un mystère français et un prince noir

Erm…yeah…I suppose. Knox, stop!

'e probably likes ze attention. I 'ope you catch 'im. Zhough I am glad Claude, my owl, eez vell be'aved, I must confess I find ze antics of Monsieur Knox are most amusing.

Yeah, sometimes.

Au moins, most of zem stayed durant last year, even après le débacle, vhich says somezhing.

And sometimes… it’s better to hide in France with another student, in a small muggle… village where no one will talk. But then again, I don’t plan to know more than everyone, just most people. 

Zat sounds like a good plan. Oui. Moi, I feel safer to be surrrounded by others but I cannot deny zat even zhen zere eez a limit. And vhen ze limit eez passed, ze only option eez d'échapper. Et mon dieu, a different country sounds ver'y nice right now.

Er. I once had a professor, er, who… You know what. I can’t think of any stories. I must have blocked them. 

Ah, yes, somezhings are best left forgotten. 

He is a shit hunter and he knows it. He just likes to run in circles.

Much like me, probablement. And you too, vhen you are chasing 'im, must be running in circles asvell ?

Well, I spent the summer in hiding after the war… I’m wondering why everyone is so… forth coming about where they are. If that makes sense. I’m nervous just walking around. 

I zhink zat per'aps eet eez sometimes safest to 'ide in plain sight, and zat many 'ope zat if zey are loud enough, zey vill be looked over; for, too often, ve notice only ze zhings zat are missing rathèr than ze ones right zere.

  Sure he does. He only stays because I give him a nice warm bed to sleep in.

Vell, I can say nothing bad about varm beds to... sleep in. And food. Sleep and food are two of ze zhree zhings neccessaires for survivre. I am certaine zat food must be anothèr raison Knox eez fond of you.

I keep thinking I see people I know

Stupide in vat vay, chérie ? Vere in ze vorld are you ?

How are they crazy? I’m very curious now.

Vell ze two times zat I told Pierce about. And ve 'ave 'ad des profs simply leave in ze middle of a field trip. Zere vas zis one time een Russia looking for potions ingredients vere ze prof 'ad a 'eadache and poof gone. 'e went 'ome. Took zem three days to notice an entier classe vas missing.

Oh non. Tous les professeurs  ici ne sont pas comme ça. We have our share of crazy ones. 

Ah, vraiment ? Maybe ve can exchange stories about them zen. Mon ami 'ad a prof who zought zat because ze killing curse was in ze currriculum 'e 'ad to demonstrrate eet on a student. Personnellement, I 'ave 'ad a prof who tried to throw a boy out of a fifth level window. Eet eez a good zing 'e was on the running team.

Uh, peanut butter? I dunno. Little bugger’ll probably eat anything if he would just come back here.

Yes, peanut but-ter. 'e does seem to be very... independant. It was ver'y kind of you to take 'im in, though. Per'aps, on some level, 'e appreciates eet.

Merlin, Knox! You can't do this! Come back!

Oh, 'e eez very cute, does 'e like, ah I know the vord, just give me a second... peanut buttèr ?

Teachers at Hogwarts aren’t always sane, some are rather crazy.

Oui, ma belle, in comparaison with normal people ? Crazy. En comparaison with des professeurs francais ? Very, very sane.