Daniel's jaw clenched and his wand hand twitched as Atlas spoke, eager to use one of the hexes he had learned last year on him. It would be easy. But he cared about not getting detention. He still had plans to enter the restricted area with Lisa and Alfie. if he received detention now, the professors would keep an annoyingly close eye on him afterwards. Something he did not want.

And sending a hex to him when he was the only one in the room was just plain stupid and also not fair when he had his back turned. He'd wait for now. Hufflepuff's were 'patient' folk after all.

Except for now. Daniel waited for him to pick an object from the box, still tapping his foot. He watched him pick up a small toy car and roll it over his palm before returning to the box to get whatever had piqued his interest now.

He should never have told him to 'stay on that side of the room'. He was already regretting his words. "I know you're being slow on purpose" he said and crouched next to the side of the box and glared at him before reaching over to grab the ping pong ball he'd seen earlier.