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|name=Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six
The '''Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six''' was the second [[Educational Decree]] created by [[Dolores Umbridge]] in her capacity of [[Hogwarts High Inquisitor]]. <ref name="OP25">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 25 (''The Beetle at Bay'')</ref> This Decree forbade the teaching body to giving the students any information that was not related with the subjects they were hired to teach. <ref name="OP25"/>
 
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|image=[[File:Decree_77.jpg|250px]]
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|creator=[[Dolores Umbridge]]
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|time=[[14 January]], [[1996]]
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|usage=Forbids teachers to tell students things not related to their subject
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|location=[[Hogwarts Castle]]
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{{Quote|Teachers are hereby banned from giving students any information that is not strictly related to the subjects they are paid to teach|The Decree|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
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'''Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six''' was the third [[Educational Decree]] created by [[Dolores Umbridge]] in her capacity of [[Hogwarts High Inquisitor]]. <ref name="OP25">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 25 (''The Beetle at Bay'')</ref> This Decree forbade the teaching body from giving the students any information that was not related with the subjects they were hired to teach.<ref name="OP25"/>
   
 
==History==
 
==History==
 
===Creation===
 
===Creation===
The Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six was passed by [[Dolores Umbridge]], then-[[Hogwarts High Inquisitor]] on [[January 14]] [[1996]] to prevent the teachers from discussing the [[Azkaban escapes#1996|mass breakout]] from [[Azkaban]] that had occurred the day before. <ref name="OP25"/>
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Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six was passed by [[Dolores Umbridge]], then-[[Hogwarts High Inquisitor]] on [[14 January]], [[1996]] to prevent the teachers from discussing the [[Azkaban escapes#1996|mass breakout]] from [[Azkaban]] that had occurred the day before. <ref name="OP25"/>
   
 
===Reaction===
 
===Reaction===
After the Decree was passed, small groups of two or three professors would be found around the school talking ín a low and urgent voice, interrupting their conversations every time a student approached. <ref name="OP25"/> As the teachers were apprehensive with this Decree, the students made it the object of many jokes; [[Lee Jordan]] quoted the Decree to [[Umbridge]] when she told off [[Fred Weasley|Fred]] and [[George Weasley]] for playing [[Exploding Snap]] in her [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] class. As a result, he was forced to write lines with her [[Blood Quill]]. <ref name="OP25"/>
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After the Decree was passed, small groups of two or three professors would be found around the school talking ín a low and urgent voice, discontinuing their conversations every time a student approached.<ref name="OP25"/> As the teachers were apprehensive about this Decree, the students made it the object of many jokes; [[Lee Jordan]] quoted the Decree to [[Dolores Umbridge|Umbridge]] when she told off [[Fred and George Weasley]] for playing [[Exploding Snap]] in her [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] class. As a result, he was forced to write lines with her [[Blood Quill]].<ref name="OP25"/>
   
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The teachers were forbidden from praising [[Harry Potter]] directly for his interview in ''[[The Quibbler]]'' due to this Decree, but they circumvented this by awarding him with other means, [[Pomona Sprout|Professor Sprout]] by awarding [[Gryffindor House]] twenty points for simply passing a watering can, [[Filius Flitwick|Professor Flitwick]] gave him a box of [[Sugar Mice]], and [[Sybill Trelawney|Professor Trelawney]] diverged from her usual prediction of Harry's death by claiming that he would live long with twelve children and become the [[Minister for Magic]].<ref name="OP26">{{OOTP}} - Chapter 26 (Seen and Unforeseen)</ref> Additionally, once students began making trouble en masse following Umbridge's appointment as [[Headmaster|Headmistress]], the teachers did not trouble to help Umbridge, with Flitwick stating that he could have gotten rid of Fred and George's [[Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-Bangs|fireworks]], but he was not sure whether he had the authority.<ref name="OP28">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', Chapter 28 - (''Snape's Worst Memory'')</ref>
===Abolishment===
 
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The decree was abolished after [[Dolores Umbridge]]'s suspension from her post of [[High Inquisitor]] and [[Albus Dumbledore]] return to his post of [[Headmaster]] following the [[Battle of the Department of Mysteries]], in the summer of [[1996]].
 
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===Abolition===
 
The decree was abolished after [[Dolores Umbridge]]'s suspension from her post of [[Hogwarts High Inquisitor|High Inquisitor]] and [[Albus Dumbledore]]'s return to his post of [[Headmaster]], following the [[Battle of the Department of Mysteries]] in the spring of [[1996]].
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==Behind the scenes==
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*In the [[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|film]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', this was Educational Decree Number Seventy-Seven instead.
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]''
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]''
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)]]''
   
 
==Notes and references==
 
==Notes and references==
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[[Category:Educational Decrees]]
 
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[[es:Decreto de enseñanza n.º 26]]
[[Category:Rules and regulations]]
 
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[[Category:Educational Decrees|26]]
[[Category:Minister for Magic]]
 
[[Category:Documents]]
 

Revision as of 17:40, 23 July 2015

"Teachers are hereby banned from giving students any information that is not strictly related to the subjects they are paid to teach"
— The Decree[src]

Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six was the third Educational Decree created by Dolores Umbridge in her capacity of Hogwarts High Inquisitor. [1] This Decree forbade the teaching body from giving the students any information that was not related with the subjects they were hired to teach.[1]

History

Creation

Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six was passed by Dolores Umbridge, then-Hogwarts High Inquisitor on 14 January, 1996 to prevent the teachers from discussing the mass breakout from Azkaban that had occurred the day before. [1]

Reaction

After the Decree was passed, small groups of two or three professors would be found around the school talking ín a low and urgent voice, discontinuing their conversations every time a student approached.[1] As the teachers were apprehensive about this Decree, the students made it the object of many jokes; Lee Jordan quoted the Decree to Umbridge when she told off Fred and George Weasley for playing Exploding Snap in her Defence Against the Dark Arts class. As a result, he was forced to write lines with her Blood Quill.[1]

The teachers were forbidden from praising Harry Potter directly for his interview in The Quibbler due to this Decree, but they circumvented this by awarding him with other means, Professor Sprout by awarding Gryffindor House twenty points for simply passing a watering can, Professor Flitwick gave him a box of Sugar Mice, and Professor Trelawney diverged from her usual prediction of Harry's death by claiming that he would live long with twelve children and become the Minister for Magic.[2] Additionally, once students began making trouble en masse following Umbridge's appointment as Headmistress, the teachers did not trouble to help Umbridge, with Flitwick stating that he could have gotten rid of Fred and George's fireworks, but he was not sure whether he had the authority.[3]

Abolition

The decree was abolished after Dolores Umbridge's suspension from her post of High Inquisitor and Albus Dumbledore's return to his post of Headmaster, following the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in the spring of 1996.

Behind the scenes

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 25 (The Beetle at Bay)
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 26 (Seen and Unforeseen)
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 28 - (Snape's Worst Memory)