Aurora shrugged, "Doesn't bother me, so long as it doesn't come my way." she looked back to the table ware... "It's... horrible, here, give me that." she took the goblet from him and produced her wand. "Scourgeo." She siphoned all the dirt off it and turned to her own things, beginning to clean them all herself. "Scourgeo, Excolo, Scourgeo, Excolo." she muttered, carefully cleaning everything. Eventually her plate and cutlery all shone like it should have done before she walked in.

"Nice to meet you too." she said, looking back to the Staff Table. "Oooh, is she German? Fantastisch!" she said excitedly. She might be able to actually speak it this year... it had been strange being thrown back into the German language during the summer... and her father had insisted she speak it when they were in Cologne... Multi-Lingual families were so confusing. "Who else is new..? The Healer! What happened to Morretti?" she exclaimed. Morretti had been really nice to her last term, with her never ending nosebleed... "And the DADA teacher, who's that."

Uggh... It was horrible. Joanna got sorted into Ravenclaw (like her cousin), and she was glad for a few seconds that she is one of the smart ones, until she noticed how dirty the plates were. EEEEWWW!!! The thought of dirty dishes was revolting, she expected this place to be a bit more cleaner because it's known to be one of the best wizarding schools in the world, and she thought that all the schools in the world are clean. It's just so disappointing.

Joanna walked over to another table, expecting to see cleaner dishes, but once again dirty, revolting dishes placed on the table. Was the school staff really expecting the students to eat from this... mess. 'Stop being so spoiled JoJo' the Ravenclaw thought to herself, taking a seat next to blond girl, which also seemed not to be so pleased from the dishes. "These dishes are so gross, right?" she said trying to ignore the small pieces of dirt on the plate in front of her. Maybe they should clean the dishes by themselves with the napkins? Or maybe it was some sort of prank the teachers thought off?! RUDE WIZARDS!

Gwen looked up at the sound of another student talking. Female this time, someone she had definitely not met bearing in mind she had only ever met two boys. She glanced nervously at her, gulping but then allowing herself to smile as the girl did also. "Oh. Hello. I'm Gwenyth. But.. I prefer to be called Gwen" she nodded. Because Gwenyth was far too Welsh for her liking. And she had been bought up in Ireland. Slightly confusing but her parents were from different countries.

SPOILER!!: Chloooo

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He really needed some friends, he couldn't be walkign around like a loner that was totally not Theo style. And he was gonna need help with homework, the muggle school back in London that he'd previously attended wasn't exactly a good one and Theo hadn't used to pay attention so it was pretty safe to say that the boy wasn't very intelligent. Not even smart actually, he was definitely going to need some help. He looked around the hall, there were plenty of kids here. He was hoping he could make friends with some of them. He'd met a few people in Diagon Alley but after tripping over that pretty girl she probably wouldnt want to be friends with him.

He looked down at his feet as he waited for a reply, hopefully she didn't still hate him for tripping her up. Ugh. That would suck. Hopefully she didnt turn around and like..slap him or something, saying no to his question would've been bad enough, being slapped infront of the entire population of Hogwarts would've been even worse. Terrible to be exact.

He sighed a little sigh of relief as she said yes, he was glad she'd said yes. Well technically she'd said no but she'd told him he could sit down by her. "Mmm...Fanks.." he muttered, sitting down next to her leaving a distance between them just so it wasn't awkward or anything, yep. Sitting too close might not be a good thing, he might like spill something on her and then she'd hate him again D: He didn't really want that to happen. "..Yeah..." he said, looking up to her a small smile showing on his face, atleast she'd remembered his name. "Gwen, right ?" He asked, y'know just incase he'd got it wrong. He didn't wanna call her by the wrong name 'cos then she might get offended. "So..Slytherin..." hopefully that would trail into her telling him stuff she knew about it, 'cos he didnt know a lot.

So.. One friend. Out of the entire population of Hogwarts school the Slytherin had failed and gained one friend. Although that was better than none wasn't it? And he was in her year too so at least she had someone to share classes with. When everyone else went off into their pairs, Gwen could pair with Teddy. Sounded like she was going with a bear or something.

Fiddling with the flowers that were arranged into her very long fishtails, she smiled at him and then glanced at the dirty plates on the table. Eww. "Have you seen them?" she asked staring at the disgusting silverware. "I'm all for nature but I don't think its very clean to eat off of something like that" she rambled. It was something she did when she was nervous. Go on and on about things people probably weren't very interested in.

"Yes that's right" she smiled as he sat down next to her but keeping a safe distance. She was alright unless he invaded her personal bubble. To be perfectly honest she was used to living with a lot of people. You never got your privacy, you were stuck sharing you bedroom and all your possessions and you never got time to yourself. At least it was never boring though, there was always something going on. OH! He was in her house too? That was brilliant! She wouldn't be lonely in the Common Room either. "It's apparently the evil house, at least that was what the History Books used to say" Her brothers hadn't mentioned anything to her. "But.. Cunning. I don't think I'm cunning" she pouted.

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Aurora caught sight of a girl, about her age, looking a little put out. She sat down next to her. "Hello, you alright?" she asked. She had no idea why she was being nice... maybe it was just the fact she was back at Hogwarts, maybe it was the relief that she didn't have to spend more time at home, or maybe, just maybe, she was becoming a better person...

Nah...

She pushed the though out of her mind and smiled. "I don't think I've seen you around, are you new here?" she asked the girl, tucking a long curl of red hair behind her ear.

Oh!

So this feast was a sort of, warm welcoming type thing where you could make friends or something? Because it seemed that a lot of people were talking to her, not that she was complaining or anything. It was nice to make friends wasn't it? At least she knew a few people that if she ever got lost or so confused in lessons that she could have someone to talk to or ask questions.

"Yeah I'm just a little.." How would you describe it? Confused? Shocked? "Bewildered" she finally chose. "I just didn't think I'd be in Slytherin." Neither of her brothers had been so why should she? She wasn't a nasty person, in fact her hippy upbringing had meant that she had all the right morals. What was it about her that made the sorting hat stick her here? Maybe it made a mistake, it must do it at least once, everyone did.

New? You could say that. "Yes. I'm a third year but I only just discovered I could do magic. Late developer" she informed her. "My big brothers came here though.." Which meant that magical blood ran in the family.

Fee sat there staring at her plate as she heard a voice coming from the girl sitting in font of her.Looking up the blonde smiled at her."I'll try that",the blonde grinned,"thank you."As the slytherin aimed her wand at the plate in front of her and said the spell,everything vanished and the plate was as clean as ever.

Repeating it with her spoon,cup,fork and knive, the girn on her face got wider and widwer."Wow that really worked,"she said amazed,"i am Feenella." Nooow to the food.Woooot!The fourth year was really grateful she didnt have to starve tonight.Hopfully the dishes would be clean again by tomorrow,though.


Fee was just about to get herself some noodles now that her plate was clean as she noticed someone plopping down next to her.Turning her head to the side,the girl was met by a Ravenclaw looking rather disgusted.Ohh yees,everyone wasnt to pleased with how the feast was going.What should the transfers and poor firsties think?The first impression was officialy ruined."Yeees they are totally disgusting",the Slytherin nodded,"usually they ae all clean and nice.But somthing seems to be wrong woth the houseleves today."Thanks to the older girl telling her a spell to clean the blonde wouldnt starave tonight.If there was anything worse than not knowing what to wear it was not having enough food.

Just then the fourth year wanted to smack her head,sitting there about to get food when another girl was still disgusted with the dishes.Very nice,really."There is a spell to clean the dishes though",Fee winked,"its Excolo."It may be totally un-slytherin-ish but the girl couldnt just sit there ejoying the food when the girl next to hr wasnt."It really works",she nodded," i tried it myself."Nooow to the noddles.

Angelina continued to smile at the girl and said, "Hi Gwen, nice to meet you!" Angelina thought Grewn and Gwenyth was a pretty name. Gwen was the first person she has meet this whole time she was at Hogwarts, and she was glade to meet someone finally.

Marilyn nodded at her, the overpowering smells still hitting her with force. It would take too long to clean everyone's place setting...and that simply wasn't her job...

Getting the urge to magick her own, however, she pulled the disgusting cutlery towards her. Spelling each one clean, Marilyn let loose a small sigh of relief. At least hers were clean...

Jonathan looked at the jelly wiggled. Hey, it's really fun. Looks yummy and at the same time really fun to watch. Jonathan of course did not eat it yet. He was having one of those this-is-fun-it-shouldn't-be-called-food moments. What?! It wiggles.

But just to make him not look likes a dork to everyone else who was eating at the table, Jonathan took a spoon full now and the moment he was about to put it in his mouth someone tapped him from behind.

Excuse me?!

Jonathan turned to look at the person. Oh, the girl didn't look familiar to him. It's okay, he met a lot of new students already. Plus, she's a fellow Slytherin as well. Jonathan smiled as she started to speak. But the smiled faded when she finally said it.

WHO.MADE.THIS.THEN??????!!!!!
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Jonathan put his spoon down thanking himself for taking the time to eat it. And thank you for not having much appetite tonight. That's a relief really. "If that's so, then who made this?" he asked in confusion.

And of course "T-thank you" he looked at his plate as he pushed it away. EWWW. So now, he officially has no desires of eating again. EVER. "For the tip" he added as he faced the slytherin girl again.

She was glad that some of these Slytherins had good manners. It was something Gwenyth was bought up with. Never had she forgotten to say her please and thank yous. Always had she held the door open for her elders or respected someone and shared her things, although the latter was an attribute of being bought up in a commune. "It's lovely to meet you too" she blushed. "So you're a slytherin too?" she asked rather obviously. She was pretty sure that no one would come sit down here unless they were with a friend or something and the other girl didn't look like she was with anyone.

At least he wasn't a loner anymore. He had someone to sit with, maybe that would encourage more people to come sit with both of them and then they'd have like ..a group of friends. Just like back home, expect for back home, none of the girls had flowers plaited in their hair. But it was a change, eh ? There was a lot of changes here. For a start; talking hats.

He wasn't going to complain if no one did come and sit with them, Gwen was nice. Or she'd seemed nice the first time they'd met and he already knew her and it was nice to have someone to talk to. Bonus that she was in his year, in the same house as him and she was pretty. So like...a triple bonus, kind of. He looked the girl up and down as she stared at the silverware. He didn't see the problem but he agreed nonetheless. "Um yeah, i get exactly what you'm saying." he really didnt. If worse came to worse Theo would eat off of dirty plates when he was at home, it saved washing them and he didn't see the harm. "Mmm. Totally gross." he mummbled as he shrugged his shoulders a little bit.

"Just making sure." he nodded, just so she knew that he had known her name and wasn't just guessing out of all the girls he'd met. He'd only met Gwen and Aimee anyways and he was sure Aimee was older than him, come to think of it he was pretty sure she had blonde hair as well. Gwen didn't. He looked down at the table, unsure of what to say. It was easier to have conversations with people he knew, he knew what to talk about. But he'd only met Gwen once before and he knew virtually nothing about her. He could remember a few things she'd said like ...her dad was Welsh and her name was, but she was Irish or something like that. Evil ? The boy looked up and blinked. Did she just say evil ? A small smirk appeared on the thirteen year olds face. "Oh ...Oright then." he slowly nodded his head, not believing that he'd been put into Slytherin because he was evil. Cunning ? That sounded more like it. "...Cool..kinda." he glanced around at all the other table. "So d'you know anyone else ?"

"Thank you so much!" Exclaimed Elina while taking a seat, "I'm Elina McDonnaldson and I have just been sorted into slytherin as you can tell," grinned Elina. "What are your name's?" She asked the 2 girls while flipping her long silvery blonde hair over her shoulder.

Lucky there was a nice Slytherin to talk to. Angelina didn't know if all Slytherin's were like this, but she was hopping so! That might be one of the parts that might be hard about is being a nice Slytherin. Angelina thought if a 'nice Slytherin' was posible, but if it wasn't then she wouldn't be sorted into this house then would she? "Yes I am," Angelina smiled at Gwen, "I'm guessing you are as well."

Caroline had finally made it to the slytherin house table for what would be her last start of term feast. It was kind of sad really. Her time here had flew by it was hard to believe that she was getting sorted seven years ago. She found a place to sit at and took her seat. She was starting to get pretty hungry she had only had what she'd got from the trolley for lunch and that was just a bunch of candy and other bad food. She looked at the table and notices the silveware. What it the name of Merlin did the house elves do all summer? Apparently not polishing the silverware.

"I'm sure you'll grow into it, we're awesome." she said, grinning. "Though I sort of knew I'd be in Slytherin." she shrugged, adjusting her tie.

"So are you muggleborn or what?" She had to be at least halfblood if her brothers came here too, right..? Aurora shrugged. "My brother came here too, maybe they knew eachother." she added absentmindedly as she glared at the tarnished silver on the table.

"The House Elves aren't doing their job..." she said, inspecting her knife. Ew... was that food..? She took out her wand, "Excolo" she said, siphoning off the dirt. She cleaned all the tableware at her place. "D'you want me to do yours too?" she asked. "Or you can do it, I mean, I know you only recently figured out you could do magic but you can always try."

She shoved the plate away from her deciding that she wasn't going to eat off of it, unless an older student could show her how to clean it. Weren't the house elves doing their job then? Although she didn't believe in the usage of house elves, in her opinion it was necessary. What was wrong with getting some people together to help clean the dishes themselves, especially if they had been shown a magical way to do it, though Gwen would voluntarily do it with her bare hands. There was nothing like working in a team.

"Do you think we could ask to clean them?" she asked him tilting her head. "There must be a sponge and some water around here somewhere, it wouldn't take too long to get them to be entirely clean" she stated glancing around and then up to the staff table. But she was sure he wouldn't agree with her. Not everyone had the same upbringing as she had, in fact she was sure that no one would've. There were very few hippy communes existing nowadays, there all flourished in the 1970's but now, a century later they had pretty much died out. "Or.. Not" she bit her lip as she spoke. Bad idea Gwenyth.

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"I've only met two people" she blushed and looked down at the table. Kinda pathetic really, she'd literally be a loner for the rest of her school life. That was if she was going to stay there that long. She'd received her letter rather spontaneously. To her the only bit of magic she had shown was just a trick. One of the other children had died some 'invisible' string to the book and moved it when she stared hard at it. But it wasn't until she told her father and then spoken to her brothers that it was all real. "What about you?" she asked, glancing up at him and tucking a stray piece of hair from her plaits behind her ear.

"The Hufflepuffs are loyal, that's where I thought I would be. And the Gryffindors brave, like a lion. And then the Ravenclaws are witty and intelligent. My older brother was in that house" she rambled, pointing at each table as she spoke.

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Lucky there was a nice Slytherin to talk to. Angelina didn't know if all Slytherin's were like this, but she was hopping so! That might be one of the parts that might be hard about is being a nice Slytherin. Angelina thought if a 'nice Slytherin' was posible, but if it wasn't then she wouldn't be sorted into this house then would she? "Yes I am," Angelina smiled at Gwen, "I'm guessing you are as well."

At least there was another friendly face present at the table, someone who obviously didn't mind talking to people and someone who had all the manners that she was convinced Slytherin's wouldn't have. "Yes. The talking hat placed me here. But I don't think I belong, I'm sure that I would be much more suitable for the other three houses." Okay maybe not Ravenclaw, she wasn't clever enough for that.

"Where are you from?" she asked, allowing her irish lilt to take over her speech. It got annoying sometimes, she spoke so fast that not many people understood her. She looked younger, Gwen was sure of that.

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"I'm sure you'll grow into it, we're awesome." she said, grinning. "Though I sort of knew I'd be in Slytherin." she shrugged, adjusting her tie.

"So are you muggleborn or what?" She had to be at least halfblood if her brothers came here too, right..? Aurora shrugged. "My brother came here too, maybe they knew eachother." she added absentmindedly as she glared at the tarnished silver on the table.

"The House Elves aren't doing their job..." she said, inspecting her knife. Ew... was that food..? She took out her wand, "Excolo" she said, siphoning off the dirt. She cleaned all the tableware at her place. "D'you want me to do yours too?" she asked. "Or you can do it, I mean, I know you only recently figured out you could do magic but you can always try."

The young brunette giggled at the girls comment, she was sure a lot of the Slytherins agreed with her there. "If you say so" she smiled and nodded. To be honest, there must be good traits in all the houses, especially as some of the Snakes were being friendly. "Are you evil?" she asked playfully, smirking a little but not actually meaning it. Once again she giggled at her answer. Maybe THAT was why she was a snake, she could be a little cheeky sometimes.

"No I'm Half Blood. My da is a Wizard" she informed her. "But my ma is a Muggle" A hippy muggle at that. Rather unusual, not many people shared her history. "I'm Gwenyth" she remembered to introduce herself, manners and all that. "I don't know. My brothers are a lot older, 26 and 27," Yes there was a big gap between them and their little sister. Even bigger when you counted the twins.

Eww. "Maybe they don't like cleaning?" she asked biting her lip. She didn't blame them, why on earth should they do things for the Wizarding population? "No. No I'd like you to do it" she smiled weakly and shuffled over her plate. "I don't really know many spells yet, I think its a lot safer for someone more experienced" she nodded.

BEAUTIFULLLL! This room was beautiful, and nothing to what she was expecting. Yes, she could definitely call this place home. It was also a very good distraction from when she heard that bloody Sorting Hat song:

'Hissed Slytherin, "I want the shrewd,
The sly, the cunning, and astute.
I only ask that you exclude
Those families of little repute."'

Those were the only words from the Sorting Hat's song that were still ringing in Aisley's ears. She had been sorted into the EVIL house, and did not know whether to be insulted or honoured for her simple BA qualities. After about twenty minutes of pure anxiety, Ainsley Piper decided that she was going to OWN this. She was going to be the most awesome, most baddest Slytherin to enter this school.

Well, if she could be bothered, that is. It was a tough business being cool all day, everyday. But you wouldn't know about that...

The brunette sat at the Slytherin table, shuffling around quite uncomfortably. It was far too warm in this Great Hall to be wearing robes like these. It was probably due to the amount of people crowded in here. Yes, there were lots and lots of people indeed. A bit daunting. Ainsley made a face of pure loneliness and terror, then took a sip of Pumpkin Juice.

"I see," She said. "I hope we could see each other during classes. I have to eat."
Katrina smiled and began to get some chicken and rice.

Is it Jonathan or has everyone been complaining about the house elves not doing their job? Is it his lack of knowledge to hear the current news that everyone was talking about or was it his ignorance to know? Jonathan should really pay attention to these things. One minute he's about to eat the food the next he's been scolded by someone to not eat the food.

Okay. What's happening?

Jonathan heard the Slytherin girl casting a spell and was cleaning the food? Was it really that bad in the first place? Everyone seemed to have those gross expression when the food came. Jonathan is intrigued to know about this.

He got closer to--- what's her name again? He swears he has seen this girl last term, she joined the hunt last term and even joked with the former head girl, Iris if he remember clearly. Au... uhmmm... Aurora! Yup, that is her name.

Jonathan got closer to where she was "Excuse me but can you tell me what's going on with the food and the house elves?" he sounds like he never reads the Daily Prophet, which is true... he doesn't.

"Aurora, right?" he slowly asked the girl Well, it seems only fair since he didn't formally said hi to the girl. "I'm Jonathan from the fifth year" he smiled.

Aurora looked up, hmm... someone she recognised... He was a couple of years older than her by the looks of it though. "Um, well look. The tableware hasn't been cleaned properly, there was dried food on my knife and all the silverware was tarnished and... just look." she pointed to a few empty seats where the silverware was still dirty and askew. "Yeah, third year. Nice to meet you." she smiled and gestured to the empty space on her right side. "You can sit down you know..." she invited, grinning.

Daichi watched in awe as Aurora grabbed her wand and started to clean his goblet. He knew the spell..had read about it but.. Last year he had always failed to use it (actually all spells except lumos hehe). So seeing Aurora waving her wand made his eyes twinkle.

He REALLY needed to learn that spell.

"Thanks!" he shouted excitedly and quickly grabbed the pumpkin juice to pour it in. He drank from it and let out a long gasp. Man he was thirsty , he should have taken the offer of the glass of water back then.

Daichi shrugged his shoulders as the girl asked if the Charms one was German. "I don't know, maybe..." He too eyed the staff table again and now that Aurora spoke about it, there IS a new healer. Strange... "Maybe the old healer didn't want the job anymore?" could be , he had never met the healer before . Mainly because he disliked anything related hospitals. But when the girl mentioned DADA he frowned. "Defence against the dark arts?" He asked and looked confused. "What's that? a new subject? OH WAIT!" he eyed the professor at the table. "That isn't the same person who told us to roll , jump sprint through Hogwarts last year right?" he was having doubts about that particular subject.


Daichi was still talking to Aurora when he noticed another girl taking a seat next to him. He looked to his side and smiled a bit shyly . "Hey" He greeted and took note of her somewhat lonely expression. "Are you ok?" Daichi asked as he looked concerned. This was a FEAST (with dirty silverware and students fighting over who put gum in whos hair) no one should feel lonely right? "I'm Daichi by the way " He bowed his head and his eyes got the same twinkle. "Second year"

"No problem." She smiled. "Very handy spells." she said, slipping her wand back into it's holster. She poured herself a glass of pumpkin juice and drank it in one gulp. She hadn't realised how thirsty she'd been, it must have been the fainting on the train...

Aurora smiled, "I hope so, I've only met one or two other people who speak German..." she shrugged. "That's a shame... I hope the new one's nice..." she said, looking up to the staff table. The new healer was very small... short enough to be a student.

"A new subject? No... Lord Borr just ruined it last year. I hope we get proper lessons this term!" she said. "I hope the new Professor's good..."

Aurora grinned, "Oh yes, definitely." she grinned wickedly. "Ever-so-evil, so evil that even Dementors are scared of me." she laughed, "Only kidding, I'm not really. Not always." she added mischievously.

"Gwenyth, I like it. I'm Aurora." Had she said that already? Maybe... oh well. "I'm a pureblood... it doesn't really matter though, magic is magic after all." Whoa whoa whoa! She would not have said that a year ago... She was a little astonished at herself but didn't show it. "Ah, maybe not then. Krys is only just twenty." she said. "That's a big age gap... I thought it was weird that my sister was ten years older..." she said. But her sister did seem a proper adult now... married and pregnant! Scary stuff.

Aurora raised an eyebrow, "Are you kidding? House Elves love cleaning!" It was a well known fact. All they wanted to do was clean and serve. Aurora pointed her wand at Gwenyth's plate. "Scourgeo, Excolo, Scourgeo..." she muttered, siphoning off the dirt until the plate, goblet and cutlery shone.

"William? What are you doing at our table? Looking for someone?" Orchid asked as she finally saw a familiar face.

Orchid stopped looking around the room as she felt someone sit beside her. "Hello." She said almost shyly as it was her first year here even if she was a fifth year.

Orchid noticed another girl sitting down across from her. Maybe all the other seats are full? She thought trying to make logic of this seen as people didn't normally sit or talk with her, well, with the exception of William and Lauren that is. I should probably
make conversation... She thought as she continued to have an inner dialogue with herself. "Hello, I'm Orchid." She said finally deciding to consent to speaking with others and trying to socialize.

How could Jonathan miss this? He's the most OCD person he knows and now he just automatically led this one away? He looked at the plates carefully and her knife. Ewww. Yes, definitely eww. Jonathan frowned as he sat down next to her and observed most of the plate.

Thankfully he didn't start eating any of the food yet nor used any of the utensils. That's such a relief or else he would die. Okay, maybe he would just vomit it all out. "Why?" he asked. Why were the elves..... not doing their jobs?

Third year... that's nice. Jonathan doesn't know many third years. Aurora oh and there's Sierra. Jonathan nodded as she introduced herself.

"So what is the headmaster going to do about this?" he looked around, people still had no appetite in eating the food. Of course, they should be.

After being Sorted into SLTHERIN Ariana went to approach her table where she saw Marilyn the seventh year she meet in diagon ally! although she was with a bunch a friends probably other seventh years. she just looked for a spot with all the other first years. maybe she can catch up with Her later or something

Aurora shook her head. "I don't know... I had to clean all my stuff myself." She waved her wand. "At least I can eat off it now... though I'd have preferred them to be already clean..." she said, "You should clean yours before you start eating." she said, looking at the table.

"I would hope he'd do something about the House Elves... I hope the common room is clean..." she said. Because if it wasn't she would not be able to sleep...

"i've been waiting for this since i was about the same age my parents mentioned it a lot. Also I hear stories from my aunt and uncle all the time. I knew I would be put in Slytherin my whole family has been in Slytherin for ages" she said.

"So have you practiced magic yet? I have"