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17-3-1989

HOGWARTS - ON THE DECLINE!!!

My dear readers, I’m sure you know Hogwarts has always been renowned for being the best magical school in Britain, and one of the top magical schools worldwide, but lately, dear readers, I’ve found that, for the first time ever, Hogwarts no longer ranks in the top twenty magical schools worldwide, according to this ranking list. [magical link, tap it with your wand and a little hologram of the source appears]

My dear readers, you will find I have done my research well. I was looking at the Worldwide Top Magical schools, when, much to my surprise, I realized, by the time I finished reading through the top twenty, I no longer saw Hogwarts on the list! I was immediately confused, but determined - I sought out the past twenty years of lists, and, sure enough, Hogwarts has been steadily decreasing! My suspicions raised, I went to the records of the ministry to look at the last 50 years of lists. My dear readers, you will not believe what I’ve found. In the last 35 years, Hogwarts has been steadily decreasing in rank on the list - from second place worldwide to, mortifyingly, 103th place.

As I’m sure you can agree with, my dear readers, I was mortified at the revelation. How far have we fallen? From proud Slytherins, Gryffindors, Ravenclaws, and Hufflepuffs, to quiet, unknowing followers, willing to do whatever we are told.

I decided to look at the percentage of graduates who went on to pursue higher education. Worldwide, Hogwarts has some of the lowest numbers of wixen with higher education - an embarrassing 18%. Standards have fallen far from what they used to be - dare I say, far from what is safe. Aurors, for example, used to take only the best of the best - straight O’s all across their test scores, but I’ve found that lately, the recruits have had E’s, or even more concerning, A’s! I was never more concerned for my safety than at that moment - these Aurors barely managed to pass their potions NEWTS! And these were the people trusted to protect us? For the sake of being discreet, I will not mention names, but be wary - you never know if the Auror tasked with an assignment near you got an E instead of an O because of their lack of knowledge, or because of their lack of aim.

With this knowledge weighing on me, I decided to find out why Hogwarts has been doing so badly. After all, the list of top schools showed Hogwarts in the top ten just forty years ago! And fifty years ago, it was ranked third worldwide! My dear readers, the information I found was very concerning. In the last thirty-five years, Hogwarts has dropped no less than thirty classes - from Alchemy to Warding, more classes have been dropped in the last thirty-five years than have been kept! I don’t know about you, but I would have loved to know how to ward my houses against rain and snow - Merlin knows it gets cold from all that snow burying my house!

Yet another thing that interested my was the fact that I noticed one of the dropped classes was - brace yourselves, for this information shook my world to its core -  basic math and literature. I was very confused. Just how far has Hogwarts fallen, that we’ve stopped teaching our children necessary life skills? Morgana, hear me when I say, my job depends on the skills I learned in literature - and as you can guess, the class was only dropped about a decade ago! My dear readers, I’m sure those of you who use math on a semi-daily basis are just as mortified as I am - bakers, architects, Physical Engineers - the thought of being unable to do simple math is unbearable! 

My dear readers, I’m sure you can guess where this is going, so I’ll end this with: why do you think we are doing so poorly? Why do you think we’ve fallen so far? 

5-4-1989

Dear diary,

         As you may have already known, most of the Board of Governors had been wanting a change in the Hogwarts Curriculum and by most i mean the ones who are not in Dumbledore’s pockets, however, due to Rita’s recent articles, more and more parents are demanding a change in board and are starting to demand to switch from the government board to the ICE  (International Certification Examinations) board. 

If their demands are not met then most parents have threatened to pull their children out of Hogwarts and homeschool them. This has put the ‘Great’ Albus Dumbledore in a fix.

Will he try to keep the masses illiterate and cause tens of hundreds of parents to remove their children from hogwarts?   

Or will he add more subjects in the student’s syllabus and let them realize how ‘Great’ dumbledore is with magic? 

Many on the BoG have taken this opportunity to try to expand the number of OWL subjects and NEWT subjects students could take. There had been rumors that Orion Parkinson is trying to add a few University courses for students to take like the WOMBAT and MICE. 

What is even more surprising is that the rumors also state that Amos Diggory is agreeing with Parkinson, though, plenty of people believe that he is doing it so his son Cedric would not have to go to France or America to pursue a higher education.

There have been murmurs from many of the traditionalist faction of the Wizimgot of there being change in the air, plenty do not like it, not even the Liberalist even though they strive for change. Perhaps they do not like it because the changes that are being made are not made by dumbledore.

I shall write back with more information.

Until then,

        Narcissa Malfoy

2-6-1989

HOGWARTS BOARD OF GOVERNORS TO CHANGE BOARD FROM BCE TO ICE!

Hogwarts Board of Governors made a bold move yesterday where they explained during a press conference that they would change the board from BCE (British Certificated Examinations) to ICE (International Certification of Examinations) in order to bring Hogwarts up to par with the rest of the world in the standards of education.

But what does that mean for the students my dear readers?

Well for starters, The syllabus would be more difficult, for example, the OWL years who will sit for the ICE will have more to memorise compared to those who took the BCE OWLs. This is because the ICE OWLs are the equivalent of BCE NEWTs! If that’s how difficult OWLs will be, imagine how difficult the NEWTs will be!

But it won’t be all work and no play! No! The ICE demands teachers to take their students to a field trip at least once a year, that means if a student has six subjects, they could go on six different field trips in a year!  

These field trips may vary in nature, for example, the students who take Defence may go to a dragon reserve, those who take astronomy may find themselves going to the Royal Observatory in London, those who take potions may go on a field trip to St. Mungos, so on and so forth.

What do you think my dear readers? Do you believe that our students will benefit from the new Board?

21-9-1989

Reeta writes an article about the board of Governors adding more subjects to the Hogwarts Curriculum including muggle subjects such as biology and economics and others because these ‘muggle’ subjects help supplement the students learning and teaches them about how the muggle world and the wizarding world are connected and writes a glowing review for it, she also make an offhand snide comment about Dumbledore and how he had let the muggle studies subject be so outdated that any wizard or witch could have been caught by muggles causing a breach in the Status of Secrecy and caused a war between muggles and Mage kind causing precious Mage blood to be shed (not that she has anything against muggles, it’s just to make the article seem like-able to the pureblood supremacist)

18-10-1989

The Board of Governors allow squibs take become students of Hogwarts (but they must take muggle subjects only)

21-10-1989

Huge Scandal where Reeta finds out the Goblins were supposed to check on the wards of Hogwarts but they were not allowed to after Dumbledore becomes Headmaster is this related? Skeeter SEEKS the answer!! (get it Skeet? Seek? Ok I’ll stop now)

11-11-1989

Dear diary,

        A few days ago Draco and Hari got into an argument about muggles again. They started shouting and screaming at the top of their voices, in fact, they were so loud that Lucius and I could hear them from the drawing room, two floors below them.

At first, when we heard them starting to scream and shout, Lucius and I were startled and hence, feared the worst so we quickly made our way to the room they were in. When we entered, we were greeted by the sight of Hari and Draco throwing their stuffed animals at each other. Regulus was in the corner of the room with a drink in his hand and was watching the scene in front of him.

After we managed to calm the boys down we asked them what had happened, that was when Regulus - Bless the boy’s poor soul Hecate - described what had happened. Apparently, Hari wanted to go to this muggle amusement park called ‘Disney World’ but Draco decided to tell him off about how Disney World was a ‘pathetic place where only stupid, idiotic muggles go’. That made Hari angry due to which they had been arguing non-stop for the past half an hour before Lucius and I arrived and calmed them down.

Hari would later go on to talk nonstop about how Disney World was the most ‘Magical place in the universe’. He talked about it during lunch, dinner and even the next morning during breakfast and while doing maths! What was worst was that even Regulus joined the boy and started sprouting the muggle propaganda. Eventually Lucius and I grew tired of it and decided to show the boys how wrong they were. We went to Disney World in Paris and pretended to be muggles, even wore muggle clothes! They felt… odd on my skin but they were comfortable. The queues were ridiculously long. Hundreds of Muggles in singular lines trying to get tickets! The children and I were sitting on one of the many benches and were waiting for Lucius to come with the tickets.

Imagine our surprise when Lucius came back and told us Disney World was not just for muggles but magicals too! There were secret rides for only magicals. Lucius bought us fast passes that could be used in both the muggle Disney World and the Magical Disney World.

We went to the Magical Disney world through the secret entrance. The park was absolutely beautiful! Compared to the muggle Disney world, it was less crowded. There was broom racing, a picnic area and plenty of other rides the children would enjoy such as ‘It’s a small world’ and even a ferris wheel. The children did not want to ride the ferris wheel, they opted to ride the carousel with animated horses and pegasus. Lucius and I decided to ride the ferris wheel while the children had fun.

The view from the ferris wheel was stunning. It was nice to have a bit of ‘us’ time. Draco was a handful and we rarely had moments of peace. After Regulus and Hari arrived I don’t remember the last time Lucius and I had sat down and talked… not that we don’t like the children but there has never been a moment of peace or quiet. The view was nice.

For dinner we went to eat at ‘Minnies Fun House’ which was one of the dozens of restaurants on the premises. The only negative part was that it was a muggle restaurant. Draco and Lucius grumbled a bit before I gave them a sharp look. The decor was tasteful as was the food, the service was impeccable, I may not tell anyone else but the restaurant was just as good as any high-end magical dinner. Perhaps muggles are not as barbaric as we make them out to be.

In all we had a ‘fun day’ - Draco’s words - and Lucius and I decided it may be… nice to do something like this again. Not because we liked the muggles or anything but we realised that we were horribly out of touch with the muggle world and it’s customs. We wouldn't want to accidentally expose wizarding kind and be the cause of a war now would it?

Signing off,

        Narcissa Malfoy

25-12-1989

Special Christmas edition! Even more special because Skeeter found out that the wards are in shambles! It hasn’t been updated since Dumbledore became Headmaster and her sources say that most of the wards former Headmaster Dippit added were removed? Who could do such a thing? On a totally unrelated note, only the headmaster could add and remove wards. Are the children safe with Dumbledore as the Headmaster? Dumbledore says he accidentally removed some wards and there wasn’t enough time to add the new updated wards. Rita says adding and removing wards is a tedious and long process but only takes a couple of hours at most, (quoted from some random warding Mistress/Master you could come up with). The wards could have easily been added during the summer break or even the Christmas break. So why weren’t they added? Also makes a small mention about how there was a ward added to stop muggle compliances from working, excluding cameras and radios

4-3-1990

Dear Diary,

        Despite what I had imagined, today was quite an eventful day, today Hari came out as genderfluid. We were happy for them. It was then when Regulus stomped out of the room. Lucius and I were quite confused by his behaviour. 

It was no wonder when Hari started to sob their heart out. When asked why Regulus acted that way, we received some very shocking answers.

Apparently, in the muggle world it is illegal to be genderfluid or gay or bisexual of even asexual. I was horrified when I had learnt that one could go to jail for it. 

It took us a while to get Hari to calm down, they only started to calm down when Draco hugged them while Lucius and I went to explain to Regulus society in the wizarding world.

Will write later to say how it went,

       Narcissa Malfoy

1-9-1990

Hogwarts opens ‘Hogwarts University’ for those students who want to pursue a get a mastery

31-10-1990

An entry in Dumbledore's diary about how everything is turning out to be not as he planned and his last hope is Chandra

3-11-1990

Narcissa writes to Mrs Parkinson about her day at the Lovegoods (she lucius and the boys went there to socialize/playdate), she, Lucius and Xeno were in the living room (the children were outside) when they heard a large BANG coming from Pandora’s potions lab, Pandora was found on the floor bleeding, Lucius and the others quickly brought her into St Mungos, the Healers said that it was because of Lucius quick thinking that Pandora will live to see another day, but will need a few months for the burns to disappear entirely

2-12-1990

Reeta writes an article for pro-were wolves as the werewolf legislations (courtesy of were-wolf activist such as Maria Jones and Sirius Black) get scraped Makes snide comments about Umbridge, the undersecretary for the Minister of Magic

5-1-1991

Diary entry by Narcissia when she, Lucius and the three boys go on a muggle cruise ship, Lucius and Narcissa are starting to warm up to the idea that the muggles may not be THAT bad, but they’re still bad.

25-3-1991

Narissia has had enough and writes a diary entry about Pandora who found out how there are many muggleborn children out there who are abused and killed because they were mages, writes about her conflicting ideas because they may be ‘mudbloods’ (sorry, muggleborns) but they are still children and do not deserve to live like that and magical blood is precious after all, what to do?

4-4-1991

Narissia writes another diary entry where Kreacher finds the Diary Horcrux in Malfoy Manor, the Horcrux is removed later that very day.

2-6-1991

Reeta writes about how the Ministry opens a new branch which deals with abused children and that an orphanage will be built for magical children. She also writes about how Hogwarts will get two mind healers who check the students for signs of abuse.

15-6-1991

Another one of Narissa’s diary entries where the Goblins received an anonymous tip that Helga Hufflepuffs cup was a Horrcrux, it turned out to be true and the Horcrux has been removed. The cup was given to Hari because the cup was found in Bellatrix's vault, because Bellatrix was a Black the cup became Black property and was given to Hari because she was a Black and also a descendant of one of the founders.

21-6-1991

Reeta writes about how the goblins have been finding extremely dark objects in the vaults which goes against the treaties, many family heads and others have been a such as Macer McNab and Ivan Crabbe.