"Before." Neville hadn't ever lost touch with his former professor over the years, so when she'd hinted of retirement he hadn't been hard to tempt. "I only stayed a few years." He shrugged slightly. It was odd, since most people studied and trained for years to get the job in the first place, but it had also never been something he really wanted. He'd just been a teenager who wanted to finish the fight they'd been fighting for years and saw it as a way to avoid an extra year at Hogwarts. And it had gotten his gran off his back.
He watched Snape transfigure the glass but mostly just stayed out of the way. Dittany wasn't hard to grow but he only had so much ready at one time and it seemed like the sort of thing that would be useful when the hotel got up to it's tricks, he didn't want to accidentally ruin anything somehow. "Do you need anything else?"