Mikey got a dreamy look as he discussed Spencer's magic hands, face softening and a tiny smile playing about his lips. Gerard sympathized -- he was planning on hitting the staff room as soon as they left the Great Hall, half because he figured it was possible some students had holed up there and half because he knew there was a stash of the good coffee hidden in one of the cabinets. And oh, Merlin, maybe even some biscuits and packs of crisps. Bliss.
Still, if Spencer really could grow an extra supply of coffee beans, Gerard would probably propose to the dude. Herbology was clearly much more awesome than he'd realized. First giant monster plants and then magic fast-forwarded coffee. He wondered if Spencer could convince the beans to become flavored, or, like super-espresso-lightning-charged with caffiene? Fuck, he needed to focus. Plan first, coffee later.
He figured after the staff room, he'd do a sweep of the ground floor classrooms and loos, then return to the Great Hall to drop off any kids picked up along the way. Then the West Wing classrooms, and then up to the first floor, and... Fuck, this was going to take forever.
"Oh, there's a list!" Gerard said, unspeakably relieved. He'd knew all the names of his injured kids by now, but the rest of the students had been scribbled down under monikers like 'girl that keeps crashing broomstick into lake -- suspect on purpose now' and 'boy with a thousand girlfriends, seriously, wtf -- saw out with THREE AT ONCE!!! How!!' A list with actual names would probably be a touch more useful. "I'm sure they're all fine," he continued, not meeting Mikey's eyes. "The elves are pretty easy to outrun, so long as you don't get cornered anywhere."
He even mostly meant it -- he couldn't let himself panic and start worrying about Surly Smoking Ravenclaw or Illusions McGee, who liked to wander around in the rose gardens and practice making these really fantastic dragons and warlords on pale horses and pink-green-blue feathered occammies. They were all probably okay, Gerard just had to find them and make sure.