Kate nodded matter-of-factly at Corrigan's seeing her point of view on the perfects, as well. "I guess only time will tell. I hope they don't get bossy on us tonight in the common room. You know, when all the adults have gone off to their own rooms," Kate said, eyes widening at that thought. Kate had never met any prefects before, so she didn't know what to expect. She did know that they looked a lot nicer than than that one lady over there yelling at the Slytherins. Kate wondered what her class was, because she figured she'd be frightened to even go.

Kate watched as Corrigan took in the sights at the Slytherin house table. She felt Corrigan's arm on hers and instantly things became a little more real. There were things to be afraid of here at Hogwarts, and they didn't lie within the pits of the Black Lake. They sat right next to them at a little place called 'Slytherin House Table'. "Me, too," Kate whispered back, as if they were discussing the most confidential of information. "The only thing we have to be afraid of is getting knowledge-locked out of our common room." Whoa. That was a really cool made-up word she just used!



Oh, no! She'd been caught! If it turned out to be true that prefects were bossy individuals, Kate figured she'd just really done it in for herself. She couldn't decide whether to smile and wave or to just look away and prevent any awkwardness they may try and surface. In the end, she just gave the prefect a small smile then distracted herself by listening to the Grey Lady.



Kate was worried for a second that the ghost would be really disappointed in her. She didn't even know how to say hello in Norwegian. She'd just never had a need to. Anybody she came into contact with spoke English to her. It turned out that the ghost didn't seem to mind that. Kate smiled and said, "I'm guessing that I'll like History of Magic the best. Then Herbology." She nodded at the ghost's favorite subject. "That one, too."



Kate listened as Adi described what was going on at the Slytherin table. "I guess what I heard about Slytherin is true then," she said, with a hint of disappointment in her tone. She'd innocently hoped at least some of them would have some goodness to them. She still did. Maybe she just hadn't give it enough time. "Professor Bellaire," she said, repeating the name Adi had just said. "What's she teach?"

Kate pulled her chocolate frog from her pocket and shook her head. "You don't have to feel guilty! I think I might eat this now. I'm starving!" she said. When was the food going to magically appear? She'd heard the feast was amazing! She was just starting to open the candy when Adi mentioned the common room. "Oh, yeah. Corrigan and I were just talking about that. I hope it's not too hard!" she said. "I'll let you know, though."

There was more talk about Adi being a prefect, but Kate's attention was turned away by the sound of the Headmistress giving a speech. The reunion didn't apply to her, but whatever fun event she was talking about sounded interesting. Kate listened to the speech until the very end, and in seconds, the food had appeared! "Thank Merlin!" she said, and without another word, she began scooping some of the food onto her plate.