Ella sat quietly, eyes on the table in front of her. The journey to Hogwarts had been quite an adventurous one and now that she was here, she was pretty tired. She did her best to smile at the new additions to the Hufflepuff family, knowing they would love being a badger just as much as she did. Her happiness was only stifled by the fact that she had yet to speak to her best friend Sophie, who was also sitting at the table. FROWN. She was also afraid to let her eyes wander over to the Ravenclaw table, mostly because she didn't know if a certain someone would be over there looking back. Meh.

Sitting up a little straighter, Ells smiled as the Fat Friar emerged. That was quite cool. "The feast is lovely." She said in response to the question, speaking more quietly than she normally would. It was lovely...and the food was always good...and she was glad to be back. She just wanted things to be better this term. They would be, yeah?