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A vital part of the morning for Unseen University's faculty, providing interim nourishment lest any wizard grow faint in between Second Breakfast and Early Lunch.

In fact, coffee, tea, and biscuits (and by inference in the text of Unseen Academicals, a selection of cakes) are circulated on a specially reinforced heavy-duty tea-trolley at eleven-thirty in the morning, a fact of supreme importance to wizards engaged in endless or pointless Faculty meetings. The text of Unseen Academicals also suggests the previous meal (Second Breakfast) is over and done with by nine, leaving an unprecedented two and an half hour gulf before the tea trolley appears..