Just as Dani began to feel that maybe she had made a mistake in declaring her ignorance of the magical world, Acacia surprised her by leaning into Dani's "bubble" so to speak and answering her question with excitement and, possibly excessive, friendliness. But Dani didn't really find it was weird as she found it sort of comforting. At least she hadn't offended Acacia, and it seemed as though they might actually become friends.

Though the potential discussion of spells interested her to a large degree, Dani figured that it might be best to stick to the subject she knew the most about, relatively speaking anyway. Her lack of knowledge wouldn't have made for much of a discussion anyway. [i]"I don't have any siblings,"[/i] Dani wrote, pausing to make sure that Acacia and Luke saw the board before erasing it so that she could write more. [i]"Are they really that bad?"[/i] She had heard stories from some of her friends back home, but it has seemed as though there was no real consensus on whether or not siblings were a bad thing.

It was about then that Luke chimed in that he was looking forward to eeting new people, though he lapsed back into silence again and seemed to lose interest in the conversation until Gryffindor was mentioned. Though the man from the Ministry had explained to her what the houses were, Dani wasn't entirely sure what the differences between them were or anything along those lines. So, taking another chance of embarrassing herself due to her ignorance, she asked, [i]"What's so bad about Gryffindor?"[/i] From Acacia's tone, whatever it was couldn't be minor.

Acacia's slightly-frightening, dark tone was replaced by her previous cheery one almost immediately after mentioning Gryffindor, offering to help explain some things that Dani might have questions about, particularly concerning the houses, as that was what her and Luke had been discussing before. [i]"Well, I know about the houses, but not the differences,"[/i] she wrote, feeling a little more comfortable exposing her ignorance now that there had been no negative repercussions for doing so.

Before Acacia could respond, Luke stood up and mentioned that he was bored and going to go and see if he could meet new people. Instead of responding, Dani looked to Acacia to see what she wanted to do. Meeting new people was always awkward for her, at least when she was by herself. If Acacia went, she would go because Acacia could tell people that she was mute and introduce her. But if she didn't want to go, then Dani wouldn't go.