Along with a couple of other students Casey Walker had been walking through the same corridor returning to his common room at the time of Professor Pillkid's attack. Most of the students at Hogwarts knew about Manfred's condition and a few had even seen the disturbing process in action but as for Casey Walker, he had never seen it before and as it had begun he had skidded to a stop on his damp trainers. The boy had been slowly making his way back from resting outdoors. He had clumsily stumbled and fallen into the fountain ending up half emersed in the water.

After a failed attempt to magically dry himself off he had given up and headed inside slipping unsteadily over the cold stone floors. Having pressed himself up to the wall, he gingerly leaned forward slightly once the purple light had faded. "P-Professor?" he asked shakily as Manfred looked around in bewildement, "Are you ... okay?" The man however, had completely ignored him instead choosing to glance around with a dazed look about him. When Casey actually noticed that the Professors wand was rising steadily out of his pocket and had come to settle in front of Manfred's eyes, Casey had a sudden impulse to run and grab it.

Luckily for the both of them, Casey's fear had kept him rooted to the spot only until the echoey roar had filled the corridor from an unknown source, the wand had cast the counter spell as Casey had cowered down to the ground thinking there was some ferocious animal closing in. Still a little unsure as to whether the Professor was okay he breathed an uneasy sigh. "I ... I've heard about that ... But I never thought ... It looked horrible, sir." he said not mincing words, "I wanted to help you." he added now slowly rising back up.