"Uh huh. You want to bet?" She had no idea where this confidence or cockiness (could you use that term in relationship to yourself if you were a girl, she wondered), but she was going with it.
"Professor Burke. He's a returnee, Caractacus Burke, of Borgin and Burke infamy, I'd guess. But he's not like that, he listens and he treats students with respect, or he did me. He even asked what we'd covered before so he wouldn't bore us or waste our time."