Cassandra's knot in her stomach returned. Her again... "I have worked with Xana before, upon Professor Forrester's request, actually. As I have told her, this doesn't have to mean we are friends. Just students working toward a common goal."

"May I ask though, what Xana will ask of me, could it lead to my expulsion?" She could not have that on her record, both her parents would disown her. "You understand that I will need to be careful, I have worked hard to become the Slytherin House prefect. I will not jeoperdize it for Xana. This doesn't mean I won't do it or don't want to do it... I do... I just need to be careful."

She stroke the plant she gave her professor and it bit two of her fingers, leaving a little cut on each. Cassandra didn't wince... she had done this with her own plant, which was now at her mother's house being tended to by the house elves. After all she couldn't keep it in her dorm, not with Waddles there. She let the droplets of blood drip on the plant's open leaves, which closed them as it was being fed.

She looked at the professor and smiled. "Please do not misunderstand me. I DO feel priviledged, but do you remember when you told me to ask you before making assumptions?" She asked but didn't wait for him to answer. "I'm glad you took your own advice and requested to see me."

She then took way her two fingers which had stopped bleeding. "Did you want to tell me what my part in this will be now," she looked towards the door. Someone had just knocked. "Or did you want to tell me another time, along with the other things you said you would approach me with later?"