"He's perfectly polite in his passive-aggressiveness," Emmeline said before taking another sip of her tea. "He's not so bad, really. It makes me try a bit harder, you know?"
It was true. Hippocrates Smethwyck was one of the top Healers at St. Mungo's and Emmeline knew she was lucky to have him throughout the course of her training. Granted, he might have preferred someone quieter and she would have preferred someone who knew how to smile, but life didn't always hand you everything you asked for.