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Ameh 
He did not want to look up again. Looking up would mean looking at the foolish antics of everyone at the Staff Table, where adults were doing things that made no sense while smiling and pretending that they did. It was a good thing that the small voice was instantly recognisable, because otherwise he'd have no clue who he was talking to.
"I don't understand this at all," he muttered, face still decidedly against the table; the only concession on his part was that he'd stopped smacking his head off the wood. "There has been so much crazy stuff this term. People died. So much other stuff too, with the anti-werewolf campaigning and everything... why do they have to do this on top of it. Have the students not had enough abrupt and negative changes this term, do they really have to carry it over to next term?"
A small voice in the back of his head murmured that it didn't want to come back next term now. This school year had been too much. But... well he had to. His friends were here. GROAN. Why had Hogwarts gone from being amazing and the best place in the world to being a place that he didn't even want to be?
Anti-werewolf campaigning... Kiri bit her lip worriedly (it felt rather sore by now). Luckily, Raiden didn't see, he was still staring straight at the table. Everything had become so complicated! Werewolves and strange memories and fired professors... Kiri didn't know where to start.
Well, Raiden was right here. She rubbed his arm consolingly. It made her feel a little bit embarrassed, but, right now, who would notice? Kiri glanced at the staff table again over Raiden's hunched shoulders. The shameful display wasn't over yet, apparently. Professor Kazimeriz... what was he thinking? Kiri had always been slightly scared by him - he really was very intimidating. But despite all that, he'd seemed like the kind of person to whom Kiri could apply all those words she came across in old tomes: Honourable. Venerable.
She'd never have thought he'd be so
petty.
"Don't worry about it," she mumbled to Raiden. "Maybe they'll sort this out during the summer. What if the headmaster comes back? Professor Truebridge won't be, er... sacked then!"
But she had to admit to herself she didn't sound convincing. It really looked pretty bad. By Kiri's count, Hogwarts would need a new nurse and several new teachers - Astronomy (she sighed inwardly), of course, Defence against the Dark Arts if Professor Lawson moved, maybe others if more followed Professor Truebridge in protest or solidarity. What was happening to the school?