"Drudgery indeed - essays, detentions, Potter, and the rest of it." He didn't knows why anyone would ever hope for that sort of unpleasantness. It wasn't just tedium; it was deadly boring and infuriating at once. "I'm glad to hear it, though. Not that there's nothing to be said for mind-numbing pursuits every now and then ... but they're rarely sustainable. And I don't like to lose faculty." That was a shameless generalization, of course. Everyone knew there were plenty of people he had been all to happy to lose, and probably still were. "And hiding never lasts, does it."