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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Aslan Archer
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Rose Woods
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Maybe not all of them were, but they were quite a loud majority. Nina would go as far to say so, at least.

Nina took notice of her Professor's disappointment, despite how quickly the look had left her features. She felt guilty for a few short moments, again feeling rather strange and uncomfortable sitting across from the woman who reminded her of family. Still, she stood by her choice to deny the offering. Tea would mean prolonging the conversation and Nina had every intention to make this meeting to go by as quickly as humanly possible.

Nina shrugged in response to the first question, it felt rhetorical and didn't really need an answer, did it? If anything it was a leading question, one that assumed a specific answer. Perhaps her classmates would like to listen to her, but that didn't change the fact that she didn't want them to. That was her choice and no one could convince her otherwise, that much she knew. Besides, she wasn't the only one who chose to remain quiet during a lesson. It wasn't fair that she had been singled out! Plenty of people chose not to answer questions.

The second question, however, stirred a reaction from the young Sytherin. Her eyes opened widely as she began shaking her head. "No," her response tumbled out of her mouth rather hurriedly. Things weren't great at home at the moment, but it wasn't anything traumatizing. She'd be fine. Her parents would be fine. And.... At school? Sure the dormitory wasn't exactly a friendly place, and she didn't have very many friends. But she didn't need a Professor to know that, it would simply make matters WORSE. "Everything is fine, Professor, can I please go?"

Her head was starting to spin.
Simran's concern only grew and grew as she watched the young Slytherin - of course she had noticed the girl leave lessons alone and enter them equally so, but desiring solitude and being lonely often looked the same and it was always better to be supportive and concerned than to brush it off and assume that all was well. She'd made that mistake once, assuming a student was simply tired from their workload.

She would never make the mistake she made with Brian Woods again.

And there it was, what she'd been worried about. The defensive "I'm fine" that she'd seen all too often. Oxford was a place of great stress, and it could be almost as difficult to watch as it was to bear. She'd been on both sides - she knew. Hogwarts really needed a therapist.

"You can go right after you tell me what's bothering you," she said at last, firm. "Would you like some tea?" It seemed polite to offer again, seeing as it was now possible they would be there a while.
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