Emmeline returned Abey's smile and wave with big ones of her own, and gave Stasya a grin as she sat near them too. "Hi Abey! Hi Stasya! How's Dobby?"

Most inconveniently the professor chose that moment to start talking. They were talking about STARS today, yay! Emmeline thought stars were close to being 'the prettiest things ever', and they were definitely 'the prettiest things in the sky except for comets'. So they were supposed to being telling the professor constellations that could be seen in October. Ummm, she had no idea? "Professor, is this when the big and little spoon ones come out?" That was the extent of her constellation knowledge. Her classmates seemed to know a lot more about this subject, since they named several other constellations.

She was trying to be a good student, really. She'd written down maybe two of her classmates' answers, because big kids and Ravenclaws were always right, when someone said "pegasus." This naturally made her think about the two types of winged horses down in the barn, and how there were BABY ones, and how she really wanted to pet them. Of course she had to draw a baby pegasus right now in her Astronomy notes. Creatures take priority over everything!