..........Gabriel didn't like change, usually...but with a familiar, but new, face in the classroom....his responding emotion was odd. Yes, professor Tanner was a girl...but he'd seen her enough to be completely desensitized...due to Ravenclaw common room reasons. So, good change, this was....The previous woman had loaded them down with ridiculous busy work and had spoken in a shoddy Spanish accent.

She wasn't, um, planning a return after the.....um, cooperation, was she?

He'd wanted to offer that the lady had been rude, too....but Toby, Ian, Ethan....and a girl from his house (Jasmine)....had it under control.

Gabe, instead, busied himself with his notebook; face down and cheeks pink.