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sweetpinkpixie 
Ah, there he was.
"Ah, Mr. Odessa," he greeted, standing up completely and waving the plaque around briefly in the air to replace a proper wave. "Good. I am glad that the Headmistress would see you for this. It is a very noble thing you are doing, for both your house and the school."
Wand out of his pocket now and pointed at the plaque, he looked back at the Slytherin expectantly. "What did she say?"
A nod.
Noble? He wasn't sure if he'd been described as that before. Was that good? It sounded very Gryffindor and yet lately he didn't mind them one bit.
Ahem.
"She said to put 'In Memory of E.M. Forrester, a brilliant space scientist, educator, and Slytherin Head of House. He will be missed', and then she said some stuff about a Flynn and elves probably stealing the original plaque." The middle part, the verbatim part, West said it stiltedly, like someone reading badly from a book. West watched with great interest to see how the professor would do the spell.