<strong>Karin Blutfremd - With Symphony and Liz</strong><br/><hr/><br/>Karin thought back and shivered a little at one particular memory of when Pettigrew, figuring a "Squib" would be desperate, tried to ask her to a school Halloween dance in one of the most uncomfortable and disturbing incidents in her life. She quickly turned him down, of course, and actually scared the Gryffindor boy off when he started to get hostile about it. She had expected a lot more ramification from his Marauder friends, but he must not have told them for fear they would make fun of him until the day he died. The Ravenclaw thought about sharing the experience with her temporary travel companions, but saw the black-haired girl's focus was elsewhere.<br/><br/>The redhead followed Symphony's gaze and found the other girl to be watching some first-years moving about the train, causing her to think of her first time going to Hogwarts as well. She had planned for it to be one of the happiest times of her life; she could hardly wait to finally enter school and start to learn how to perform clever magic like her foster parents could. Instead, she ended up on that train the first day with no wand, trying to hide that fact when other new students asked to see what kind of wand she had and being mocked to the point of tears when they realized she didn't have one. Now, she was still no closer to being able to perform real magic like she wanted to, but at least she had come to accept that fact and hardened herself to the bullying. Not everything could be changed, unfortunately.