Dot had almost skipped over to the Gryffindor table. She didn’t even ask as she immediately climbed onto the bench next to Vera. ”nice to see you again, Vera” she grinned at the girl who she had met on the train. Vera was fun; that was all Dot knew about her so far.

When the metallic cree-creeing happened, Dot just blinked and looked around, even slipped her head under the table, and then nothing. It was only when she righted herself that she saw the crawling metallic bugs. ”ooooooooooh, those are cool. Do they have listening devices because I don’t know if it’d work with the loud crawling unless you y’know ... oil them constantly still so cool” she was almost vibrating with excitement as she sat there and looked at the blonde older kid? Don’t eat ice cream – that sounded well ... sad, because who wanted to sit and wait for fresh iced cream? Well, she could, but she had a sweet tooth.

Her eyes flicked around at everyone as they spoke. Atlas? Inventor kid’s name was like an old road map, or was it more the Greek titan holding the earth on its back. Her eyes studied him for a moment, and when she couldn’t piece together the name's significance, she just huffed and looked at the other students. One of them was named Maxine? They all seemed nice.

”hi. I’m Dot” she nodded her chin at the people around her. “I’m Chalcedony’s sister.” she added as the last bit since her sister WAS a Gryffindor. Maybe they’d know her?