He knew he was running late, but every since Mischa had been caught by that annoying prefect, she'd been keeping an extra close eye on him as well. In fact, he'd had to pretend to be going to the potions lab in order to get her off his trail. Since it wouldn't be good if she tried to follow him to the boat.

Anyway, he was here now. "Stupid Hufflepuff prefect," he said by way of explaination.