Magical Quills (Was: Teachers' workload)

[Beverly Adams]

No: HPFGUIDX 86985

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
wrote:
> Booby J wrote:
> > The Hogwarts teachers are overworked!  

Then Neri wrote: 

Regarding checking homework assignments, however, I'd be very 
> surprised if a competent witch such as Prof. McGonagal does not 
have 
> a Homework Checking Quill or something of that sort. 

Beverly adds:

Ooooooh, that does make sense.  There are two quills that I can 
remember that do magical things.  The first is Rita Skeeters Quick 
Quotes Quill and then Umbridge's evil, foul, revolting quill that 
makes a person inflict damage on him/herself when writing with it. (I 
really hate this quill and the evil, foul, revolting person who makes 
people use it.)

I also believe that Hermione put a spell on her quill when she had 
everyone sign the list at the beginning of the DA meetings in OotP. I 
say this because right after the meeting in the Hogshead, she goes 
into a shop to buy another quill.  Since the quill she just used to 
have everyone sign the list had a "sneak" jinx put on it, she needed 
a new one for everyday work.

Oh, and there is the quill that JKR said puts down the name of every 
magical child who will get a letter from Hogwarts.  Maybe that's the 
Headmasters magical quill??  And maybe all the teachers have magical 
quills to keep up with all the grading and writing they have to do.  
Does Snape's quill have a thing against Harry's papers?  After all, 
in OotP Harry gets a "D for Dreadful" mark on his paper for Snape.

Speculation, speculation, speculation!

Beverly