AN: Chapter thirty-one!

Meanwhile, in the staff room at Hogwarts…

"He should be in Hufflepuff!" Pomona was saying. "Fakir's a darling, he works so hard and he just deserves some loyal friends. I mean, his only friend seems to be that duck of his… And that's just so sad," she finished mournfully, shaking her head.

Severus sighed internally. Does she not realize that her "darling" boy could easily make her Hufflepuffs cry with a single glower? And that boy was no hard-working Hufflepuff – he has a goal in mind, a very specific one judging from his questions. And yet none of the teachers had realized this – or that Mr. Meyers clearly saw magic as simply a means to a certain end.

"Severus," Minerva prompted sternly, "what is your opinion of Mr. Meyers?"

He loathed staff meetings. They were all just useless chatter anyway – and this particular staff meeting was no exception. He sighed.

AN: Despite what it may seem, I'm neither dead nor on hiatus! Updates will just be very erratic. Snape is Extra. lol.

See you next update! Some duck-time, same duck-channel!