A Free Pass

[Nikolai Sleptov]

Delivered by a first year at breakfast.

Miss Urquart,

In today’s Defence class, we will be beginning our study of werewolves. This subject will span perhaps a week to a week and a half. I understand that, given your family troubles this summer, such a lecture and the resulting discussion might prove troubling for you. If this is, indeed, the case, I invite you to spend your hour instead in the library, doing independent study on that subject.

Professor Sleptov

@'Ruby Urquart'