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Elizabeth smiled at Nia as she worried about if she'd be any good. "I'm sure Professor Svensson understands if some people are better at Transfiguration than others. And look at it this way. Worst case scenario, one of us ends up in the hospital wing temporarily. Not that big a deal. really." And then she laughed a little as Nia flinched at the bludger comment. "That may just have been me and Robert. I think everyone else has just gotten the usual yelling." No reason to scare her away from coming back to the team. Besides, her and Robert were leaving after this term, so maybe Willow wouldn't be as violent.
She nodded as the younger girl spoke in response to the avoidance concept, then smiled. "Your brother?" She understood that, even though she was free of them at Hogwarts, since her siblings were all back in California. Butthen they were told to start discussing their animals, and she shrugged again. "I said my favorite animal was the eagle. Probably not the most enlightened choice, given our house and all. But it's true." And there was no way she was going to end up with a beak. She was going to make that decision right now.
Nia looked at Elizabeth, eyebrows raised. She seemed very calm at the idea that she might be temporarily hospitalised. It had alleviated some of Nia's worries though. The healer would be able to sort any wrongdoings, right? "If you're sure," Nia said, still slightly weary. Though admittedly anything could happen without a bit of confidence. She took a deep breath, and decided she would tackle whatever they were doing full on. Nia chuckled at the quidditch comment. "Something tells me I'd perhaps prefer the bludgers to the yelling," she replied, wondering what Elizabeth and Robert had done for bludgers to be flung at them. Oh, how she'd missed being able to practice.
"Indeed," NIa said with a knowing smile. "Luckily nowhere in sight." She glanced round the room, just to check. Maybe she should have checked that he had actually made it out of the flooded dungeons. Thinking about it now, she wasn't exactly sure he could swim. Nah, he had to be okay - the Professors would have helped him get out, and he may well have been elsewhere anyway. That settled in her mind, Nia turned to their task.
"Nice choice," she said, as Elizabeth said her favourite animal with the eagle. It seemed discussing thier animals wouldn't be too difficult, given their similarities. "Not far off mine actually, I chose the merlin. For its majesty in the air. Though I guess that could be almost any bird of prey..."