"YoU sToLe My CoNtRaCtOr" Ummm actually it was freely given, I'm sure the pheonix will be happy to give you another one if you ask nicely, especially as the phoenix aplogised when she gave the chick away.
Uhh, a fiery redhead elf! Surely not the last time we saw her!
Also, this guy downplaying the appearance of the death knight that much is a bit suspicious.
It's not a downplay, a downplay would be "oh a death knight, no big deal", this is "probably not actually a death knight, probably a skeleton knight and as a 1st year you just got confused" which the other elf teacher was also saying. I don't think he's evil, it has kind of been shown so far that the elves a haughty and somewhat bigoted against non-elves and overall assuming even a talented 1st wouldn't escape a powerful monster is not completely unreasonable. Remember these characters don't know what the other characters and those characters don't know everything we know too.