Sir Oliver did say that the Portraits here were actually pretty sociable, but Vivian wasn't the kind of person to just believe what others say. She wanted to see these Portraits for herself, with her very own two eyes! She also wanted to know if her daddy wasn't joking about these portraits either.

The first year skipped her way across the first floor. She did peek a little bit inside the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, hoping to see even just a small glance of Pretty Professor Hirsch. Dreamy guy, he was. Vivi loved sitting in front of his class ALL THE TIME. Hihihihi. She skipped past the History of Magic and Muggle Studies classroom, because Hirsch above all. He shared the same spot on Vivi's list of favourite teachers with Professor Myers. Those two were Vivi's number ones.

Once she reached the portraits, the blonde just looked at them. Uhh... well, she had to start first though. Awkward silence was a big no no for her, but nothing was ever that awkward to her anyway. Too young to care pls. "Hiiii good mooorninggggg!" Vivi wiggled her fingers at the portraits.

Then she took a seat in the MIDDLE of the corridor. People'll have to walk over her. Didn't really matter, she was tiny and cute... and nobody stepped on or walked over anything that was CUTE and innocent.

:3

Time was running out and curfew was creeping closer and closer... and Dot was yet to find a second place to leave her mark for Charms class. The first spot had been so inspired, but she hadn't felt that sparkle of creativity since she left the seventh floor. It was obvious her classmates had been busy, which made it all the more frustrating that she just didn't know where she wanted to leave a bit of cheer and color for someone else to stumble across.

Finally, in one of the long hallways on the first floor, Dot found herself being harassed by a portrait. The older woman had a lot of opinions about Dot's freckles and red hair, some unwanted thoughts about the state of her robes and length of Dot's skirt, and some suggestions about how she could better spend her time.

How bad would it be to graffiti a portrait? She deserved it, after all.

With a fixed smile, Dot pointed her wand at the offending portrait and thought... green thoughts. Slytherin tag. "Figura circle." There was something very very satisfying about seeing the cranky old portrait peering out at her from inside a green circle. "The Snakes were here, old lady." Dot made a rude noise and headed back to class.

Cornelius was boooooored. So naturally he went out to venture for some entertainment.

And entertainment found him.

It wasn't the portraits that drew him in. No. It was someone's greeting. He peeked around the corner, searching for the owner of the voice until he found it...her. Why did everyone at Hogwarts think it was a good idea to sit in the middle of the corridors? Like, didn't they have manners? Were they trying to channel some sort of middle ground energy? Meh.

An idea crossed his mind.

Tucking his hands into his jeans, curly hair all handsomely disheveled, Cornelius quietly walked down that corridor in his back Converse. When he was merely a few steps from the blonde he stopped all of a sudden, his eyes wide and glued to the floor behind her.

He GASPED.

"Don't...move," he said in a serious tone. "Oh Merlin," he whispered, then pointed behind her. "T-There's a-a...oh crud...don't move..."

FOR THE LOVE OF MERLIN DON'T MOVE.

EHEHEHEHEHE!!!!

Vivian was really enjoying this conversation (quietness mostly, but ahem... eleven year olds don't really care). She had actually kept her hidden stash of marshmallows in her pocket again and nommed them as she kept sitting on the floor. until... what. The blonde looked at the boy who just suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor and he looked shocked.

BLINK BLIBLIBLINK. Whut.

She was supposed to stop moving? Vivian kept her eyes on the boy, who looked just about her age. She wasn't allowed to move, right? But she was able to move her eyes from left to right. If she were in danger, then why was she... not allowed to flinch a muscle? WAS THERE A BUG ON HER HAIR? She shot a panicked looked at the boy.

But she was allowed to speak right? Vivi didn't feel anything crawling on her face anyway. "Wh... why? What's wrong?" Her lower lip quivered again, as always when she was scared or panicked or terribly nervous. AND WAS HE GONNA KEEP STANDING THERE?

HELP HEEEEELP HALPHALP HAAALP. Vivian was PETRIFIED in fright.

HAHAHAHAHA!

Oh Merlin, she fell for it. Cornelius cracked up and shook his head, curls bouncing all over his face. He couldn't help it. Her reaction was much more precious than what he had expected. Actually, he didn't think it'd work to begin with. His sisters never fell for it and it made for a boring time. Whether this girl was playing along and was REALLY great at acting or not, it amused him.

Hehe.

"Gotcha!"

WHAAAT? He was just... playing? It wasn't even real???

Vivian blinked one more time before flinching her right arm. She raised it up towards her head and sort of swatted whatever was supposed to be on top of it. There really WAS nothing on her head! She placed both of her hands on her face. NOPE, nothing was ruining her face either! She was saved! She was SAFE and FREE OF DANGER. She looked back at the boy and stared at him. "I... I'm... I'm okay! I'M OKAY!" She shot a GLEEFUL look towards the Portraits. "I'M ALRIGHT." SEE?

But... ahem. Right, the boy was just messing with her. She sighed. That was scary, really. However, she wasn't going to let go of the boy's A+ acting skills. "Good one, though. Ya fooled me!" And a small smile for him!

She wasn't mad? AWWWWW. He was kind of looking forward to getting punched or slapped. He was in that kind of mood, you know?

Not even a little mad?

Nope. Oh well.

At least his acting skills were getting recognition. "Totally got you there," he laughed, remembering the look on her face. This wasn't all that disappointing. LOL. "What'd you think it was?" he asked, flopping next to her and waving up at one of the portraits.

He got a glare. Cornelius stuck his tongue out at it.

Okay so maaaaybe the prank thing wasn't exactly as fun as doing it on someone else, but Vivian wasn't a hypocrite. Monkey sees as monkey does. It was probably just a way of payback for her horrible pranks at home, to her father's amusement and her mother's disapproval.

"Mhm, you totally did! Two thumbs up on your skills!" Vivi said as she gave the boy two thumbs up. Great talent was to be appreciated and recognised, after all. "Oh... well, I thought it might've been a spider or worm or something icky that crawls, y'know?" Who would want one of those on their heads anyway? Not Vivian, nope. And she didn't mind him sitting beside her either. Sometimes being ignored by the portraits was a little lonely and there was nothing wrong with company.

Vivi looked at him. He hadn't mentioned his name, right? "I'm Vivian, by the way. Do you go here often?" These talking portraits were indeed interesting when they weren't ignoring you, at least.

Dante liked being coming to the portraits since well they were an excellent source of gossip which was something Dante loved. All you had to do was be nice to them. Which was something Dante could do when it benefited him. So yeah. Plus it was not like they were far away like on the seventh floor or anything. Suited him perfectly.

Though he did have better things to do like the whole try and get good grades and then figure out what to do once he leaves school. But he still had time for that so he would just talk to portraits and then get some popcorn later. He deserved some.

Then after that maybe just annoy Hirsch or Draper.

On a rainy day (go fogure... Scotland) like today, Dora really had NOTHING better to do than go exploring. She still wasn't talking to most of her "friends" so it wasn't like she could go make smores with them or anything. Ugh. Tossing her hair over her shoulder, she came around a corner and spotted him. HIM. Dante Barrington. He was nice to look at, AND he liked to goss. Win. Win.

"Gilly tells the best gossip in the castle, you know. " Like... it was a known fact or something. Maybe not to everyone, but whatever. "But I reckon you have some good goss too. Spill, pretty boy. "

Well he was not expecting company but it could not hurt since well he was in the middle of doing nothing important.So hearing Dora did not really surprise him since he thought she had the same idea he did and like listening to the portraits spill all the juicy gossip.

"Gilly, huh. I will have to remember that. I usually go to Isobel over there"

Dante pointed to one of the portraits. Well he did but now was not the best time to tell it. Everything has its time and place and his information always did.

"I always do but right now i'm saving some gossip until the time is right. But i can tell you about the infamous Hugo Foster"

Snort.

Infamous.

Isobel, huh? Dora peered over at the portrait and waved sweetly. Yep. She would commit that to memory. But Gilly was still her fave.

"Gilly is literally called Gossiping Gilly, you know. " He probably didn't know... boys were mainly dumb. But, she moved over beside Dante and poked his ribs gently. He needed a sandwich or something, yeah?

"The Prefect? I don't know that I would call him imfamous, but I have seen the badge and the boy behind it, yeah? " And WHAT A BOY he was. Handsomer by FAR than Dante. No offense meant... why was she apologizing for thoughts? Sheesh. Focus.

"What about him? He kill someone? " Unlikely, but it was Hogwarts and one could never be SURE!

Gossiping Gilly was a interesting nickname. And well he did not know. But the trick was making them think you knew and he was anything but dumb thank you very much. Not like he cared. Also why would you tell Gilly anything if you knew that was her nickname well unless you wanted something to be a rumor.

What???

Why was she poking his ribs.

Wait he did not want to know.

Dante would not call him infamous at all. He just wanted to laugh at his own horrible joke.

"He did not kill anyone. At least i think so. I don't know for sure. But this is relating to him being the slytherin ladies man."

Dante always thought it would be Bastien. But he is at Durmstrang and well dating Kelly so he was wrong.

Seeeeee... one never TOLD Gilly ones secrets. One simply LISTENED.

Boys were so dumb it hurt sometimes.

Legit.

"Would you KNOW if he did? Like... how well do you know this guy? Could he have killed someone and BURIED THE BODY IN THE FOREST?" Dramatics. Dora had them. Only she was unable to hold the serious face for long before she lost it and began to laugh. Okay. No. Time to get serious.

Oh.

"He's a lady's man? Come on Barrington, give me something better than that! I heard Charlotte Kettleburn set someone on FIRE." Now THAT was good goss. Even though she and Dora were not exactly friendly at the moment, she liked to think that fire was HER influence on her life long friend. Heh. But for real. Top that, Barrington.

Please like Hugo is even capable of doing that. He might set someone on fire by accident but never one purpose unlike Dante. Still if Hugo had killed someone Dante would help bury the body so there is that.

"Possibly, though i doubt it"

Now setting someone on fire was nothing special. Dante did it, knew Dima has done it to Ascanius. And now apparently Charlotte Kettleburn has done it. Good for her. Wonder on who.

"Please i know Dima Toussaint has set Ascanius Stark on fire. I know someone who as set a well a graduated student on fire. So its really not that special. Still cool though. But besides that i got nothing. I have been distracted lately i guess"

He was failing at keeping up with gossip.

Iris was bored of just standing watching the students. No one ever came to speak to her anymore. She wasn't the meanest portrait in this corridor, but yet it seemed no one cared to take the time to speak to her.

"Hello"

Maybe if she spoke first they would come to her.

Torrance was bored too. So bored that he didn't even bother with the fact that his Remembrall was glowing a bright red. No care in the world that he was forgetting something at the moment. That glass ball had been glowing for weeks. in fact. It was just these thoughts that were passing though him now that made him begin to think what it was that he had once forgotten.

What could it b...

"Huh?" Torrance said as he thought he had heard someone speak. Forgetting once more what it was he was once thinking about. "Hello??"
Who was speaking!?!?!?

"Why hello young man. Are you off to class?" Someone was talking to her. A Gryffindor by the robes. She enjoyed talking to all the houses, so just the fact that someone was talking to her made her tight smile relax a bit.


She looked around just to make sure he was talking to her. He was wasn't he? "Over here young man." Giving him a wave since it seemed he looked a little confused.

Was the Air talking to him!? Whoa!! Wow....okay just talk back Torrance it's not that odd. These kind of things happen at Hogwarts. "I um...Guess so." His Remembrall slowly faded back to the cloudy clear white color it once was. Guess he'd better go. That was a good reminder. Thanks Air....

"Oh...oh Hi!" The young lion spun around in his place once the voice directed him to it's origins. He stepped up closer to the Portrait. "Sorry bout that. Thought you were a disembodied voice"

Talking to Portraits was cool too...cooler than where ever it was he was supposed to be. The Rembrall's color slowly turning red once more.

The boy was a curious one. She couldn't help but notice that. " What class do you have?" She wondered if it was one of her favorites. Oh how she adored lessons in her youth. "Do you have a favorite class?"

The fact that he hadn't seen her talking right away had her frowning a bit. "Have I become that dusty?" She tried to glance at her frame. The house elves usually did a decent job at cleaning her so the boy should have seen.

Dora rolled her eyes at Dante now. Like... fire was AWESOME and nothing to scoff at. And Dima set that Wrock dude on fire. Heh. Whatever. "I set a fire in the common room last term. No one seemed to mind, though."

"What's got you dist..." That portrait was talking to Torrance. HOW UNFAIR! They were there FIRST!! Moving slightly away from Dante, just a smidge, she smiled at the Portrait and waved. Torrance got a wave also.

"Miss Portrait Lady," Because Dora had not caught her name, "Do YOU have any fun gossip to share?" And Dora gave her a winning smile to go along with it.

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The boy was a curious one. She couldn't help but notice that. " What class do you have?" She wondered if it was one of her favorites. Oh how she adored lessons in her youth. "Do you have a favorite class?"

The fact that he hadn't seen her talking right away had her frowning a bit. "Have I become that dusty?" She tried to glance at her frame. The house elves usually did a decent job at cleaning her so the boy should have seen.

What classs? What class.....what class Um..."Uh. I think maybe Muggle Studies." The Orb glowed a brighter Red. What did it matter what class he was going to anyways? He' figure it out once he got down that way and saw which class was filling in. "I'll figure that out later." He said with a smile and nod.

"No...no, no. You're perfectly dusted and your frame is very straight on the wall here. Possibly the best placed through all of Hogwarts." He wasn't going to admit to being easily distracted. So pandering to a Painting seemed the better option.

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Dora rolled her eyes at Dante now. Like... fire was AWESOME and nothing to scoff at. And Dima set that Wrock dude on fire. Heh. Whatever. "I set a fire in the common room last term. No one seemed to mind, though."

"What's got you dist..." That portrait was talking to Torrance. HOW UNFAIR! They were there FIRST!! Moving slightly away from Dante, just a smidge, she smiled at the Portrait and waved. Torrance got a wave also.

"Miss Portrait Lady," Because Dora had not caught her name, "Do YOU have any fun gossip to share?" And Dora gave her a winning smile to go along with it.

"Dora" He nodded to his Housemate. Then turned to see that she was chatting with Dante! OH OH Torrance like Dante! Dante was like super cool and stuff!! He waved happily at the older Slytherin. Maybe that would be enough to lure him over here so he can also come chat with the Portrait Lady...and that would make doing THIS like 11x cooler!

"No...I don't want to hear Gossip." Gossip was dumb. Drama was dumb, Torrance wanted no part of any of that stupid stuff. Besides maybe the only Gossip they'd get is something Scandalous Sir Cadogan did....Actually He wouldn't mind hearing funny stories about the Knight. He stayed quiet for just a moment then looked at Dora. "Changed my mind. Gossip us up." He really hoped she'd tell them some juicy portrait drama now.

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Dora rolled her eyes at Dante now. Like... fire was AWESOME and nothing to scoff at. And Dima set that Wrock dude on fire. Heh. Whatever. "I set a fire in the common room last term. No one seemed to mind, though."

"What's got you dist..." That portrait was talking to Torrance. HOW UNFAIR! They were there FIRST!! Moving slightly away from Dante, just a smidge, she smiled at the Portrait and waved. Torrance got a wave also.

"Miss Portrait Lady," Because Dora had not caught her name, "Do YOU have any fun gossip to share?" And Dora gave her a winning smile to go along with it.

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What classs? What class.....what class Um..."Uh. I think maybe Muggle Studies." The Orb glowed a brighter Red. What did it matter what class he was going to anyways? He' figure it out once he got down that way and saw which class was filling in. "I'll figure that out later." He said with a smile and nod.

"No...no, no. You're perfectly dusted and your frame is very straight on the wall here. Possibly the best placed through all of Hogwarts." He wasn't going to admit to being easily distracted. So pandering to a Painting seemed the better option.
"Dora" He nodded to his Housemate. Then turned to see that she was chatting with Dante! OH OH Torrance like Dante! Dante was like super cool and stuff!! He waved happily at the older Slytherin. Maybe that would be enough to lure him over here so he can also come chat with the Portrait Lady...and that would make doing THIS like 11x cooler!

"No...I don't want to hear Gossip." Gossip was dumb. Drama was dumb, Torrance wanted no part of any of that stupid stuff. Besides maybe the only Gossip they'd get is something Scandalous Sir Cadogan did....Actually He wouldn't mind hearing funny stories about the Knight. He stayed quiet for just a moment then looked at Dora. "Changed my mind. Gossip us up." He really hoped she'd tell them some juicy portrait drama now.

The boy didn't know what class he was headed to? Well that was a shame. She enjoyed talking about lessons and things the students were learning. "Muggle studies is a good class. You can learn some valuable things." It wasn't one of her favorites, but she could have a conversation about it, plus she knew over time muggles had become very accepted. She learned that from a student who liked to speak with her often. "I always thought Transfiguration was a great class. Many things you will use outside of school comes from that class." The others were valuable as well, but not as used outside of school. Charms was the other useful one in her book.

"Well good, I'd hate to have dust on my frame. Students skip over me anymore so I was afraid I wasn't being seen." So it was just that students didn't want to speak to Iris. Well that was unfortunate. Hearing another child she looked over with glee. This was exciting, not only one child but three. "I have no gossip and gossip is not something to stuff your brains full of. It doesn't leave room for the important things." Though she might listen if they wanted to discuss things such as gossip. She was just happy to have company.

See nobody minded. hence fire was nothing special at this school anymore. Shame it was not the same at his house. His mom hates him setting anything on fire. And there she goes being distracted by portraits and Tory. He was being swarmed by gryffindors. That is never good. He smiled and waved to Tory before joining both of them by the portrait.

But hey it never hurt to actually ask the portraits about gossip.

"Come on, i bet you have a little gossip like Dora and Tory said. Anyone interesting come by here lately? Hear anything interesting? And you can make room for important things and gossip. Its not hard."

She had to know something. Even if was something small like that dumb rumor about Maggie and potions.