A Slytherin Without Ambition
6.
The second year begins with a literal bang, when Ruuko is knocked into the train by an excitable new girl. 'Hi,' she trills, bouncing on her heels. 'I'm Tama. What's your name?'
She sounds younger than eleven, but she must be that to be attending. And she is determined to insert herself into their group of friends and they aren't too keen on stopping her. After all, Tama is nice, and fun, and new, and winds up in the Hufflepuff dorms with Hitoe, and they don't see any reason not to be friends with her.
But Tama is also impulsive and easily flies off the handle in the face of Slytherin's prejudice. Before Yuzuki can say something in counter, Tama will have already launched a spell. As a first year, they are hardly destructive (unlike Ruuko and her accidental blasting curse) but she is forming a bad habit of it. And when they stop her, "don't you want to stop them?" she'll ask. "Don't you want to get them back?"
Nonono, Ruuko thinks. But it is already too late for that, wasn't it?