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Bryony liked Vera. Quite a lot. Which was a good thing really for the older girl since she knew of things. It paid to have an older friend that she had kept in touch with last school year. So much gossip would've been missed otherwise. Thankfully, she had eyes and ears all around.. but that was for another time.
Today it was all about ice cream. And nothing messed with ice cream. Nothing. It would be silly to take such a peaceful moment and taint it with things that need not be brought up. Yet. Maybe. Only time would really tell for such. As for now, the young girl was quite content in focusing on the cup of ice cream cradled in her hands.
With a chair already pushed out for her, Bry lowered herself down onto the seat across from the older girl. "All the houses would be cool.. but I really don't care as long as the Sorting Hat remembers to keep Ary and me together." The question didn't need much deliberation, as long as they weren't separated all would be right in the world.
Vera happened to be a big fan of Bryony as well. In fact, in previous years she wouldn't have hesitated to say the small energetic blonde was her favorite of the Paton clan. Not that she was supposed to have favorites but… she did. But she also was completely unaware herself that the little spitfire would have known anything about the year prior or… things. She knew she and Vesper were friends of course, but she certainly did not expect baby sister to be going around and spilling her secrets.
And considering the other things she didn't know adjacent to that, perhaps it was a good thing they were focusing solely on ice cream for the day.
Was she surprised Bryony wanted to be placed with her little boyfriend? Absolutely not. And Ve wished she knew the boy well enough to then speculate what house he'd end up in. The impressions she got was he was probably not a Gryffindor, which was too bad because it would have been fun to have her around more.
"Best thing about him having an A name is you can ask the hat to put you with him. I hear it's pretty good about taking requests into consideration!"