understand, intimidating to the students and seems to take pleasure in the thought of other people being hurt. His curriculum is vastly inappropriate for the age group he is teaching and he refuses to admit this. There have been injuries in his classes, one of which has led to a hypogryff being sentenced to death by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, although the beast escaped, something that the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, am convinced was arranged by Professor Hagrid.

Points for improvement: Professor Hagrid should follow the lesson plans left by Professor Grubbly-Plank while he reassesses his curriculum so that it is in line with Ministry expectations. He should also concentrate on enunciating clearly so that the students can understand him.

Action to be taken: Further inspection is required. Probation may be a necessary measure.

Professor Hagrid should be fired because he is incompetent and puts students in danger. Do we want kids to die while at school? No, we do not. He might as well round up some Dementors and use those.

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Herbology: While Professor Sprout has a sound knowledge of her subject and so she is able to convey this knowledge to a reasonable standard. However, she allows her pupils to use foul language in her classes, something that the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, find most abhorrent and unnecessary. The amount of group work that is undertaken by Professor Sprout’s classes is also of concern, as they seem at times to almost be teaching each other, rather than receiving instruction from her.

Points for improvement: Professor Sprout would benefit from revisiting and revising some basic teaching skills, including what is acceptable language for the classroom.

Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.

Professor Sprout is like Flitwick. she should be fired for demonstrating what a teacher shouldn't do. Letting students lip off?They are kids! That kind of language is supposed to be used by adults like me.

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Potions:
Professor Snape is a highly competent Professor who had excellent control over his classes. It is clear that he has consistently and throughly educated his students throughout his tenure at Hogwarts. The Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, have doubts about some of the potions that are currently on the syllabus, for example Strengthening Solution. However, there are other considerations to take into account which outweigh this. Professor Snape seems to be highly skilled in many areas and seems to be an asset to the school.

Points for improvement: Professor Snape should consider revising which potions are on the syllabus as some of them are too advanced for young children.

Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.

Professor Snape should be fired for being a jerk.

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Of all the teachers, Snape is the one most competent.

Nikos had been sitting in the middle of the room, leaning back in his seat and listening as the Education Head spoke. His previous trip to their department had piqued his curiosity in the education system so he listened intently. Picking up the pamphlet, his eyes scanned the words of Delores Umbridge. Now Nikos wasn't a fan of the 'High Inquisitor', but he couldn't help but be impressed by her reports, even if he didn't agree with them all. After thoroughly reading all the reports, he turned it over and wrote his response on the back.

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Professor to Fire: Professor Hagrid ~ Care of Magical Creatures

While I do believe that Prof. Hagrid is well suited for working with magical creatures, I do not believe his chosen profession should be combined with educating the children of Hogwarts. His inability to speak clearly and intimidating stature alone are not a problem. He can always repeat himself and the intimidating factor can only serve as a bonus seeing how the students will respect him. It is his poor decision to give the students hands on experience with creatures many adult wizards can't even handle that cripples him as a professor. Hippogriffs are rated XXX by the Ministry for a reason and should have never been allowed on the castle grounds. Any wizard that has worked with the creature could have predicted that combining children and Hippogriffs would result in a few injuries. And whose to say that he would not have chosen a creature with a higher rating than XXX, thus ending in a greater number of injuries or worse death? It is clear that Hagrid is not putting the safety of the children first when planning his curriculum. It is this reason why I believe Professor Hagrid should be fired.

That being said, I believe Professor Snape would be best suited for filling the position. Even though the man does not hold extensive knowledge on the subject, he has, Umbridge as stated, excellent control over his classes. This quality is something that is needed when combining something as unpredictable as creatures and children.

Once finished, he placed his quill and parchement down on his desk, clasping his hands as he waited for his 'illusion'.

Chris had finished his reports now, and was ready to pass it to the challenge host but seeing that the host was busy with some other people, he started reviewing his report once again and hoped that it would suffice and all to be able to enter the next challenge. He had a hard time doing the report. Well, it was really hard to judge people's working ethics especially when you didn't know them that well.

"Upon reviewing the High Inquisitor's reports for a few times, I've come up with a surmise that the staff that should be fired is High Inquisitor and Professor Dolores Umbridge herself for she has done nothing but twit other professors teaching skills with pure derision and sarcasm. She should always know as a teacher herself that being a teacher is really a hard profession so instead of turning all the other professor's teachers hope and chances down, she should have encouraged them to be a great teacher. All her reports are therefore unfair and with that being said, she is really the one that should be fired and all the regular Hogwarts professors before her should just continue teaching with high hopes for their students that they'll be a productive and industrious citizens of our beloved country. And for me and with highest respect, I conclude that Professor Snape is the best suited for the job and is the best professor Hogwarts have had, alongside with Professor Dumbledore. Professor Snape is the most competent, most dedicated and most excellent of them all. With perfect and immense teaching and guiding skills and with him being such an authoritative professor, Professor Snape has surely instilled in student's minds that knowledge, respect, and a very good demeanour are the best things a students should always have."

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Through the door once more loped the crying form of Rubeus Hagrid. He was blotting at his eyes with his huge necktie and stopped in front of the man before shifting back and forth on his feet. "Y'wanta fire me to, eh? Why're you doin this ta me? I love the kids more than anyone..." he trailed off and blotted at his eyes again.

Erik looked up at a door in front of him as Hagrid walked toward him. Okay...this was weird. Seeing the giant of a man in front of him shifting he swallowed. "Well...Hagrid. I know ye do and I know they love you but I feel that your skills could be more...useful elsewhere than teachin them." How to phrase to a big blubbering hallucination that he was fired...? "I'm sorry mate, I am but I think it's for the best. I have nothin but the kids best interest at heart much like yerself." He smiled at Hagrid limply. Hopefully he'd take it well.

Laura checked her report again and began thinking Umbridge fine she had to be fired had she been the option.But since she isnt,who next?
thought Laura
Professor Snape? she thought
Or Professor Hagrid? and after quite a bit of thinking she made her changes in the report
Laura went through the notes once again and then began with her work on the blank page.

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Charms, Professor Flitwick: Well yeah, Professor Flitwick was slightly disorganised and squeaky when he taught. But he had been the best Chrams teacher one could have.He taught the best charms ever.And moreover Charms is the subject the that charms the kids around when they are performed properly and have can be bad too when performed improperly.And it is every students nature that they cant perform the best from the very beginning and hence the certain mishaps.Professor Flitwick has always been cheery and happy go lucky man which makes it easier for children to approach him.He was always ready to appreciate good work and give a scope of improvement for those who couldnt do so well.

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Divination,Professor Trewalney: Divination, as a subject is a very difficult one. no one knows when to believe and when not to believe because predicting future is a very difficult task.Professor did yes scare a few students with wild guesses or bored them to submission but that solely doesnt become a the reason for firing someone.And moreover no one can make a prphecy on request or look into the future on request that isnt an easy job.So i think Professor should be given a chance.

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Care Of Magical Creatures,Professor Hagrid: Well, i need to disagree with Professor Umbridge that Professor Hagrid

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intimidating to the students and seems to take pleasure in the thought of other people being hurt.

That is completely not true.If one could fit in the expression 'big man with a big heart' then that certainly would be Professor Hagrid.He loves his students very much and so does his animals.He has good control over the animals and has a record of keeping them trained.Any mishaps or accidents that might have happend might have been because of the students carelessness on not listening to their professor when taught.But i would certainly like if Hagrid would follow the school curriculum.But that certainly doesnt mean he should be fired,certainly not but should be warned.

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Herbology,Professor Sprout:i certainly feel that Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge has a knack of pointing out faults and falacies and enjoys doing so even amongst the best of the teachers,Professor Sprout for one is the best Hogwarts could boast off.
Professor Sporut had sound knowledge of what she always taught,she always wanted to spread her knowledge and not teach and instruct students and that most of the time led to quite some discussions between the students only improving the student-student interaction and students-teacher interaction,which is the most important thing for a teacher.Group studies are the best as children end up enjoying the process of learning rather then getting bored of the typical wrote learning which Professor Umbridge herself patroned.Professor Sprout was always careful of her plants and also of her students and this shows such an awesome teacher she is.

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Potions,Professor Snape:[/B] Professor Snape is highly competent and skilled Professor from Department of Potions.He has very good knowledge of his subject and teaches his students well.But the only problem would be he intimidates the students at the point up to the student get highly terrorized even by his presence.Such an attitude from a professor isnt expected.However wonderful the teacher be but if he keeps terrorizing the students then he shouldnt expect them to learn fast in his presence.Professor Umbridge praises him for his control in class which i certainly dont agree with.~~but i certainly dont think he should be fired~~ i think he should be fired on the basis of his attitude towards the students

But i would atlast want to add that if Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge would have put herself up on the list i certainly would have fired her for her horrible behavior as a teacher and a even more pathetic behavior as a High Inquistor.

Laura looked around to see what would be next and looked around to see if others finished with their reports.

OOC: Some Changes In The Report Made...

*was away from home most of the day unexpectedly*

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As the black-clad figure of Severus Snape, or the illusion of the professor if he wanted to be entirely accurate, loped toward him, Dorian stood up from his seat. Partly to just show the illusion that he wasn't intimidated, as well as to use his own height as an advantage. If that would work on a illusion, since he wasn't convinced it would. he'd just have to pretend it wasn't an illusion. Inclining his head a little as the sneering began, he calmly watched the professor for a few seconds as he continued speaking.

"Contrary to your opinion, Mr. Snape," he began then, intentionally choosing to not use the professor title as he knew it would only work for him. In a bizarre way. "Most people would believe the bad seeds are those who actually do wrong, not just seem to irritate you because of their very existence. And I believe, by that definition, your own Slytherins qualify much more as the bad seeds as opposed to those who were the targets of your derision. And it truly was derision, not wrath, or however you would like to see it. It wasn't even just the Gryffindors, either. You thought you were better than everyone, while it might surprise you to find out you were not. Even the only reason Professor Umbridge gave as a negative aspect to your teaching skills is not really true. Several students, and not only your Slytherins, are fully capable of brewing the potions she said were beyond their milieu, if they hadn't had you breathing down their necks.

Therefore, your termination is more due to the fact that the students would be much more capable of reaching their true capacities for greatness without needing to worry about the slightest misstep being ridiculed by you, and by proxy your little minions in Slytherin. And even some of those students might prove to be valued members of society without your influence coloring their perspectives. And that decision, sir, is final." Severus Snape could bluster his way through more sneering, Dorian didn't care; he could take it. The greasy man was fired and that was that.

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Skander stood bored as he saw the figure of the esteemed potions master turn to face him. "You were a brilliant Potions Master sir and you definitely knew what you were teaching in the classroom. However your style of teaching often led to students being terrified of you, making them nervous and therefore leading to mishaps that may not have occurred if there had been a more understanding teacher. Furthermore you discriminated against students who you held personal grudges against, no matter their skills in potions, and against those who took more guidance then you were willing to provide. Your utter distaste for the students you taught also appeared in every aspect of your classes and it could be said that the largest bad seed in your classroom was you.

Therefore sir I am choosing to weed out the bad seed which unfortunately for you requires me to terminate your position. You sir are fired."

Feeling slightly pleased with himself Skander let his shoulders drop slightly. No matter what he would stand firm in the decision that Snape needed to go. Sure there were others on the list but Snape was the worst 'real' teacher of the bunch.

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[CENTER]Professor Snape turned and loped toward the person who had chosen to fire him. If he was one for laughing he would have just them. As it were, he was not that type of person. "Okay you insolent fool, let me hear why you think I should be let go," Snape sneered at everyone. "You all had better have a better reason than 'You were mean to the Gryffindors. I was only doing as any good professor would have done, weed out the bad seeds," he sneered yet again.

Ah, people who considered themselves so smart and accoplished. They never learned. Ryan just smirked at the Snape illusion and took a deep breath before he carelessly replied him ''Is not this comment of your is...well...too sophomoric, Mister Snape, just like how you try to manage your control over students'' he stopped and smirked widely ''I have nothing more to mention about you. That simple you are''

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Alyssa was almost angry now, she had done the best she could, she thought it out well and was professional with it all, and still she wasn't good enough to pass on. She wondered what the others had done to do so. Alyssa was ready to give up....one more go, she'd make of it and then she was done with this Ministry fair already. "I believe there were some predictions about students dying, and alot about 'the grim' that was scaring the students. I'm sorry Professor Trewlaney, but If you would like some help finding accomodations in either Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley, I would be more than willing to help you do so." Alyssa looked at the image, she hoped and prayed it would go away now.

finally able to participate. :D

Ronan Cavanaugh browsed through the list of teachers that was placed in front of him blinking slowly as he read through the descriptions of each person’s review by the High Inquisitor, Dolores Umbridge. Picking up the pen by his hand, the young man began to write:

'I am sure I am not the first one to say this, but I find that the way that Miss Umbridge is rating the teachers is one step short of complete evil. Be that as it may, after reading through her notes, I would have to conclude that Professor Trewlawney is the professor that should be fired from her post. It is obvious that she does not possess the Seer’s eye, and therefore, her students are learning nothing of value during her lessons.'

Ronan reread his work, fiddling with his quill as he did so, before looking to the list of professors once more to answer the second question.

'In regards to which teacher is best suited for their job, I would have to say that I pick Professor Flitwick. Although Miss Umbridge believes that the class is too cheery which lead to a few mishaps during the class, the learning environment is for development of a student’s personal experience and being able to learn from their mistakes is a something I deem acceptable and beneficial.'

The young man sat back and waited for someone to check his answers, smirking at the fact that it felt like he was back at Hogwarts taking final exams.

ANtigone smiled from her perch on the desk in the front of the room. "YOu all are doing great!" she said before going back to filing her nails.

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Sure, they had been told what to expect after their report had been 'approved of Education department standards', but Pippa wasn't ready for this ... THIS infront of her. There was a HUGE man before her, and she had the job of backing up her written assignment. Great. How lovely.

To begin with, she went to reach out and pat his arm, but thought against it. Were illusions like ghosts, and your hands went through them? Well, she wasn't experimenting to find out. Her hands, were staying put at her sides.

"Rubeus, I really am sorry. But you have to understand that our first priority is the students education. And with you teaching, I hate to admit that I am worrying about their education. Of course, I can't deny you know what you're talking about when it comes to creatures. But you yourself never graduated from a wizarding school, you had your wand broken upon expulsion. We have to take the students safety into consideration aswell, I know you wouldn't dare let anything happen to a student, you love them so, but really? If something beyond your own control, only to be helped with magic, how would you be of assistance then? I really am sorry. I.. I think you should leave now. It's for the best."

Tom walked into the room and looked around, seeing a few pamphlets around he decided to look at them and see what he had to do, he was shocked when there was an empty piece of paper and was even more shocked when he was told he had to chose a Professor to fire, he quickly started making notes.

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Professor Flitwick

After looking at the report he quickly decided that Professor Flitwick should stay, he had a feeling that the students where learning loads from him and so there was no need for him to go.

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Professor Hagrid

Whilest some of his teaching methods needed improving he thought about the fact that Hagrid had only being teaching a few years. But there was also a few other things going against him, he decided he'd come back to him.

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Professor Sprout

After glancing at the notes made on her he had a fairly easy decision made, I would keep her on she has got them all working together which isn't easy, if she just learned to discipline them she would have everything go for her.

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Professor Trelawney

After looking at her note, his smile slipped away, Professor Trelawney seemed to be a bad teacher and had had loads of problems in her class and the facts she scares her pupils wasn't a good thing.

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Professor Snape

Teaching dangerous potions to little children now that's not right, but then he does have excellent control over his classroom, I would say a list of suitable potions should be written for each year group and Snape told to teach them that.

After looking thought the notes he had made he decided to focus on Professor Trelawney and Professor Hagrid. In the end he decided to chose Professor Trelawney due to the fact that she had been there for over 10 years and Hagrid hadn't been there for long, he would suggest someone watch Hagrids lesson until they were satisfied he was ready to go back to teaching on his own.

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Sack: Professor Twelawney

Reason: Because she has been making things up as she goes along and she has been trying to scare her class into doing the work, plus she has been worring her class with her unusual teaching methods, she has been teaching Divination for awhile and she still hasn't mastered it, She also tried to guess her way when she can't predict the future, She can't control her classroom, once that happens you should go because it means they have no respect for you. If someone wants a prediction they should get an answer not some made up one.