[The problem with being an arrogant, mouthy nerd at a magical school is that retaliation by the other children isn't solely limited to a beating or possibly having one's head flushed in the toilet. No, there are all sorts of other things that can be done, some of them quite creative, many of them utterly humiliating.

Which is why there's a short, bright red boy in pretty, frilly green dress lurking in the hallway outside of Eriq's potions class, trying to hide behind a suit of armor, and hissing at the taller boy as he walks by-]

Eriq!