"Oh -- you like him?" Miniver perks right up at that and happily hands him over. The sleepy snake coils his tail around Navi's arm and peers up at her curiously, tongueflicking. "He's kind of a baby still. My husband had one called Axl, and we got another and that was how we learned Axl was a girl..." That was fun.
He curls up again, hugging his knees to his chest. "I'll play you some of my music sometime if you want. My husband has a band too, I live with them when I don't live somewhere else. I live like five places, um. What kinda magic d'you do?"
He really doesn't pick up on the schoolteacher thing -- he never graduated high school, and school of any kind was a long time ago for him.