"Lady Helena, good evening," said Kitty to the Ravenclaw ghost as she floated past her. "How are things?" She loved their ghost and would never pass up the chance at a conversation.

She waved and smiled back at Professor Hirsch as he went to embrace Mason and Rooney. Seeing the exchange brought tears to her eyes, which she quickly wiped away. Then Headmistress Hawthorne spoke, bringing everything else to a temporary pause. Kitty knew Regina must have felt proud for Ilvermorny, since she taught there before teaching at Hogwarts. Kitty also felt happy for the Ilvermorny students, and she clapped enthusiastically with everyone else when Kyle was congratulated. Where was he anyway? Craning around to look, she realized with a happy start that he was sitting at their table. Ooh now she had meet him!

"Congratulations Kyle!" she called out across the table, beaming at the champion. "I was cheering for everyone, you know, so I don't mind Hogwarts didn't win. You were great out there!" Everyone was talking and he was a few seats away from her, but she made sure he heard her anyway by leaning forward and raising her voice. She beamed at him again at the close of her words.

Turning back to Mason, she listened with wide eyed curiosity as he explained his post-Hogwarts plans. "Seeing every library would be cool," she admitted, smiling. "I wonder if there are libraries bigger than Hogwarts in the world." She wanted to say good luck. "Well, um, I just want you to know it was a pleasure knowing you and I hope you are happy and succeed wherever you go." Even if they technically didn't know each other well, she wished the best for all her classmates.

She beamed at Emma when she said yes to writing. "Brilliant!" she said, taking her quick quotes quill out of her bag along with parchment and giving it to her new friend. After she'd written down her address, Kitty wrote hers down and exchanged it. "We'll be friends forever now," she said in satisfaction. "I'll write my first letter tomorrow night from home. Well, if mom doesn't give me a mountain of chores. If she does then the next day I'll write." No way was this a permanent goodbye!

"Thank you Dora, and you too" Kitty said, smiling at the Gryffindor girl as she passed her. "I'll miss you!" Which she would. Dora was one of the people she wanted to get to know more next year.