A late arrival

[aurora]

After almost an hour of wandering through the corridors, hopelessly lost, she finally found the entrance to the Ravenclaw Common Room. With a sigh of relief she said the password, her voice rather loud even though she muttered and full of something like an accent that could not be placed to any country.

She hurried into the Common Room and looked around with delight. She was finally here, finally at Hogwarts. She had been told her stuff was up in her dorm already, but which ways up the stairs was it to her dorm? She shrugged, it did not matter she would figure it out soon enough. She went and sat down in a chair near the fire and by one of the windows. Here she could see almost all of the common room, but more importantly nobody could sneak up behind her. Still smiling a little to herself she pulled a muggle book out of her pocket and began to read. Though her eyes crept trailing off of the page to look around the room, every time she did the corners of her mouth twitched in a smile.

[Allegra Thornton]

"Hello!" Allegra chirped as she skipped down the final steps from the Girls dorm into the main common room. The girl sitting by the window didn't look familiar to her, but didn't have that usual lost and panicked look that so many new students had.

[aurora]

As she looked up over the top of her book an older student bound down the steps; seeing that she was a girl Aurora looked at which staircase she had come down, at least she knew which stairs to go up. She watched the girl say "Hello". not perfectly sure that the older girl was talking to her, she answered, "Hi."

[Allegra Thornton]

"You're new here?" Allegra said, more of a question than an observation. While she recognized most of the faces at Hogwarts, she never claimed to know everyone and had even been surprised to discover there were a few Ravenclaws she didn't know. "I'm Allegra. Nice to meet you."

[aurora]

She nodded while answering, “Yes. I’m a second year, but my first year here.” Once Allegra had introduced herself, her eyes flickered up from watching her lips to her eyes as she introduced herself. "Aurora. Good to meet you to.” Her eyes slid around the common room again, looking at the occupants with interests before returning back to Allegra. “What’s your year?” She asked. The girl was certainly older than herself, she guess a sixth or seventh year.

[Allegra Thornton]

"I'm a seventh year," Allegra answered, smiling at the younger girl. She skipped the rest of the way into the common room and plopped herself into a nearby chair. "So have you seen much of the school yet? How are you liking it so far?"

[aurora]

"It feels like I have...I got lost on the way here. But No, not really. It's ok, lots of people, very big." she laughed. After a moment of silence during which she watched part of an interesting conversation between third years on the other side of the room she asked. “So. Do you like this school?”

[Allegra Thornton]

"I like it a lot," Allegra answered with a wide grin. "I had the option of going to school in the United States, but my parents said that nothing could compare to Hogwarts. Since I had the chance, I should take it. I'm glad I did. So where did you go to school before here?"

[aurora]

"I was home schooled. My dad thought it would be better for me, he home schooled my eldest brother to. But I could only stand one year of his teaching and this place sounded so exciting from the stories I heard from my other two siblings.” Aurora answered. After a brief pause she asked, “What was the school in the United States called?”

[Allegra Thornton]

"We have a few," Allegra answered. "My granddad went to Salem, so that was an option as was Berkely and of course Los Angeles."

She pulled open a drawer in the table next to her and pulled out a cookie from her brother's stash. She held it up in offering to the other girl before taking another one for herself. "You have a brother? Me too. Younger though. He's around someplace. You'll probably meet him eventually."

[aurora]

"No thanks," She shook her head, she didn't fell that hungry for cookies. "Two brothers, actually. Both older. The younger of the two came to Hogwarts for a while, but he transferred to another school in Canada. What’s your brothers name?” Aurora hoped she wasn’t sounding like she was trying to pry, she was just interested and curios to know all of her housemates.

[Allegra Thornton]

"How old? Would I know him?" Allegra asked, tucking the cookie back into the hidden stash. If he were within a couple of years of her, there was a chance she would know the name at least. "My brother's name is Drew. Fifth year. He's also in Ravenclaw and usually making some sort of obnoxious noise. Of course, when you first meet him, there's a good chance he'll give you a fake name..."