SPOILER!!: Bella
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Nordic Witch
Bella had her nose in her copy of 'Hogwarts a history' re-reading the passage about the great hall and the sorting ceremony, when she heard the knock on the door. Grumbling to herself she said a few choice words about the note that was supposed to scare away unwanted visitors, but had clearly not done its job. Sitting up straighter on the seat and pushing her black hair out of her eyes Bella looked on as a girl about her age slowly slid her compartment door open and headed inside.
"Hisss! Hiss! Hiss!" Came from the mouth of a charmed stuffed animal snake that was supposed to warn her off strangers. "Hi!" Bella mouthed out cautiously to the other girl. "You’ll have to excuse my snake, he just hisses, but he has no bite." She was going to try and figure out how to give him teeth though, so he’d be a better protector of her belongings. For all she knew it could be needed at Hogwarts.
Bella thought the girl's words over before she nodded with a gesture around the compartment. "Sure, take a seat anywhere you like." After closing her book with a bookmark she said, since her mum had drummed in politeness. "It’s nice to meet you Camryn. I’m Isabella but I prefer being called Bella." It seemed pointless to say that she was a first year, since the other girl already knew that from the note outside.
Camryn was startled, but not frightened when the snake began to hiss. Given permission, she headed inside the compartment.
“It’s nice to meet you Bella. Thanks for letting me sit with you.” Cam wasn’t exactly sure that she was
really welcome, but since Bella was being nice, she was going to roll with it.
Taking her backpack of and sitting down across from Bella, Cam eyed her fellow first year.
“I like your snake. It’s pretty cool.” And then the awkwardness set in. Noticing that her compartment mate had a book, she peeked at it and said,
“What are you reading?” “I didn’t mean to interrupt.” Leaning back in her seat, Camryn reached into her backpack and fished around for a moment. She pulled out two chocolate frogs. Holding one out, she said,
“Do you want one?” Then she began to unwrap her own. Was it crazy that she was hungry already? The journey had barely begun.