"Yeah."

He goes.

He asks Aaron to keep an eye out. 

He cultivates this year's Slytherins until they are all good friends. 

Tyche Trembley wants to know why her little brother is asking for the family bruise potion recipe, hm, Way?

He asks the Ravenclaw prefects why Corner doesn't have detention yet.

Ares won't go to the hospital wing and Potter doesn't want to make a bigger deal out of it than the victim himself.

"Why won't he go to the hospital wing?"

"Gillow asked, something about not wanting to dignify Muggle dueling with a serious response, I think it's just embarrassment though."

"Probably. Maybe it's educational for him to be brewing his own anti-bruising potions, but - right now Corner's got no reason to stop."

"Trembley ought to can it anyway. It's not much of an intellectual debate if half the intellects around are supposed to seriously question whether they ought to exist."

"Is he still saying that around people who'll predictably take offense, or is he just looking at them funny and being presumed to still believe it?"

"He hasn't said it audibly around Corner but I found a girl crying in a corner the other day."

"I also do not expect the present handling of the situation to inspire him to stop."

"I could give Corner detention, but he didn't make a girl who's known she's a witch for six weeks go find a place nobody would see her cry because she figured we're all the same."

"So is the rule that you can beat up your classmates as long as everyone agrees they kind of had it coming?"

"If Trembley goes to the hospital wing it's escalated enough that Corner'll need to be punished. If he doesn't - I'm not going to have every kid who shoves people in the halls whipped over it, so I have to draw the line somewhere."

"Thank you." Sigh.

"Trembley'll shut up if he makes friends with a patient enough half-blood, they usually do."

"Ours too. I don't even think they'd have to be especially patient, he hasn't given his opinions ten minutes of thought. But I don't know your first years well enough to guess who he should be talking to."

"Nobody's stepping up in his year. In second year it was Roberts but I don't think she has the energy for more than three of 'em and she's trying to juggle four - one of 'em's one of yours, actually -"

"Oh?"

"Roberts made friends with Gaunt last spring? I figured you would've noticed."

"Stuff got past me around O.W.L.s. I did notice that Gaunt had abruptly matured, though. Good for her. - maybe I could give Minor sufficiently specific instructions that he wouldn't be a disaster at it -"

"Well, maybe, but you lot are purebloods, so I don't know."

"Yeah." Sigh. "Can I talk with Trembley?"