She's not going to try to get into debates about words. "Mkay. So, what do you two do for fun?"

"Have you played Exploding Snap?" asks Millicent.

"No, how do you play?"

"Well I can't show you here, but when we get to the castle—"

"What house do you think you'll be in?" asks Pansy.

"Probably Ravenclaw, I really like books and thinking about things. Maybe Hufflepuff, I also like meeting new people."

Pansy grimaces again. "Go for Ravenclaw, that's better, Hufflepuff's for losers."

Why insult a quarter of the school? "That's probably where I'll find myself."

"Why?"

"I think I'll be in Ravenclaw because of how much I like books, and how much I like to think about things. I also might end up in Hufflepuff but that seems less likely."

"But why?"

"Why Hufflepuff? As far as I can tell, Hufflepuff is about patience and caring about everyone you meet. I think both of those describe me pretty well."

"Hmmm."

Well this has not been terribly successful. "What house are the two of you hoping for?"

"Slytherin," they say in unison. "My whole family was," Pansy adds.

"Do houses tend to run in families?"

"Slytherin does."

"Interesting. I wonder what that means as far as how the sorting works is concerned." She shrugs. "I guess I'll find out how it works soon enough. So, anything else you'd like to talk about?"

"It just means we're all suited to Slytherin, of course," says Pansy.

"Well... what are muggles like?" asks Millicent.

"I haven't really met enough magical people to compare really. Overall, they seem mostly the same though. At least so far. They wear different clothes, but otherwise they eat, they sleep, they work all the normal human stuff."

"But... what sort of stuff do they even do?"

"My uncle works for a company which makes drills, a type of tool that muggles use for cutting things. Otherwise there are teachers, and bankers, and shopkeepers among other careers."

"They have banks?"

"Yeah, they're pretty different from Gringotts, they do all sorts of complicated math stuff so you don't just have all your money sitting in a vault but it's the same idea."

"...huh?"

"I don't quite know how it works myself, the muggle banks invest your money for you and pay you interest though."