Then, there were the teachers. Many were unfair and were treating them too harsh. John had started with some pranks against Malfoy and Longbottom, but the teachers stopped or hindered the pranks and gave him and some of his friends, who were involved, detention. This led that Smith, MacMillian, Finch-Fletchley, Goldstein and Corner abandoned him quickly since their parents warned them that they should behave. He also had a disciplinary talking between his homeroom teacher and his parents. Ms. McPatrick was talking to his parents like he was a criminal and juvenile. Both his parents were less than pleased that this squib had the audacity to talk badly about their son, but what were they supposed to do? They couldn’t defend his actions, but James started that he himself was a prankster and had been pranking, when he was in school. He also went into detail, what he had done. James had to refrain himself from not combusting in fury, when she mentioned that he was a bad role model and talked to him that what he had done was not pranking, but bullying and belittling and was nothing funny. The worst was that she was going to keep an eye on their son and make sure that his "pranking’ would not be tolerated at this school as long as she was his teacher.