SPOILER!!: airey~
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sweetpinkpixie 
Two...two MEN. Oh sweet solstice how in Merlin's saggy underpants were the students of Hogwarts not educated on the groundbreaking and visionary science fiction masterpiece that is Star Trek. As if in complete agony, the astronomer grabbed at his chest and GASPED. "Those are not just any two men, Mr. Hirase. That is Captain James T. Kirk and first officer Spock, who is technically just half man, of the USS Enterprise. Its five-year mission... to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
And there may have been some loud humming of the original Star Trek theme. Airey was more partial to a specific revision in Star Trek: The Next Generation's speech by Picard, but since he was talking about Kirk and Spock here it just did not seem right to mix canons.
He was also lost in his humming of the theme song that he missed the bit about not needing a Healer. Not that the professor really had much of a comment on the subject anyway.
He simply chuckled at the boy's response - theme song done now - and shook his head. "Stereotyping paper work, are we?" he smirked. Not that he could really blame the boy. He had been the exact same way as a student. Especially when it came to writing essays about creatures or divination. But he decided to humor the kid and tease him a little. "I suppose you could say that. Just seeing how best to construct my freeze ray." Okay, so maybe that was a little too dark of humor for the given climate outside, but it amused himself so that was really all that mattered.
"Do you read the Aparecium, Mr. Hirase?" he question. "The incident was unfortunately cataloged there." He personally tried not to read that rubbish parchment unless it fell unceremoniously on his face as it had done the start of the term. For one, he didn't care to know about student gossip and two...well, it was really just the one thought. Didn't want to know about students' private lives unless they felt they had to come and tell him themselves.
And THIS was an interesting little turn of events - which also made him just a tad squirmy. Was the trouble-making Gryffindor opening up to him of all people? Just as long as there were no tears they would be good. "Really? That's too bad, Mr. Hirase," he frowned. "I too had the unfortunate experience of such a thing in my youth." Still did really, but now it was water down his back. Or however that expression went.
"No no, nothing like that," he said with a dismissive hand wave. "Contrary to what some may say or believe, I do have some moral caliber and would never slip something into a student's drink without notice." Student, no. Staff, yes. He had now. Twice? And both time Leobald had suddenly stopped drinking his beverage to converse with the ladies down at his end of the table. BLEH. Waste of a perfectly good Balding Elixir of his own invention.
For a moment , Kevin looked genuinely shocked when the Professor grabbed at his chest and gasped. What was happening? He didn't have a heartattack right?! But when he realised that nothing was wrong, he rolled his eyes.
"Technically just a half man? ...is he a centaur?" what?
And now he was humming? Kevin let him though and instead of listening he coughed in to his tissue and sniffed his nose before breathing through his mouth. When he was done with that and the man was still humming he sighed.
"whatever you're humming...stop it" he might be sick but his rudeness wasn't going anywhere.
Wrapping the blanket closer around him, the second year went back to looking around the office and his eyes landed on a display case in which robots were standing in and the Gryffindor quickly looked somewhere else. He didn't want to be caught staring at the case cause he was sure the Professor was going to TALK and explain what those things were and he wasn't interested. He now looked at the telephone booth which he found odd but then again this Professor was odd himself so he figured it was normal. But then he saw the animal and the boy actually smiled.
Eh?
"Seriously, out of everything you say *freeze ray*?" what was wrong with him? Couldn't he see that the most important Gryffindor was sick BECAUSE it was freezing?! hmm? And what was with Professor playing along with him? Bentley played along pretending to be an Auror disguised as a Herbology Professor...oh well, it was better than getting boring answers right?
"I haven't read it in a while" he shrugged his shoulders.
"They said that they liked my investigation skills once though" he grinned. And he was still doing it, investigating he meant. Zander was his target as he was determined to find out why he was acting so weird whenever their Head of House was around. But he had to find a copy of that article because he was curious now.
No worries, there were no tears. This Gryffindor didn't cry easily. Except when he had drank that guilt potion. Gosh had he been a cry baby and it made him feel really uncomfortable to know that he wasn't as tough as he thought he was. Since Culloden had told them that the ones who would cry were not strong willed. UGH. HE WAS! HE WAS A GRYFFINDOR HEAR HIM ROAAAR.
"What happened?" he asked.
Kevin looked down at the tea as the Professor waved his hand.
"Okay..." he took another few seconds before he took a sip. The tea was HOOOOT and it burned his tongue. He winced but pretended like nothing had happened and now blew the tea first.
"Drinking hurts..." he announced after only one sip.
"I want to know something, what happened to this Garage person? you know, the old Astronomy Professor?" he didn't even care that he had the name wrong.
"'Cause no one wants to give a normal answer and you probably took over that person's job so its probably to do with you right?" HAD HE USED THE FREEZING RAY HMMM?! so cool.