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Nearly Headless Nick 
Sir Nicholas was in an excitable mood, or at least, as excitable as one could get whilst still maintaining their dignity. Wafting up through the floor beneath the table, Nicholas rose to hover amongst the students, keeping his eye out for the first years.
"Good day!" he cried. "Welcome to Gryffindor!"
"Oh wow a ghost!" Lex said, stating the obvious but meh, what else did you do when you saw a ghost.
"Hello ghost, and who might you be?" She asked with curious eyes. No, Lex didn't know who it was because when someone had patiently taken the time out to explain everything about the four houses to her, she had patiently taken the time out to ignore them. Now she wished she hadn't.
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sweetpinkpixie Kurumi didn't say anything in response to what Alexa said about her mother and the story about her hurting the boy. Everyone dealt with their pain in a different way and Kurumi wasn't one to judge. Her mother would have been appalled and ashamed of her if Kurumi had reacted in that way. Although, she had shouted at Ellie two terms ago in the Great Hall when she had come down on Kurumi like a vulture for talking with Treyen. The Hufflepuff Head Boy, and her best friend besides Selina, had always been the one who was best capable of comforting her...and that is what he had been doing. It was the first time Kurumi had ever really raised her voice at anyone. Not only raised her voice...but insulted someone. Kurumi probably would have slapped her if Treyen hadn't been there, but only because doing so would have upset him.
"Oh, um, sure," Kurumi nodded. "I'm there almost every day, so just catch me in the common room sometime and I can take you. I might even be having some baking lessons with the house elves this term as well...assuming they agree to it." She needed to ask them properly first.
Kurumi frowned a little, wondering if Alexa was perhaps too young to really understand the meaning behind what she was about to say. She also seemed a bit too proud to be able to really reflect and see that she too could be at fault for her actions - something that would come with time, she hoped. "It isn't...always about getting your way," Kurumi simply shrugged in response. Although, Kurumi had never actually gotten her way growing up. Always the neglected one in school and in town. Only her father and brothers ever showed any sort of appreciation for her existence. "The Headmaster heard our request and an agreement was made, a compromise I suppose you could say. But it was better than most of us had hoped for."
Kurumi's eyes especially feel on Professor Scabior, lingering there for a moment before returning to Alexa. "Everyone has their own biases," she simply laughed in response. Just none of them really seemed to favor Gryffindor in their bias.
Lex was actually quite taken aback when Kurumi didn't start lecturing her about what she had done to that boy. When anyone else heard, especially her aunts they just scowled at her and gave her some impossibly long lecture about it being an act of barbarianism and something about it not being 'lady-like behaviour'. What made them think that Lex wanted to be a lady? Being a lady was no fun and she had to do a lot of grinning and bearing instead of punching and kicking. No thank you, that life was not for her. The fact that Kurumi hadn't lectured her told her one thing; this girl approved. This was good because it got her even more into Lex's good books. Not many older kids were in this book thanks to that train ride and platform mishap but it seemed people were jumping between her good and bad books quite often in this one day.
She was about to smile at the fact that this girl was in the kitchen every day. It should have been a good thing except there was one problem.
"What time are you usually in the kitchen?" See this could pose a potential problem when she wanted to sneak down their with friends late at night. The last thing she needed was a prefect telling them that they should have been sleeping. Lex would give no positive response until the question was answered.
When Lex saw her frown she could tell that the girl was about to say something unpleasant. She must have agreed with her again, this time that the lady should have known better! Yes that must have bee--WHAAAA?!?!? Lex's eyes grew wide as she stared across at that girl.
It wasn't always about getting her way?!?!? "Yes it is!" Sigh. She was hoping not to show this side of her; new leaf she had told herself back at the train station but now she couldn't help herself. This girl was delusional! Her brows furrowed as she continued.
"It's always about me getting my way! My Daddy let's me get whatever I want because I'm his little princess and he loves me! I get what I want, when I want because I want!". Yup. Though she would never likely admit it, the child was spoilt rotten after her mother's untimely death. She calmed down a bit when she heard the outcome.
"Oh, so that's good then!...Uh...what were you guys protesting...?"
She frowned slightly when Kurumi told her it had something to do with biases.
"Are they allowed to be biased?" She didn't like the sound of Professor's being biased, not when the odds didn't fall in favour as she seemed to pick up from the slight hesitation in Kurumi's voice. They were all just jealous was what it was.