Jacob heard Ellie trying to get to him. "I'll have you know that I've had less accidents with my new wand!" not by much, but less.

Wait... they had to hold hands?

He forced a cough "no" he said quickly trying to pass it off as part of the cough.

He didn't want to touch anyones grubby hands... he had no idea where those things might have. The students here were dirty... such dirty little students. You never know, they could have washed their hands in gobstone gob, or they might have rolled around in bubotuber puss this morning.

The students were weird, he actually expected some people here to do that... Weirdos.

Jacob crossed his arms tight against his chest, no one was touching his hands... or he might have to run up to the common room to burn them off, cause Jacob signed that he wouldn't use magic to burn off his own hands