This here is a Potter and this is a Nott and this is a Fawley and this is an Abbott and this is a Yaxley and this is a Davies and they can all name quite a lot of relations. (Fawley might be reciting hers a little too automatically and changing the subject when asked clarifying questions.)

Miranda explains the adopt-a-firstie thing.

They are amenable to having sixth-year mentors. Sixth-years are basically grownups, wow.

Miranda asks Fawley if she will get along with the now-third-year pilot member of this program.

"I don't recognize the surname."

"Does that mean you won't get along with her? I bet Malfoy will trade me Abbott if you'd sooner not share."

"It means I can't guess, can you introduce us?"

"Hey Genevieve!" calls Miranda.

Stoller comes over. "Hi! How was your summer -"

"It was great! We've got more firsties than sixth years, you won't mind an extra, will you?"

"Nah. Hi!"

"Nice to meet you."

"Stoller's good in Defense and she can sing pretty well," Miranda tells Fawley.

"I don't know the family -"

"I'm Muggleborn."

"Ah."

"I'm good in Defense because when I was twelve I had to duel a sixth-year over it. I won."

"- how'd you do that?"

"I cheated. But it's okay, this is Slytherin, and what's important is that everyone knows I could cheat the next time too." She smiles.

"- nice to meet you."

"You said."

Giggle.

And the firsties are shown to the common room. "Why'd you pick her?" Genevieve asks Miranda quietly.

"Hunch, could be nothing."

"Huh."

The sixth years take fewer classes, more intensively. Minor's doing Charms, Transfiguration, a self-study in Ancient Runes now he's finished the curriculum, Arithmancy, and Potions.

Same things minus the Runes and plus Alchemy! She does not find Madam Hirudinea a very useful teacher past the basics and finds herself cleaning more bedpans than she'd like so she's dropped that.

Karen doesn't want to drop anything. Scheduling concerns opt her out of Defense and Runes. She skips Alchemy after much debate.

Miranda's new firstie is impossible to find between when classes get out and curfew, but she always arrives at the dorms by curfew and is apparently getting all her homework done.

Sniff sniff where have you gone new firstie.

Empty classroom somewhere where she drags a bookcase in front of the door to study but doesn't seem to think to keep out cats.

Then she reads some asinine moralistic book series for young pureblood girls and takes notes and mutters to herself.

Hmmm yes this activity needs to be sat on.

Fawley strokes him absently and moves him off the books and keeps at it.

Actually that's On Hogwarts with the cover replaced, and that one's Origins and Bloodlines.

Purrrrr.