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[mswoods]

Well, the jig is up. If her House mates had any doubts about Sadde, they're gone.

...kinda. She's still young enough and androgynous enough that most of them think it's just a matter of changing her hair a bit and maybe some makeup and differently cut robes. It's not a belief that stands a whole lot of scrutiny, but given that most Slytherins give her a fairly wide berth, there's not actually been a whole lot of scrutiny.

She did find the Hufflepuff boy she spooked and tell him about it and offer to help him with his Potions homework. He was quite bewildered and suspicious because Slytherin so he didn't accept her help, but she told him to watch who she hangs out with so that he'd see she's Not Like Other Slytherins, and eventually he agreed, unable to see any way this could be a cunning plot. Which just goes to show that some people really couldn't be Slytherins.

Presently, it's Sunday, and Sadde would really like to talk to a certain Hat, which means she needs to talk to a certain Headmistress, and she suspects the most likely place she'll find her is the Head Table, at one of the meals. Breakfast is the first of those! Is McGonagall there?

Comments

[mswoods]

...Horsefeather and Greengrass? Seriously? She giggles and writes the names down on her notepad. "Okay, thanks!"

[alicornucopia]

"You're welcome." He looks meaningfully at her work yet to be done.

[mswoods]

She continues to do work! It is actually fun. Well, not the scrubbing cauldrons part, but the organising ingredients, yes, she every now and then asks questions about them because everything's just so interesting!

[alicornucopia]

Slughorn, distracted by his grading, answers her questions as long as she doesn't slow down.

[mswoods]

She doesn't!

[alicornucopia]

Then she will learn things about potions ingredients.

[mswoods]

Good!




It is a couple of days later, at dinner.

[chanuphis]

The usual suspects are at the Ravenclaw table.

[mswoods]

"Hi! So I talked to Cole and Astoria."

[chanuphis]

"And?"

[mswoods]

"Aaaaand it turns out Muggle Studies is a pretty ludicrously bad class," she giggles. "Why don't they get a muggleborn to teach it?"

[chanuphis]

"I don't know! Why, what horrible things are they learning?"

[mswoods]

"Well I don't know all the details, but they have a pretty poor understanding of how electricity works, and they have very mistaken notions about the cultural meaningfulness of rubber ducks."

[chanuphis]

"To be fair, most Muggles don't really know how electricity works either. Why are they even bothering to cover rubber ducks, though?"

[mswoods]

"I have no idea, I didn't ask."

[chanuphis]

"It seems like a questionable curriculum decision."

[mswoods]

"Yeah," she says. "That's a job I could take if everything else goes wrong, I guess."

[chanuphis]

"Teaching doesn't appeal?"

[mswoods]

"It kinda does, but more as a hobby than as anything I'd do for a living."

[chanuphis]

"I wonder why the professors don't make more use of teaching assistants."

[mswoods]

"Well, there don't seem to be people lining up to work here. Or do you mean like students doing it?"

[chanuphis]

"Students. Sixth years, probably, the seventh-years have to study for NEWTs."

[mswoods]

"Hmmm, yeah, I dunno. Maybe the students just don't care enough?" she shrugs.

[chanuphis]

"You'd think at least the core subjects would have it. Flitwick must be drowning in work."

[msmaxwell]

"Maybe they all have secret clones working a lot."