Victoire passed the cream colored envelopes around the table. Once they’d all been sorted, the children looked about as if waiting for permission to tear into them. Simultaneously, the letters were opened, resulting in multiple gasps of excitement, grunts of disapproval, sighs of relief, and stunned silence. The youngest of the group, Scorpius, Arty, and Rose were all entering their fourth year and didn’t have any particularly exciting news aside from the scores of their final exams of the year prior. As for Ellie and James, they were entering their fifth year. They looked at each other from across the kitchen table, the mouths slightly open. Reaching into their envelopes, they both pulled out small crest shaped pins in their house colors. 