yeeee! let's go with old money connections for them! the gillises are all the way in ontario, but WHAT IS DISTANCE TO WIZARDS? and seattle is close to BC and... that's canada... and... WHATEVER, WE'LL MAKE IT WORK. maggie wouldn't mind the call-out as long as it wasn't done in an aggressive way? fairly, the only thing that was 100% undeniable favoritism was her prefect patrol schedule lining up with her girlfriend's last year. she worked hard to earn everything else in school, but the circumstances look super duper sketch af and all the privileges she was already born with sort of undermine the achievements she earned herself. (like, UGH, you're already rich, why did you get offered a full academic scholarship while other kids can't afford tuition?)
cannnn zoey be her potions partner? maggie would want to sit as close to her as possible because she's the potions prodigy and maggie's own potion skills are not where she'd like them to be. she'd find her cute in a weird 'i don't understand your style but it works for you' way. maggie's not really in tune with muggle culture so she doesn't understand that ironic shirts are the thing right now, so she'd probably find them WAY MORE HILARIOUS than they should be. especially if it has a pun on it.