Given her conversation with Malfoy prior to class, Athena was unsurprised to find Nichols coming up to her afterwards.  Neither student had been very engaged in class like they normally would be.  Often Nichols would be the one to offer a muggle understanding of a concept and translating it to a wizarding one.  The confusion that seemed to eclipse most wizarding raised students in regards to Nichols seemed to slowly be fading as they began to understand the world she came from.  Today, though, it was like pulling teeth to get her students to be engaged.