“That's why no one greeted you at the desk. Sorry about that.”“That's quite alright” Margaret said with a smile.Ruko leaned to the side to get...a better look at the young man who was practically hiding behind his mother. “And you must be Dylan?”Margaret yanked on his leash, bringing him to the forefront, roughly. “Greet Headmistress Ruko properly!”“Hello Mistress” he said meekly before kneeling down and placing his lips on the foot of her polished black boot. Her kissed both of them in turn. I think being potentially Dominant and relatively gregarious went in my favour. But you won’t be meeting a group of people. At first it will only be me.” “I’m still scared.” “I know. I’ll take your lead on this.” “You don’t know how much I appreciate you saying that.” “Sure I do. But I want you to remember, it’s just a meeting that you are contemplating. One hour. Somewhere public. I expect you to have a ‘call back’ too.” “What’s a ‘call back’?” “Someone who calls during. Am I right?” I grinned and nodded. When I opened my mouth to tell her that someone beat her to the punch on feeding me, she started talking before I could get a word out. “I know that Laura has already given you her signature casserole, so I don’t expect you to finish this for a few days,” she said, “You just get the pan back to me whenever you’ve finished with it.” Then she turned and walked away before I could speak. Wow! Now I had enough food to last a week or more. Before I had a chance to. ’ Harry replied.‘O Harry,’ said Hermione worriedly as she let her head rest on Harry’s shoulder, ‘do be careful.’‘Yeah mate,’ piped Ron, ‘you take care, though with Dumbledore by your side, I’m sure you’ll be fine.’‘Thanks guys,’ said Harry with a warm smile to his friends, ‘I wish the world was just so much simpler, and we could do normal things like this all the time,’ sighed Harry, lamenting the fact he could not spend more time with his friends.‘Don’t worry Harry,’ Hermione said gently,.