”The platform was way more crazy than I thought it would be!” She agreed with the boy, nodding her head. Marsha was excited, she loved meeting new friends. ”It’s realllly nice to meet you. I’m so happy I’ve met people before school has even started - I was worried I would know no-one at all!” Nightmare material that was. Or, it had been until she had met Lance and Zac and Jenna in Diagon Alley… Though Jenna was older so she wasn’t really sure if she would see her again this term… but that was okay. She had been really nice anyway.

As she sat, she listened to the ends of their conversation, after all she had just interupted and Mam always told her that was rude. Then she broke out in a HUUUUGEEEE grin at Rusty’s ginger comment. ”All the best people, have red hair…” She tried to be serious, honestly she did - but she couldn’t help it and very quickly ended up giggling at herself. Really, she just liked having red hair. Reeeeallllyyyy liked her red hair.

Marsha smiled, ”There are lots of people, at least from what I know from my aunts and things.. I think my Mums cousins and extended family are finally finishing up at Hogwarts.” She said, thinking about the few extended family members she was hiding from who were in the top three years. She hoped they would be too busy studying for their OWLs and NEWTs to bug her. Maybe? She could hope they wouldn’t look out for her and embarrass her too much. She also knew that her family were trying to look out for her but she was almost twleve! She wasn’t tiny anymore.

The Welsh girl couldn’t help but giggle at the name Dafforn - or the link to Daffodils… but she supposed her name of Hanover reminded her older cousins of a hangover which was awful! So she couldn’t say anything against Zac’s last name. Nope. WAAAAAY better than her own. Ohh, she loved flowers and Zac was going to be good with herbology. ”I hope that I’m good with the animals - I love them… in fact, my cat Duchess is around here somewhere, she jumped out of my arms and started to chase smells as soon as I took her out of her carrier in the luggage room, hold… thing.” She told them with a soft smile. Hopefully she wouldn’t pick any fights with the other cats.

Looking out of the window, Marsha grinned at the people on the platform who were smiling at family. She had already said goodbye to her parents, Alis was only little and it was cold outside - she didn’t want to get a letter next week in the post telling her that she had gotten a cold because of her. Nope. So she had given them all cuddles (okay, so Alis had a really LONG cuddle) and then hopped on the train. Like an adult. A really SMALL adult, but a grown-up all the same… Right?

“Oh, My parents met at Hogwarts,” Marsha started, taking a deep breath. ”But, my Mum died when I was really little so my Grand-parents and my Tad took care of me, and my Mam and Tad got married when I was like five or something…” The girl shrugged, showing it wasn’t a big deal. She loved her Mam. ”And my little sister Alis turned one a few weeks ago.” There… that was that out of the way… and there was no way she was explaining the aunts and uncles and extended family… Though if they managed to track her down she might have too…. Hmm, she would figure that out when she had to. Heh.

She giggled when Zac told Rusty about his Mam staying in Leaky Cauldron. ”It’s true!” she piped up, as if Rusty might think he was lying. ”That was the day we met. I bumped into him and my Mam was staring at a dress in a shop window and Zac was going back to meet his Mam in the pub for lunch.” She nodded her head, grinning.

Frowning slightly, Marsha tried to remember how any of her non-magical friends and family sent mail. Her head titled to the other side as she looked at Rusty. ”But… how do you send mail if you don’t use owls? Pidgeon? Hawk? EAGLES?” Her eyes went wide as the elven year old imagined a flock of EAGLES carrying post. It would be a glorious sight to see, she was sure of it! The light catching on their feathers. Ohhh. Beautttiful.