"No, of course not," Severus answered through another, longer, chuckle. "But neither did I expect them to attempt suicide by cauldron." He nodded with a half shrug when Jake said that not everyone was suited to learning everything. He knew that all too well, considering how much he himself had struggled with Transfiguration over the years. But just then, Oy returned with something in his mouth and stole Jake's attention away, if only briefly.
"So, what did you do, back in New York?" he asked, raising his eyebrows, as Oy ambled off once more. Though Jake couldn't have been much more than seventeen, if even that. And while that would have made him an adult in the wizarding world, in the Muggle world, things were a bit different.