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Post by Rowan Trace on Mar 7, 2011 14:26:11 GMT -5
"We'll have a major coup, overthrow the student body, and do what they did in the 1800s; lock them in the basement for corporal punishment," Rowan suggested. He wrinkled his nose slightly. "I'm not volunteering for the job of disciplinarian, though. I'd personally rather assign them to clean the hospital wing or rearrange the library, maybe work with the house-elves a bit." He had grand dreams of being Headmaster here some day, perhaps when Hells stepped down, and he'd hold a much tighter reign over the place. He wanted his name in the books, and his portrait in the Headmaster's office.
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Post by Keith Evans on Mar 7, 2011 14:31:06 GMT -5
"Sounds like a plan to me," Keith said, nodding in agreement. "Maybe not actual punishment, though, not physically, anyway. Maybe just lock them up in a tiny room with various potential punishment tools for a couple of hours. Scare them straight." He knew if he had been locked up in a room with a set of thumbscrews and no knowledge of when he was going to be let out or if they were going to be used on him he would stop whatever it was that had caused him to end up there.
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Post by Rowan Trace on Mar 7, 2011 14:40:06 GMT -5
"Do they even have the tools anymore?" Rowan wondered aloud. "They'd be hard to find if there weren't any hidden around the school." Not that he was entirely serious about chaining students in the dungeons anyway, but that would probably get their attention until their parents withdrew them.
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Post by Keith Evans on Mar 7, 2011 14:49:01 GMT -5
"I'm sure I could find some things that would scare them into submission," Keith said, then added, "If I tried hard enough, anyway." He would probably have an easier time finding some things than others would, but the details of just how wasn't something he was willing to go into at the moment. No, he wasn't serious about locking students away, but it was definitely an amusing image.
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Post by Rowan Trace on Mar 7, 2011 15:12:05 GMT -5
Rowan looked aside at Keith, mommentarily evaluating him, then giving a brief nod. "All right, you're in charge of finding chains with handcuffs on them and whatever freaky looking stuff, and I'll convince the potions professor to whip up something to make the staff more cooperative." Fat chance. "Well, we can dream."
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Post by Keith Evans on Mar 7, 2011 15:27:50 GMT -5
Keith grinned and nodded. "It's a good dream, isn't it?" he asked. "Have the school under our control and all. Of course, I'd give you all the credit, I'll stay in the background." He could be the mastermind behind it all, it was a fun thought, whether or not it would ever actually happen. It was refreshing to be able to talk to someone like this and let loose, the move had been stressful.
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Post by Rowan Trace on Mar 7, 2011 15:45:07 GMT -5
Rowan noticed and didn't say anything about the we stuff he was hearing. They'd just met, and all hypotheticals considered, he wasn't into the idea of picking up a sidekick. This was a bunch of b.s. anyway, and he hoped Keith knew it. It seemed like he did, but you could never tell. Rowan mentally shook his head, then shrugged it off.
"Mastermind has dark connotations to it," he said, trying to work out a shift in the conversation that hadn't been beaten to death already. "It's not unlimited power I'm after, it's the chance to give the next generation more than ours had, and eventually influence more than a single class. Isn't that what this is all for?"
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Post by Keith Evans on Mar 7, 2011 17:41:10 GMT -5
"It is," Keith agreed, tempering his smile. "The world needs to be pulled into modernity, and it won't get there if we teachers can't get a change in our own classrooms and schools." He was sick of everything being stuck and it seemed like this school had more problems than he could count. His old school had been taking steps forward, but even they were far behind and stuck in an older time.
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Post by Rowan Trace on Mar 7, 2011 19:19:25 GMT -5
"The entire Wizarding world is stuck in the past," Rowan said. "Muggles progress by finding better ways to do things, but there's really not much room for improvement with wizards, aside from socially. Most kids don't seem to care about magic. They'll use it to dry their shoes or something, but they want to go live like Muggles. Magic is like, out of style or something. I have good friends who are Muggles, but I still love magic, you know?"
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Post by Keith Evans on Mar 7, 2011 19:36:57 GMT -5
"Yeah, I wouldn't give magic up for anything. I mean, the muggles have some pretty neat things, but I would take a wand over a computer any day of the week." Keith was sure that those muggle things were entertaining, but he wasn't about to give up being a wizard. He loved being able to use magic, he loved learning about it all and being part of the community...for the most part. "Perhaps the students wanting to be closer to muggles will let us move away from the older generation's prejudices, though."
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Post by Rowan Trace on Mar 8, 2011 2:09:29 GMT -5
"If they don't kill their brains with Muggle alcohol and whatever else they're messing with. They're practically my peers, and that's scary to think about." He just didn't understand them. He'd always put work first, planning his free time so he never had to struggle with deadlines or complain he couldn't do something because a three-foot scroll was due in the morning. He'd never missed a test because he was nursing a headache or vomiting all over himself. Now he had work to worry about, and yes, his students' homework, but his free time was all his, and he could do what he wanted with it, guilt free.
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Post by Keith Evans on Mar 8, 2011 14:44:04 GMT -5
"You have a point there," Keith said. "I was teaching students I went to school with, I knew all their tricks, they couldn't get a fake excuse by me if they tried." They had tried, they had tried often, at least for the first term before realizing that he wasn't going to accept any of them. "Everyone has a vice of some kind, but when you're in school, focus on school."
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Post by Rowan Trace on Mar 8, 2011 15:00:25 GMT -5
"Exactly," Rowan said. "We've got plenty of time, so why be in a big damned hurry to get through it? Pace yourself and you won't burn out at thirty and spend the next century paying for it." He paused and shook his head slightly. "I wouldn't stand for people I went to school with using me to keep doing all that. Thank God I had international schooling. I'll never have to deal with that."
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Post by Keith Evans on Mar 8, 2011 15:07:13 GMT -5
"There's absolutely nothing stranger than teaching your former housemates," Keith said with certainty. "It's good to get away from them, move on to the next part of my life. I could never get over feeling like I was a student still, here I don't feel like that." It had felt like he was just an assistant taking over while the professor was sick or on leave. Here, it was much easier to think of himself as a professional and separate from the students. He could move on from his schooling mindset finally.
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Post by Rowan Trace on Mar 8, 2011 15:45:20 GMT -5
"Yeah, they won't treat you like a student here," Rowan said. "The most I ever get is a surprised look when I tell new students that yes, I am their professor. I was so prepared to have problems because of my age, to fight so I'd be taken seriously, and they write me off as easily as anyone else." Rowan gave a one-shouldered shrug and leaned further back into his chair, relaxed despite the conversation. After nearly two years at Hogwarts, little surprised him anymore.
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