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[mswoods]

The following day, Sadde has Transfiguration in the morning.

She is all over it at lunch.

"Okay, so, Transfig is just about the coolest thing," she says first thing to the Ravenclaws as soon as she sits at the table.

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[mrwoods]

"And how do you know that?" This time he doesn't actually suggest that it might be this or that, he wants to see what explanation she generates on her own, if any.

[alicornucopia]

Winky shrugs.

[mrwoods]

He blinks.

"Erm. Is this something someone told you or...?"

[alicornucopia]

"It is being obvious, Mr. Sadde sir, but Winky does not know how it is being obvious."

[mrwoods]

Hmm.

"Do you... remember a time when it was not obvious? Was there any point when you had, like... an idea that there was something you should do, and then someone else taught you what it was?"

[alicornucopia]

"...Winky's mother was teaching her to cook and clean and so on," Winky says slowly.

[mrwoods]

"...but not that you should cook and clean and so on."

[alicornucopia]

"Winky does not remember being too young to know that."

[mrwoods]

Sadde nods.

"Okay. I think..." He blinks. "I think I should probably have asked Miranda to make a list of good questions to ask so I wouldn't end up feeling like there might be some really obvious question I'm missing at the end. Erm. If I left a note again, would you come and talk some more? Also, would you like to talk about something else? I don't know if you want or need friends, or if you'd want to be friends with a human, but I could be your friend, if you wanted and if it's not like forbidden or offensive or something."

[alicornucopia]

"Winky is having work to be doing even here," Winky says. "House elves is not being friends with students. Winky can answer questions if Mr. Sadde wants though."

[mrwoods]

He nods again. "Okay, if I think of new questions, I'll call you. And if you think of something I could help with, you can tell me. If you want. Erm. Yeah."

[alicornucopia]

Winky bows and disappears.

[mrwoods]

He sighs and looks around. Well, he'll have stuff to talk to Miranda about at breakfast.




...he wonders how much trouble he can get into before curfew.

[chanuphis]

Miranda: is at breakfast when breakfast is.

[mrwoods]

Sadde: arrives at breakfast, looking a bit bedraggled but happy.

...is that a bruise on his face?

"Hi!" he says happily.

[chanuphis]

"Hi. What'd you get into this time?"

[mrwoods]

He grins. "There's a slight possibility that several people woke up and found that their underwear had been mysteriously replaced by another gender's," he says. Then, looking as innocent as a dove, he says, "Of course I had nothing to do with it, but I giggled at the wrong person."

[chanuphis]

"Did you at least mock whoever hit you for resorting to Muggle tactics?"

[mrwoods]

"Of course I did, that's when he threw me at a wall and left."

[chanuphis]

"Aha."

[mrwoods]

"You do think in a rather Slytherin way, though, don't you?"

[chanuphis]

"Well, this was a Slytherin who hit you, right?"

[mrwoods]

"Naturally, otherwise I'd probably not have heard of the unfortunate underwear mishap."

[chanuphis]

"Heard of. Right."

[mrwoods]

"Yep. I couldn't possibly have done it myself; as you might know, the girls' dorm doesn't allow any boys in."