"I was thinking we can start with 'Hey, d'ja kill anyone lately?' but we'll see how it goes first."  Richard looked back at River and quickly apologized for his sarcasm, "Sorry, just cold."  He was dressed the worst of the three of them, in an old patched tan jacket, and his worn jeans and tennis shoes.  

"I don't really expect us to find out anything from talking to him.  It's like you said, auror's will've interviewed him plenty, I can't imagine he'll [i]tell[/i] us anything he didn't tell them.  I want to see his books, I'm sure he'll have some, can't have much to do but read there.  I dunno what I'll looking for, just hoping I'll know it when I see it."

He had read most of Clowers' writing, but didn't get the slightest glimpse that he had ever studied magical portraiture.  But then, it was more of a Charms subject, and most of his stuff was Dark Arts defense.  Probably he wouldn't have written anything, even if he'd studied it personally.  

"So, we're going to pretend we're students, and we're studying his book in our Defense Against the Dark Arts class - I put it in your bag, Fonsus - and we had some questions about his sources for the most common jinxes and hexes."