A Hufflepuff girl in her year (Daisy) wanted to be partners, yesss! Emmeline beamed at the other girl and chirped, "Sure! I'm Emmeline, what's your name?" She felt kind of bad that she didn't know, 'cause she tried to remember at least all the other second years' names from other Houses and stuff, but there was no point in pretending she knew the girl's name or anything silly like that. The twelve-year-old plopped back down in her seat and scribbled her name at the top of the group parchment she'd already retrieved before sliding it across the desks to the Hufflepuff girl.

Sadly, there wasn't much time to talk to her new partner or anything 'cause Professor Kennedy started talking again pretty quickly. And and, he told Eddie to join her (now) trio! The Gryffindor shot the slightly older Slytherin boy a huuuge grin; her duel against him last term had seemed super awful and icky at the time, but as time passed, she had started thinking that it was actually kind of funny and stuff. As her opinion of the duel had improved, so had her opinion of Eddie. Plus, he'd brought flowers for Miss Olivia when she was in hospital last term without even knowing her and stuff! So, to say that Emmeline was pretty happy to work with him and the Hufflepuff girl would be a bit of an understatement.

Her grin fell off her face faster than a Firebolt when Professor Kennedy asked his question, though. She had NO idea what a nebulum-thing was -- was that even its name? -- and so her answer was bound to be really lame. She was impressed by Derf's answer (and the rest of her classmates' answers too, of course) 'cause he knew LOADS of stuff about them, apparently. Emmeline scrunched her forehead into wrinkles as she struggled to remember anything from the skimming of her Astronomy textbook that she did any time Professor Kennedy assigned them homework (which was wayy too often, by the way). She was pretty sure that she remembered a biiig, beautiful thing in the sky with loads of bright lights from the book that she thought was a nebula. She raised her hand tentatively and muttered super quietly, "They're realllly pretty. And they have loads of different colors and stuff." Yup, that was about as bad as she'd thought it would be. Maybe she'd get lucky and nobody would hear her dumb answer...