"To me, it equals work and creativity." He grinned. "You should try doing actual work in your office. Maybe it'll be less clean."
Stephen turned his head to stare at Azriel. "I wouldn't have said it if I didn't mean it, and yeah, he minds if I'm here, but if I go away, he understands. I mean it's not like I'm going to tell him that we're going away together. I'll just say that I need a few days to relax. He knows how much I'm working on this."
He smiled. "Yes, I know that the assumptions could be right, but in science, you can't make the jump without really proving that the jump is possible. I've listed the fact, and built a possible theory, you've already jumped three steps ahead. I'm not saying that your theory doesn't work, except that you can't just do that when doing research." He looked at the blackboard again, humming. "I like your theory, though. Totally out of the blue and possibly not provable, but it might work. If he had cast it and made it specific not to Potter but to the rescuer, because it can't be specific to Potter, or the others wouldn't be affected, but he was sure there would be one person who'd rescue her." He nodded. "That makes sense, making a spell directed James Potter would be harder than directing it to say: the person that enters without permission, but even if I'm right, how does it save them?"