SPOILER!!: Sinead
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Sinead shrugged. He was probably right. But she didn't like admitting to being wrong under any circumstances, so she didn't speak.
"Yeah, school is good because of... making friends!" she said, enthusiastic after she came up with a point. Like her and Nicholas-not-Nick were friends! "My brother doesn't like home-schooled people. He says they're stuck-up, socially deprived creeps." Her tone was matter-of-fact and she didn't think to wonder if her words were blunt and uncaring. "I don't agree, though." In case she sounded rude like he was when he was staring.
It wasn't the nicest things for parents to say. "Are you parents nice? Do you have any brothers and sisters? Good family?" Sinead liked to keep the conversation going.
"He sounds like a winner," Nicholas observed. He wondered if Sinead's brother was also illiterate.
"Are my parents nice?" It was a bit of a baffling question. 'Nice' seemed to be one of those words with a thousand connotations. When he responded to someone by saying whatever they were saying was nice, for example, he tended to mean that he didn't give a care for the topic of conversation.
"...I suppose they are. And no, I don't have any siblings. When father found out I'd had the audacity to take after my mother's side of the family and be a wizard, he decided not to risk any more wizards or witches. It's for the best." He was supposed to reciprocate questions, that much he knew, "Have you any other siblings? Other than the charming brother you've mentioned?"