"Anders," he says with a slightly self-conscious smile, "TA for Professor MacLeod in gym. Which sounds kind of funny, I know."

He watches with interest for a while as she hovers on the broom before saying, "So that's how you manage to keep up with a pretty busy delivery service by yourself, huh? This girl way back before the beginning of the semester was telling me about a sport where she comes from that's played on brooms. Said she was a witch. Are you one too? Not that I'm assuming or anything, I just, um, yeah."