"The sweetest in all of Hogwarts, I'm sure," said Astoria, smiling at the normalcy of the situation. Sometimes it was nice to feel as if her whole world just hadn't gone down the drain. Though it would never last long, she knew.
"Right. I forgot that detail." She shook her head. It wasn't as if she was very attached to her house. Both she and Sorin felt like outsiders most of the time, although for different reasons. Still, she was there for a reason. "I suppose we are pretty good at that. You'd best be right. Or else." Optimism wasn't her forte and people seemed to be showering her with it lately. Probably because she needed it. It was hard to suddenly change her outlook, however. And things were not proving to be good. They simply got increasingly worse.