Why isn't anyone else showing up? Cale thought in panic to himself. If Anna expected him to sit here and play nice with the Slytherin's for the whole frazzling train ride, she was seriously mistaken. Where was Ravvie Cale? Or the other Ravenclaw prefect, whose identity still remained a mystery to him. Heck, he'd even like to have Dominic back in the cart with him, and he wasn't exactly best pals with him either.

"Summer? Oh, it was good...we went to Hawaii," he told them. He left out some of the embarrassing bits, like the fact that he had gotten so burnt he looked like a lobster, and if you looked really REALLY closely, you could still see a hint of the sunglass lines that had burned into his face as well. No need to give Clifford more material to work with.

He saw Evangeline give Clifford's hand a squeeze and suddenly felt the need to be closer to his own girlfriend too. More powerful in two's, that was his philosophy. He inched slightly closer, since they were already holding hands, and tuned back into the conversation Evangeline was trying to evoke. "Oh. Right. With the new Head and all. That should be fun," he said with a smile. "There's a load of new staff members as well, right?" he asked.