Nico felt guilty for feeling relief the moment his father's eyes were off of him. He tugged at a stray thread on the cuff of one of his sleeves. Was now a good time to- He dropped the thread and looked up, straightening his posture again even though he could see now that his father still had his back to him. "Good, sir." He wanted to say very good but that felt like too much of a lie considering he was struggling in an area or two. Overall he figured it evened out into a comfortable enough 'good'. "I'm doing particularly well in Charms and History." He hoped that would please him and he wouldn't think to ask about his transfiguration. Merlin knew he was trying but he simply wasn't the standout student in the class no matter how much transfiguration was supposed to run in his blood. It was the Transfiguration Teacup Trials his father was about to participate in though, transfiguration surely wasn't far from his mind today.

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