Grace and the other prefects met with the head boy and head girl as was customary and listened to this years instructions. As soon as it was done the prefects made their tour of the train seeing to the younger students and the first years.
She didn't rush as did the other prefect did remembering as she did how chaotic things could get. 

Members of her house greeted her with big smiles some even saying they'd expected her to be prefect this year. Grace for her part blushed and tried to act as if it were a chore she'd have rather avoided.

She was secretly happy to be made girls prefect because like her niece Shelby she was a caregiver and knew how important a good prefect was to help the younger ones adjust and to keep the older more boisterous in line.

"Don't look now but here comes the mother hen" said one of the older girls and two friends from Slytherin who Grace had on more than one occasion had words with. She so wanted to make a rebuttal but chose instead to act as if the comment carried no weight.

She walked past the three girls with the same regal baring as would her mother amid uncouth rabble.

She couldn't be seen bullying the girls because other than display a lack of manners they'd done nothing worthy of a Prefect's notice.

"Oh la de da, lo the queen doth pass among her subjects, long live queen Mirror" snickered the Slytherin girl as she mispronounced Grace's nickname.

Grace slowed when she saw returning second year Hufflepuff boys and girls and checked on them as she passed. She noted those that seemed to need cheering up and stopped and had a friendly word with them even buying them and their friends treats from the trolley.

She was seeking her niece Clarice knowing that she'd not feel at ease till she knew she was safely aboard.