"And what would you like to do after you graduate, Regulus?"

He blinked. "Professor?"

"As a career, my boy!"

Regulus didn't like the way Professor Slughorn was chuckling. He was a Black. Didn't Slughorn know that the Blacks don't participate in something as menial and mundane as the job market? And even if they did, didn't he know there was a bloody war on? He very much doubted that his Head of House had a pamphlet on Death Eater Indoctrination hidden away in that stack of parchment.

"…Perhaps something in the Ministry?" Regulus suggested.

"A fine start!" Slughorn said jovially.