Albus and Michael have a chat (closed RP in the library)

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Having an active librarian would be good for Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore was sure. In a school now comprised largely of nontraditional students, a school whose student body ranged at all levels of academic achievement and who must rely primarily on independent study, the library would be even more crucial to the ongoing project of education.

Given some of the Board of Governors' unorthodox choices in hiring, Albus did not allow himself to hope for much. Therefore he was not only pleased but surprised when word came that the archangel Michael had been given the job. Granted, it didn't seem much of a lateral career move to go from guarding Eden with a flaming sword to guarding the Restricted Section with a pad of demerit slips. Albus did know that this was not Michael's first detour into the field of higher education, however. Doubtless the angel had his own reasons for being here.

(Albus had to admit he might harbor a little curiosity as to what those reasons were; but only a little. With angels and demons and antichrists and Tinky Winky Himself roaming the school grounds, nothing was to be wondered at.)

So Dumbledore visited the library with an officewarming gift for the new librarian. The basket held various stationery supplies, a large mug for tea with a lid that screwed on to prevent spills, and a copy of Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology.

He did not sing or even hum as he wound his way through the stacks and knocked finally at the librarian's office door. He respected library etiquette!