. . . . He had told them to sit down?

He had heard the 'hurry up' part clearly because it had startled him. But he had not registered the 'sit down' part in his brain at all and for a moment, he thought that the Professor had been too grumpy to remember he had not told them to sit down because he was obviously not the only one standing. Old age, you know. The Professor wasn't getting any younger. But when he turned to look and saw a couple of students had taken their seat on the floor before his outburst he realised that he was in the wrong.

Feeling embarrassed, the Ravenclaw apologised while trying to ignore his ears going red and hurriedly got a bit closer to the rest of the group and sat down on the floor before he could take away points. Anyway, He had not made a dumb mistake like that before ever since Scrimgeour had been Headmaster. So this was refreshing. Not.

He listened to the question and the first thing that came ro mind was the sticking charm but as Swann and Rasting had already mentioned them he kept his mouth shut. Spellotape also came to mind but why bother repeating answers. So for the time being, he stayed quiet.