*totally needs to ask who HoH for Ravenclaw is* >>
"The very same. He is ... enthusiastic." He didn't sound as though he meant it to be a compliment. The best intentions in the hands of someone over-eager could be disastrous, and most things Longbottom touched that weren't plants had always seemed to him to end up in very poor shape indeed. "Ravenclaw won't have such a new hand at the helm." Not everyone had been newly hired, thankfully, although sometimes it felt like it. Severus had never been one to sell himself short, but he knew it was impossible to hope to make up for the loss of the last two Headmasters' experience - not in the space of a few years. "I think you'll find it isn't so different, in any case, from what you've done before; only on a larger, more exasperating scale." The expulsion powers had always been rather gratifying.