Violet caught the interaction between Daniel and Claudine and smiled to herself at the younger student's reaction. Of course, Slytherins could be a little sharp-tongued, but among themselves, they were used to it; members of other Houses, however, could sometimes get offended. But really, she couldn't help sympathize with him. She liked Claudine, considered her a friend, but she had to admit the (not much!) older girl could be a little bossy at times. Violet felt the older girl still treated her like a much younger student at times, but was afraid to show her annoyance because she was so desparate to keep the few friends she had.

Violet looked over at another friend and considered joining her for a moment. Certainly Violet was very good at fire charms now, resulting from the same experience she shared with Ashley, being possessed by a ghost. But unlike Ash, Violet felt empowered and even elated by her new skills--maybe a little too empowered. To be honest, Violet worried at times that she enjoyed conjuring fires a little too much now. Maybe she and Ash shouldn't work together on this particular assignment after all.

Violet moved over and decided to work alone for now. If someone wanted to join her, that was fine, too. Raising her wand, she tested the new spell a few times: "Focalia!" After one shaky start (winding up with a spindly and crooked stick-thing), she was pleased to see that she could successfully create some decent looking firewood from the X-shaped movements of her wand. This would be useful!--certainly better than looking for random things to set on fire.