"Well different," Lachlan agrees and smiles back at Yancey. A lot of people wouldn't notice the songs of local birds enough to make a statement like that and he's happy to be impressed by the other boy.

The mention of his time in Scotland saves the Ribbonfin from a discussion about some particularly impressive American birds as Lachlan, hesitating and shaking his head, admits, "I...always forget that you were at Hogwarts last year." Mostly because it's genuinely difficult to picture him at a staid, traditional wizarding school with no focus on the arts and no LARP and an agenda to pretend the modern world doesn't exist. The question that comes next pops into his head and out of his mouth before he can even consider why he's asking it, "What house were you in?"