owls to all professors and staff of Hogwarts, from Albus Dumbledore

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Severus' return made Dumbledore both glad and a bit concerned. Things were so different here than the Hogwarts he and Snape had shared. Acclimation would surely not be easy for the former Potions Master. Having secured a faculty position would help somewhat, yet so many of the faculty were not from the wizarding world ...

Then again, that might be a blessing in disguise, might it not? All his life, the half-blood Prince had been embattled by the interminable internecine feuding of wizards. Now, here, his former home had become a more open place, populated mostly by people who neither knew nor cared much about the old feuds.

It was therefore with slight ulterior motives that Dumbledore penned tea-party invitations to all the faculty and staff of Hogwarts.

( owls to Kahnooloo, Jack Harkness, Ssillissa, Kon-El, Valentine Wolfe, Alan Grant, HR Pufnstuf, Ron Weasley, Archangel Michael, Ford Prefect, Kusuriyuri, Mr. Wednesday, Simkin, Homsar, Severus Snape, Johnny C., and Vislor Turlough )