[center][h3][b][color=violet]Aibhlinn Lynch[/color][/b][/h3][/center]

Aibhlinn arrived at King's Cross at ten o'clock in the morning, only to have to board another train. The young petite blond dragged her luggage through the station to get to her next destination but along the way the smell of fresh baked buns and salted meat called to her. 
The train ride from Ireland was always an interesting one. Aibhlinn never understood how landscape could change so much in as little as five minutes. Then again, Aibhlinn never understood anything that was on the ground. Now the sky, that was a topic the young girl would ramble on about for ages. 
Aibh boosted herself up onto a stool and watched the muggle world go by her. She took a bite from her sandwich to get her going before she begun to feed Calli bits of it through her cage. Of course this created all manor of looks from the muggles and Aibhlinn smiled at each and every one of them. Aibhlinn never understood how simply smiling at a muggle made them so uncomfortable. It was like they only wanted to blatantly stare at you in private and you weren't supposed to notice.
At quarter to eleven Aibhlinn placed Calli, her long-eared owl whom was named after Jupiter's second biggest moon, back onto her trolly and made her way to platform nine and three quarters. Along the way, the girl stopped no less than three cross guards to ask them where the platform was and had to keep from giggling each and every time. She loved the dumbfounded expressions and the way they looked at her, wanting to inquire as to where her parents had gotten off to but she always dashed away. Calli squawked at her and Aibh stuck her tongue out at the bird. 
"Alright, fine. We'll go now," she said and made her way to the barrier between platform nine and ten. She took a deep breath after lining up and shut her eyes before running. Aibhlinn never quite got used to running at a wall. When she opened her eyes again she was staring at the gleaming red engine. In several hours she would be walking into Hogwarts to begin her fourth year. 
After the luggage was stowed and Calli was set up with the rest of the hooting owls, the blonde bobbed her way through the train in search for her friends. There was an old familiar smell on the Hogwarts train that always set a gentle calm over Ahbilinn, lemon and old books she thought as she found a friendly face to join. 

Aibhlinn laughed, rolling back and forth on the seat as she listened to her friend retell about his encounter with a great mountain of a dog over the holidays. 
"You can't be serious Kendall? You know, not all dogs want to be loved," she teased him. She wiped the tears from her eyes before she ate another fizzy wizzy. She loved the feeling as they melted in her mouth and dripped down the back of her throat. She popped two more in after the first one completely dissolved. 
The Slytherin cloak sat beside Aibhlinn, covered in candy wrappers from the mountain of junk the young girl purchased from the trolly. Her mother, bless her heart, gave her extra money just for the trolly for she understood her daughters addiction to anything sweet. The green and silver winked in the compartment light, reminding Aibh that she would have to put it on within the hour.