"Oh yeah, they take that sort of thing real serious around here. That psych eval you do before you get to be a proper Auror--lie if you have to. Those blokes are finicky about everything." She should know. Failed it the first time for not giving the answers they'd have felt more comfortable hearing. So she wasn't a knight in shiny armour out to defend the innocent and the weak. So she happened to be in this field for the thrill and the way it made her feel alive. What was so terribly wrong with that? She still turned up for work each day, didn't she? The bad guys still got stopped, didn't they?

There was no need to ask about his level of frustration. The punching bag's blows answered it all. Couldn't blame him either, YATI had been a very frustrating time for her.

"I remember those days, walking Diagon Alley on a random patrol and hoping someone would...I dunno...just accidentally drop dead. Or a walk around the Ministry on patrol and praying to Merlin a dark wizard would break in." She sighed wistfully, not at all missing those days that were so confining. "Never. Happened. Ever. It was like the universe was trying to spite me."

Lex had no doubts she'd probably done terrible things in another life, but nothing bad enough to warrant boring patrols when the sky was literally the limit in this career field.

Ah, yeah, last year. "Good luck on those finals. Wizarding Law was a pain." Failed that one too. So her Auror career had been off to a rough start....might have been less rough if she'd bothered to READ but Merlin who even had time for that???