"About the same," Hazel replied, happily taking the chair beside him but trying not to look too pleased about it. She settled her knitting in her lap - a hat for one of Brenna's friends, who was having a baby in July - and smiled. "I was actually surprised by how much more I saw of my brothers when I was home, and they're here at the castle, too."
Even Cadwy, who'd been sorted in to Hufflepuff, didn't want much to do with his older sister unless he was frightened, or sick. She supposed it wasn't very flattering to seem like you needed somebody, when you were a boy, and twelve.
"David actually asked me for help with his Potions homework, though swore me to secrecy. He's in Ravenclaw," she added, just in case Ernie didn't know.