<div align="center"><em>Lavender Acklery - Talking with Brutus Tremblett</em></div><hr/><br/>Lavender stiffened a little when he said that a three seemed right for her. She disagreed, but wasn't about to argue it. There was no point in arguing things like that when she knew that neither side would see it the other way. Avoiding confrontation was a big thing for her. Lavender never wanted to get in over her head and felt that she would if she tried to argue with people.<br/><br/>While she wasn't interested in being pitied, her roommates had only stopped doing that last year when they realized she wasn't going to do what they wanted her to or take their 'advice', Lavender wasn't all that enthused about the change in subject. Talking about herself was probably the most nerve wrecking thing in the world for her. Giving people proof that she was nothing special or interesting was not a good topic of conversation in her opinion, but she had manners enough to answer anyway, "Hufflepuff, yes," not the greatest house in the school, but certainly not the worst. She'd take being in Hufflepuff over anything else, "...I'm from Newquay. It's the in Southwest of England, in Cornwall...but we live in London now for father's work," he had a lot of work lately with the Death Eaters going around, "He's an Obliviator...lot of work these days..."<br/><br/>Conversation was sort of new to her. Lavender was unsure of what to say, so she asked him the same as he'd asked her, "What about you? Where are you from?"<br/><br/><div align="center"><em>Rabastan Lestrange - Getting bored with his company...</em></div><hr/><br/>Bellatrix was never fun company, in his opinion. She was so sensitive to some subjects and reacted harshly when thing seemed to upset her. Rabastan wasn't about to spend their whole trip to school walking on eggshells to avoid being chained up again.<br/><br/>Barty wasn't bad company, but he had to wonder if the other male would be feeling the same way by being in Bella's presence, "You two are boring..." he yawned before climbing up from his seat, "I'm going to go find someone more interesting," he snipped before heading for the door, "Have fun you two," the redhead snickered before slipping out. He'd thought about making some comment about making sure to lock the door and pull the shade down after he left, but he didn't need Bella hexing him again and not letting him go till they got to school this time. Merlin only knows what the woman would do if she had a man at her complete disposal for a few hours.<br/><br/>Rabastan started through the semi-crowded train, quite a few younger students getting out of his way. Those that didn't found themselves shoved aside. He was half way down the train when he spotted his sister peeking into another compartment. He moved closer, quietly, and noticed that the compartment contained Narcissa Black, Regulus Black, and Severus Snape. He could deal with Narcissa much more than he could Bellatrix. As for Regulus and Snape...well...he had nothing really against Regulus, but Snape just seemed odd to him. Many witches and wizards were unattractive, just like a lot of Muggles were. So it wasn't Snape's appearance that put him off. It was the boy's attitude. He used to hang out with a Mudblood. A Gryffindor no less. He was reluctant to accept Snape for the same reasons he was so with his sister. He didn't believe people could change.<br/><br/>He crept up behind Remedy, staying behind her as far as he could. He gave a small wave to Narcissa with a wink before clearing his throat loudly, "Hello, Cissy," he said over Remedy's head as if he didn't see her standing there and addressed Narcissa, "Have a good summer?"