Finding Dave a Girlfriend

The next day, after Sean finished his first afternoon class, he headed to Hogsmeade.

He had originally planned to find Stephanie first and ask how her consideration was going, but she happened to be out of her room, and he had no idea where she had gone.

Sean suspected the girl might have simply been sleeping in the Room of Requirement—she even had her own little bedroom there.

Still, there was no need to worry about Stephanie suddenly disappearing within Hogwarts. She was either in the library, the Room of Requirement, or some obscure little bookshop in Hogsmeade.

So Sean went to the Three Broomsticks first.

By the time he arrived, several prospective new Teaching Assistants were already waiting inside for their interviews.

They were all young, with the oldest-looking one no more than thirty. Among them was someone Sean knew.

They were not particularly close, but Sean certainly remembered him vividly.

Newt Roberts West, who shared a name with Professor Scamander. Sean had received from him a pot of Asparagus Fern representing the power of Qilin blood, as well as the still foolish, gluttonous Aero-Wing Bird.

His grandmother was Bunty, Professor Scamander's assistant back in the day, and she had been very close to both the Kowalski and Scamander families.

Of course, setting aside his elders' connections, Newt Roberts West was famous in his own right—he had unusual methods and could always get Magical Creatures with no desire to reproduce to mate.

Quite a few endangered Magical Creature populations had expanded thanks to his "miraculous touch."

Newt Scamander had devoted himself to preventing Newt Kowalski from meeting another "God of Crossbreeding," Hagrid, effectively saving the world from destruction.

The moment he saw that Sean had come to greet them, West immediately strode over enthusiastically. "Hey, mate, long time no