05-29-2008, 09:25 PM
Keenly, the young brunette watched as some of the empty plates refilled, remembering the paragraph in "Hogwarts: A history" that explained about the houseelves. She'd read the book twice, just to make sure.
Idly, she poked the kid beside her, managing to chew away a piece of carrot first before talking to him. "Say, what's your name?" The boy blushed, and Anna figured he was just scared of her, or plain shy. "I'm Deacon... why?" Chuckling, Anna, shoved him in the side with her elbow, almost toppling the scrawny first year over. Laughing out loud now - a surprisingly hoarse-sounding chuckle - she managed to keep him steady, "Just making conversation," she explained, "since none of those my age seem to have any interest in fraternizing." She nodded lightly at the further end of the table, where a group of 20 were pointedly ignoring her for now.
"So," she continued, taking another bite from her plate, which had only vegetables on it, "which class are you mostly looking forward to?"
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