Aurora Ackerly was not late.

Okay maybe she was but she would point out that it was entiiiiirely her fault. You see she had accidentally slept in that morning meaning that she had to go help herself to breakfast in the kitchens which then got her into an entirely too long conversation with the poor House Elves. Before she knew it, the time had progressed and she had to do a sort of skip run to the Charms Cabana in order to join in with that day’s activities.

It wasn’t like Aurora could just silently slip her way in either, or rather she could but that would involve her being quiet and everyone knew that this third year was anything but. “Hi Professor!” she beamed trying to disguise the huffing and puffing from her little expedition as she plopped down in a random seat somewhere. She would’ve made the observation over there being so many first years only she was so vertically challenged herself that they didn’t exactly look small in comparison to her.

The thirteen year old knew very little about Latin but the call on the Noticeboard suggesting that they might just get messy had piqued her interest enough to find out what it was all about. She wasn’t very good at artwork either so her rendition of a tree was likely to look like a cartoon cloud with a trunk sticking out the bottom but nevermind. What she WAS good at however was enthusiasm which she had in abundance. Unfortunately being late meant that she had heard very little of Professor Liu’s explanation to the activity, hence the slightly perplexed look on her face as she glanced around to take a nosey at what the other students were up to.

Maybe if she could just attach herself to someone else she might have a clue?