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Deciding that it was best, still, to not bring attention to the first year's - or he assumed she was a first year, at least - moment of whatever-it-was, and definitely not her tears, Regulus just said, "No problem." He might have just smiled and nodded, but she wasn't looking at him by that point.
After another pause, though, he spoke again. "I'm Regulus." He looked around the table at those sat nearby, noticing he as he did who had noticed what he was doing. He returned Giselle's nod, and smiled back at the newly sorted older student, Rowan Fairfax. Mostly he noted that a large clutch of new students were in the immediate vicinity. So the introductions could conceivably benefit everyone.
He pointed the other two third years out. "And this is Giselle. And Sophia." The rest, of course, were new students. Regulus did know their names, just as he'd made note of the girl's name before she had been declared a Slytherin, having watched the Sorting carefully in an attempt to commit every name to memory. But the lesson had been drilled into him over the years, by one parent, and then the other, not to flaunt what he knew or took notice of. There was no chance that it wouldn't stick.
So he said the obvious, innocuous thing. "Welcome to Slytherin." A sentiment for them all.
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