(( 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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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."
Stephen had little idea of exactly how many people were involved to some degree with the enmity between Susan and Teatime, and it would have given him considerable pause had he known the identities of some of them. However, he did not think it amiss for either Lupin or himself to be involved: Lupin because of his position as Head of House, and himself because of the debt he still viewed himself as owing to Susan. River, though, he wished he could keep out of everything contentious, whether it involved Teatime or Gin or anyone else. "About your tea she said little, only that it was nice enough. She was upset at the time over a falling-out with a friend of hers, which I fear she has still not quite gotten over." He looked at Susan questioningly. "Did she seem ... unwell ... to you?"
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(( *The Surgeon's Mate p. 139, in response to Diana Villiers, of all people. Because, you know, it's rude to ask Villiers questions about herself, but totally fine to buy information on her. ))
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