Aiden Everett had hopped off the Hogwarts Express, a wide grin on his face. He did think the new, gender-separated carriages were strange, but the boy didn't give it much thought. Aiden was more of a go-with-the-flow type kid; he didn't like to question things. It just made people angry, he'd realized.

"Hello," Aiden squealed to the man he saw there, waiting for all the boys. Then, with a quick grin, the second year Gryffindor hopped into an empty carriage. This wasn't a surprise; Aiden was the only boy who'd left the platform to get on the carriages.