SPOILER!!: Professor
Well, that was reason enough. "Well, you're not in the muggle world anymore, are you?" Hm? "You don't have any exams this year, so I suggest spending your free time studying your weaknesses and practicing until you master them. And then practice some more." You could never practice too much, after all. No one got worse by practicing too much. Ivy listened to the student explain her struggle with the charm to record voice and nodded slowly. She glanced at the clock. "You have time now?" Ivy did, and it was her job to teach, wasn't it? "We could go over it in a few minutes, if you'd like." At least, she hoped it only took a few minutes. It wasn't that difficult to master, really.
Aha. She was waiting for that. Boyfriend. Ivy almost laughed, but contained it inside. "Might I suggest something, Miss Wheatborn?" She didn't wait for an answer. "While it's just... lovely that you have found someone to share your time with, love-interests don't always make the best homework partners. In my years of studying, I've found that the best people to study and practice worth are the ones that you aren't so fond of. The ones who you would very much like to be... better than, hm? It gives you motive to do so. Friends are distracting, are they not?" Ivy didn't know how useful this explanation would be to a Hufflepuff of all people, but she tried.
Minerva listened, no she wasn't in the muggle world anymore, she was glad to be back and glad to be allowed to do magic.
"You don't have to worry about that professor, I do spend much of my free time studying." She had found a balance over the last few years for friends and quidditch as well, but she knew she had always spent much of her time making sure her work was done. A look of surprise and appreciation crossed Minerva's face when Professor Knox suggested practicing.
"I certainly have time Professor, but I don't want to take up your time if you were busy, I know this wasn't a scheduled meeting." She was eager to practice, but of course wanted to be considerate that unlike her the professor probably as a life outside of here.
"I would really appreciate the time to help me though, it really has been frustrating me a bit, Charms and Transfiguration usually came pretty easy for me, so not remember this spell has been a big problem."
Minerva was taken back a bit by Professor's words, someone that you weren't fond of like an enemy,
"but wouldn't it be difficult to even get someone like that to work with you?" She could only imagine asking Elliot or Maxwell to practice with her. The only two people she really had issues with and she would be to afraid Elliot would use the wrong spell on purpose and well Maxwell she wasn't going near.
"I will take that into consideration, though I don't have to many people I'm not fond of, but maybe someone I don't know as well and it could turn into better practice as well as getting to know someone new." That sounded like a win-win in her eyes, but maybe that wasn't what the professor was aiming for.