Gryffindor Table (open)
Lily was kind of confused. A penpal project? All the problems in the world solved by penpals? But, the speech was a good one, and he was right. They did need more unity between the Houses. Maybe it would do some good. In any case, it would be a fun exercise in letter writing, maybe she'd even try to figure out who she was writing to.
She looked around at the table and saw some new faces. She supposed that meant Pomfrey had lifted the quarantine. She thought she had maybe seen some of them earlier, but until she had seen them all in one place it was hard to tell. She almost felt bad for them, being pulled into a battle that probably didn't even exist in their village. A school as small as theirs couldn't have had any concept of houses, right?