"Awww he's so cute!" Verlin said referring to the ferret. 'The boy ain't half bad looking himself.' She thought, and then thought back at herself 'Come off it and stop being a pervert,' Verlin's transfigured tail wagged a bit, but she refused to touch him until she got Ester's approval. It was strange to get approval from a cat, but her and Ester were quite close, and she trusted her feline judgments. Ester went over and sniffed the unique pet, and nuzzled her head against its body gently. She saw more people enter the compartment, and Willow coming back, and then attempting to leave in complete terror.
'Geez I feel like such a schmuck,that poor girl. She clearly isn't much of a people person, and all these people were invading her compartment.' It was making Verlin herself nervous a bit. She decided that soon she would leave this compartment, and perhaps take others with her to ease the poor Willow girls nerves. "Willow sweetie don't worry, I was planning on going to mingle here soon." She looked around the compartment and acknowledged all the new faces. "And anyone who wants to join me can." She gave them all a subtle look that said 'Come on guys look what we are doing to this poor kid.'
She turned her attention to Acacia, and grinned "Whelp though we disagree on cats. I do understand your feelings about Quidditich." She shrugged, "It looks like fun to play, and I want to try it myself, but I'm not Quidditch mad, and I understand the boredom over the summer too it's just me and my ma. No brothers or sisters or anything, and as muggle psycholgists put it my mom is a helicopter parent." She shudders a bit at her own misfortune. "She hovers, and is interested in everything I do. I try to read a book in peace, and she's right there, and she's a muggle who loves wizard stuff." She rolls her eyes. "Dunno how many times I've had to tell the woman its not Bobby Bott's Every Flavor Beans, but that it's Bertty Bott's, and she pronounces Potter Porter." She makes a gun motion to her head, and rolls her eyes back twitching jokingly.
She returns her attention back to the Quidditch conversation, and says "If I were gonna play though. I'd wanna be a Beater." She paused for a moment, and could have had a V8ed her own forehead "And silly me to all you newcomers my name is Verlin. Verlin Mackenzie." She flashed her wolf eyed contacts in a smile at everyone,, and gave a few thumps of her transfigured tail.