"Ahh" Penny said eloquently "Mums a muggleborn and dad's a muggle. We weren't sure if either Helen or I would get our letters ; Mum had been a bit shifty with the details, but I got mine and Helen followed three years later."
Wriggling around in her seat, Penny crossed her legs and reached down to absentmindedly scratch her thigh. It was a new pair of jeans she was trying to break in and the only thing that was coming close to breaking was her patience with the offending articles.
"You'd be surprised what girls get up. I remember someone," Penny did not Name Names "sneaking in a bottle of firewhisky. I should have reported them, I was hoping to be made Prefect the following year but.."
She gave a small shrug and brushed off the one and only night she'd gotten drunk enough to hug the toilet throughout the night. Ever since then, she'd enjoyed alcohol but never enough to get that sick.
"With boys it seems easier, theres not the constant drama over who fancies who, you know?"
Merlin she missed Helen so much sometimes that it hurt to breathe.
"Okay, so one last question from me ; you get to ask the next one ; whats your favourite Christmas carol? I like Ding Dong Merrily on High or We Three Kings."