Though it's genuinely not hard to figure out that he knew, given his actual actions upon figuring it out: the diverting Barty temporarily, and more relevantly, the lifting of the curses cast. Those actions make no sense unless he had specific reason to be merciful to them.
Similarly, his opening in his first response is an equivalent gambit, the "I can certainly understand why you would wish to conduct conversation via journal at the moment." Especially since S-A has been not only one of his star students but one of the regulars at his office hours, and thus if there weren't an issue between them specifically it would be hard to imagine why she'd bother to do the explicitly avoidant journal thing rather than drop in at his salon like normal.
So they've been doing the "I know you know, I know that you know that I know" dance from the beginning.
Alecto is here serving as a useful stand-in, one who can be safely spoken poorly of: "I had a teacher who tried to kill me once (she's dead now and you don't like her anyway, so we don't have to mince words about her). Well, I recognise that she wasn't actually trying to kill me per se, that if she had been I'd have been a goner, but I got significantly hurt and it's left me with some issues here. My interest in the subject material has to balance against my concerns about not becoming dead."
Or, once the subterfuge is combed out a bit, she appears to me to be saying: an acknowledgement that she is alive because he was not acting to kill, but raising the concern about the possibility for future Issues Of This Nature.
She has active interests in the materials as he describes them, but not only is she concerned about long-term consequences of the DoM venture, but she may be issuing a very direct challenge: "I'm not going to stop being an insurgent just because I'm your student. If you can't teach me, knowing that, then we're both better off letting me drop this class."
In other words, I don't read her as just saying she might have trauma issues around learning from someone she's crossed wands with, though some of what she's probably fishing for is a clearer answer to her previous "Explain to me why I'm not dead".
They're dancing around the subject of "You know I'm up to shit that you don't know about" - holy hell, I wonder if he'll speculate about how often they've done this kind of operation, because breaking into the DoM is not something you do on your first try - he's going to figure out that this is the team that took out Umbridge if he hasn't already, that they are at some level a tactical squad that works together - which means he might figure out Fawcett. Um, sorry, tangent. They are both aware that he knows she's up to things. Those things are a potential source of a catastrophic rift in their relationship, if that has not already happened.
At some point the direct/indirect question of "Are my extracurricular activities going to be a problem that you're going to have to deal with with even more hostile force than the last go-around" is probably going to have to be sorted. Especially if they spend any significant amount of time together.
Erm. That's how my Slytherclaw brain reads this bit, at least.
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Date: 2013-06-07 07:43 pm (UTC)Similarly, his opening in his first response is an equivalent gambit, the "I can certainly understand why you would wish to conduct conversation via journal at the moment." Especially since S-A has been not only one of his star students but one of the regulars at his office hours, and thus if there weren't an issue between them specifically it would be hard to imagine why she'd bother to do the explicitly avoidant journal thing rather than drop in at his salon like normal.
So they've been doing the "I know you know, I know that you know that I know" dance from the beginning.
Alecto is here serving as a useful stand-in, one who can be safely spoken poorly of: "I had a teacher who tried to kill me once (she's dead now and you don't like her anyway, so we don't have to mince words about her). Well, I recognise that she wasn't actually trying to kill me per se, that if she had been I'd have been a goner, but I got significantly hurt and it's left me with some issues here. My interest in the subject material has to balance against my concerns about not becoming dead."
Or, once the subterfuge is combed out a bit, she appears to me to be saying: an acknowledgement that she is alive because he was not acting to kill, but raising the concern about the possibility for future Issues Of This Nature.
She has active interests in the materials as he describes them, but not only is she concerned about long-term consequences of the DoM venture, but she may be issuing a very direct challenge: "I'm not going to stop being an insurgent just because I'm your student. If you can't teach me, knowing that, then we're both better off letting me drop this class."
In other words, I don't read her as just saying she might have trauma issues around learning from someone she's crossed wands with, though some of what she's probably fishing for is a clearer answer to her previous "Explain to me why I'm not dead".
They're dancing around the subject of "You know I'm up to shit that you don't know about" - holy hell, I wonder if he'll speculate about how often they've done this kind of operation, because breaking into the DoM is not something you do on your first try - he's going to figure out that this is the team that took out Umbridge if he hasn't already, that they are at some level a tactical squad that works together - which means he might figure out Fawcett. Um, sorry, tangent. They are both aware that he knows she's up to things. Those things are a potential source of a catastrophic rift in their relationship, if that has not already happened.
At some point the direct/indirect question of "Are my extracurricular activities going to be a problem that you're going to have to deal with with even more hostile force than the last go-around" is probably going to have to be sorted. Especially if they spend any significant amount of time together.
Erm. That's how my Slytherclaw brain reads this bit, at least.