Occasionally my mind drifts to memories of one of the trials I agreed to endure in order to prove my loyalty to Dumbledore when I first came to him with my arm and my soul both dark as pitch. He told me that it was standard procedure for all new professors, but I suspect he may have paid a bit more attention to my results, after the Ministry ( Read more... )

Moonlight peeked through the shadowed trees and set a slight glow around that ridiculous turban as its owner trembled under my gaze ( Read more... )

I have been teaching for a very long time, and have been listening for even longer. This place is a hive of loose tongues and idle gossip, ignorance obviously as rampant in these matters as it is in everything else.

Therefore, it does not surprise me that there have been a few misconceptions formed about me. I would not deign to theorize why I ( Read more... )