"Not anymore," Severus assures him with cheerful malice. "No doubt, of course, he would need convincing of this fact."
"Well, now we are," he says briskly.
He blinks. "...I didn't want anything from them, other than sense and a modicum of responsibility."
"A pearl beyond price," Severus assures him, mind clamping down into the problem. Lockhart? No, Lockhart was far too deluded to ever have thought he might need a love potion...
"Yes, exactly. Entirely normal. Spring hits Hogwarts like a stampeding dragon. It takes most schools that way, I expect, but I didn't see why I should put up with it."