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Anna Banana "Marvy!" Kate repeated, taking on the word Corrigan had used. She liked Corrigan. She was fun and exciting and somebody Kate hoped she'd be good friends with. They were in the same year and the same house, so it was perfect. It was MARVY! Kate nodded to the question about the hat. "You, too?" she asked. "The hat debated between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor for me, too! Are there that many similarities between the two?" She didn't think so. Maybe Kate and Corrigan were just unique cases.
Kate didn't know what 'Red vs. Blue' was, so she didn't say anything about that. She'd figured out the meaning behind it, of course, but she didn't know what happened after that. "Too much? Oh, no," she said, shaking her head. "I think it's perfect! It would have been a real letdown had we got here to a bland Great Hall. I don't think it looks like this all the time, though." The ceiling, yes, but all the decorations? She didn't think so. She blinked. "Fainted?" she asked, not really expecting an answer to that. "Merlin..." she trailed off.
Looking around again, because there seemed to be something new around every corner, Kate happened to spot an older boy with a badge pinned to his chest. "Oh, look, Corrigan!" she exclaimed. "There's our prefect!" She said this in the same amount of excitement she would if Santa Claus himself would have strolled into the Great Hall.
"Obviously we're meant to be friends then, if we're that similar." Obviously. The Sorting Hat probably realized that in its heart of... er... cloth... and decided that she and Kate simply must be in the same house. Which meant, of course, that Kate would get along swimmingly with Amur, and if Amur were able to find a friend as well, that would make four of them. Friend-making was easy!
At Kate's explanation of all the decorations, Corrigan found herself nodding along. She added, "I didn't think of it like that, but you're right of course. I guess it's better to be overwhelmed than underwhelmed!" She grinned, knowing for a
fact that she'd just used those two big words correctly in a sentence (that she may have borrowed from one of the adults in her family).
Corrigan got so excited by Kate's tone that for a second she didn't pay any attention to what the other girl had said and got super excited herself. Then her brain processed it all and her lips twitched to one side in a thoughful gesture, her brows lowering, "Aren't prefects the ones who boss all the other students around and 'act like Merlin's gift to the school'? I heard something like that on the train..."
It was amazing how often older children said private things in her presence because they simply forgot to
look down before gossiping.