Having directed the following notice:
Office hours currently being held for Charms. All students (both current and new) are encouraged to meet with Professor Malfoy in her third floor office, next to the Charms classroom, during this time if they have anything they wish to discuss.be posted in the common rooms of every house, the Great Hall and
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He sat in the seat indicated and introduced himself. "Dr Maturin, potions master." His accent would give away that he was not English even if his appearance did not in modern Britain; his surname would give away that he was certainly not born into wizarding society. From what Stephen knew of the old wizarding families, Narcissa Malfoy would likely know the surnames of every one, and be related to half. Whether this mattered to her, and to what extent, remained to be seen. He recalled Potter's odd little tirade about Lily Evans's descent.
"You may say this is not precisely a social call, though sure I should make efforts to be more collegial. How do you find professorship thus far, Mrs Malfoy?"
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"Quite a challenge," she said, lifting a small bell from the desk in front of her, "in more ways than one." She summoned the house elf then, the creature already bearing a tray with tea which was set on a small table next to the desk close to the chair Stephen occupied. She gestured to it with one slender hand in clear offer to take or leave as he desired before continuing, "though the challenge came more from discovering Hogwarts to be nothing like what I remembered than from the position itself." That, of course, covered most of it, from the class situation to the fact it was now full of people who could not even properly be termed Muggleborn in some cases. Old beliefs and biases no longer fit what all Hogwarts held now.
"Now what can I do for you, Dr Maturin?" she asked, laying aside the parchment in front of her to focus entirely on Stephen. While she was more than at ease with social niceties, she was far more interested in what precisely would have brought him to her office today, as she had yet to instruct any of the faculty in class or solo study.
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"A research question has brought me outside my own area of expertise and into yours. Have you heard of the enchanted chocolates which have been circulating throughout the school?"
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"I attributed it to Zonko's hijinx, or something quite like Zonko's. Items like that are no strange occurrence in Hogwarts, though I am surprised at the number of people so willing to eat food that is left out unprotected." She shook her head briefly that something children in the wizard world learned at an early age was lost on those in Hogwarts now, especially those who really should know better, and then sipped her tea, setting the cup down as she continued. "So, in what way can I help you with Charms in relation to the chocolates?"
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