Cheese and crackers, pumpkin pasties, cauldron cakes, and pies and tarts of at least a dozen varieties were laid out by house-elves along the sides of the Staff Room. And when all the staff had assembled in the chairs provided (a short chair was even provided for the Easter Bunny), Kahnooloo leapt up onto a desk at the front of the classroom and
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The serious creeps.
Still, he hadn't had a 'real' job before, and he took it seriously. Staff meetings were a job thing, weren't they?
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"I suppose you remember the old me," he said without preamble. "The shadow-self. I am not that man. Not all of us are what we're thought to be. I think you may be one who understands that well."
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"The old you," he mused softly. "People... reset, here. So many people. It's almost as confusing as when the universe resets around you."
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"It has something akin to Transfiguration in it," Albus said. "The body transmutes into popcorn; the popcorn houses the dormant self; or does it? I taught Transfiguration here, once upon a time."
He studied the caretaker from behind his half-moon spectacles. "You'll have your own wand for certain, I think. May I ask what its components are?"
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"I don't remember what kind of wood the guy said it was," he admits. "I remember he said there was unicorn hair in it. I thought that was weird."
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"A chestnut wand with unicorn hair at the core," he mused. "It's a pity your class did not take you beyond matches to needles. You could go much further, if you decided you wished it."
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"Goodness," he said, when he'd recovered. "I forget at times just how disreputable my former incarnation had been. My word, to use Transfiguration lessons as a prelude to -- well, but the school application, as well. Oh, dear. Oh, dear, me. Is this why people have been making odd remarks about something called 'naked time'?"
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Why not?
"Um. Maybe? I don't think I know where your office is."
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