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Mad Eye Touz 
"I feel like everyone is looking now," Aspen confided. She'd felt they were already looking before she dropped her trunk and wand and the girl had shouted BAT for all to hear. But now they were SURE to be watching. If the situation were switched, Aspen would have discretely been watching, too.
After retrieving her wand from Pops, Aspen tried to shut everyone else out and focus. An impossible task, as it turned out. Determined not to be embarrassed again or let her Pops last memory of her be of her failing, Aspen tried again - with much better results.The trunk still wobbled precariously towards tipping, but it was high enough in the air that Aspen could put a hand on it and direct it to where it needed to go.
"Is that cheating?" she wondered aloud. Pushing the trunk into place after lifting with magic? Half cheating? ...he wasn't going to make her do it again, right...?
...Aspen didn't KNOW what to think of the curtsying little girl ... so.. .she just sort of smiled, too.
Harlow smiled in return. There she had made another friend. This was going to be a good year she thought, as her mother loaded her trunk and Legalos's cage onto the train. Legalos yowled at Harlow for being locked up for so long. He hated cages immensely.
Zion turned to her oldest daughter. She was lost for words, and tears welled in her eyes. "You packed everything?" she asked smoothing down the lapels to Harlow's white military jacket.
Harlow smiled, "Yes mommy." Tears welled in her eyes too. She was really going. She was going to be without her family for a whole year. "Mommy I don't want to go," she sobbed as she threw herself into her mother's arms.
Her mother stroked her hair and whispered gently into her ear. "You will be ok." She was going to miss her daughter too, but she was so proud of her for getting into Hogwarts. "You will make lots of friends and you will forget to write because of all the fun." She knew that it was going to hurt for a little while. But it would fade quickly once she got to school and get involved in everything. Like she knew Harlow would.
Harlow shook her head, "I won't forget to write." she promised. Her mom smothered her once again in a hug. This was harder than she thought it was going to be. She was really going to miss her family, and she didn't know how much till now.