Hiding a smirk as best as she could when she noticed the Huffie's reaction to staircase boarding, Ariadne secretly felt proud that she would be leaving some kind of legacy behind, regardless of how small it was.

They would be more careful? Debatable, but innocent until proven guilty, hehe. Ariadne smiled brightly at the young Badger. Wow. Talk about complicated names. Ari thought hers was difficult to pronounce...'How do you spell that? I wouldn't want to get it wrong. I'm bad with names as it is.' It took her a whole year to remember people's names when she first came to Hogwarts, only to realize that half of them were graduated and she would make new friends with new names to remember.

'So you two are friends? Out and about, exploring the castle?' she asked, approvingly, remembering her second year, when she and Jory had started on a quest to explore the castle from top to bottom. Well, the other way around, since they had started from the dungeon level, but that wasn't the point. Sadly, they never finished that quest...