At the sad look, Severus had a fleeting urge to pat Miss Pond's shoulder and remind her that they all had to go sometime, but no sooner had he opened his mouth to say that than she had moved on to Churchill. So he refrained. "I take it you haven't read many of his books, then?" he asked, raising his eyebrows. "His sense of humor certainly comes across on the page." As did his air of authority, but that was apparently never in question, in her mind.