[Jan 4][The Worst Witch]Establishing Order

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Title: Establishing Order
Day/Theme: Jan 4 2009 – the language of cities
Fandom: The Worst Witch (Weirdsister College)
Characters/Pairing: The Beetle
Rating: G
Summary: The Beetle felt obligated to inform the students’ of Weirdsister about the misguided suspicion of people in the city. 

 

      It was her first year as form-mistress. She was extremely determined to keep the students in line. But the task was harder than she anticipated; the students seemed to run amuck causing havoc. It was obvious to her that the previous rules were not enforced well enough and the punishments were not harsh enough.

      Beetle also got the sense that the students didn’t understand the rules. But she could see where the confusion comes from. Most of the girls’ early training occurred in rural and remote locations where broomstick flying was acceptable and encouraged. She doubted many understood why they couldn’t practice that particular skill in the city. But like the young witches, the people of Cambridge didn’t understand them either. It seemed that some of the non-magic users were against anything supernatural. Even Misery the popular café that many Weirdsisters’ students loved to socialize at was under investigation for wrongdoing. Beetle hated the misunderstanding, but she knew it would be easier to hide the sorcery than make the common person understand them.

      For a good part of the year she tried making punishment harsher but it didn’t seem to work, traditional punishment wouldn’t work. She knew she had to make the punishments harsher on the students. She had to take something that they held dear. Money, she thought, it was always what they complained about most, about not having enough of it, the students would hate to have even less money. It would be a great way to get them in order.

      Within only a few weeks the misbehavior was cut in half. Beetle was pleased with her idea and figured the money from the fees would also benefit the school. The headmistress Thunderbolt was quite impressed with how much order Beetle brought in the small time she was there.