Josh was waiting for the answer to his question about if he needed to get rid of his pants, too when another shower of that disgusting thing hit. Of course, he did his best to protect his face which did not work much. ''Well...i take this as a 'no' '' he said looking at the chest level hot and stinking substance. And he looked back at Lafay, he was excepting her to yell at him however something surprising happened. She did not bother to say even a single word to him and instead spoke to the other woman as if...he was not there.

What?! What was that? Josh hated to be ignored. People might snap, yell or throw whatever they they'd like to throw at him but being ignored was the worst of all which meant that there was something wrong. If his words made even Lafay act like this, it was apparent that he needed to calm down and reconsider his acts.

Actually this made him reconsider everything he did starting from the day he told Evelyn to forget him, in deep silence, his eyes on the Potions Mistress but mind was far away from the dungeon place until another flow of sewage came in a sudden.

Huh?

He was so lost in though that he had not even heard Madam Donovan say that word.

Yes...

Maybe he thought he was right with all his words but apparently as right as they were, they were also full of mistakes. One did not have to say the wrong thing always, to consider it as a mistake....Apparently.

Unable to look down this time, for now the sewage was pretty close to neck level, the Gryffindor felt that it also got way harder to breathe, not the mention the continuously rising heat. He did a huge mistake and sniffled as Madam Donovan spoke which caused his eyes got watery again and his sight got blurred.

The boy just stood in silence for a couple of minutes, unable to speak, though he really wanted to answer his head of house's question. Then, he swallowed and collected all his remained ability of withstand to speak again. ''I...'' he swallowed again ''I...am not afraid of death, so not afraid of being drown in anything.'' Completing the sentence was hard, also this time, naturally, there was no tone of sarcasm or protest in his voice. ''I wish it would be for some better cause though. But if you want to kill me, i understand, i deserve it''

And again though he did his best to prevent it, another little tear shone on his dirty cheek yet ignoring it he went on. ''But there's a problem. I was the one who left Evelyn. So, i'm not sure if she has yet managed to forget all about me. If not, my death might be hurtful to her and i don't want her to feel that way just because of me. I'm not going to repeat that mistake.''

Silence fell again and the Gryffindor boy just blinked at the two women. ''I'm sorry for disrecpecting you, as well. Ask anything you want. And i want to ask something, too. Can i ask you a question...'' he looked at Lafay but since she preferred to ignore him, his brown eyes gazed back on Donovan ''...Madam?''