___<br/>It was quite unusual for a TA to be present during PhD evaluations, but professor Mulligan had always been a very unusual professor, so Sirius didn’t think too much of it. It didn’t seem like most of the others thought too much of it either, as Sirius stayed mostly in the background, getting the sense that he was mostly around such that professor Mulligan would have someone to discuss properly with between students.<br/>It was interesting to hear everything that Mulligan had to say about each project, Sirius remembering how he himself had been at this time in his first semester, and feeling absolutely certain that his first thoughts hadn’t been much more eloquent than the ones that Mulligan had just brutally speared.<br/>Sirius saw a very low survival rate for this class.