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Jessiqua Hanna was very glad she could offer some assistance, even if she HERSELF wasn't able to help. She gave another grin when the girl introduced herself. "Hi Emmalyn, I'm Hanna. I'm a first year too! I've met Rylee, who is also a first year, but I don't know whether she's here yet." Hanna also remembered that Rylee had met some other friends, and wondered if Emmalyn was one of them.
Hanna listened to Emmalyn's problem, and immediately knew what to do. "I'll get my daddy to help. He put my stuff on the train too, he's pretty strong." Well, Hanna thought so anyway. But she didn't want to leave Emmalyn by herself, so she waved her hands until her father came over. "Daddy can you put Emmalyn's things on the train too?"
Adrian listened to his daughter's request, and looked to the other little girl before nodding, clapping his hands once, and took her trunk. "Did you want to hold onto your owl?" he asked. Hanna had her cat, so perhaps the kids all wanted to keep the pets with them. He took the trunk onto the train, stowed it, and went back to his family.
Hanna was curious by nature, and her mind was itching to ask a question. Lowering her voice, just in case it wasn't a nice answer, she asked "W...where are your mum and dad?"
Emmalyn stood with her hands on the cart that carried her things. She looked down for moment when her fingers started to tingle. She immediately realized that she white knuckle gripping the handle. She let go and shook her hands to let the blood start flowing again.
She looked back towards the girl as she introduced herself.
"It's very nice to meet you, Hanna. I'm not sure if I've met Rylee or not, remembering names isn't one of my strengths." She giggled a bit as she spoke. She wasn't very good at remembering names. But faces, faces she always remembered.
"Are you sure your father won't mind? I would really appreciate the help."
When Hanna's father approached, he appeared to be a kind man. He had that fatherly look to him.
"Yes, sir, I would like to keep my owl. If that's okay for us to do. I would worry about her if she was left with the trunks." She flashed him a big, thankful smile. He had picked up, carried, and loaded her trunk on the train faster than she could have wheeled it over.
"Thank you for the help, sir."
When Hanna leaned in and whispered her question, Emmalyn wasn't sure how she was going to respond. She loved both of her parents so much and didn't want Hanna to think she didn't. Leaning in and whispering back she said
"The day I received my letter was a good day and a bad day. My mum was over the moon excited for me. However, my father felt...well, he felt the exact opposite. They argued for hours and a few days later, my dad left." Emmalyn took a deep breath to steady her words.
"About a week after he left, he came back. My mother and father decided that I could attend Hogwarts, but only under the condition that they would have no contact with me while I was at school."
Hoping to change the subject, Emmalyn spoke louder
"Do you have any older brothers or sisters at Hogwarts?" She thought it would be neat to hear some inside information about how school would be.