Luckily for Alissa, Aurora was absolutely the type of person to want to make friends with everyone she met. In fact, if someone even uttered a word to her they would be added to her long list of friendships even if the other wasn’t in agreement. Attention was attention after all whether it was positive or negative.

So really Aurora much resembled a dog in personality.

“Hello!” she beamed stopping next to a particularly fragrant flower which she bent down to sniff in a rather dramatic fashion. She too recognised the other as a Ravenclaw although her name had entirely skipped her memory considering how distracted she had been during the Sorting Ceremony to pay attention to any of the new students names. The House Elves had joined the party after all with their brooms and feather dusters sprinkling the Hufflepuff table and eliciting an amused giggle and harbouring the attention of the third year who no longer listened fully to the table's conversations.

“Isn’t it pretty here? Professor DeVries did a reeeeeally good job with all the planting. It wasn’t here before.” She hoped the other girl was prepared for a bombardment of conversation. “There’s so many bees and butterflies too! Where do you think they go in the winter when it snows here?”