Emma waits for Jenny to order. When she fails to do so, Emma watches her consideringly for a moment. Then she orders three Cauldron Cakes and three Licorice Wands. When she's been handed her pastries, she offers one of each to the other girls. "Wands and cauldrons for brand new students! Candy-style cheers? Before we're deeply, deeply tired of anything that looks like school?"

"Cheers," says Miranda. She gives each other girl one of the Chocolate Frogs as well.

Miranda is munching her licorice wand. "Yeah, Jenny, it's fine. Do you collect the cards, Emma? I just like the chocolate, you can have my cards if you want them after I eat the frogs."

"Only sort of, um, accidentally? I don't really care or anything, but I like to read them, so I would ask for cards to read the backs and people just kind of...assumed."

"I usually throw them out," says Miranda, "unless I get rare-ish ones that I can let Renée take to work for the little kids."

"I used to, after I'd read them, but then my aunt would save them specially for me and I felt bad throwing them out, so. Collecting by accident."

"Aw. I don't have any aunts or uncles."

"I just have the one. She's nice, but, um, in an easily distracted, kinda forgetful way? Still sweet, though."

"Are you jealous or sorry for us?"

"Yes!"

Miranda giggles.

Emma's card is Dumbledore. She's read his a million times before, so she skips the back, but she stares at the picture sadly for a second before tucking it away in her bag. "What about you, Miranda, what card did you get?"

"I wasn't going to open the other four yet, but I guess I can open one." She takes out a frog and unwraps it and bites its head off and collects the card. "I got Harry Potter."

"...I wonder if they've updated the back? I mean, he did kinda a lot, kinda recently."

"Let's see -" Miranda turns over the card. "The first and only known wizard to survive the Killing Curse, earning the title "The Boy Who Lived." Youngest Quidditch player in the last century after gaining the spot of Seeker in the Gryffindor Quidditch Team in his first year at Hogwarts in 1991. Also known for having found Salazar Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets and defeating the monster within, which was a basilisk, in his second year at Hogwarts. Only known Gryffindor student able to speak Parseltongue. Youngest competitor of the Triwizard Tournament and winner of said Tournament at the age of 14 in 1995. The last master of death for having gained true possession of all three Deathly Hallows. Most famous for the defeat of the most dangerous dark wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort, in 1998. So, yes, they updated it."

"Oh, he was in that war you mentioned?" Jenny asks, peering over Miranda to try and see the picture. "He sounds like a biiiig deal. But, er, translations. Like, Killing Curse I can guess, Quidditch you mentioned- Parseltongue? That tournament thing? The Deathly Hollows?"

"Oh, of course - the killing curse is exactly what it sounds like, yeah - Parseltongue is snake language, he can talk to snakes. The tournament is a competition sort of thing between Hogwarts and two other European magic schools, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, there were dragons and a maze and an underwater rescue thing and stuff. The Deathly Hallows - I don't actually know much about those, by the time they were involved in anything we were in Australia."

"Oooh! Is there a horse language too? Can I learn it?"

"I think it's just snakes, and you have to be born with the snake one."

"That is sorta weird! Why snakes, I wonder? Also, boo, I wanted to talk to horses. But I already got my neat born-with-it power, I guess!"

"Being a metamorphmagus is way better than being a Parselmouth. They're kinda not trusted. At all." Pause. "Except for Harry Potter, obviously."

"Being a metamorphmagus is much better," Miranda agrees. "Even if it weren't for the part where Parselmouths are kind of - oh, has anybody told you about the Houses, Jenny?"