just pushed another student into the lake, after overhearing the other talking about his sister. Not wanting to get caught, he left the boy.

heard that splash somewhat and looks around to see Nikolai. She directs the question towards him. "Is everything alright?"

maintains a straight face and nods, ignoring the spluttering and splashing behind him as the student crawled out.

looks over at the student... "Are you sure?" She gets up to help the wet student.

clears his throat, "Yes, quite.". And follows her, helping the boy with her to avoid suspicion, shrugging as the wet student asked_

_'What happened?'.

actually is more suspicious since he was just walking the opposite direction. She looks at the boy. "I'm not sure. Are you alright though?"

on a bored face, as the boy replies an affirmative, and asks if anyone knows any drying spells.

nods a bit before pulling out her wand and producing a burst of hot air to dry the students clothes.

remains stoic and stuff his hands in his pockets as the student thanks her and goes off, albeit with a slightly confused look.

waves a bit before looking at Nikolai. "You didn't have anything to do with that, did you?"

her an innocent look, as if to say, 'Who, me?', and shakes his head. "It was...very nice of you to help him.", he tries to shift the focus.

isn't going to let him slip by that way. "Well it wouldn't been nice to let him stay like that until he could change." She hums a bit. "It_

seems strange that you were going away from where the boy fell just after I heard the splash."

about it, raising an eyebrow, "I do not claim to be a good samaritan, however...", he pauses to look at her, "when you moved to assist him,_

_I could not help but want to do the same." He looks back at the lake, "There are creatures in there I wouldn't want to mess with."

raises an eyebrow. "Then what is your reason that you were walking away in the first place?"

if she would be angry is he just ran away. "I passed by looking for a place to do some homework. The common room and the library are_

crammed today, and I was having some trouble concentrating.", he shifted a foot. "Doesn't help that I'm horrible with Potions", he grumbled.

kind of believing that for now. "I understand that. That's why I've been out here. Do you need help studying for Potions?"

hoping she would believe him, although there was some semblance of truth in his last statement. "That would...very nice, actually.", he_

admitted. "I'm in Professor Vargas' 3rd year Potions class.", he said, as if it would explain everything.

believes him a bit more. "Oh, understandable. I could definitely help you with that if you like."

how nicely the day is going. "Thank you. Were you planning on studying here too? As long as there is not too much noise, I'll be fine."

nods. "Yes, I was. I was getting a little jumpy staying inside for so long. I'm very quiet though when studying, so you should be fine_

studying here.:

*"

"Ah, I did not mean you. I mean the surroundings.", he tries to clear up the misunderstanding. "It would be difficult for you to help if_

_you did not talk, right?", he grins a little. ((Ehm, we can timeskip if you want...or trail it off... Both is fine. c: ))

((TIme skip is fine with me. What ever you want to do.))

silly for saying that now. "Oh yes, it wouldn't. It's been calm today though, so no worries about that either."

nods as they settle down and takes out a Potions text and notes. "What Professor Vargas said, and what is written in the book here confuses_

_me..." ((You can have the following timeskip post. ))

spends time showing what may have confused the younger student. She knows that the Potion Master sometimes was confusing. After a while, she

finally gets to the end of the notes. "... which should never be mixed with any other potion. He'll try and get you to, so don't believe

him. Does that help?"

actually very pleased and surprised at the progress he's made. "Yes. Again, thank you very much, Miss...ah...", he frowns, realizing he_

_never got her name.

glad to help. "Evelin. I'm Evelin from Ravenclaw. And you?"

replies, "Nikolai Arlovski, Slytherin." A Ravenclaw, eh? No wonder. But she didn't seem as bad as his housemates made Ravenclaws out to be.

almost the same of him. Slytherin did get a bad reputation... and she did catch quite a few of them while patrolling the halls. "It's very_

nice to meet you."

the sentiment. He hates admitting his failures, but truth be told, there was no one else who would really help him. And this girl was_

_surprisingly bearable. "It was nice meeting you as well.", he replies, gathering his things. "Have a good day...", he trails off,_

_finally noticing the time.

happy to help others. "Hope you have a good day as well." She notices the time too. "Oh, we've been outside for quite sometime. I should_

definitely go. I don't want to get in trouble." That would look bad on her as a Perfect.

nods and bids her a farewell.

goodbye as well before heading off to class.