Where he currently stood? Tate tilted his head and leaned back in his chair, giving the girl a long look. "I think you want this for other people's reasons, and I think you'll regret it almost immediately. Your friends will be in different classes, the new classmates will already have established relationships, you're only just scratching the surface of elective classes and cannot really anticipate how they'll go once you're past the introductory classes..."

That all sounded very negative, actually, and he didn't want to dissuade the little Ravenclaw from being an achiever. "Every professor in this school would be willing to offer supplementary work to encourage your interests and studies, which is a much more reasonable suggestion than skipping an entire year of learning. Have you tried that yet?"