[voice | mostly open]

[loyal_granger]

Has anyone heard anything from Harry Dresden recently? I... keep going to see him, and he seems to have disappeared. I hope he's all right....

[Locked to those involved in Snape's class (except Snape himself)]

I don't suppose anyone has heard whether or not Professor Snape intends to resume lessons anytime soon? Or, indeed, if anyone's heard from him

Comments

[not_taserproof]

Do you think something has become of your friend?

[loyal_granger]

From what I've heard, it's likely he's simply been sent back home.

[not_taserproof]

A less simple matter than implied. Is it not the aim of those imprisoned here to seek a way back to their own realms?

[loyal_granger]

It doesn't seem to happen intentionally, based on what I've seen and heard.

[not_taserproof]

Surely it must be the intent of someone or something.

[loyal_granger]

By the intent of the individual, I mean. Though really, despite the talk one hears about the supernatural, I can't say that I place much stock on all of this happening through the whim of some omniscient being of beings.

[not_taserproof]

You believe it occurs by chance, then. A troubling thought.

[loyal_granger]

I don't want to claim it's by chance, though it's the only reasonable explanation to me. I don't know of any magic powerful enough to do some of the things I've experienced here.

[not_taserproof]

There are older and stronger magics in the world than mortals could fathom. Absence of proof is not necessarily proof of absence.

[loyal_granger]

You sound a bit like my former Headmaster... only, of course, not quite as old as he was.

[not_taserproof]

You might be surprised.

[loyal_granger]

You don't sound like you surpass a century.

[not_taserproof]

Thank you. That is kind of you to say.

[loyal_granger]

... are you trying to say that you do?

[not_taserproof]

I'm simply saying it was a flattering observation to make.

I am sure you are aware, but things are not always as they appear.

[loyal_granger]

I've been a witness to things being different than they seem far too often to pretend otherwise.

You sound like a young man, though Heaven knows I can't make judgments based upon a voice.