Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

It was no small task wrangling overly confident but under skilled children. A few of them had forgotten their places and lacked the discipline that the department typically demanded. Lex nodded once, pleased Shacklebolt wouldn’t he backing down despite the criteria she’d just outlined for her. Not backing down was a good sign. Those who were afraid of a little extra work were among her least favourite in all her years working in MLE.

“You’ll have to get them up to speed on expectations, acceptable behaviour, when to step up and when to step down. What ranking is and where they fall in the ranking. All that stuff. It’ll be your job to ensure that by the time they become Aurors, they aren’t the sort their partner would intentionally leave to die out in the field.” Otherwise they’d be permanently stuck on desk work being the liability that they would become and that was plainly a waste of resources.

“How do you plan to go about that and everything else I’ve listed.” Being willing was one thing, being capable was another. She wanted to ensure this one was both.