Originally Posted by ballantd

"I met...some guy..." she said, searching around for the boy she had met earlier. He was nowhere to be found, however. She shrugged, "I don't know where he went. His name was Damon though, another Ravenclaw first-year. He seemed..." she hesitated, biting her lip as she searched for the right word. "Excited," she finished. Hyperactive was more accurate, but it didn't sound terribly nice.

Melanie was just about to ask Alex if she had met anyone, when she noticed a girl sitting alone near the end of their table. She had noticed her earlier by the Slytherin table, so she was surprised to see that she was actually a Ravenclaw. The girl was reading what looked like Hogwarts: A History, which brought a smile to her face as she remembered her friends and her talking about reading ahead on the train. The girl didn't look like she wanted to be disturbed at the moment, however, so Melanie refrained from inviting her to sit with them.