Reminder

[alt_macnair]

Reckon it bears repeating:

My storage is one hundred percent off limits to all students at all times. I don't care what noises you think you hear coming from it, stay clear of the building if you want to keep your house points. And your hands.

And to the NEWT students who've been asking: no, it's not a manticore.

Comments

[alt_mcgonagall]

I shall repeat your message at supper, Macnair; I imagine that the students need as many warnings as they can get.

[alt_macnair]

Ta, Headmistress.

[alt_lupin]

You've done it now. You'll be fending Sally-Anne Perks off with a stick.

[alt_macnair]

Is that the little Slytherin who's always asking about the forest?

[alt_padma]

That's right, Professor.

It's not the unicorn, is it? The one my sister helped catch?

I thought Marvolo said it was released, though. Oh and it wouldn't bite off someone's hand or anything, would it?

Will we get to see a manticore in our NEWT lessons, sir?

[alt_macnair]

Not a unicorn at all, and it's nothing so dangerous as a dragon, either. But it is a wild creature, and those should always be approached with care.

[alt_poppy]

I trust that all of our students will take your warning very seriously. I would remind them that while I am able to patch up many of their scrapes and prevent most scars, I cannot regrow lost limbs. Truly catastrophic injuries will likely result in death.


It's best we all be clear on this score, don't you think?

[alt_macnair]

Didn't you see what I wrote about it not being a manticore?

[alt_poppy]

Indeed, yes. I am able to read.

Surely you are not maintaining that the only thing dangerous enough to rip limbs from bodies is a manticore? I wasn't born yesterday, Professor Macnair.

I'm certain you share my hope that our pupils will properly consider the risks of foolish behaviour and refrain from it.

[alt_macnair]

If don't trust me to adequately caution the students, or think that I've brought in something that eat limbs, you're welcome to visit my storage and determine how dangerous the creature is for yourself.

[alt_poppy]

There's no need to get shirty with me, Walden Macnair. I take it that you make a proper effort to do your job, and your job is to introduce our upper-form students to the full variety of magical creatures in our world, so it stands to reason that some of the creatures you've brought in for this year's examinations will be fierce, feral, dangerous creatures.

And given that this is so, it would be well if our pupils understood that larking about without your supervision could well result in injuries that are untreatable given current restrictions on what I can stock.

I thought you understood this after the dragon episode, but it's crucial that there be no confusion now: while I have restocked many items, there are certain treatments we once took for granted that I can no longer administer for lack of the necessary medicinals.


So no major blood lettings, if you please!

[alt_macnair]

Woman, my entire journal entry was a warning to students against larking about. If you think it not enough, or not sincere, then I shall post a new one at once... one which follows school protocol.

[alt_poppy]

Indeed, that is the point. I join you in cautioning Hogwarts' students against any foolish impulses they might have entertained with regard to your creatures. I wish merely to underscore a practical reason why they ought to heed your warning: medical magic is not as omnipotent as it once was, so it is at their peril that they ignore your edict.


I'm sure I have no idea why you persist in believing that I've picked a quarrel with you, man.

[alt_macnair]

We've got a werewolf living on the grounds. A good man, yes, but still a werewolf. We've ghosts and poltergeists and much, much more. My class is no more a peril than anything else in this castle. Speeches and edicts are well and good, but in the end not much more than a daft little show.

[alt_poppy]

We do have all those things, and it is easy for our students to grow overly at ease with them.

As you yourself said, Walden: 'it bears repeating'.


That is all.