"Terrible thing," Gilderoy hummed, shaking his head in sadness. "I just heard the news, you know, from Sirius and Minerva. About the seven students in the infirmary with the latest attack. Just terrible. Of course, if I had been there, I could’ve saved them, but I was protecting the Slytherin students. Although Severus has relieved me of that duty now." Gilderoy rambled as he watched Dumbledore open the passage to the Headmasters office, the spiral stairs winding upwards.