"Nice words can get you in trouble if you use them the right ways." Just because they were labeled nice didn't necessarily make them so. It just made them acceptable to use in public settings. Dora just so happened not to bother with with teaching those words to Biter. And even if she did he wouldn't listen anyway.

The whole getting lost thing wasn't surprising at all considering how this one was new to the castle, and the wanting to attend an extra lesson wasn't surprising either because Ravenclaw. The annoying kind who only cared about getting good grades, but it was too early to tell if he'd stay that way. She sure didn't. "This is the tower patch. In memory of astronomy professors killed in the school." And sometimes a great escape from the student population, except for right now.

Why was he leaning in? She wasn't deaf.

"Miss Dora." She corrected. "I prefer not to use the term prefect. Who are you?"