SPOILER!!: Jace
“Hello Elsa, I’m Jace.” He said giving her a small wave and a grin. The Ravenclaw isn’t used to partnering up with somebody to be honest, so the tiny kid felt awkward. Elsa’s friendliness helped though, because Jace started to feel warm again and loosened up a bit.
He did blush again however, when she mentioned the older boy finding another partner in class. Jace was amazed at how quick Elsa was in terms of body language. The Ravenclaw nodded, and did a slight bow of his head toward the older Slytherin, apologizing. He didn’t want to mess up with anyone, let alone an older student.
Jace nodded, and gestured Elsa to follow him to the professor’s table to get the mild poison, and the ingredients for the antidote. “I’m good enough.” He said with an air of confidence, smiling at his partner. “I think I got it from my mama. She’s a graduate of Mahoutokoro, and they’re very good at brewing Potions.” He added. The Ravenclaw got his ingredients, and waited for Elsa to get her poison. “I think the antidote we’ll be brewing is a bit of an overkill, don’t you think? The bezoar is enough to counter most poisons...let alone a mild one.” He said eyeing the ingredients. See, he’s really good at this stuff.
Saying she was impressed was an understatement, she was really impressed. She considered herself fairly good in Potions, in fact she even considered herself to be quite good, but she could feel Jace excelled her. This was his domain, he started of a little awkward, shy, but once he was in his territory - Potions - he relaxed and Elsa could se he knew what he was talking about.
"That's amazing!" she commented when he told her his mother was a graduate from Mahoutokoro
"That's the Japanese School for magic right?" she searched for confirmation, connecting the dots that what the he talked first to her, he probably did it in Japanese too. And looking at him closer, he did look oriental, but not completely.
"I'm Portuguese, I've lived in Portugal all my life until coming to Hogwarts. Are you Japanese?" curiosity beat the best of her and even though she knew they weren't supposed to chit-chat in classroom, she did her best to keep her tone hushed and barely louder than a whisper.
She had followed him until the teacher's table and watched as he gathered the ingredients confidently. She also nodded at his remark about bezoar, agreeing
"Yes, bezoar would do the trick on most cases. I guess he could have us solemnly making the antidote, but some students would be lacking the... proper motivation to do it right" she shrugged and searched the table for the mild-poison, finding a tea-spoon portion in a little cup, by the teacher. She picked her little cup, eyeing it's content warily and facing Jace again.
"You don't have to worry, I like to consider myself fairly good in Potions as well, I promise I'll try" emphasis on the try
"not to let you grow horns or something" she added with a chuckle, signaling him to return to their table with her chin.