"Well, then I really ought to thank you on his behalf," Dumbledore said faintly. "By the way, when were you planning to go?"
"Next holiday, I suppose. You know how busy this little elective of mine has become ever since the student body grew. In a few more years, it might even become compulsory." Kayson spoke with a miserable expression.
"How did it feel to be popular with the students?"
"Exhausting... but worth it." Kayson shrugged at Dumbledore, then used Ender teleportation to reach the classroom downstairs.
After placing everyone's assignments on their seats in advance, all that remained was the long wait for class to begin.
Before long, class was about to start, and a string of little wizards filed into the classroom one after another like dumplings dropping into a pot.
Then they saw the assignments spread across the desks, and every one of them pulled a miserable face.
"You all don't look very happy," Kayson said, utterly without dignity as he sat directly on the teacher's desk.
"Professor, with results like these, we really don't know how we're supposed to be happy."
Draco raised the assignment covered in red crosses and spoke helplessly.
Yet work like Draco's was already among the top three assignments in the entire third year.
Watching the scene before him, Kayson was honestly very satisfied.
The Soul Sand-connected magic runes he had assigned last class were supposedly for them to study as homework, but he knew perfectly well that this material was far beyond the third-years' level.
He had only given it to them as preparatory work, but when the assignments came in, he was surprised to find that these little wizards had actually come up with some rather impressive things.
There was not much, admittedly, but for little wizards with what could