"What? The kids need to learn what to do in cases like this, love," John said with a shrug. He was a professor of demonology at the Royal Academy of Magicks. As far as he was concerned, he'd just done his job: a practical demonstration of a demon going rogue after a failed summoning.

Whether the "failed" part had been intentional, however, was...debatable. John was extremely competent at what he did, but he was also known for being, let's say, less than careful at times. It'd gotten him in trouble once or twice. Thrice. Possibly over fifteen times total. He didn't keep track.

"Besides, no one died. No one got possessed for more than fifteen minutes. Proper success, that." In his opinion, his colleague needed to lighten up. And his opinion was, more often than not, the only one John really cared about. "It's called practical experience. Put these kids out there without ever having been in a real crisis and they'll be p*ssing their bloody pants the second anything goes wrong." As demonstrated by the at least four students who'd done exactly that. "Better they need a change of knickers here than die out there."