"..."
Edward stepped forward and gently brushed the snowflakes off her head. "Have you already been outside to play?"
"Yes!"
Audrey gazed at the world blanketed in white outside and sighed. "Hogwarts in the snow is really... so beautiful."
"It is."
She turned back. "Oh, right, Professor McGonagall wanted you to go to her office. She said she needed to see you~"
Professor McGonagall wanted to see me?
Had Lilith done something bad again?
"You'd better go. Don't keep Professor McGonagall waiting too long."
Audrey waved. "I'm off to Defense Against the Dark Arts. Bye~"
"Bye."
After watching her walk away, Edward turned and headed upstairs to Professor McGonagall's office on the second floor of Hogwarts Castle.
Knock, knock, knock.
Edward knocked on the door. "Professor McGonagall, you wanted to see me?"
"Come in."
The door opened by itself. Professor McGonagall sat at her desk, picking out books. "Oh, welcome back, Edward."
Professor McGonagall was very fond of this student who had shown such remarkable talent in Transfiguration, especially after Dumbledore had told her last time that he had even learned appearance-changing Transfiguration-something she herself had never mastered.
"As you know, Edward, Headmaster Dumbledore has been busy with some... more important matters lately."
Professor McGonagall adjusted her glasses awkwardly. "So he has left some of the matters within Hogwarts to me, which has greatly reduced the time I have for teaching. After discussing it with him, I was hoping you could help share some of my teaching duties for a while."
Edward froze, then scratched his head. "Huh? I don't quite understand, Professor McGonagall."
"Well... I need you to cover some Transfiguration lessons for me."
"What?"
Professor McGonagall gently pushed the books on her desk toward him. "Mainly first- through third-year Transfiguration. I believe someone of your ability will have