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[bestmoirail]

[Nepeta always considered herself a brave person. She had had to be ever since the...incident that happened two years ago, which had forced her to not only have to learn to take care of herself, but her mother as well. Sure strange things had always happened around her, but that was the first time she had ever had any actual known encounter with

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[thewindything]

[Well, she was probably right about one thing. It was going to be a long ride! that didn't mean it was going to be a bad one.

Opposite to Nepeta, John was all sort of unconstrained giddy excitement about all of this. Hogwarts was a family tradition and he'd been bouncing in place the whole summer waiting for his letter. It seemed his Dad was no different. The moment the owl dropped it off, he'd gathered the boy into a manly crushing huge piling him with "I'M SO PROUD OF YOU SON"s until he couldn't take it anymore. Still, running about Diagon Alley was wonderful fun and now he could hardly sit still.

Though the train attendant had told him he needed to at least find a seat to vibrate in place in. Oh well.

He leaped into the first semi empty one he could, grinning from ear to ear.]

Hello!

[bestmoirail]

[AHHH PERSO--oh. Ok he seemed like he would be okay. Maybe. The smile was slightly infectious at the very least so she shyly returned it. He looked about her age, was he new like she was?]

Hi, eheh. Are you are first year too?

[thewindything]

[John's grin only got brighter and he nodded his head.]

I am! Oh man, I am so excited. Aren't you?

[bestmoirail]

[Well that made one of them.] Well to be honest, I'm a little weirded out by it all. I mean it kind of came out of nowhere, didn't it?

[thewindything]

Hm? What did?

[Blinks at. Confusedget.]

[bestmoirail]

[Blinks back at. Also confusedget.]

The whole....magic thing? Being a witch? There being a school and [She made a sweeping motion to indicate the entire train.]

[thewindything]

[Blinks at some more and goes to ask her what she means but then it kind of hits him and his eyebrows go up. Oh! She must have been a muggleborn! He ...didn't know very many of those. Of course Dad told him about it and how he should treat them with just as much respect as a full-blooded wizard or witch because that was the gentlemanly thing to do. His Dad was all about being a gentleman.]

Oh. Um, haha. No, not really. I've always known that I would come here, actually. Me Dad's a wizard and all.

[bestmoirail]

...huh.

So this magic thing is genetic? [Did that mean one of her parents had been a witch or wizard? Why had they never said anything?]

[thewindything]

Yep! So someone in your family must be a wizard! or a witch.

[bestmoirail]

[It couldn't be mom. She was sure of that. Not dad either, she was sure that they at least would have said something. She didn't really know of any other relatives she had. Both had been single children, and her grandparents...well she didn't really know anything about them, if they were even still alive.]

So do you know a lot about this school?

[thewindything]

Sure. It's huge and inside this big castle. We go there for seven years and after that we're officially wizards! My Dad said its a lot of fun.

[bestmoirail]

[He said it so candidly, as if it no big deal]

But what does that mean? To be a wizard.

[thewindything]

Uhm. [Wow, how do you answer a question like that? You just are, right?]

I dunno. It means you can use your wand outside of school without getting into loads of trouble? Or, I guess it means you can go on and do awesome wizard things like be an Auror.

[bestmoirail]

What's an Auror?

[thewindything]

[Face lights up.]

Oh man, Aurors are like, the coolest wizards ever. They're a special force of magical officers that work for the ministry. Catching bad guys, helping people, that sort of thing.

[bestmoirail]

Oh! So sorta like the...wizard police? [Nepeta is pinged. Nepeta is very pinged]