Bored, Iris made her way back into the common room. She couldn't find any of her friends, and didn't know where they would be. True, she hadn't looked far, but Hogwarts was a big place, and she didn't really feel like combing the whole castle for her friends. She had decided that Satine would be with some ravenclaw friends somewhere, but couldn't think where Aaron and Fallon would be. She guessed they would be together somewhere, as they were close friends... But where they would be she didn't know.

She walked over to an empty sofa and sat down on it, curling her legs up under her body. She hugged her self and watched the flames dance around the damp walls of the chimney for a while, beggining to feel strangely lonely without her friends by her. This suprised her, because before the 21st July when she met Aaron in Diagon Alley, she never had any proper friends. Just the kids who lived on the street, but they never understood her... Because she was different. Just remembering Connor Briggs made her feel weak and unwanted. He would pick on her and hurt her feelings, just because he had caught her doing magic one day. He had been spying on her through the conservatory window. Iris hadn't been doing anything wrong, she was 6 and liked using her magic, even if she couldn't control it. Connor had tried his best to make her miserable though. Used blackmail so that he wouldn't tell the other muggle children. Getting her letter was the best thing that had ever happened to her.

She broke out of her thoughts as her leg went numb from leaning on it. So she put her legs down of the floor and stratched them out until the feeling came back to them, and then curled back up on the couch again.