She wanted to roll her eyes at his comment of 'more than the basics', but she tried to refrain; she figured it was a compliment coming from him, but she would hope she would have more than that down. It wasn't her fault that her school system hadn't set them up for all forms of magic!
Still, she was taking advantage of the situation now and she didn't want to push away a person who could show her more. "Well, it seems that I've been starting with the not so easy stuff. Have you heard of Poppler?" She was curious to see if John's form of magic was any way related to Quentin's.