Pomona Sprout, on the other hand, regularly broke international regulations on the crossbreeding of magical plants, Madam Pomfrey had failed her final healers examinations, meaning that she had been practicing magical medicine without a licence, Rolanda Hooch had, shortly after first starting work at Hogwarts as flying instructor, been caught in an inappropriate position with a seventh year who played seeker for Slytherin and Charity Burbage had failed her N.E.W.T examination in Muggle Studies and was therefore not even in the least bit qualified to teach the subject.
But the most shocking was yet to come.
"My fellow Wizards and Witches," said Madam Bones once the furore caused by the reveal of Charity Burbage's lack of qualifications had died down. "If you would, please cast your minds back to the 12th November 1967. For those of you who were not there, then try to recall hearing about it in your History of Magic class.
"At the time there was a large scale movement going on, trying to increase the rights of Squibs in the Wizarding World. There had been multiple demonstrations, usually in the form of protest marches that had been staged regularly since the spring of 1964. The purpose of these demonstrations were simple – better rights for Squibs.
"In many areas, these demonstrations proved effective. Employment rates for Squibs increased by sixty seven percent, St Mungo's invested in better treatment methods suited to those born without magic and by law, all Squibs were issued with a special, enchanted key that would allow them to access Diagon Alley through the brick wall behind the Leaky Cauldron, something which, up to that point, was only possible through the use of a wand.
"However, as the winter of 1967 approached, there was still one major issue for the Squibs Rights campaigners – equal pay. Many companies that employed Squibs did so at a vastly lower rate than they would have paid someone who could perform magic.
"After nearly a year of demonstrations on the subject, the then Minister for Magic, Nobby Leach, the first Muggleborn to hold the post, decided to call a Wizengamot session so that the matter could be put to rest.
"The organisers of Squibs United, the principle campaign group, were invited to put forward their arguments, as were opponents of the issue. The matter was then voted on by the Wizengamot. Rightly or wrongly, the Wizengamot narrowly voted against installing a mandatory minimum wage rate for Squibs.
"The organisers of Squibs United accepted their loss but promised to keep on campaigning. However, waiting in the wings were several members of The Brotherhood for Squib Freedom, a much more extreme group who not above causing damage in order to get their point across.
"Without thought for the safety of anyone else, this small group of members from the BSF set off an explosive device of Muggle origin outside the doors of the Wizengamot chambers. Six members of the Wizengamot were killed, along with three members of Squibs United, four of their opponents, two reporters and the court scribe.
"It was the single largest terrorist attack to take place within the Ministry for Magic building, and remains so to this day. Other members of the BSF were so horrified by the atrocity that they personally handed over four of the perpetrators before permanently disbanding their organisation. Two other perpetrators were named; Chris Fugal and Bella Fairgag.
"Neither of these two were ever found, and have remained on the Department of Magical Law Enforcement's Wanted List ever since."
Here she gave a wave of her wand and two wanted posters, ten feet high and six feet wide appeared in the air, giving everyone in the courtroom a good look at the two individuals. From the looks of things, the photographs had been taken from cuttings of photographs that had appeared in newspapers. From the movements of those in the photographs, it was clear that both of them were in a crowd, even if most of that crowd had been cropped out of the image.
With the wanted posters hanging in the air, Madam Bones continued "I think we can all recall learning the anagram spell back in charms class during our second year of magical education. Oftentimes, most of us were left greatly disappointed that using the spell on our own names did not make any cool nicknames. However sometimes something funny could come up. Mine, for example, produced the words Amiable Nose."
There was some laughter in the crowd at this and Hannah took the opportunity to nudge Harry and ask "What did your name come out as when we were taught that spell?"
Harry could not help but smile as he replied "Hamster Jar Poetry and Pyjamas the Terror."
"However," continued Madam Bones "Sometimes the anagram spell could give you an entirely different name altogether, a name with which one could establish an entirely different identity."
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