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[savviest]

If you will allow an old man to regale you with a tale of his youth, I should like to inform you all that when I was a student here we had to FIT into our robes to be accepted. What has the education system come to, I ask! I thought I'd be professoring...professing? Not nannying!
Is it too late to call shenanigans? I'm calling shenanigans. I resign. I quit.

I'll be in my office if anyone over the wise age of eleven has anything of worth to mention.

Comments

[arrogantalloy]

Well, you don't really sound demeaning or rude.

[savviest]

Tone is hard to convey through written format. If I were to speak to you in person, I would follow this up with a condescending pat on your tiny head.

[arrogantalloy]

Well you wouldn't be the first. Sure you could bend that far down?

[savviest]

I've got long arms. Unless you were implying that you are particularly short, which sounds terribly embarassing for you. Me? Not so much.

[arrogantalloy]

Or I was suggesting it would be bad for you back at your age.

[savviest]

I don't recall ever sharing my age, lad. Unless you were making a shot in the dark.

[arrogantalloy]

You said you were old though. When you first started sharing in the book.

[savviest]

Perhaps! But I never said HOW old. An old man, by wizard standards, is young enough to play quidditch for rounds and then go home to his mistress..es.

[arrogantalloy]

I'm 5. Anyone older than 15 is pretty old to me.

[savviest]

Ah to be young and so, so stupid.

[arrogantalloy]

I'm not stupid. I built a muggle circuit board last year. I'm a genius, I've been tested.

[savviest]

Even the wisest man can be a very stupid person! Particularly when he is so very young and naive. Just think of all the remarkable faux pas you have to look forward to in life!

[arrogantalloy]

Maybe I'll just be those faux pas. Be a wise man hiding as an idiot?

[savviest]

Some would say that men like that are the cleverest of them all. Idiots would simply assume they are like minded!

[arrogantalloy]

Well I'll be one of those then.

[savviest]

Good for you, lad! I wish you luck!

[arrogantalloy]

And to you, mister.