"Brilliant seeing you too, Professor." He might not have been her Head of House--or instructor of any sort anymore but it was a habit, especially while back inside the castle. Brought back old memories. Not all of them as great as her former Head of House but they were still worth remembering.

"I was." To answer Mr. Kitridge's question about the rescue effort with the faintest of forced smiles. It was possibly one of the cases that determined her final fate of having to repeat her last YATI year. Bellaire had been unreasonable, there was no one in the building but them. His reports of her recklessness were undue and for all the trouble she'd gotten into, there hadn't been a single bad guy to punch. Perfect waste of her bloody time it had been--much like this, here, now. She'd been flooing on her own since she was 10. They didn't truly need an escort.

"And it's no problem at all, Headmistress." Lex gave them all a final glance over. Kids safe, Professors grateful, her work was done. Nodding to Airey's statement of having other duties, Lex gave a final departing gesture then heading back through the floo.

Back to piles of paper work. Fun.