Mordaunt was on a roll today, wasn't he? How come Botros never noticed him in his classes? Was he just taking AR this year or was he a transfer? Anyway, he was glad this particular boy decided to take on his subject. "Maybe you should look into that more when you're older?" Hmm? Botros smiled down at him, referring to the assumption that someone had reinforced the school's protections with runes after the Wizarding War two.

His question about the feeler, though, yes Botros had thought about that and quite honestly he wished no one would reach this conclusion until he looked into it more himself. "There are ways to bypass the feelers in my office, I admit that, but to be able to do that, you need to be one of the biggest rune masters in our world." Kinda like him, heh. So. Hopefully this wasn't something they should worry about. The device in the blonde boy's hand was still and silent, annoyingly. They were still walking around the castle looking at walls and casting those anti-concealing charms. "I do not mind questions, son, at all. It is how I learnt and it is how you learn." He extended his other free arm, the one that wasn't around Malone's shoulders, to pat his back encouragingly.

... then Tobias talked again, and Ab had to 'hmm' loudly, seriously considering his words. "We're about to hit a dead end anyway, if we find nothing here, we'll head back to the library and see if they found anything more concrete with the Chorts talk." He smiled over at the Hufflepuff. "Indeed, extreme weather is still an option on the table." Botros liked his optimism.