Alistair smiled at the boy's wand thinking curiously wondering that they both had the same wands but he wouldn't tell the other boy yet as he looked at Magnus. Wondering if he had noticed that his hair had changed colors, but he awaited for when he did, as he looked out the window staring deeply into the scenery. He sighed as he looked away, thinking about how this was going to be a long journey and glanced at his cabin mates. Thinking about a question to ask them that would make everything not seem so quiet as it grew boring at times staring out of his window. 

He slouched on his seat as he did he held his wand in his hand. He earlier was fiddling around with it but now he wanted to do something with it, but he wasn't sure if it was allowed but he was willing to get in trouble to see what these other students knew. It would be nice to see if anyone else studied the spells before they came to the school, cause for all he knew it was just himself so far. And he didn't want to talk to 2nd years about spells because that would be awkward... But he put that though in the back of his head for now... and asked a different question, one that would sooner or latter bring the magical spells into the conversation. 

"How long do you think this will take to get us to Hogwarts?" He asked nonchalantly, he already knew how long it indeed took but was wondering if the other two boys knew anything about where they were going. Since the two didn't seem to talk much about Hogwarts he might as well introduce the topic so at least they had a subject to talk about, making this conversation easier at least. Meanwhile, he put the wand back into his pocket and got out his notebook beginning to study the spells that he had jotted down in them and silently read them back to himself.