Headmaster for a day (was Prank WAS :Re: CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 184893

> Potioncat:
<SNIP>
> So I'd like to offer a game, and a chance to take a different look 
at 
> the events. Imagine that you are the Headmaster/Headmistress of 
> Hogwarts. Not that you are DD, but "you" are the Head. It's late at 
> night, or very early morning. You are facing several 15/16 year old 
> boys who have survived a terrible fright. What would you do?
> 
> Try to forget the background motivations you currently have for 
Sirius 
> and Severus. Imagine that you know only what a HM in this situation 
> would know.  
> 
> Explain what you know. Which boys are in your office? Tell us what 
you 
> think the boys said.  What do you feel for or about the boys?  Have 
you 
> called in anyone else? Why are you taking the action you decide 
upon?
>


Alla:

So the hardest part of your game for me is to forget (as Magpie 
mentioned) that as a reader I know more than Headmaster will know and 
well, also to figure out what exactly Headmaster knows.

It is a given that I as Headmaster know no more and no less than 
Dumbledore does, yes?

Okay, then let me try at least sketch it.

So Snape, Sirius and James are in my office. I think Lupin is in the 
Infirmary, sort of makes sense to me that stress of that night would 
take an extra toll on him even as werewolf.

I am asking them what happened. I would imagine that James and Sirius 
are definitely telling me that Snape discovered Remus's secret and 
went there and James went after him and saved him. But see, here I am 
already running into problems.

So here is my problem number one.
I have no idea if Peter is in my office. I mean, if he is, that is 
only because he came to inform Gryffindor Head or myself of what just 
happened, maybe James asked him to do so. However, what if Peter was 
absent that whole night? Then he would have no reason to be in my 
office and why would he be absent?

I do not know that they are animagi, so obviously they are not 
telling me, or does Snape see James before he transforms and tries to 
talk about shape of the Stag he noticed? 

Now, interesting thing to me is does Sirius tell me that he told 
Snape how to open the Shack? I always got the impression that 
Dumbledore knew about it, so I should know too. Except, well, why 
would Sirius want to report his own wrongdoing? I mean, I know how 
Dumbledore may have learned that - legilimence him of course, but 
what if he did not?

Is Sirius telling that or not? That's my other problem.

Snape is of course telling me that they came up with the plan to kill 
him and it almost succeeded. Sirius told him how to open the Shack 
and he found werewolf here. And of course I think that Snape is 
asking me did I know and what did werewolf do here.

What do I feel about the boys? I feel that they are all idiots and 
deserve a good smack and many many detentions to serve **together**.

Do I believe them? Oy wey, I know about them being enemies, but 
whether I believe them depends on how much they are actually spelling 
out for me.

Oh HECK, wait a second. If I am Legilimens, how is it that I did not 
see that boys are animagi?????

Somebody help, please.

Whom else would I call? Madame Pomphrey of course, I would want to 
know if she noticed boys wandering around the Shack at any time 
before Prank.

Lovely game Potioncat, but so hard. I will be back.

Alla