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Seemed as though the Headmaster was more than a bit preoccupied with the situation at had to respond to him, but Derf did his best to not take that the wrong way. The announcement itself had obviously been...distressed and he did have an entire school to look out for and not just his quiet and anxious voice. Which is why his attention easily moved to Chloe's when she moved to his sides. "I'm not sure," he answered her honestly while taking that hand latched to his robes with his own and holding it securely to ... reassure her somehow. "...but it's going to be okay."
How he knew that or whether or not he believed his own words were, well, beyond him. Just felt like the right thing to say in the situation.
Before he could ask Kaira what she meant by mutants when all of a sudden there was a younger Ravenclaw chewing and sucking on his school robes??? "Oi oi oi, what are you doing there, mate?" he asked, entirely bewildered as he used his free hand to try and tug it free from the Ravenclaw's jaws. "...I reckon you really don't want to know where all these have been today..." Like...really really did not want to know and he had only brushed some of the mucus and mud and creature feces off and administered a quick deodorizing spell on them. Professor Adara and then Professor Stewart both swooped in to tell the boy, who thanks to Chloe's addition he now knew was Mark Gunter, to stop gnawing on his robes like a goat. At least Professor Noble didn't add to all that - seemed more concerned with making sure everyone was present and accounted for by the looks of it all.
...and then everything just seemed to happen at once.
The Headmaster explaining that the Charms professor was...gone...Professor O'Hara was being the judge and jury on these creatures who had apparently eaten Professor Dopple (not like that was MURDER...creatures had to eat and it was really all their fault that they did not know what all this creature needed to sustain itself, you know?) and he decided even MORE that he did not like her...and his face fell even MORE when she was proclaiming to the Headmaster about her lack of magical ability. But the whiplash of happenings didn't stop there and the Hufflepuff continued to be bombarded with information. Professor Noble telling them to get in lines, Chloe slipping out from his hand, Toddles showing up and shouting about his Fluffsies and then Professor O'Hara potentially threatening the house elf too!? And then there was Professor Dopple appearing...as a ghost...and the seventh year's face went white as a sheet and that pink fur on his elbows seemingly grew several more centimeters in the blink of an eye, almost touching the ground of the courtyard now.
Also? In the moment his respect for Professor Wayland had returned. "T-The Ministry should come and collect them," Derf offered up meekly, though surely that was a thought on everyone's mind by this point. They would be safe and in capable hands. Plus, if the creatures were to stay here it was certain that Professor O'Hara would take matters into her own hands and Derf could not handle seeing more animal deaths on his watch at Hogwarts by the hand of malicious witches and wizards. "Hogwarts is just as unsafe for them as it is to them..."
It was easier to focus on the creatures than anything else, like ghost Professor Dopple. It was one thing to know the Hogwarts House ghosts - there was some sort of divide there and a huuuuuuuuuge generation gap that distanced any association, you know? But this...seeing a woman who had just taught him yesterday and had been privately tutoring him in advanced Charms? It was too much and Derf's brain had flipped on its defense mechanism of tunnel visioning on something comforting - his relationship with creatures.
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