Griselda answered him bitterly: "No, I couldn’t. Albus, I have told them that the ICW testers have been finished with the OWLs and NEWTs and have found a lot of evidence that is speaking against us. I have told them that the only way would be for them to resign from their positions, but no one has listened to me. They have thought that you would save them from being fired due to your position as supreme mugwump and representative of the UK and you would be able to downplay this as a misunderstanding." Albus stared. Were those testers really that stupid? Didn’t they understand that he wasn’t chief warlock any longer and couldn’t downplay this as a slight misunderstanding or that he held no votes in the ICW, if it was regarding his home country? Somehow, he was surrounded by adults that behaved like children, thinking that he would be there to protect them, if trouble was coming.