Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Deciding not to stay seated anymore, Kurumi got up and began to walk around the Gryffindor table just a bit when she heard her name being called and spun around on the spot. Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped slightly at the sight of tiny little Alice on crutches. "Alice! I'm so glad to see you!" Kurumi chirped as she refrained from throwing her arms around the young lioness. That wouldn't be the best of ideas considering her balance was probably all coley wobbled at the moment. "How are you? Feeling better?"

Kurumi assumed Walnut had made his way up to the common room now and was sitting on his throne waiting for them all to come. He knew better than to show up at a feast...hopefully.

And then Melanie joined them soon after. "Oh! Welcome to Gryffindor!"

Originally Posted by lemon

And.. and here was Melanie! Hehe. She got a hug from a Melon. Alice hugged her back, all the while wondering what Melanie was doing at the Gryffindor table. Was she a Gryffindor?! "MELANIE! What're you doing here?! Are.. are.. you a Gryffindor?!" OHYAY. That meant that Alice and Melanie would be ROOMMATES. Oh gosh. So fun. It took all of Alice's strength to keep herself from hopping around in excitement. Which she couldn't do because of her stupid leg. "That's so awesome. We're going to LIVE together." Best. Day. Ever. Apart from breaking her leg and all. But, yeah, you get the point.

"Yeah, I'm okay," she told her friend reassuringly. "It hurts a little when I walk on it, but that's why I have the crutches, see?" She held out a crutch for Melanie. They were kind of fun to walk on. You didn't wave to move your legs at all, you just had to swing them. "I'm in one piece! It's okay, Mel. Caaaaalm doooown." BUT. Enough about herself! She wanted to know about MELANIE. "What did the Sorting Hat say? What did it tell you? What happened?!"

You sure missed a lot when you broke your leg.



And here was someone else next to Kurumi! Alice smiled back at the person. "I'm okay. I just broke my leg when some trunks fell on my leg when the train stopped, it's really nothing." She didn't understand why everyone thought a broken leg was bad. Worse things happened at Hogwarts, right? "Did you hurt yourself? Are you okay?" The lioness hoped more people weren't hurt. She didn't like it when people were upset. And this girl seemed rather nice, so she most definitely would not like it if she was hurt.



Alice smiled back at Kurumi. The Prefect seemed happy, surrounded by little Gryffindors and friends, and it was hard not to let her mood to get to you. The air just seemed happy. "I'm glad to see you, too." She really was. She wanted to thank Kurumi for helping her out, especially when so many other people had needed her attention as well. "Yeah, I'm okay. I'll visit the Healer right after the feast and she can mend me up really quickly! Until then, I guess I'll just work with the crutches.." They weren't so bad. Honestly. And she could poke things with them.

"I dropped the pretty.. I mean, err, HANDSOME.. kitty of at the Common Room before I came down. Last I saw, he was curled up by the fire and licking himself." Cats were odd creatures.. but they were still adorable. "I figured you wouldn't want me to bring him down.." He would probably lunge at the fish on the table or something. Didn't cats like fish? "What about you? Have the devilish ickle firsties collapsed you from exhaustion yet?" She gave Kurumi a small smile. They definitely were a handful this year, they were.

Originally Posted by JeshieRAWR

Landon Hughes had just gotten sorted and he made his way over to the Gryffindor table, where the red and gold banners hung. It was purely amazing and the fact that there were floating candles everywhere made it even more amazing. He was about to sit when he saw those two familiar girls. Melanie and Alice.

When he had grabbed onto the portkey, he had lost the two girls and ended up having to go up to Hogwarts by himself from Hogsmeade. He was so worried about him and seeing Alice with her crutches and splint made him even more worried. What had happened since he had lost them? He ran over to the two girls and gasped as he caught sight of Alice. "What happened?" He asked, worried and then looking over at Melanie. He grabbed her face in his hands, pushing her cheeks together to almost look like a fish. "You're not hurt either are you?" He said, teasing her a little, but still worried. He never liked it when his friends were hurt, even when it was his two favorite girls.

The now Gryffindor boy took a seat beside Melanie, awaiting the explanation of how Alice had gotten hurt so much. As he waited he heard a rumor going around about how James had gotten hurt as well. His eyes widened and he frowned. How come everyone had gotten hurt?

Originally Posted by Algamus

POP.

Algamus appeared at the Gryffindor table to see the studentsies from the house of red and gold chatting and blabbering on. Blah, blah, blah. He waddled along, and oh! There was the prefectsie with the shiny badge. Yes, that one had that badge for a looooooong time, she did. And she kept it nice and shiny. He waddled along further and inspected the new studensties. And the oldies, too, mhmmmm.