User blog:Notmyresident/Discipline at Hogwarts - A Clarification



There isn't necessarily an issue with discipline at Hogwarts on the wiki that should be addressed in this blog, but we don't have any concrete outline on the wiki as to who can carry out which type of discipline. The below outline, which will be posted on the applicable category pages, is taken heavily from this page, with one major change made so that it flows more with the increase in responsibility from position to position - that being that the ability to give detentions has moved from prefects to non-professor employees of Hogwarts, such as healers and caretakers. The outline has been approved by Brocky, the headmaster.


 * Prefects can:
 * dock house points from every student except other prefects and head students
 * Head students can:
 * dock house points from every student except eachother
 * give detentions to every student except prefects and eachother
 * All faculty and staff - i.e. any adult employed by Hogwarts - can:
 * dock points from any student
 * give detentions to any student
 * Heads of Houses can:
 * dock house points from any student
 * give detentions to any student
 * suspend students within their own house
 * remove privileges from students within their own house, except the position of Head Student
 * recommend students for expulsion
 * Deputy Heads can:
 * dock house points from any student
 * give detentions to any student
 * suspend any student
 * remove privileges any student, except the position of Head Student
 * recommend students for expulsion
 * the Deputy Head has the same powers as the Headmaster when they are standing in for the Headmaster
 * Headmasters can:
 * dock house points from any student
 * give detentions to any student
 * suspend any student
 * remove privileges any student
 * expel students
 * fire or suspend teachers and staff

"Privileges" include but are not limited to leadership positions such as Prefect, Quidditch Captain, Head Student, as well as spots on the Quidditch team and rights to visit Hogsmeade and Lincliff City.