".......niffler!"
Patroclus smiled to Evelyn as the picnic basket was opened, Patroclus' eye's growing as it did.

With a brownie in his hand and a cupckae in his mouth, Patroclus listened intently to the lesson, his head whipping from person to person as they spoke, or in Jacob's case ran into the lake.....ish

Swallowing, Patroclus smiled at the professor and then began to reply, "I can understand your meaning of the Squid talking, the same way a whale or a dolphin, but what we really understand is the emotion's behind the sounds, not the words themselves......if that makes sense, where as with the Merpeople the fact that they possess brain function on the small level as human's we are able to translate Merish and in some cases speak it," Patroclus didn't want to pipe up and say he could speak merish, he didn't want to be the center of attention.

"This may be a CoMC type question, but is there away wizards are able to understand the minds on non-speaking creatures?"