((Backdated to before school started))

[charmed_my_ass]

What a long strange trip it's been, and here I am preparing to return to Hogwarts like I have for the past eight summers, but this time I won't be a student. I feel a bit nervous, I don't know if I really have what it takes but I suppose I'll find out quick enough. the summer has passed mostly uneventfully.

[Private to Paul]Babe, let's go out on

Comments

[bobthewizard]

I doubt you'll have too many problems. Those you do have will be different and unfamiliar, of course, but that's life and I'm sure you can extrapolate.

[charmed_my_ass]

If I couldn't do that by now I think things would have gone rather poorly for me in the last year, don't you? *laughter* How's your new assistant?

[bobthewizard]

That's why I doubt you'll have much trouble. *smiles also*

..Oh, fine, fine. *wouldn't put another staff member down through open comments but might open up if pressed about it*

[charmed_my_ass]

I know you well enough to know when you're lying to me, Professor.

[A bit more secure]
I've met him before, he's a little...odd. If you need any extra help, let me know. I can always run for supplies or something if I need to. Or go with him and keep him on track as much as anyone can.

[bobthewizard]

*intentionally misreading that* Nonsense; I have complete faith in your abilities.~

[[Filtered]]

Odd is one term for it.... *shakes head; strikes out the next line as TMI, but it's still a bit readable* I just wish there were some way of telling whether he lives on the same planet as the rest of us. Really, my dear, I wouldn't want to take advantage, but if there comes a time when you have an inexplicable yen for puttering around in a roomful of arcane materials, you're very welcome to come up and keep me company.