Essery looked, understandably, surprised, and she smiled a wide, easy sort of smile and nodded. "Horace's plan is at least three-fourths witted, I can promise." Was she joking with Severus Snape?
"And while I'm thinking that this is really just an elaborate way to get me to be answering your mail, I suppose I could play secretary for a few days if it causes a problem...." Okay, she thought to herself, she was actually joking, maybe even teasing, Severus Snape. In person, rather than in the journals where it was safer and he couldn't hex her. That was an interesting turn of events....