Chapter 425: Time to Go See the Old Man
Quiet settled over the office. A log cracked in the hearth.
Regulus turned to McGonagall.
"Professor, will Professor Dumbledore be returning to the school soon?" His tone stayed easy, the question direct. "There are some things I'd like to ask him about."
No reason to dance around it. Whatever understanding existed between him and Dumbledore, she already knew about it.
Dumbledore had left word for him. If he wanted to find him, he knew how, and she'd been the one to pass that along herself.
He was only following instructions.
Nothing in her face registered surprise, and she didn't ask what he wanted to discuss.
She knew how much Albus valued this boy.
There had been that conversation of theirs about the nature of magic, which Albus had mentioned to her afterward.