Emmeline was bored. Like mind-numbingly bored... It was raining outside, which meant that she couldn't let her cruppy out of the barn or he'd turn into a mud pie. Which was fun some of the time, but not in the middle of a school day. So the second year had taken up her old habbit of roaming aimlessly around the castle to wait for the rain to stop. It was kind of disappointing that she'd only learned ONE secret about Hogwarts last year, and it was a secret that loads of students knew already. She wasn't sure if it still counted as a secret place, but it did have a portrait guarding it so...?

Her eyes were just starting to glaze over, 'cause even her thoughts were boring, when she spotted Theo! The second year sped up and wandered over to the slightly older boy. She tilted her head to the side a bit to see what he was looking at -- a really old map -- and then did a double take. The map was raining! "Wow," she said softly. After pausing for a few seconds to stare at the map, she remembered her housemate and added, "Hey Theo! How's it going?" Was he bored too?

Almost as soon as the words were out of her mouth, she noticed that a girl around her age was already talking to Theo. She was the most unobservant person EVER sometimes, but she did catch the girl's name, yesss! "Hi Joy! I'm Emmeline," she told the Hufflepuff with a biiiig smile and a hand extended to shake.