Anne Finnelan/Plot

==Plot==
===The Enchanted Parade===
Finnelan appears imparting a special class to the students about Fusion Magic through potions. When Akko, Lotte and Sucy accidentally create a huge monster mushroom, she and Diana use the Luna Lana spell to get rid of it, praising Diana for being able to use such an advanced spell.
Finnelan then punishes Akko, Lotte, and Sucy for what happened, arranging them to stage the Blytonbury festival parade with Amanda, Constanze and Jasminka, warning them that they will all be expelled if they fail the task.
===TV Series===
====A New Beginning====
Finnelan is seen next to all the other teachers during the opening ceremony of Luna Nova, being surprised by the sudden appearance of Akko, Lotte and Sucy. She then takes Akko to her room, warning the three of them that they will have a rigorous learning process in their time in Luna Nova.
====Pappiliodya====
Finnelan is next to the other teachers hearing the speech of the headmistress Holbrooke and reprimands to Ursula for its carelessness and soon it discusses with Ursula about its attitude too durlce like teacher. Finnelan is taught her Magic Linguistics class, teaching about the Luna Alphabet, Diana being the only one able to understand it, won the praise of Finnelan. Finnelan observes with Ursula and Holbrooke the decay of the Jennifer Memorial Tree wondering what could be the cause. When he returns to see the recovered tree, praises Diana believing that was the responsible.
====Night Fall====
After caught Akko, Lotte, and Sucy stealing tarts from Luna Nova's kitchen, Finnelan firmly punished the three friends by banning them from leaving the school grounds in addition of helping the staff in handling recent shipment of potatoes, indifferent to Lotte's desire to attend the Night Fall event on the next day. She also busted the three just as they returned from aforementioned event in courtesy of Hannah and Barbara tipping them.
====Luna Nova and the White Dragon====
Finnelan can be seen alongside other professors in discussing the school's latest shortcoming in fulfilling its part of bargain with Fafnir. After dismissing Akko and Amanda who witnessed a group of wyvern-like creatures stealing the Stone unaware that they did so under Fafnir's orders earlier, Finnelan stayed behind to translate Fafnir's contract with them to no avail until Diana intervened. Finally discovered that Fafnir scammed Luna Nova for quite some time all along, she and Diana wasted no time to catch up with the others and Headmistress to expose his treachery and subsequently retake the Stone.
====Orange Submariner====
Finnelan is on an edge from Akko accidentally humiliated her during Object Control Magic lesson where students are taught about how to perform it to serve breakfast, yelling at Ursula for both it and Akko's lack of meaningful progress in her studies. Things only worsened after Akko's fight with Hannah and Barbara in the middle of Magic Astrology exam and later, seemingly endangered the life of Professor Pisces in the attempt to bribe the fish-like Luna Nova teacher, after which Finnelan condemned Akko for bring nothing but disgrace to Luna Nova thus voices her immediate expulsion. This angered Ursula who calls her colleague out for her prejudice against undertalented and problematic students in general that has gone too far and voices her approval of Akko's selflessness with a passionate conviction. To add insult to injury for Finnelan, Badcock shows up to inform the Headmistress that Environmental Agency contacted Luna Nova to express their gratitude over Akko's role in saving a group of endangered fishes from a poacher, the same shady fisherman she scared earlier thus deserved a public commendation and only given less severe detention in the light of her ill-fated attempt to cheat in her now-passed exam.
The episode ends with Finnelan disciplining red team and even Ursula by giving them temporary chores as part of said punishment.
====Sleeping Sucy====
She is mentioned by Akko as she rallies her roommates to reach her class in time or she'll berated them to the point of "turned into stone" as she puts it.
====Blytonbury's Undead Travelogue====
Finnelan can be seen lecturing students on what should they do and don't while outside the school premises. She is annoyed by Holbrooke's antics in which the headmistress recently ordered a pair of large boots which huge enough to be worn as a hat just like the awkward Ursula demonstrates.
====Blue Moon====
Finnelan joins the meeting with Holbrooke, Badcock, and Lukić as they discuss about the decrease of the number of witches around the world — the evident sign of ongoing decline of its magic. They lament the vast difference of the world's condition compared to during the era of Golden Age of Magic and Great Age of Magic. Just then, Diana enters the office to inquire about books pertaining Nine Olde Witches.
====What You Will====
Finnelan can be seen among the professors as they explain about Samhain Festival to student assembly in auditorium.
====Samhain Magic====
Finnelan, alongside Badcock, Holbrooke, Ural, Marjolaine, and Dorlin act as the judge of Samhain Festival.
====New Age Magic====
Finnelan and other professors are struggling to reason with faery laborers who commence the strike in the light of increasing demands of magic energy, which doesn't help by Akko siding with the latter and even calling Diana out for her lack of regard towards those of the lower class when the Cavendish interferes. Even when Croix, the recently appointed professor of the newest subject of the school, Modern Magic, provides an unorthodox yet promising solution with her magitronic designs, Finnelan firmly rejects the offer as per her conviction in tradition which shared by her traditionalistic peers. She begrudgingly accepted Croix's proposal when the new professor showcased her magitronics to pacify the faery laborers when the strike unexpectedly escalates due to one of their own seemingly attacked.
====Chariot of Fire====
Finnelan and Nelson join Akko and her friends in their conversation at cafeteria when they compare Croix and Chariot. Finnelan expresses her disappointment on the two for their career choices as adults, deeming their decisions to be stage performer and pioneer of magitronics respectively as unforgivable for defying their predecessors' conviction in tradition before being interrupted by two students who still using their magitronic tablet outside the class and subsequently reprimanded them for it. Before she could continue iterate her opinions about Croix, Akko already left for the Modern Magic professor to ask her more about her idol.
====Amanda O'Neill and the Holy Grail====
Finnelan reminds Ursula to continue her part of assignment in the school's effort to ease Cavendish family's situation, unaware that the latter had an important conversation with Akko and Amanda regarding Seven Words of Arcturus.
====Sky War Stanship====
Finnelan can be seen excitedly talking about the upcoming final stage of the annual Wild Hunt Event alongside Nelson, Holbrooke, Badcock, and Lukić. It's ambiguous how they react when the event takes a peculiar turn by the presence of Constanze's Stanship which fights possessed Pixels discreetly deployed by Croix as part of her Noir Fuel Spirit Plan.
====Cavendish (episode)====
Finnelan, Badcock, and Holbrooke are dismayed by Diana's decision to leave Luna Nova in order to conduct her family's succession ceremony on the next night so as to save it from Daryl's greed and self-destructive ways. Neither of them are able to change the heiress' minds.
====The Road to Arcturus====
Finnelan and Holbrooke confront Croix about magical anomaly she caused as Noir Rod neared its completion, halting her attempt to kill Ursula with a conjured laser cage. But the two soon rendered powerless when Croix responded by using Ley Line router in conjunction of Noir Rod's systems to shut down Ley Lines around Luna Nova, causing them to fall to the bottom floor of Croix's lab below because they fly with their broom at the time. With the source of their magic effectively cut off, the recovered Finnelan and Holbrooke can only watch as Croix, Ursula, and Noir Rod teleported to Arcturus Forest.
====Tree of Leaves====
Finnelan is seen next to the rest of the Academy, giving their Fuel Spirit to Akko and Diana during their battle against the missile. She later joins the others in celebrating Akko's success in finally flying with her broom through her own power.
===Keisuke Satō Manga===
====Chapter 2====
As with in the anime, Finnelan is seen next to all the other teachers during the opening ceremony of Luna Nova, being surprised by the sudden appearance of Akko, Lotte and Sucy. She then takes Akko to her room, warning the three of them that they will have a rigorous learning process in their time in Luna Nova.
====Chapter 3====
Finnelan is seen teaching about the Luna Alphabet in the montage of Akko's rant about how dull Luna Nova's classes are compared to spectacular magic performed by Shiny Chariot.
====Chapter 4====
After berating Akko for placing wanted posters of possible owner of Shooting Star all over Luna Nova, Finnelan demanded Akko to undo the mess she caused.
====Chapter 6====
Finnelan is still struggling in reviewing the contract Luna Nova signed with Fafnir on Holbrooke's behalf by the time Diana reports that she had the students handling menial labors in the behalf of the academy's faery custodians as per her instructions. To the strict professor's surprise, Diana recognizes the language used in said contract.
Thanks to the Cavendish, Finnelan finally managed to properly decipher the contract and with it, forcing Fafnir to reveal his deception in exploiting her and her peers' underestimation on understanding the languaged used in contract in question.
====Chapter 7====
Finnelan expresses her concern about Akko's setbacks during the latter's lessons to Ursula, remembering how the Japanese witch-in-training fared poorly in Fundamentals of Magic Pharmaceutics and disastrous cheating attempt in Broom Flight lessons. Moreover, it's Irsula's responsibility considering the matter at hand; Hanbridges' upcoming visit.
====Chapter 9====
Finnelan is seen among professors who expected Hanbridges' arrival. She ensures the students who also present to behave during such important event.
====Chapter 11====
When one of magical boobytrap near the professors' office is triggered by someone, Finnelan sets out to investigate leading to her busting Amanda, Akko, Lotte, and Sucy outside their dorm room with a missing answer sheet nearby. Bringing them to student counseling room, she takes her time analyzing circumstances surrounding their predicament considering it took some efforts and careful planning to bypass the security which Amanda should be better capable of than other three witch students. It is when Amanda confesses her theft of the answer sheet and expects expulsion against Akko's protests. Impressed by the Irish-American's display of maturity, Finnelan decides to assign her the laundry duty as fair punishment with Akko, Lotte, ans Sucy helping her. After dismissing them, Ursula barges into the office fearing the worst regarding the girls' situation. Finnelan reassures the French professor that she'd given them fair detention before berating her for showing up not in her teacher uniform.
====Chapter 11.5====
Finnelan is berating Akko, Lotte, Amanda, Constanze, Jasminka, and Diana for making a ruckus in their competition for the limited edition dessert baked by a famed patissier from the capital at the end of the chapter. She can't help but baffled by the Cavendish being not above participating in it despite being an exemplary student.
====Chapter 12====
When she heard a commotion in West Dormitory, Finnelan sets out to investigate and find the mess Jasminka's hunger faery left behind. Thanks to cover up story Akko comes up at that instance with Sucy forced to tag along, only those two who had to undo the damage as per Finnelan's orders.
====Chapter 12.5====
Finnelan is doing her usual routine when she notices something off among the goblins whom Badcock given a set of instruction. Then, she discusses with Headmistress Holbrooke regarding a new professor whose new subject and equipment irritated her for involving modern technology. Upon Headmistress' reassurance that she worries about the matter too much, Finnelan sets out to continue her routine.
====Chapter 15====
Finnelan joins Holbrooke in a meeting with the headmistress of another magic school regarding the upcoming interschool broom race in a bid to improve both academies' relationships. Despite Finnelan's doubts of Luna Nova's odds, Holbrooke is confident because of their trump card Diana only to be horror-struck upon receiving the news about the Cavendish's sickness from Hannah and Barbara who barged into the meeting in panic.
====Chapter 16====
Finnelan and Holbrooke have no choice but to relent to the rival headmistress' decision of selecting Akko to be Diana's replacement in the interschool broom race. As the race commence, they are impressed by capabilities of the rival school's participants which proved that they're no pushovers.
====Chapter 17====
Finnelan assures the panicked Holbrooke that Diana's interference makes a difference in the race's unexpected turn of events, which helps considering the rival school headmistress remains adamant in letting it continue despite everything.
To her and Holbrooke's delight, Akko, with aid of Diana, wins the interschool broom race against all odds in the end. As they celebrate however, they find the seat where the rival school headmistress sat at empty save for crescent-shaped leaves.
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