- Magdalena Academy of Magical Education is a boarding school filled with over a thousand students, each and every one of them carrying a dangerous weapon. As such, there are strict rules in place to keep order and maintain discipline. These rules will not always be consistently applied, as different Magdalena faculty members may have differing interpretations of them, and may even play favorites β they are still human beings, after all. That said, any rule-breaking by students risks disciplinary action.
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This is not a complete list, but should cover most major regulations.
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- Magdalena Grounds
- Students shall not leave school grounds.
- Students may leave with the Headmaster's permission, if collected by a parent or guardian.
- On the first and third weekends of each month, Third through Seventh Years may visit [Hogsmeade] Village with a permission slip from a parent or guardian. Students are free to travel to [Hogsmeade] from after breakfast on Saturday until curfew (10:00 p.m.) on Sunday. They may not leave [Hogsmeade], except to return to Magdalena.
- Visitors to Magdalena must obtain permission from the Headmaster or Deputy Headmaster. This includes parents of students, and Ministry personnel.
- The only exceptions to this rule are members of the Hogwarts Board of Governors, who have free access to the school.
- Faculty Areas
- Access to common rooms and dormitories is strictly controlled.
- Students may not enter the common rooms or dormitories of houses other than their own. Each common room has a protective measure in place to restrict access. The Eden Tower and Stark Dungeon require passwords. Vorne Tower requires the answer to a riddle. The Hart Basement requires tapping a specific barrel in a particular rhythm. Attempts to bypass these protective measures by members of other houses are considered serious offences.
- Boys may not enter the girls' dormitories. Attempts to do so will trigger spells preventing it, such as a Slide Spell on the staircases in the Eden and Vorne rooms. The one exception to this is a male Prefect in an emergency.
- Curfew
- Students must be in their dormitories and in bed by a 10:00 p.m. curfew.
- Students may not leave their house common rooms until 6:00 a.m.
- Prefects may be out of bed after hours if they are scheduled for patrol duty. Prefects must still remain within the castle during patrols.
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- Uniform
- Students shall be in uniform at all times while on Magdalena grounds. This includes robes, jumper, shirt, tie, slacks/skirt, shoes and socks, and gloves and scarf when necessary. All articles must be kept neat and tidy (i.e. shirt tucked in, tie worn properly, shoes polished, clothing washed and without excessive wrinkles).
- Pointed hats are also part of the uniform, but are ceremonial in nature, and not required except at special assemblies (e.g. the Start-of-Term and End-of-Term Feasts).
- Robes (but not the rest of the uniform) may be removed during non-class times (e.g. meals, after classes, weekends, etc.)
- Additions to the uniform are unacceptable without special permission. Hair adornments, eyewear, and small jewelry (i.e. rings, necklaces, earrings) are exempt from this. Excessive jewelry may be confiscated by faculty.
- Students may dress casually during [Hogsmeade] weekends, if they have permission to visit [Hogsmeade].
- Magic
- Magic should only be used by students in relation to school work, or approved extracurricular activities.
- Students may cast spells appropriate to their studies in classrooms and other study areas. Study areas include common rooms, and the Great Hall (when not being used for meals).
- Magic that is not related to studies may only be cast with the permission and supervision of a faculty member, Prefect, or Head Boy/Girl.
- Duelling may only be performed on the dueling stage (in the club room), under the direct supervision of a faculty member or Prefect.
- Students always have the right to use magic to defend themselves, or to respond to an emergency.
- Neither student or faculty can apparate on school grounds. You cannot apparate into or out of the school or within school grounds.
- Attendance
- Students must attend all classes, meals, and assemblies that they are scheduled for.
- Only written or verbal permission from the infirmary nurse or a Professor can excuse absenteeism.
- Magdalena is a boarding school full of eyes (students, faculty, ghosts, Peeves, paintings, etc.), making it just about impossible to get away with playing hooky. If you skip classes, you will be caught and disciplined. Discipline consists, at the very least, of loss of house points and detention.
- The requirement on attending all meals is rather loosely enforced. The faculty is understanding, but also knows that skipped meals are a great time for students to be up to no good. Head counts are taken at every meal, and a student that shows a pattern of frequent absence will be warned, and eventually disciplined.
- Only written or verbal permission from the infirmary nurse or a Professor can excuse absenteeism.
- Decorum and Behavior
- Students shall maintain decorum and good behavior at all times.
- Swearing, snogging, shouting in the halls, vandalism, fighting, provoking the ghosts, and releasing puffskeins in the Headmaster's office during mating season are strictly forbidden.
- Alcohol and Tobacco
- Alcohol and tobacco are strictly prohibited on Magdalena grounds. Butterbeer may be consumed in [Hogsmeade], but may not be brought back to the school.
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All rule-breaking can be met with disciplinary action. That said, minor infractions will often be overlooked. A student using a Wand-Lighting Charm to read in a dark corner of the library isn't going to be disciplined for using magic in an inappropriate setting.
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- Loss of House Points
- The most common form of discipline is the deduction of House Points. This relies mainly on house pride and the peer pressure of one's housemates to be effective.
- Prefects may dock points from their own house only, though a Prefect's report on the misbehavior of a member of another house is likely to see that house docked points as well.
- Usually no more than five or ten points is taken at a time for minor infractions. But more severe rule-breaking can see the loss of twenty, thirty, even fifty points. Usually anything that warrants such a drastic loss will also be accompanied by harsher punishments (see below).
- Detention
- Detention can vary greatly in application. In some case, a student will be assigned extra duties to assist a professor or other faculty member. One popular punishment is making students polish the numerous candelabra in the castle.
- Actual corporal punishment takes place in the dungeons under the supervision of the Caretaker, and can range from paddling, to immobilization by magic, to being hung by one's wrists. Though cruel and painful, such punishments are administered under careful magical control to prevent any real harm from being done.
- Removal of privileges
- Students with special privileges may find them suspended or revoked for severe rule-breaking. Examples of privileges that can be removed are: [Hogsmeade] weekend visits, club membership, playing on the Quidditch team, Quidditch team captaincy, or even prefectship if the perpetrator is a Prefect.
- Suspension
- Though rare, suspension from school can occur for violations that are severe, but not so severe as to warrant expulsion.
- Expulsion
- A student will be expelled from Magdalena only under the most dire of circumstances, and only if they are deemed a danger to other students. This punishment is extremely rare.
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Prefects do have some disciplinary authority, but it is very limited. Prefects can dock points from their own house (and only their own house) for misbehaviour. Conversely, they cannot award points, nor can they assign detention. But a Prefect's real authority is in the status their badge provides. If a Prefect reports rule-breaking to a Professor or other faculty member, their word carries much more weight than a normal student's. In other words, getting in trouble with a Prefect is just about as bad as getting in trouble with the faculty, if the Prefect is inclined to report one's misdeeds. These guidelines apply to the Head Boy and Head Girl, as well, save that they can dock points from any house.
