“ --- did you HEAR that? transfer students? does that mean we’re all going to have new dormmates? oh, merlin, i haven’t had any time to decorate my dorm! i’m not ready! ”

after being on the train all day, and then unable to slip away from the great hall during dinner, dorcas was restless and irritable and craving a cigarette, and the new influx of foreign students didn’t help. she had finally managed to find a deserted courtyard and had just taken a drag from her cigarette when she heard footsteps behind her. her eyes fluttered shut and she let out a thin column of smoke. “ --- jesus h. CHRIST, ” she muttered, an expletive she’d picked up solely because of how much it offended her parents. “ --- can’t a girl have two minutes of peace to have a smoke? ”

“Entschuldigen Sie mich, I think you dropped this.” Theo informed picking up the item and handing it to the other.

“You think with all the new transfer students there will be more additions to the Magical Theory club? It is disappointingly barren.”