Charlotte wrote down the list of spell types from the board, but didn't quite get how she was supposed to come up with something like how to invent a curse.  She didn't know any magic yet, so making up her own didn't seem likely.  

She took her notes with a pencil in a spiral notebook, and she shoved the pencil back into the metal spiral as she closed it and got up to leave with the rest of the class.  It seemed like she had only just sat down, but she [i]had[/i] been late.

She caught up to Layla on her way out as well, and waited and listened as she talked to the teacher about "unforgivable curses."  She didn't know anything about that, but it was starting to seem like spell classifications were completely arbitrary.  

When the teacher and student went their separate ways, Charlotte caught up to Layla and walked beside her.  

"So what else do you know about spells?"