Melbourne had gone silent after the comment about muggles not really being used…but still, that whole first challenge had been wrong. Really, she hadn’t seen Carl look so…so…hurt by anything before except for well maybe the whole thing where she had kissed him and then dated someone else a few months later but…but, he was, he was special to her still. He was just a different kind of special like a soul-friend-special.

Zoryn got a small nod in return, but seriously Mel’s notes were among the thing’s she would share with her housemates…and friends and really anyone if they needed them because HELLOOOO one day they might be needed for OWLs or NEWTs and for eher…well, that was coming SO quickly.

Don’t panic she told herself before looking toward Kitty as she answered…that was when she heard Kirk’s comment to her and smiled softly in return. ”Thanks Kirk, she muttered quietly as she was debating turning to give him a thank-you-smile when she felt it. He had kissed her cheek, and now her face was probably as red as the curtains in the common room. ”…” she couldn’t think for a moment.

Right…Kitty. Mel gave her a slightly more awkward than intended smile at her words. Raising her hand Melbourne spoke up giving her two knuts on the topic. ”As harsh as it sounds, for the first scenario I wouldn’t want to break the statute…not really, but I would try and find work-arounds for it.” Melbourne’s voice was somewhat shaking as she spoke, ”B-by workarounds…I mean that it is my intent to at least look into becoming a healer, so I would use my expertise in the situation and ask the surrounding muggles to help find things – like for example…go find towels, anything to stop bleeding and do as much as I can to limit the exposure of any magic I would use to muggles that are aware of the presense of magic…for example, if my cousin Natalie Denaker were hurt I would make sure th-that Hadley is there to help…she-she’s her twin if anything were to go wrong I’d want her to be there in her time of need…a-and I would try to use things that I always carry on me on the behest of my very very veeeeerrrrryyy silly father…” she paused before reaching into her bag and pulled a few bottles from it. ” – he’s afraid I’ll get hurt so I always have a bottle of skelegro, a few bezoar stones for the accidental poisoning…oh and a bottle of healing salve and burn paste.” she shrugged before adding in ”we don’t have to use our wands to use magic – we can use pomades and healing unctions’ in lue of wanded magic.”

Oh…wait…had she basically confirmed that Dustin was a little on the nutzo-bananas side of the ‘protective father’ spectrum in front of Kirk…why yes. Yes she had. Hah. This would be fun. ”oh – and as Kirk,” she grinned over to him before placing her hand delicately on his shoulder and…did she just sigh? Oh well, ”and others mentioned – I wouldn’t use magic to entertain non-magical folks…there are plenty of things you can do to entertain eachother” and no, no she was not going to admit that one of the easiest was snogging…this, she was in class not like having a private chat with Hads.