About fifteen minutes before the start of the meeting, Leo was standing in the grounds, waiting for the others to show up. Theo and Tracey were already there, discussing something with each other, but none of the others had shown up yet.
He shivered slightly: it was turning very cold and his robes weren't really warm enough for this sort of weather. He'd have to dig his winter cloak out of the trunk before too long.
As he glanced back towards the castle, he saw Marisa, wrapped up in a pale green coat, jogging gently towards him. He smiled slightly as he felt tension that he hadn't even noticed before releasing at the sight of her.
She waved slightly, hurrying towards him until she was close enough to talk.
"Hello!" said Leo. "Looking forward to learning a new spell?"
"Yes," she said, but he could see something was different to normal. She stepped closer until their bodies were virtually touching each other and whispered in his ear, her hot breath warming it.
"I've found out something important," she breathed. "Tell you later…"
He nodded, but didn't draw back from her. He could feel the heat radiating off her body, warming him. Leo couldn't help being slightly annoyed: he wouldn't be able to focus on teaching the second-years Ascendio when his mind was on wondering what Marisa had found out.
She stepped back to a more usual distance from Leo as Daphne arrived with a couple of the Ravenclaws and then the first-years began to join the little group.
"Okay," he said, "first-years are going to keep working on the Full Body-Binds, could you get into pairs and start practicing? Second-years, over here, we're learning Ascendio today."
He waited for everyone to get into groups as requested, and then began carefully demonstrating the wand movements required for the spell, all the while burning with curiosity.