Viola felt the effects of the drying spell with an instant burst of warmth. “Thank you so much -” she began, but the direction of her thoughts changed at a hundred miles an hour as his answer fell into place. Hogwarts, he worked at Hogwarts. Talk about interesting places to be!
Don’t get out much! Easy for him to say; she didn’t think anyone got out as little as she did, but she beamed all the same. “Oh! You work there?” Stupid question, of course - he was no age to be a student, so he must be a professor or the groundskeeper or something like that; Viola surveyed him with still more curiosity now, trying to match him to one of the vague names or remarks she’d heard from all her sisters in turn about their teachers. She wanted to ask - but she also wanted to ask about a million more things, and he was probably in a rush anyway. So, she had to settle for twisting her mouth into a more lopsided smile, as if in teasing sympathy. “And they don’t even let you out for the New Year’s Eve celebrations in the village?”
(In truth, she would not have minded being stuck at Hogwarts all year long, if it meant she could have actually gone to Hogwarts.)
Don’t get out much! Easy for him to say; she didn’t think anyone got out as little as she did, but she beamed all the same. “Oh! You work there?” Stupid question, of course - he was no age to be a student, so he must be a professor or the groundskeeper or something like that; Viola surveyed him with still more curiosity now, trying to match him to one of the vague names or remarks she’d heard from all her sisters in turn about their teachers. She wanted to ask - but she also wanted to ask about a million more things, and he was probably in a rush anyway. So, she had to settle for twisting her mouth into a more lopsided smile, as if in teasing sympathy. “And they don’t even let you out for the New Year’s Eve celebrations in the village?”
(In truth, she would not have minded being stuck at Hogwarts all year long, if it meant she could have actually gone to Hogwarts.)
