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Sybill Trelawney: "No! NO! This cannot be happening... it cannot... I refuse to accept it!"
Dolores Umbridge: "You didn't realise this was coming? Incapable though you are of predicting even tomorrow's weather, you must surely have realised that your pitiful performance during my inspections, and lack of any improvement, would make it inevitable that you would be sacked?"
Sybill Trelawney: "You c - can't! You c - can't sack me! I've b - been here sixteen years! H - Hogwarts is - my h - home!"
Dolores Umbridge: "It was your home, until an hour ago, when the Minister of Magic countersigned your Order of Dismissal. Now kindly remove yourself from this Hall. You are embarrassing us."
Dolores Umbridge sacking Sybill Trelawney[src]
Umbridge sacks Trelawney 1996

Dolores Umbridge sacking Sybill Trelawney, holding an Order of Dismissal

An Order of Dismissal was an official document instructing the recipient to vacate the post of Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with immediate effect. It required countersigning from the Minister for Magic.[1]

History[]

On 8 March 1996, Hogwarts High Inquisitor Dolores Umbridge and Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge signed Sybill Trelawney's Order of Dismissal, due to her inadequate performance. However, it did not give either of them permission to banish Trelawney from the school grounds, as that authority remained with the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, who chose to allow Trelawney to remain.[1] Later that year, when Umbridge was dismissed from Hogwarts herself, Sybill's dismissal order was annulled, and she was reinstated as the school's Divination teacher by Dumbledore.[2]

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 26 (Seen and Unforeseen)
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 38 (The Second War Begins)
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