[it was all right. she wasn't expecting anything new, especially since she'd only been in this strange place, what? a month? less? she'd been expected to be an adult and on her own during the old place, so she knows she shouldn't expect any less than she did from home]

Yes. Yes, terribly new. They say that I'm a--a Paleblood and that it's supposed to have certain magical gifts, but I don't feel any of them yet.