Joe has always been prone to relying on his instincts and he found he liked this Mikey guy quite a bit right off the bat. He seemed like a solid person and Joe was always going to be likely to like a guy who could introduce himself as the professor of transfiguration and stupidity and not sound like he was whining.
"My pleasure," Joe said with a snort, tapping his thumb on the papers scattered across his lap. "You know, considering how much I had to harass the headmaster to get this job, I thought you must have had someone who was gunning for it. But hey, glad to be appreciated."
"So, what's it like around here?" Joe asks, leaning back in his chair. "I went to school in the states and we don't have anything like this."