Lamister

Mister Lamister is a tutor and member of staff at the Assassins' Guild school. He appears in the Assassin's Diary, and on several of the student rules:

6. Boys are strictly forbidden from teasing Mr Lamister.

12. Boys are expressly forbidden to use Mr Lamister's door as a target.

15. Boys may carve their initials once into their desk, and the leads on the roof of the Big School Building. Boys are emphatically not allowed to carve their initials on Mr Lamister's leg.

170. No pupil is to attempt to walk like Mr Lamister.

Uniquely he does not have an subject area at the guild, and appears not to take classes. Neither is he assigned as the head of any student house.

From his appearance in the staff iconograph he looks to be a worried man, with a droopy moustache and small round glasses. He would appear to have suffered a nervous breakdown similar to Dr. A. A. Dinwiddie at Unseen University. While he is not able to perform his role, he has become a fixture, and it would be unthinkable to have him removed.

Annotation

In the TV series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' there existed something called 'The Ministry of Silly Walks' headed by John Cleese. Given Rule 170, Mr Lamister could have been a member of that organisation. (Or perhaps thrown out because 'his walk was too silly')