No matter how much Monet had fought learning in her earlier years, she was a decently intelligent young girl. She had started to enjoy the prospect of learning new things, especially when she'd gotten to Hogwarts. So when they'd turned their idle chatter to the assignment at hand, she'd easily melded into an ever attentive student. She listened quietly as he spoke, nodding here and there when necessary as she committed his words to her memory. Laying it all out for her helped her to understand more as he described the different places.

New friends certainly made sense, she had already been making friends with the start of school but it seemed as if it was a never ending process, especially when she looked up to the older boy. Would he be a new friend as well? She found herself thinking she wouldn't mind that at all. He was cute. The very thought made her blush just slightly over the fact her mind had trailed to such a thing. She tried to focus on his words instead, examining the leaves as the cup was tipped in her direction.

Smiling up at him as he finished, the blush likely gone from her cheeks, she nodded. "Hopefully the new friends are ready to help then!" she said with a bit of excitement to her words.

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