Barty Snr will grind your bones to make his bread.

You've been awfully quiet as of late; it concerns me. One would hope that you aren't wasting even more time with your Healer training on the horizon. It'd be a shame to see you not only turn your back on the legacy I've started, but then go on to truly tarnish our family's name, Bartemius.

Also, your mother would like to speak to you about some get-together she is planning with your Aunt Castella. At least that is what I picked up on as she tittered on this morning.

We've recently received a report of the Dark Mark being spotted over Shropshire at [appariton co-ordinates]. You all know procedure, so I'm not wasting my time in explaining it all to you.

Gawain, I want you out in the field heading this investigation while I have Rufus here securing any other information as it may come to us from an administrative standpoint. Whatever we come across is to be fielded through he and myself, to which we will act accordingly. For now I want Alastor, Kingsley and Frank accompanying your Deputy Head, but seeing as we don't yet know what we're up against, this entire office can consider themselves on call as of this very moment. I expect there to be no slip ups and if the media manages to catch wind of whatever this is, alert myself or Rufus so that we may have Patrol further secure the scene and deal with whichever publication it is ourselves.

Do we have any questions?

I like to think that you have all known me long enough - no matter your length of employment here - to realise I don't give out praises for the simplest of things. You all have a job, you all are here for the express purpose of following through on the duties entailed with said job, yet at the same time there ever so often is the opportunity to point out what you have done right as opposed to what you have done wrong.

Since the start of the month we've had numerous arrests within the departments, but there are three that have stood out as rather cut and dry. Partially because of the perpetrators own carelessness, as well as your work in following up with the cases. I am in fact referring to the arrests of Charity Burbage, Bradley Madley and, as of this afternoon, the arrest of Octavius Pepper for the tampering with the entrances to the Ministry and filling the W.C.s with a flesh-eating posion. A wand was found at the scene after we had a number of incidents with employees needing to be sent to St Mungo's, one that revealed both ownership to the third listed and, upon a Priori, came to show that this toxin did in fact originate there. Our very own Hitwizard Yaxley saw to his arrest and processing only hours ago, and for that I am surprised as the rest of you.

Do not take this as an excuse to slack off or have your ego dictate your actions, merely a notion that in the end it appears you lot can do what you are supposed to from time to time. With that in mind, those of you not in the office today? I would expect quite a bit of delay in your attempts to come in to your shifts tonight or tomorrow morning.

This is the point you two should surprise me and reveal that everything else is going just as swimmingly as above. I am not the type of man who cares to go back on his word, so let's not have that, shall we?

If you have to ask exactly what I want an updated report on, you have already begun to backslide into the realm of Do Not Test My Patience, for the record.

So much as another word spoken about that howler sent to us the night last-- So much as another second lost to activities deigned unproductive by myself, and the culprit will answer to me personally for a renewed look at your contract, and prolonged employment prospects, within this department.

Is that understood? Good. Go back to work.

With your examinations in July forthcoming, one can only hope that you all are diligently staying on top of your studies. I am undecided as to which, but you can also expect a visit from myself in one or more of your classes in the coming weeks.

It's in your best interests that I do not find myself disappointed with your respective progress or general behaviour.

Miss MacDonald, I was distressed to hear that you had found yourself at the receiving end of another attack. Your Healer has been spoken to via owl, but care to hear from you personally about how you are progressing in your recovery. As you must know, we have made your case a priority and, seeing as you are one of my employees, will be taking an interest in staying on top of this until it is seen to its end.

When you are back in the department, I would like to speak with you and discuss the potential for you to undergo a session of basic defensive and offensive spells with one of our more seasoned officers seeing as this sort of thing has become somewhat of a problem.

As of this moment, and regardless of jurisdiction, I want status reports on all ongoing cases. If you've already submitted your paperwork and I've passed judgment that all of your t's are crossed and i's are dotted? I do not care. This is not some formal request to make it appear as if you lot are busy. You were not hired, nor did you train, and you certainly aren't paid merely to appear as if you are only going through the motions of doing your jobs. It'll be a good idea to take heed of the fact that I am aware of the investigations that have been opened, so things will not end well for you if you neglect to respond to this with pertinent developments.

At the top of this list are the Banister case and the MacDonald case. The former is paramount seeing as we're apparently dealing with Death Eaters, members of the Order of the Phoenix and the continuation of the fallout from the quill being stolen from Minerva McGonagall's office, then the latter seeing as it involves one of our own secretaries. Though if anyone needed a reminder of any of that, I would suggest you just coming to turn in your resignation now.

While I'm sure you're all on top of your duties - because why would I have any reason to think otherwise - let's not forget about the ever present thorn in our side that is Fenrir Greyback. Him running amok ceaselessly taunting us with his freedom has never reflected well on us, and doubly so since the blows the WCU has taken in recent times. He remains a priority and will continue to do so until I have his head on my desk. Further details aimed at preparing for the next month's full will be forthcoming, yet this is liable to change at a moment's notice should Mr Greyback see to try and pull another stunt as he is so prone to do.

As usual, if anything discussed here ends up outside of our wards I'm going to systematically go through each of you in the training room until you're nothing but a puddle on the floor.

Yaxley, where is my tea?

What was the conclusion of the giant task force meeting? And come retrieve this damned thing from where it's scratching at my office door before I use it for target practice.

I've heard through the grape vine that your niece has plans to enter into the Auror training programme this fall. You know well enough that formal interviews and preliminary background checks will not be starting for some time, but would like to arrange a time to speak with Imogen about her future plans in my department. It would please me if you passed this on to her with the mention that she should in turn contact me personally to schedule this, instead of going through one of my secretaries. Some of them are prone to not knowing how to use a calendar at times, so don't care to end up with some fiasco on my hands as she's not already an employee.

Any plans you have for this upcoming Sunday are to be done away with because you will be spending the day with myself. Nearly eighteen years of posturing have not been enough for you, so we will be revisiting a few topics you have apparently seen to overlook in how you've gone about lately.