Kirah

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

"Yeah that's what I heard too. I'm not so sure I like that." He shivered slightly and finished adjusting his robes. "I'll be disowned if I get into Hufflepuff." He sighed and sat back down. The horizon was darkened now and he couldn't see anything beyond the glow of the train.

"Do you think the hat knows things like that and takes it into consideration?" He looked at Siobhan, fear etched on his face. He glanced at the door hoping that it wouldn't open and revel his sister was on the other side of it.

The door opened.

It wasn't his sister. Instead it was instead a red haired second year Huffelpuff. "Sorry, I was looking for my friend. She's a Ravenclaw, really long brown hair." Kyle shook his head. "Thanks." The red haired girl bounced out of the room.

Kyle gave Siobhan a nervous smile.

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RIGHT!

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

"Yeah." Kyle nodded at her thanks. He looked out the window watching the scenery until she asked "When d'ya think we'll get there?"

"I think we're supposed to be there after dark." He pointed to the sunset. "So, probably shouldn't be too much longer. We should put on our robes." Kyle stood on the seat and pulled his robes out of his trunk. He turned his back to Siobhan so she could put her robes on without issue. Kyle just pulled his robes over his uniform which had worn to the train.

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

Kyle smiled, "Okay, thank you."

He thought about what Siobhan meant. He thought about how he was to answer her question. How honest did he want to be with this girl? Maggie trusted her brother, Kyle decided to trust Siobhan.

"She's dangerous. Hard to read, hard to predict. I'm always on edge around her because I'm not sure what she'll do next." Kyle explained. He toyed with an unopened chocolate frog box. Kyle didn't want to explain how dangerous, but he felt he owed Siobhan an explanation.

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Kyle thought, Siobhan has a weird definition of nice.

"Yeah I collect them a bit. I've never been super serious about them though. Maggie doesn't collect them, she thinks it's silly, but she likes to read them. I already have Dzou Yen, do you want to try to start a collection now that your siblings won't take them from you?" Kyle held out the card to Siobhan.

When Siobhan asked Kyle what was up he wasn't sure what she meant. "What do you mean?" He was so used to being tense around his sister that he didn't even notice he did it anymore.

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

"Yeah." Maggie answered after swallowed her bite of licorice. Kyle knew how irritated she had been last year when Pansy Parkinson had been picked as the prefect for her year. Now she didn't seem as annoyed though. Kyle thought it was because without the responsibility of playing by the rules she was more comfortable. "I heard we have a new potions instructor and that Professor Snape is going to be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. Professor Snape is our Head of House, so make a good impression with him. I hear the Potions Professor used to be the Head of House for Slytherin too." Kyle wondered why his sister was volunteering this information. What did she get out of it? He frowned thinking. Was she being nice because Siobhan was here and she wanted to make an impression. The girl's brother was already a death eater and if Maggie were known for recruiting or molding future potentials she might have an easier time. That made sense to Kyle.

Kyle opened a chocolate frog, deftly caught the frog and let it wriggle in his fingers as he read the card. "Dzou Yen"

"Who'd you get?" Maggie asked.

"Dzou Yen." Kyle told her. Maggie nodded and stood up.

"Well I'm going to go back to where my class mates are. See ya." She swiped another licorice whip and exited the car. Kyle looked over the sweets that had been near his sister, the frog stopped struggling and Kyle ate it. It didn't look like she poisoned any of the other sweets. Thankfully they all had boxes so they couldn't be easy to poison.

"That was weird." Kyle sighed and leaned back into his seat looking more relaxed now that Maggie was gone again.

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Lol, yeah, that's exactly what he's thinking. Nothing along the lines of, what's her plan to kill me this time?

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

"That's pretty cool, must be lonely though." Kyle said before answering her questions. "There's some of both. She prefers the wizard tenants, but the Muggles have been in that town for as long as her family has owned the land."

"Anything from the trolly dears?" A pleasant witch's voice asked them. Kyle hopped up and looked over the trolly buying some of his favorite snacks.

The trolly witch had barely gone out of the compartment when the door slid open again and in entered Maggie. She picked up one of his licorice whips and sat down.

"Just came to check up on you two. Alistair said he sent his sister down here. That must be you Soibhan." Maggie looked at Soibhan while chewing the stolen licorice whip. "I hear you want to be Slytherin too."

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"I'm allowed at our shop, but not anywhere else on the street. Dad wants Maggie to run it in the future, she's better with numbers and sales." Kyle shrugged. "I don't mind either. I've never cared for the shop. I honestly like what my mum does better. She says that to be a successful landlord you have to keep your tenants happy." Kyle liked the rounds his mother made to the properties she owned. She liked watching her buy more land from the neighbors of the land she already owned. It was amazing to watch.

"I don't know. I think the Malfoy's own land. A few other families have members in the ministry." Kyle tried to think of who he knew in what part of the Ministry, but he had never really kept that knowledge as well as he should have. "Tell me about your land, with the dragons. You said there weren't a lot of magical people there, but you have dragons. How do you keep that a secret?"

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Kyle listened to Soibhan talk about dragons and wanted to go see them. He normally wouldn't have called himself a thrill seeker, but the way Soibhan talked about dragons made him want to at least look at the small ones. He really wasn't sure about the big ones. Maybe if they became good enough friends...

"What does your family do?"

"My father owns a shop." That was the standard answer. The full answer was the shop was in Knockturn alley, Kyle normally didn't tell people that part, but Soibhan was to be a Slytherin, her brother was friends with Maggie, so he decided to finish the sentence. "In Knockturn alley." Nothing in the shop was technically illegal, at least not the part anyone could just walk up to. His mother on the other hand, came from a long line of landed gentry. It didn't work as well in nowadays, but she still owned a lot of land that she rented to farmers and the houses to families. Kyle wasn't sure how to explain that job, "My mum is a landlord. Well I guess landlady." It was the term his family used, he hoped Siobhan knew what it meant.