She closes her eyes for a moment then addresses both of them, "It's nice to meet you too."

"Did you wanna talk?"

"Yeah, how are you settling in?"

Dayo's friends walk on ahead and she lags behind to talk to Sarah. "It's alright. Malfoy's a pain but the others are nice enough, if a bit baffled by my muggleborn status. Only a couple of them don't want to talk to me because of it, and the others are curious."

"That's good, it would be really hard if you didn't get along with at least some of them."

"I'd probably figure it out but yeah it'd be really hard to climb up this particular social ladder."

"Changing the statute of secrecy is going to take a lot of political leverage."

She giggles. "I don't expect the majority of it to happen this year but yeah."

"I meant that I'm not looking to be a leader, and the way you're talking implies that you are."

"Mmm I'm not sure about leader but I definitely want to at least have a say in the shots."

"In non-magical society, I think being influential requires being a leader of something but maybe that's not true with magic."

Shrug. "I don't think that's true. Being friends with everyone surely lets you influence things."

"Maybe. I don't have much experience with having friends."

"Me neither," she shrugs. "But the concept seems solid. Also now you'll have friends, so there."

"I hope so. My roommates seem nice, even if they are biased against all Slytherins."

"It's alright, all Slytherins are biased against everyone else."

"I don't feel like that improves the situation, but it's something."

Shrug. "Maybe I can change it."

"That's something I'd be happy to help with if I could."

"Well, you're the Girl-Who-Lived, you probably can."

"Yeah, hopefully. It would be a shame if my fame wasn't useful for anything."

"It's at least useful for making people pay attention to you."

"Yeah. I hope it doesn't get in the way of making friends. I'm starting to regret not studying any books on etiquette."

—that makes her giggle. "I don't think it would help!"

"Why not?"