And yeah, that would have been helpful. My first reaction to the suggestion was interesting: I thought ‘that’s not really her job, though’ which is true as far as it goes, but raises the question of whose job it is, which raises the further question of why in the world Flitwick is such a nonentity in this story with two Ravenclaw protagonists.
“the opposite of that” as in, not excuse him.
And yeah, that would have been helpful. My first reaction to the suggestion was interesting: I thought ‘that’s not really her job, though’ which is true as far as it goes, but raises the question of whose job it is, which raises the further question of why in the world Flitwick is such a nonentity in this story with two Ravenclaw protagonists.