Looking up as she heard someone talking to her, Marsha smiled wide at Noel who she found sitting next to her. Wide smiles for you, Mr Wallace! Though, when she realised what he had actually said, she blushed deeply.

She had been so nervous about her first piece that she hadn’t gotten used to receiving good feedback for it, from Sophie or any of the other Quill writers… Though it really was nice to hear that she had done well as it was listed as the first article of the year. HOW COOL WAS THAT THOUGH? First piece ever, and got the first article of the year… though, she guessed with her Phoenix theme and the rejuvenation of the school that it did WORK as the first piece of the year. Regardless, she found it a great honour and she was going to work hard for the rest of the year to make her other articles as amazing.

”Thank you so much! I think it’s more that I love Phoenixes and animals than my writing specifically? She was grinning at him though. She couldn’t believe that the older students were giving HER compliments. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee. ”Though, your article was amazing. I’ll need to remember your pointers when I get to my OWLs and NEWTs… ‘cause I think I’ll end up freaking out over them… they seem scary.” Were they? She assumed they were, even if she didn’t want them to be - ‘cause they were sooo far away. She couldn’t panic for that long.