This lesson was getting better and better! Well... it was. Until those hooded minions of Melty Face Headmaster Dude appeared. They gave her the creeps. And she felt herself take a small sideways step closer to Tadhg without thinking about it. The further she was from those guys, the better.

Dahlia chewed at her lip as Professor Williamson spoke. Blue eyes trained in on the mans face, refusing to look anywhere else for the time being. As soon as she heard what they would be focused on today, excitement took over. She was bouncing on the balls of her feet a tiny bit, her hand shooting up into the air. "It's believed that if you have a Cockatrice egg and don't want it to hatch into one, you have to toss it over your home and have it land on the other side. This has to be done without hitting the house or breaking the egg." Whether or not this was true, the eleven year really had no idea.