Kyle returned the barest shrug and under his breath while the class was full of people saying [i]lumos[/i], Kyle said the code word for meeting in the empty classroom on the third floor corridor. 

He like Siobhan had no issue casting Lumos. He wondered what Snape had in store for the pair of them. Why was he forcing them to sit together? He thought maybe Snape really was trying to help improve house connections, but no one else seemed to be facing the same focus they had. 

Kyle had observed plenty of Slytherin and Gryffindor fighting. There was a lot of tension between all the houses, and from Maggie's comments it seemed worse than usual. That was believable. It was only the first week of school and Quidditch hadn't even started yet, but it certainly felt like it.