(( Takes place after
Susan's conversation with Gin,
Dib's owls to Stephen and Susan, and Stephen's re-emergence from a week incommunicado. )) Aloysius had been dutifully collecting all the owls that should have reached Stephen and River while they were not-precisely-away, leaving on Stephen's office desk a pile of letters (some of them pointless
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"Oh, incidentally, I finally spoke to Professor Lupin and made him aware of the, ah, situation. With Teatime. He's agreed to keep an eye on things." She paused and wondered if she ought to mention her initial reluctance to bring Lupin into the mess.
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"Now that is welcome news," he said, in response to Susan's comment on Lupin. "Not in that I think he could keep any better apprised of the situation than you can; but he is your Head of House, and as such, he does need to know things like this. He is a good man."
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"Lupin suggested, incidentally, that I talk to the Headmistress about Teatime. I would, but honestly, Stephen, I'm increasingly reluctant to involve too many people in this. I'm afraid that doing so might provoke him or alarm him." Whether there were any other reasons, Susan was not about to consider, even in the privacy of her own mind. "And I've pulled so many people in -- Lupin, you, River ... oh, yes, I suppose she's told you about our tea?"
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His expression at the mention of the Headmistress made clear that he thought little more of her effectiveness than he did of house points. "The Headmistress? She responded to Greyback's assault on Grant by suspending Greyback for two weeks. I hardly think she will be of much use to you, my dear, no offense meant to Lupin's sensibilities. I think his ideas of this school may owe more to his own memories of its past, when it was apparently an institution of quite a different character than it is now ( ... )
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