Elizabeth, dressed in a habitual floor- length Regency gown due to the cold weather, glanced over the application. She looked up with an expression of mingled alarm and amusement and managed a cursory curtsy.

"Miss Elizabeth Bennet, pleasure to meet you. Pray forgive me madam, but are there bribes other than your... change in dress? I do not think such a bribe to be quite as... beneficial to me as to the male population of Hogwarts."