Rhydian clicked his spoon against the inside of his bowl, looking at her with his smile still plastered a little stiffly on his face. If it hadn't been for the look on her face, he'd have absolutely assumed it was a joke, and he still felt like maybe he ought to laugh and hope she was having him on. he was silent, instead, for quite a while. She'd actually shocked him, which was not easy to do.
"Snape," he said at last, heavy with all the skepticism he could muster. Severus? Really? "The Headmaster." Her boss, and maybe the best route would have been to point that out, but there was something else so much more obvious that it would have been downright dishonest to pass over it: "Essery, he's an absolute git." He had thought everyone had been agreed on that point.