[He scratched at his arm and stared at her.]

Plenty of things, um, a lot of things are different. I think someone or something is playing a prank on the students. I'm afraid I have not spent a day in my life sorted in Slytherin... quite a few people have told me I'm wrong about that though... I was sorted into Ravenclaw when I first got here.

[He murmured something to himself that his unusual Northern Irish accent made sound like one big word somehow.]