The infant creature barn was the BEST place at Hogwarts without a doubt. The only bad thing about the place was that the babies couldn't really leave it, so Emmeline couldn't show them the grounds or anything. 'Cept her own baby cruppy, Sirius, was finallllllly old enough to go in the big creature barn TOO; Emmeline was super excited about that. After constantly being around Sirius and even letting him sleep on her bed with her all summer, this "him being in the barn and her being in Gryffindor Tower" thing was already wearing on her. Plus, lessons had already started intruding into her time with her cruppy too.

Today, though, the second year had crawled out of bed ridiculously early so that she would have LOADS of time here before lessons started. But...she'd somehow forgotten that her cruppy didn't like getting up in the mornings any better than she did. After several failed attempts to get him to come out of his comfy kennel, Emmeline decided to play with one of the OTHER baby creatures until her cruppy felt like stirring. She gave Sirius some yummy cruppy food and water before she closed his kennel door again, and let her eyes wander over the other various enclosures. Unsurprisingly, she was almost instantly drawn to the nifflers' area and felt her face light up as she spied a baby niffler already awake and running around.

Emmeline let herself into the niffler area, already pulling out a toy she used to play with the adult nifflers: a super shiny knut with a string looped and tied through the small hole on the coin. The twelve-year-old grinned as she saw the little girl's eyes follow the coin in her hand; about half a second later, the baby niffler had scrambled over to Emmeline and was trying to climb desperately towards the shiny knut. She dropped to her knees on the ground and scooped up the baby niffler easily, handing her the toy and giving the baby a HUUUGE grin as she said, "Hiiii Sapphire!" She could read name signs, mhm.