"Do you think the other houses need fixing, too, or just the one who was too friendly with the crazy overlord."

"Probably, but their problems are likely not as huge."

"What about you, Willow, anything you're going to take over?"

"I dunno, I'm not actually a Slytherin."

"What do you think you'll be? I'm going to be a Gryffindor."

"Ravenclaw! Or Hufflepuff."

"I'm a Gryffindor, and Sadde thinks his other friend is going to a Hufflepuff, so you can be our Ravenclaw friend, and that gives us all four!"

"Ooh, awesome!"

"See, I'm so good at getting friends I don't even have to do anything."

"Well, if you were a bad Slytherin, we couldn't be friends, but you're going to make more good Slytherins, so that makes you kind of the best Slytherin." 

He beams. "Thank you! You're a great Gryffindor, too."

"I hope so. Willow, what are you most excited about? Besides just magic in general, I guess."

"Charms! The other things are fun I guess but Charms is gonna be awesome!"

"Professor Flitwick will love you, then. A Ravenclaw who excels in Charms, I suppose the only thing left is to be into dueling."

"Oooooh is that a thing? We can duel? That sounds so cool!"

"Of course! I don't know if Hogwarts has a dueling club right now, but you can probably talk to Flitwick; he used to be a Champion." 

"Oh, is that, like, a sport?"

"Sort of, yeah. There are competitions."

"I wanna learn that!"

"Sadde, where's all that ambition you promised? If she takes dueling, we each need an activity too, right?"

"Oh I'm totally gonna take up duelling but I mean I'm also going to fix muggleborn hatred and figure paintings out and eliminate death so I'm cool not having a special activity or anything."

She blinks.

"How are you going to eliminate death? I think that one is kind of hard."

"Well first I need to learn more magic. I'll figure out the details later."

"Sounds exciting."

By now, they're well on their way. 

Alistair takes a moment to admire the scenery outside the window.