Private Message to Professors Sprout and Siz

[alt_cedric]

I have students asking me about what happened to Chelsea and Starling. I'm not sure what to tell them. Have we definitely found out what happened? Should I stick to 'it's being investigated' for now? I have a suspicion that I know what happened, but am very reluctant to tell other students what that suspicion is for a variety of reasons, chiefly not wanting to spread rumours about an adult.

I'll pass whatever we decide on to Melinda as well.

Comments

[alt_sinistra]

Your reluctance to share details about adults in the building is very sensible: do keep with that line of thought and action, please.

More generally, you might say that we're aware of the concerns and we'll be discussing it in our staff meeting tonight. I expect we'll have a slightly more useful answer for you after that. At least I hope so.

[alt_cedric]

Of course. I hope to hear more tonight or tomorrow morning. Dashing this off over rushed dinner.

Thanks

[alt_sinistra]

Right. Don't pass this along until you get official confirmation from the Headmistress or Professor Vector (you should have that sometime tomorrow), but the basic gist is "There was some confusion about the appropriate approach to disciplinary matters, and we have now resolved the confusion."

The part they likely won't add, but you should spread quietly, is that we'd appreciate the prefects keeping an eye out and reporting anything that seems to be odd. But we expect and assume it won't be necessary.

Were there any other questions you had from the Prefects meeting? We got rather distracted by the above, and rather flew through the rest of our agenda as a result.