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[shellfishlovver]

Students of Defence Against The Dark Arts class number twwo, I ask that you refer to chapter 35, specifically pages 223, 230 and 237 before you attend your first class.

I suppose I should also introduce myself wwhile I'm at it. My name is Murdoc. You wwill call me Professor Donoghue. I wwill be the second Defence Against The Dark Arts. Any questions should be directed here. That is all.

[Filtered to Eridan Ampora]
I believve wwe need to talk.

[Filtered to Cyrus Onikous]
I'll behavve if you do.

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[grandhighwizard]

well i suppose i'm a little
STRANGE.
or you are.

[shellfishlovver]

No. It's most assuredly you.

[grandhighwizard]

aren't you the flatterer!

[shellfishlovver]

Not really, no.

[grandhighwizard]

why don't you extol the virtues of normalcy to me, then.
I'M ONCE AGAIN CURIOUS.

[shellfishlovver]

I'm not sure what you mean by that. You want me to tell you why it's good to be normal?

[grandhighwizard]

YES.
please.

[shellfishlovver]

Practically speaking, being normal is adhering to social standards that have been set over years of developing courtesy and manners. To rebel to said standards is to risk making others feel...uncomfortable.

[grandhighwizard]

ah, but being uncomfortable can have uses in and of itself.
COMFORT IS OVERRATED.
change is never comfortable, enlightenment and learning are never comfortable.
IF WE ONLY STICK TO WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW, WE CAN NEVER GROW.
normalcy is stagnation.
DISCOMFORT IS LIVING.
if you've ever fought another person, hand to hand, wand to wand, you know what i mean.
I HOPE A DEFENSE TEACHER HAS SEEN ACTUAL COMBAT.

[shellfishlovver]

The implication was that those who are strange are far more likely to be a risk.
Hardly somethin' considered favourable for decent conversation. Combat, on the other hand, is somethin' entirely different.
Somethin' I know all too well.

[grandhighwizard]

A CONVERSATION WITHOUT RISK
could hardly be considered 'decent'.
BORING, PREDICTABLE, REPETITIVE, MORE LIKE.
i suppose some dullards want never to be surprised when they're talking,
BUT A LITTLE INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION IS A FINE THING.
words make marvelous weapons,
CUTTING AWAY THE DEAD FLESH OF A PUTREFYING MIND.

[shellfishlovver]

Lovely imagery you're usin' there. Perhaps you should have been a poet.
In any case, there's a time and place and situation for every conversation and not all of them need to involve flesh. It's not proper.

[grandhighwizard]

hard to avoid it.
SEEING AS IT COVERS UP ALL OUR BONES.

[Oh, damn, Rhys just cracks himself up sometimes.]

but a 'time and a place' and 'proper' mean rules.
THERE ARE NO RULES.
but what we impose.
THE JUSTICE OF BRUTALITY.
still, i'd hate to make you uncomfortable, my boy.
SHOULD I PLAY NICE?

[shellfishlovver]

Yes. Haha. How clever of you.

There are unspoken rules, actually. People who are unaware of them are generally...well..miscreants or mentally unstable.

And. I'm not your boy, Professor.

[grandhighwizard]

oh, i never said whether the rules were spoken or unspoken.
REMARKABLE HOW GROUPTHINK WORKS, ISN'T IT?
all the sheep bleating in unison.
I PREFER GOATS.

[shellfishlovver]

You talk a lot of nonesense. It's any wonder how your students keep up with your ramblins.

[grandhighwizard]

we're hardly effective educators if we don't
CHALLENGE OUR STUDENTS.
but i apologize for talking a little above your head.
PERHAPS PHILOSOPHY ISN'T YOUR STRONG SUIT.

[shellfishlovver]

Of that much I am aware. However there's a difference between bein challengin and bein bloody absurd.

You're bein awfully condescendin, I hope you realise.

[grandhighwizard]

i don't know that there is much difference.
AND AM I?
i do apologize - i have only the utmost respect for my fellow professors
OF COURSE.

[shellfishlovver]

No, of course you don't.
Now you're just bein' capricious.

[grandhighwizard]

CAPRICIOUS?
hm, i like that!
IT HAS A CERTAIN RING TO IT.
see, we CAN be friends, my boy.

[shellfishlovver]

Not if you keep callin me your 'boy' we won't.

[grandhighwizard]

sensitive about your age, are you?
TERRIBLY SORRY.
should i call you sir?

[shellfishlovver]

No, I'm not. It's improper for you to be belittlin' your fellow staff members.

[grandhighwizard]

haHAhaHAhaHA!
yes, very good.
I KNEW THERE WAS A SENSE OF HUMOR IN THERE SOMEWHERE.
i can hardly help it, can i?