"More precise calculations are still needed." Dumbledore shook his head.
"Fine. I'll keep this from Harry, then. It wouldn't do him any good to know too much." Kayson turned to leave the Headmaster's Office.
"This must be kept from everyone, including Sirius and Lupin," Dumbledore added.
"Mm-hmm, I won't forget."
"Also, perhaps you could find someone reliable enough to teach Harry Legilimency. In a sense, that could sever the connection between Harry and Tom."
"Noted."
"I think you could ask Snape."
Kayson stopped and turned around. "Dumbledore, I think you can be quite interesting sometimes."
Dumbledore shrugged, his meaning perfectly clear: he was listening.
"You have a sort of aesthetic quality where you don't treat other people like people."
"What makes you say that?" Dumbledore asked.
"For example, you want Harry to get private lessons from Snape. You clearly know they can't stand each other. Snape is a tsundere, and Harry is a hedgehog. The two of them are guaranteed to stir up some kind of trouble, yet you still threw them together."
"You don't think they'll have any problems together. Is it that you don't think humans besides yourself have emotions, or do you see them as NPCs? Do you just think this is a strategy management game without a relationship affinity tree system or anything like that?"
Dumbledore blinked. "Perhaps Lupin would do as well. It is up to you. Or Harry could teach himself."
"Mm-hmm."
After pushing open the door to the Headmaster's Office, Kayson patted Harry on the shoulder. "Come on. It's nothing."
"Professor Dumbledore said something was wrong with me?" Harry asked.
"He said you need proper rest, and that you need to learn a new spell... It should be like giving you a permanent buff... Wait... a buff?" Kayson suddenly realized something. A buff?