Various other students arrived, and Roman didn’t feel the need to greet anyone he hadn’t already greeted. There was an older kid donning the Ravenclaw colors in his tie that passed a remark about the class being “short,” and it didn’t escape Roman’s thinking. He was basically commenting on the amount of first years.

The older boy got an exasperated look at this.

As Professor Liu explained the activity, Roman actually found the thought process interesting. Root words were something he was familiar with, being fluent in both English and French, and he knew some Latin solely BECAUSE of what Professor Liu was explaining - magic. Spells.

Aryan had already started thinking, and Roman nodded in agreement. “I think that’s an excellent spell to use, you’re right,” he responded softly. “And if EX is one of the roots, we can also include expulso…the spell that causes an explosion. I assume the other room is PULSO or something similar, but let me see - “ Roman pulled the Latin book to see if it was, in fact, a root. “Ah, ‘-puls’ is the Latin word. It means to push or drive, which makes sense in the context of the what the spell does. The explosion isn’t just BOOM. It causes the explosion by pushing out air.” He explained before nodding at Arya and Bryonly, and looking at this Emmie girl as well. If they were a four-person group, so be it. Roman didn’t mind.