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Tora grinned back. She often times wore a scowl because someone or other had ticked her off, but she loved smiling all the same. It made her feel friendlier than she believed herself to be.
"I've been alright I guess." she thought back to the feast when she got mad at that ridiculous first year. Best not to think about that at the moment. "Bit busy, making new friends and enemies, the like." she continued on.
Then, because she was curious and wanted to get away from talking about topics that might make her annoyed, she returned the question. "Have you been making many friends this year? Or rather how had your start of term been?"
Now that Forrest was sitting, she could stop being formally polite and relax a little. It was nicer when she was happy like she was today, she could actually talk and make friends without scaring anyone off.
Forrest took her answering as he wasn't bothering her, and relaxed further. Talking to someone without scratching crazily felt awesome. Tora obviously thought he was an alright-guy, not some weirdo, and it relieved him.
Enemies? His eyebrows went up at the word. Were they Gryffindor? Should he ask? Hmm... before he could make up his mind, she distracted him with her question and he forgot all about it for the time being.
"Yeah!" he exclaimed happily, regaining his grin.
"I've met tons of new people! I've got a best friend now." He paused and blushed. It sounded awfully pathetic out loud, as if he was too stupid/uncool to have a best friend. Everyone had best friends. It was quite normal. Well, it was actually kind of an achievement for him, because Bristol was his first
real best friend, but Tora didn't need to know that he was bad at making friends. He hurried on in an attempt to make her forget about his idiocy.
"So it's started wonderfully. Quidditch! Do you play it?" In the past year, if there was anything he'd learnt about wizarding world was that everyone just LOVED Quidditch and it was the best distracting topic ever.