Still smiling at Mysterious Possibly Colby, her smile dropped and she stuck out her tongue. If she was going to bully him there was no need to be friendly about it. Right? She could be a bully that didn't smile at...what was it? Her victim? Who knew. It was fun. And Allison was having a blast.

Back home the only one she was allowed to tease was Seth--her older brother. She still remembered how she had, in fact cornered him and made him wear Mickey Mouse ears for her Disney-themed birthday party. She missed Seth, and being able to tease Mysterious Possibly Colby made her feel partially at home.

Looking over at Kellen Allison shook head, Boys and their food. What was it about them? She was starving and she wasn't cranky at all. However... "You are very right. I'm so hungry. Oh Merlin. I lost count of how many chocolates I had on my way over here. I almost bought the entire lot off the trolley."

Stalker? Well that was insulting. The art of information was not stalking. To find out, to feed one's curious mind...it was an art! A DARN ART! How dare he make fun of an art! Stalking, was a dirty word. Gasping Allison was about to give him a piece of her mind when he said he was a hungry I--Col--...so he was now Mysterious Possibly iColby. Was he the inspiration for the iPod? No that was ridiculous.

"I thought we were simply talking." Allison stretched the last word, "I mean...you don't seem to be talking to anyone else...Unless you are CRaz-EH!" Allison then proceeded to making the twirl around her ear, and made herself go cross-eyed to show her crazy imitation.

Rolling her eyes Allison looked into the bewitched sky and sighed. The Sorting was almost over. Or she hoped. And she had been right. The school was full of crazies. Allison was young and had no idea how to judge the two boys. They were both handsome and funny, and seeing as they were both Ravenclaws they had to value knowledge, however Allison was too young to see beyond two boys who were sitting near her. One had been kind enough to talk to her...and she still thought was slightly crazy with his burning school...and the other was plane weird, freaky, and crazy. Fun to make fun of, but crazy.

This conversation was going further to prove that Hogwarts was a school for crazy people. She was sending her mother a howler.

Dalanie looked up as someone sat down next to her. It was Emily.

"Hi Emily, ready for food?" Dalanie was ready for food. You could bet on that.

"Darn right I am" Emily said, she was terribly hungry. "I could really go for some peanut pilaf right now" Emily said. Emily loved foods from different cultures, and it is always interesting because there is always something new to try. "Though I do love Italian food, it's soooooo gooood!" Emily added. Emily smiled and reached into a small bag she was carrying, I had wanted to give you these on the train but her" Emily said giving her the book 'photos that changed canada' and the bottle of maple syrup. "Keeley and Bella already have theirs" Emily smiled.

Mina smiled and laughed a little. "Well, if you want we can study together. I was really good with homework last year and we could help each other." she offered. She did enjoy earning points for her house, but toward the end she was slacking a bit. Maybe if she had someone studying with her, she would stay on task. Yes, she needed someone to help her stay on task. "Yes, prove to the hat you are rightfully here." she smiled with a nod. "So what position are you going to try out for on the team?" She wasn't all too sure herself of what she would try out for, but she promised herself she would try out. She did just get a broom over break to practice and it wouldn't do for her to have spent all those galleons for nothing.

Letting her attention wander a little, she looked back down the table at everyone she had just met. Why she felt something wasn't right, bothered her slightly but what did she know anyway. The look on Allison's face while she spoke to Colby was a little offsetting. Was there something she didn't know? She shrugged and figured she'd just worry about it later. She still had other friends to find and say hi to.

"I agree. Italian is like awesome!" Dalanie exclaimed. Emily handed her a book of photos from Canada and some maple syrup.

Mmmm... maple syrup

"Thank you Emily!" she hugged her."Thank you so much."


"I would love to have a study buddy! And I think I will go for chaser. When I play at home I'm best at seeker but hey, It might be hard here."

Right now, Kellen was wishing he was sitting across the table and beside Ico or whatever his name was. Icoguy? that could be a fun nickname. Still, better a grumpy boy around his own age than a demonic crab-girl firstie who apparently scarfed chocolates like no tomorrow.

"So when do they actually start serving the food here? Does anyone know?" He raised his voice just a little, wondering if any other Ravenclaw would be so kind as to offer up an answer, "Anyone at all?"

Emily smiled "you're welcome" Emily said. "so... if you had to eat one food for the rest of your life what is it, And i mean it can have slight variations like if you choose pizza it doesnt have to be the same toppings every day." Emily asked, it was a pretty good riddle she though because no two answers were the same.

At this point, Ian was actually pouting. Pouting because he was hungry, pouting because his older brother, the one meant to be taking care of him (mum had said so) had abandoned him, pouting because he was hungry, and pouting because some kiddie was determined to scare him silly.

She had almost succeeded. How embarrassing. Guess now we know why Gryffindor is not his house. "We weren't talking, you were bullying me, which is rude, in case you didn't you know." Scoff, scoff, scoff. She probably DIDN'T know, really - kids' brains weren't that big anyway.

Ignoring his 'crazy' remark because Ian had certainly heard worst, Ian tugged at the ends of his hair in a distracted fashion, and left it pointing at all kinds of random directions. Even more tangled and wilder than usual, his hair was. Whatever.

"I'm hungry."

"My dad told me that, uh ... " He scratched his freckled cheek, trying to remember, "... After the dude who runs this place gives us some kind of lecture? something like that." Lecture, speech, same difference.

All those things made him sleepy. He ventured a look at the staff table and felt his slightly bushy eyebrows jerk up to hide under his messy fringe, before snorting and shaking his head; there were a bunch of kids crowding the teachers' table, and in Ian's experience that only meant one thing:

They were suck-ups.

"Wow that's funny because I would choose pizza! Like sausage one day and then pepperoni the other right?" Dalanie said. She loved pizza and it was originally Italian right?

Lucy nodded excitedly. "Yep! I mean, I didn't know her as well as everyone else but I knew her well enough to know that she was pretty cool!" How amazing was it that Lucy had the chance to meet the cousin of Tammy Wood? Wow! Natasha could be the temporary replacement for Tammy! At least for the next two years...assuming she was younger than Lucy.

"Ah, a Slytherin. I know another Slytherin by the name of Warren...something. Met him on the train a couple months ago. Strange kid." So, wait, if Warren was a strange person, did that mean Natasha was? Could Natasha be WEIRD? And...ODD? "You don't look like a Slytherin, though." No kidding. She the air of something. Lucy formed a picture frame out of her hands and her fingers and began twisting it around while deciphering her true house. Not that she thought Natasha was lying, it was just odd to know that she was in Slytherin. "You look more like a...like a...well, I don't know. But definitely not a Slytherin."

Bella looked at Emily,"That is a very difficult question to answer," said Bella thinking what the heck her favorite food was.
"I think the soup spaghettios and meatballs," said Bella very satisfied with her choice.

Shaking her head at both of them she almost called quits and ran off to the Hufflepuff table...where surely the SANE people were.

"The DUDE who runs this place? Really?" She couldn't believe it, iColby had just called the Hogwarts' Headmaster a dude. No manners tut tut.

Before their very eyes Allison transformed into a Scott. Her etiquette showing, she sat up straight and practically looked down her nose at both of them--or she would have had she been taller than them, "It's not DUDE. It's the Headmaster. After the sorting has been done with, the Hogwarts' Headmaster shall speak and we shall be sent to out Common Rooms. Aren't you all suppose to know this by now? Transfer or no transfer you all are older than me. Surely you should know. Did you all even bother to touch Hogwarts, A History?"

Pointing a small finger at Mysterious Possibly iColby a small line appeared between Allison's brows, "And you! We already know you're hungry. No need to repeat it." The effect would have been better had she used her wand, but she thought she could give him a break.

Obviously his pea brain couldn't adapt to all the things going around him. Poor iColby, no immediate friends, but it seemed now Kellen who had been defending him for the past few minutes, hungry, and no idea how Hogwarts worked. Was he also a transfer?

Allison stretched her head to see if there were any first years around her. She needed to introduce herself and make her grand escape from the two maniacs. Here she thought she was doomed for loneliness at the Ravenclaw table, and it seemed she wasn't, it was more like she was doomed to going crazy with fellow crazies.

Kellen sighed, "We have to listen to a whole speech before we can eat?"

Usually he was tolerant of waiting. Not today. It was like Icoguy was infecting the whole table with hunger. Or maybe it was just passing into Kellen through osmosis. Or something. He was so hungry he couldn't think of a witty analogy!

Kellen's eyes followed where Icoguy was looking, up to the head table, and saw the students standing there and talking with the teachers. Direct from brain to mouth came the words, "The longer they stand up there brown nosing, the longer we have to wait for the speech to even start."

That was when he saw one of the girls and recognized her from the train. Wasn't she... He looked like someone had just dumped a bucket of water on his head, "Oh great. The friend of the Trog is delaying dinner."

Mina tilted her head in thought and nodded in understanding. "I was thinking that as well. I really can't see myself as a beater and I'm not experienced enough to even think about being a seeker or keeper." she explained. Seriously, she just purchased her first broom and had just practiced basic things over the summer. "Yes, we can be study buddies and if anyone else wants to join, they can." she smiled in excitement. They could even start a study group if enough people joined.

Georgie looked at the source of the voice that answered her supposedly rhetorical question. Meh. Was he ANOTHER rude boy? Ugh ugh ugh. What was wrong with Hogwarts?

She stared, but then processed what he said. She clasped her hands together delightedly and grinned. "Reaaaally? You know Hugo Woods? Oooh!" She didn't even stop to consider the favor the boy asked of HER. Ooor she didn't pay enough attention to it.

"Yeah. Chaser would be awesome for me. And this study thing, it will be fantastic! I can't wait." Dalanie really couldn't. It was going to be great.

"You know I'd even settle for a reserve spot," Mina shrugged. "I'm probably not going to make the team but if I do, that's cool If not, I can cheer you guys on. I have pom poms and everything. I can make up cheers too." she smiled. It did come in handing she did have two older sisters and she did learn a few things from them.

"Well, I am my father's little bookworm, so you know I'm excited for the study thing." she grinned as she looked around the hall for other friends. She really should just mingle with the other tables, but there were so many more 'claws she wanted to meet. Dilemma indeed.

"Yeah I probably won't make it either. Even if I don't I can help cheer. For some strange reason, I actually want homework right now." It was weird, Dalanie hated homework.

I think this year is going to be different

OOC: 2:57 AM. I'm going to bed. Cya when I wake up. I get on as soon as I'm awake.

Adrienne laughed at the half-feigned tone of Fia's voice, even though she was fairly certain it was just there to be funny. "Well, I like you guys. So why wouldn't I want you to be happy?," she asked rhetorically, before grinning again as she was thanked. "And you're very welcome." Something told her Fia found it extremely amusing calling her by her last name, and she wondered what would happen if the Huffie found out she had a twin at the school. Although she wasn't entirely sure she'd want the girl meeting Riley, not with the looks she was currently giving Miles.

At least Miles was able to tell she'd been teasing him with her comment about holding him to his promise, and grinned as he nudged her. "Oh, I'm sure you'd be very aware of how much you didn't deserve her if you screwed things up," she said in a feigned serious tone. With her previous expereinces when it came to those two, she didn't need to get into their heads to know that. "We'll all just have to make sure you don't experience that." And now she was going to stop teasing him for a while, as she found herself looking around the hall again. Where were all the other people she wanted to talk to? Or even the people she didn't, for that matter.

But she glanced back at Miles as he spoke to her again, halfway in shock that he called her by her name. Not that she didn't think it had to have been in his head somewhere. He just never thought of her that way. For that matter, neither had Willow, but she had been an entirely different story. "My summer?," she asked, feeling Fia watching her as well. It was like they expected some big story or something, which made her feel weird. Especially since she wasn't about to talk about the end of the summer. "It was fine. I mean, I hung around my family's house, then went to France for a month, like I always do. I got back pretty much in time to go to Diagon Alley for school supplies and then catch the train." And hopefully that was a good enough deflection.

It was so cool talking to someone who knew Tammy. She didn't exactly know why this was, but it just was. "Yep, she was cool." Nat said, grinning. "So, what year are you?" She asked curiously. Lucy was probably older than her, she looked it.

She chuckled. "I don't look like a Slytherin? Hm, sometimes I feel that way, but I still like being in Slytherin. It is pretty cool." Natasha said, shrugging. She laughed as Lucy made a picture frame with her hands, and Nat couldn't help wondering what she was doing.

"You know I told Carter, if I didn't make the team. I was going to start a cheering team." Mina smiled. If she wasn't on the team, the least she would do was cheer them on and maybe distract the other team. She still found that funny, she highly doubted she could distract anyone but if Carter wanted to believe it she wasn't going to tell him else-wise. "You know I thought I was the only one that wanted homework." she laughed.

Oh this year was going to be so different, but so much better than the last.



OOC: Night, should be heading to bed as well. I should be back on after I wake up and get my morning coffee, if my insomnia doesn't keep me up all night.

"Well, I am glad you and Kay are friends" Rex told Mina. " Jason seemed to be a big brother to a lot of girls and especially in Ravenclaw" Rex said to Mina. " Jason thought of you as a great friend Mina but he knew you liked someone else and he liked Victoria" Rex explained to Mina. " You have become a social butterfly for real, owl Jason that good newa, hw would be so happy" Rex told Mina. " Hw qould love to hear from you and he would understand why you could not make his graduation party" Rex said to Mina.

"Jason just had a soft spot for us Ravenclaws." Mina smiled. She knew she had one for the boys of Gryffindor as well, but she would have to be more careful with that. "He was always very smart, I figured he knew I liked someone and I dind't have to come right out and tell him. I still think him and Victoria are the cutest couple." she added. Ravenclaws and Gryffindors did look very cute together but so did other houses together. In fact, all her friends made cute couples. Sometimes a little too cute, but she was maybe a bot jealous of them.

Blinking she shook her head. She needed to stop thinking like that. Giving Rex and smile she nodded. "I'll owl Jason the first thing tomorrow before breakfast." she promised. She really did need to owl him about her summer still and why she hadn't been at his graduation. After the QWC, she just had to leave and not look back for a few days. She didn't mean to forget her friend, but she needed to recollect herself. "Maybe I could try to visit him over break or something." she thought aloud. She did want to see his castle and he knew how much she loves castles.

Jaason would love to see you" Rex told Mina. "We can tell him about "The Magical five" Rex said to Mina. " I think Jason had a soft spot for girls" Rex laughed. " I bet you when you get a boyfriend, you and him will be a cute couple like Jason and Victoria." Rex explained to Mina. Yes, Jason knew you liked a boy but he would not press it" Rex said to Mina. " I know why Jason liked you because you are very nice, sweet and make a good friend" Rex said to Mina.

Lori looked down at the sheet of paper, and then back to Annie. Her eyes were totally wide and her mouth formed a little 'o' shape. "that looks so confusing. I'm sure there's something easier right? I mean ... Something more English, less spanish but spanish enough. There has to be." now she was sure of it. Infinitly sure. Positive.

"no heels? Oh Annie, skirts are good. Very good. Now why were there no heels in this purchase?" Heels were a necessity to life!

Woot. There were shopping places.