"I have no idea, I didn't ask."

"It seems like a questionable curriculum decision."

"Yeah," she says. "That's a job I could take if everything else goes wrong, I guess."

"Teaching doesn't appeal?"

"It kinda does, but more as a hobby than as anything I'd do for a living."

"I wonder why the professors don't make more use of teaching assistants."

"Well, there don't seem to be people lining up to work here. Or do you mean like students doing it?"

"Students. Sixth years, probably, the seventh-years have to study for NEWTs."

"Hmmm, yeah, I dunno. Maybe the students just don't care enough?" she shrugs.

"You'd think at least the core subjects would have it. Flitwick must be drowning in work."

"Maybe they all have secret clones working a lot."

"What's a clone?"

"It's someone who's identical to you but isn't a twin and wasn't born at the same time as you and they're artificial."

"Like an identical twin where one was paused for a long time and also wasn't made in the first place until after the long time had passed."

"Whyyyy would anyone do that?"

"So that one can teach classes while the other's resting and vice-versa, of course."

"But that's not how twins work..."

"It's not how clones work either - and mostly clones don't work; they could but nobody really does it - but there are a lot of dumb stories about clones where they work that way."

"If it was a really good clone and cloned the brain too then they'd know everything the original knew, too."

"No, it wouldn't. You'd have to do something else in addition to cloning."

"That's why I said cloned the brain too! Like, instead of just copying the genes, you'd copy the person as a whole!"

"That's not cloning anymore, then, that's something else."

She shrugs. "Okay, copy, then."

"Anyway, I don't think there's a copy of Professor Flitwick helping him grade papers."