Helena whirled around to see the girl who had spoken to her.

"Oh! Hello, there. I'm Helena. Just got sorted, and I'm trying to...well, I'm trying to calm my nerves, here. Sorry if I sound a bit...strange just now." Helena bit her lip again. She really needed to get a new worry-habit. Her lip was starting to feel like mushed corn, and it really smarted. She clamped her teeth together to keep from worrying it again, and smiled a closed-lip smile at Vashti.

"You're a first-year, too? What classes are you looking forward to taking?"

IGNORE, IGNORE, IGNORE.

Ian was ignoring the eleven-year-old nightmare and her eleven-year-old equally nightmare-ish tricks.

Which was exactly why he glared and her and snapped something that sounded like eat my pants or a fart. Ian had never been good at insulting people - such cryptic things never came easily.

He also CLEARLY did a pretty good job at ignoring people. Clearly.

Ian almost chocked on what he was eating.

Smart people? Well, who would have known HE would have been put into this house, huh? HAHA. And to think Colby wasn't in this table.

Ian had always known he was the smart one of the two. Yes, of course.

Passing the guy the plate after serving himself some of whatever it was that it contained (Ian wasn't even looking - it was food and he liked food so he didn't need to know what it was), the boy ignored the new 'nickname' he'd apparently received and looked at Allison warily. "So she's a pyromaniac? How nice." Pffttt. Not. Troubled kiddie.

Oh, wait! If she was a pyro, maybe she wasn't really a Ravenclaw!

One could only hope.

The fifth year had almost forgotten of Celandine's presence. She was talking to a loooot of people,which probably meant the prefect was popular. And she was talking to him. Funny. Popular kids at his old school pretty much ignored him.

Ian was convinced this was because he was related to Colby and the MONSTERS he had for sisters. Chugging down his food, Ian gave the badge a both wary and wistful look. "No, you ... keep it." SHE WOULD. Stupid charms. "It wouldn't be wise, really, nope."

Distracting himself before he grabbed the thing and made the run for it, he randomly asked about something he REALLY didn't care about, "So when are Quidditch tryouts? Who's the captain?" Or Lunatic. Same thing.

Being sneaky and hoping no one saw her, Allison once again charmed her paper plane underneath the table and sent it off towards the Hufflepuff table.

Then she looked left and right and rose her eyebrow at Nina. "Nina! Why, that...alone? Boo. My friends and I were in the middle cars. We had a compartment filled with people. And I mean filled. We actually had to squeeze next to each other and even sit on the floor. You could have joined us and made our chaos more fun!"

Shaking her head she imagined herself sitting alone on the Hogwarts Express. Not only was it nearly impossible to imagine, but yes it was rare, finding empty compartments was nearly impossible.

Allison rolled her eyes. Why had the sorting hat placed Mysterious Possibly iColby in Ravenclaw? It was a place for the clever, not the dim-witted.

ooc:Might want to read the part for Cela as well.

Icoguy? Naaah, she liked Mysterious Possibly iColby better. No it was no longer that...it was CMP iColby. Crazy Mysterious Possibly iColby. Much better.

His take on Ravenclaw was weak...just as she imagined it to be. Being fair Allison placed her fork down and bore her eyes into Kellen's, "What school did you say you burned dow-I MEAN, what school were you from?"

Cela knew what it was all about. Allison felt more confident on her choice of admiring Cela. She was pretty, nice, and smart. Nothing like the other boys. However when she mentioned her trying-out for Quidditch Allison froze.

"Try out? Ah-ha...ha." Nervously wiping her mouth with her cloth napkin, Allison shifted in her seat, "We'll see. We'll have to see how that goes."

Oh Merlin she was talking out of her butt, Arya would surely burst out laughing she heard Allison. MERLIN SAVE HER.

Then Cela did something that made Allison yelp. She all but gave CMP iColby her badge! NooOOOooOOoooUUuuUUuuUuu! Must. Save. Badge. Reaching into her robes Allison retrieved her wand and showed it Cela while looking straight into CMP iColby's eyes. "Cela do you like my wand? I was told it was good for transfiguration. Are you any good in that class?"

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"Oh Hi Choluna!," exclaimed Bella. Bella hadn't seen Choluna is so long!
With the mentioning of Bella's hair it made her want to cry though, she did hate this stupid potion, but she had to take it or she would die if she didn't, but she couldn't let the others know that.
"Where were you on the train, I didn't see you at all?" she asked wile becoming a little terry but she smiled for choluna's arrival

"I wish i had." Nina told Allison.

"Ella Westwick? She's one of my other besties from Gryffindor! I told her I'd cheer for her and Carter this year." Mina smiled. "I was planning to paint little lions on our cheeks and having Scarlet and Gold pom-poms." she clapped her hands in excitement. If she had Dal cheering with her, she wouldn't feel odd cheering.

Mina looked back up at the staff table and turned her full attention to what she could only guess was a new professor a top of his chair. Eye candy... Oh the voices again. They were more boy crazy than she was. Silently scolding the inner voices she shook her head. Wait did he just say pie-holes?!?! Seeing the new professor sit back down and another man stand, she blinked. Oh this was going to be hard for her to not stare this year. You know you want to call him Headmaster Hottie....you know you do. Okay, the inner voices were right, but she scolded them none the less. Shaking her head, she listened closely to the welcoming speech. She did really hope no one would die this term, but terrible things do happen every day.

Hearing the speech end and seeing her plate full of food, she smiled. She was getting hungry and she hadn't eaten all day. Fulling her water goblet again, she looked down the table and waved at some of the older students she knew...mainly Cela and Lucy. She really did need to get to know more students in her own house. Maybe she would get the chance this year.

Allison was a pyromaniac? He was a pyromaniac? Why not bring everyone into this conspiracy?

He leaned over and gave his most winning smile at Celandine, asking in a bright and somewhat eyebrow-lifting voice, "Are you a pyromaniac too?"

Mina turned her attention back to the food before her, but hear someone say pyromaniac. The word itself brought back memories of last year's Herbology final and one of the divination lessons. She remembered staring into the fire that cold night and completely getting lost in the fire. It was kind of eerie, but she wasn't scared of it. Was she strange for liking fire?

"I think i would choose rice, i could have it a different way everyday though of course, r even for breakfast! Hey do rice krispies count?" Emily giggled, she didn't think they did.

For Ian to get distracted was not hard, especially if he was putting his entire mind to it. Since Celandine had been kind enough to tell him aaaall about the bloody protective charms that were set on her badge, he was trying very hard to not curl his fingers around the shiny thing that the girl so candidly had offered him to take and have a look.

Yeah, touching that would be too much of a temptation.

... The Little Nightmare was STILL there, but at least he was distracted. So he only caught snippets of her conversation, like how she wanted to BURN DOWN THE SCHOOL, and how she had taken her wand out and was looking at him again, and the other guy asking Celandine if she was a pyromaniac ...

... Spooning large amounts of food inside his mouth to keep himself busy, Ian felt his blue eyes go wiiiiiiide. He was especially trying not to dwell too much on the 'BURNING down the school' part that Allison had so joyfully mentioned.

What. A. Lunatic.

"She's probably a goody-pants," Grumbled Ian under his breath. Like, she was prefect? Pffttt. Atrocity.

"Hi, I am Emily" Emily said, she looked at the girl who had just arrived, she was very pretty. "I love your name byt the way, so... exotic" Emily tried to find the right word and she thought exotic sounded good enough. "My name is so common, at least it is where i spend my summers." Emily said, then wondered if she would ever spend another summer in Canada...

"Nah I don't think they do. So, are you interested in playing quidditch? I am." Dalanie said. She loved quidditch.

"Oh you want to play quiddtich? I love quidditch, even thought I'd probably never play it- I'm kind of frightened of heights," said Bella over hearing what Dalanie said to Emily. "What part are you auditioning, oh, I mean, trying out or?" she asked Dalanie

"I am." Cela agreed cheerfully. "First term as a prefect!" She smiled down at the badge on the table and looked up proudly. "I earn a lot of points for Ravenclaw and do all my homework and stuff."

"Well of course I'll keep it." Cela answered chirpily. "You just looked as if you might want to have a look at it is all."

She tossed her hair and nibbled on her celery.

"I don't know, its a new captain this term. Has to be someone good at Quidditch and Vindictus and Bonecrusher approved." Cela didn't usually go around calling Willow bonecrusher out loud, it just slipped out on its own.

Sigh, she'd miss Willow Kovac.

Celandine just blinked vapidly. She didn't much mind either way whether someone liked playing Quidditch, as long as they were happy to watch it.

Oh huh?

Did someone step on Allison's toes or something? Cela avoided looking under the table in favour of fixing the younger girl with a puzzled look.

Oh. Wand!

"Its pretty. And yes, I'm totally awesome at Transfiguration." Cela wasn't one for being humble. She picked up her badge and pinned it on her front again.

Celandine waved in a return greeting to Mina. She liked her, she was nice. Along with Tibi, Mina had totally been Cela's favourite firstie the previous term.

Cela turned to face... another boy who she hadn't yet caught the name of and smiled winsomely in return, completely oblivious to any deeper meaning to the question he presented.

"A pyromaniac? Not really, I'm totally awesome at conjuring fire though. Water too. But you know what is cool? A Fireseed bush. Seen one?"

Hummm.

"I dooo have good pants." Celandine murmured thoughtfully in response to an overheard comment by the-one-that-looked-sort-of-familiar.

"I actually bought my first broom this summer when me and my mom were in diagon alley" Emily said, "It's a comet, it's quite nice... for a beginner broom anyway."

Thinking to the series of questions and comments in order Anya answered, "Well at least you had a good trip. Yes, i am a first year, and thank you very much. The book is Sherlock Holmes muggle author but very good. Mystery novel/ detective story. It is very thought provoking..." She caught herself rambling...
Hoping she remembered everything Anya took a breath. Not wanting to be bother but too curious to not ask...
"So what is it like here?" she asked inquisitively. "I'm not entirely sure what to expect."

"I haven't. What are they like?" Kellen was finding himself lowering his guard around this girl, even though she was Trog's ally.

As he waited for Celandine's answer, he mused to himself, Soon we'll have the whole table talking about fire. I wonder if any profs will get nervous?

[QUOTE=LovegoodBroadway;9007754] "Ugh! I couldn't find you guys! I just couldn't find a seat! Sorry!" said Choluna. She had not had a fun time on the train... "So, will you PLEASE introduce me to your friends?" Choluna is an extrovert and she LOVES to make friends, but hasn't had much luck lately at Hogwarts.

"um ok," said Bella. Oh yes, she knew Choluna loved people.
"Choluna this is Emily," she said pointing to emily. She could go one person at a time.

Keeley watched as all her friends chatting, staying quiet as usual. When Choluna came, she smiled and waved. But she was a little out of it today, and didn't really feel like talking. When was the food coming?

[QUOTE=PrincessBroadway;9007894] Emily smiled, "Emily Moonfield" Emily said, Emily took the bottle of maple syrup she had under her robes and popped it open. "Oh you want some?" EMily asked, she wasn't sure if choluna would want to use some syrup on anything she was going to eat or not.

[QUOTE=whscameragal;9007909] "Well, Hi! I'm Choluna- Choluna Lovechanggood, try saying that ten times fast! It's super nice to meet someone new! How long have you known Keeley and Bella? Oh and sure! I love syrup and sugar and all that stuff!" said Choluna. Maybe Emily and her had some things in common! She was excited!

"Oh and are those pictures of your trip to New York, Bella?" said Choluna. "You know my mom is from New York originally, so I go there all the time! It's really beautiful but loud and crowded!"

"Keeley, your REALLY quiet today! What's up with you?" said Choluna. She was concerned for her friend! She thought maybe she was having a bad day or was feeling out of it today.

[QUOTE=PrincessBroadway;9007959] Emily smiled at her "I met them last year at the feast." Emily said, then realising that it had been a year already! time really did fly! "I want to see the pictures! I have never been to New York before but i really want to see a broadway show!"

Snap snap. Georgie didn't want to be kept waiting. Weren't Head Girls, she assumed, supposed to be quick and all for serving the student body and whatnot? Meh. And that look she got from the girl. What was wrong? Was it so strange that she was asking Hugo Woods's whereabouts?

DIDN'T HUGO EVER TELL ANYONE ABOUT HIS GIRLFRIEND?

Good grief. She would definitely have a talk with Mister Man as soon as she found him.

"Alright then, Livvy," she emphasized. She paused to fluff her hair, the continued. "I'm looking for Hugo Woods, of Slytherin, yes." Were they going to run the facts, or did she know him already? Ugh. "My boyfriend, you see. Maybe you've seen him around?"

Ordinarily, Georgie would NEVER ask a girl on Hugo's whereabouts, because, again, that would mean they were fraternizing with him, and girls trying to take her Hugo away from her was the very thing that peeved Georgie the MOST. But desperate times called for desperate measures.

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Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Oh, right. This girl was looking for some Woody fellow or whatever.

Ian grinned good-naturedly, though there was certainly a very slight twinkle of mischief in one of his blue eyes. "I sure know Hugo!" No, you don't! "Woody and I are actually mates, you understand." He didn't even understand himself, but oh, well. "But in order to tell you his whereabouts, I need you to find my brother and my jarvey first. Deal, missy?" Ian raised one of his eyebrows inquiringly, but the grin was still in place.

And dang it, he'd even sounded sort of clever and important. Baby sitting Morgan The Brainiac really did have his perks.

Well, at least someone in this room had answers, how ever indefinite or unsure.

He was definitely more convincing that the supposed Head Girl.

Georgie turned back to the boy and grinned back excitedly at him. She clasped her hands once more. "Oh really, REALLY?" she was about to explode squeals. "Isn't Hugo just the most ah-maaaazing guy in the whole wide world? You are SO lucky you're friends with him," she gushed. It couldn't be helped. She'd been looking for Hugo ALL day, from the train, and now here was a lead!

But. His condition was kind of, huh? to Georgie. As her excitement simmered down, she looked at the boy, confused. But aaall right, she'd do it! For Hugoooo. Gurgle gurgle.

"What does your brother look like? And can you describe your jarvey? Color, size, whatever?" The only jarveys she knew of were the ones turned into handbags, and there weren't a lot. Heh.

"Your besties with Ella too! That is so cool!" she giggled "Painting our faces would be fun and the pom poms too!"

"I'll be trying out for a Chaser. I am way better at seeking at home but I think that the seeker I'll be against is way better. I haven't really decided yet but it will be seeker or chaser."

"Oh I hear that is a really cool broom! I don't mean to brag but my snobby rich parents surprised me and gave me my stupid Moontrimmer One Thousand as a very very early birthday present. My birthday is on December 31 so it was extremely early. They wanted me to have it at Hogwarts so they gave it to me early. I hate being so rich!" Dalanie banged her fist on the table that made a loud noise.