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Cassirin 
"I agree with Alice. She's smartest girl at Hogwarts."
"Smartest person in Hogwarts," she corrected Mo idly as the professor burst forth in song. Her genius wasn't restricted to JUST females, thank you.
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sweetpinkpixie What was it he used to do when students gave stellar answers? Something with deks. Desks and....tapping? No, that wasn't it. Desks and...OH YES! Jumping. Merlin it felt like ages since he had been able to do that and he was almost willing to risk jumping on Miss Fischer's desk.
And did anyone ever tell you, Miss Fischer, that laughter was contagious? And laughter combined with excitement resulted in some unfortunate resulting. Trumpeting ones even.
Phew. Where were the gas masks?
Normally, Alice would have thrown an internal tantrum at Lotus getting points for some mean comment about Pluto's status but not any for her excellent explanation. Favorites? She saw how it was. But since they were giggling together and all, the seventh year refrained from doing so.
See? She was mature. Or just deaf.
"To be specific," insert stifled giggles here,
"it's an expression mnemonic device. And it also means that your mum could be like that evil witch who wants to fatten you up and eat you in those storybooks. Can't trust those Europeans, sirrrr. Nope."
Hehehe. She was European. Gonna EAT HIM. Hehehehehehe.
Senile Alice, clearly, was an issue.