Amelia was anxious as she made her way downstairs for charms, worried because feared she would be late for class. She had left her watch somewhere and she hadn’t been able to locate it. It was highly uncommon for Amelia to misplace things, as she was an extraordinarily neat person, but these days she had several more things on her mind than she would have liked to. Between battling death eaters and fighting her feelings, Amelia’s mind was not as orderly as it was known to be.
Entering the charms classroom, Amelia kept her head down, as she usually did, avoiding the attention of her classmates. She took a seat next to a redheaded girl who looked to be about her age, setting her books on the floor and pulling out the necessarily supplies for the class. It seemed Amelia was not late for class, and thus she took her time spacing out her books, parchment, and quills. Once her desk had been situated, Amelia let her eyes rise to the blackboard, but before she was able to read what was written on it, she noticed a familiar face at the head of the classroom that distracted her attention.
The woman sitting behind the professor’s desk was the very same person she had met in Madame Puddifoot’s tea shop not two days earlier. Khaat Lupin would have been unmistakable by herself, but the Eagle gave it away if there was any doubt. Amelia quickly ducked her head and averted her eyes, both hoping not to be caught staring and to avoid the attention of the woman she now understood to be a professor. She then mentally began running through anything and everything that had happened in the tea shop and felt heat and colour rising to her cheeks in embarrassment.
Stupid, stupid, stupid… Amelia mentally chastised herself, now knowing she had cast experimental magic in front of a woman who had more than enough power to punish her, and control of her grade in a very important class.