"I, yeah? I don't know, though – I'm not really very sneaky? Books are good but they're not everything?"

"'Sneaky'? Slytherin isn't about being 'sneaky'!"

"… I thought it was mostly about cunning?"

"And ambition, yeah."

"… So it's about being, I dunno, a politician?"

"Kinda! Not exactly but almost."

"Right," she says. "It's– it's probably still not for me."

"Never had the urge to take over the world?"

"… Not, uh, not really." Pause. "Maybe a little."

He grins.

"Some people are just really wrong."

"They kinda are," agrees Sadde.

"Cute how you assumed you're not one of those people."

"I'm never wrong."

"I expect that's a plus-one to the counter."

"What counter?"

"Times you're wrong."

He giggles.

"Do you keep a counter?"

"Nope, but I'm guessing it wasn't zero before that. Do you?"

"No, too much work."

"Well, no one you talk to will have been witness to me making a mistake." The train lurches a bit... and starts slowly moving. "Oooh we're going!"

Thea laughs, still looking a little nervous. "– I don't think I actually keep any counters like that."

Anthony smiles. "Looking forward to school?"

"– Sorta, yeah? It's a bit– a bit nerve-wracking."