Originally Posted by emjay

No new Ravenclaws yet? Ethan tore his eyes away from the sorting ceremony and focused his attention at his table. It was starting to fill up now.. The first face he caught a glimpse of was a familiar one. "Hey, Garrick," he greeted the younger boy with a grin and lifted a few fingers in a casual sort of wave. His mind drifted back to their earlier meeting over the summer, wondering what all his fellow Claw had bought at the joke shop. "End up getting those trainers?" he asked, having lost track of him at the store when he had purchased his fireworks. "Or something else?" Just curious really.. The bloke seemed like he could be a bit of fun as long as he didn't get into too much trouble.

Ethan's eyes drifted to a girl sitting not far from Garrick. Hmm.. he didn't know her, did he? She didn't look familiar.. had he missed her being sorted? Surely, she wasn't a Ravenclaw he hadn't at least seen around. He caught part of her conversation with Mo, honing in on one of the words. "Hey, there.." he greeted the girl with a smile, once he caught her eye. "Welcome to Ravenclaw.. I'm Ethan. Did I hear you say you went to Beauxbatons? I transferred from there a couple years ago too.." Not that he would have recognized her, she was clearly quite a bit younger than him. And he remembered that Mo had transferred from there as well, vaguely wondering if he and the girl had known each other then since they seemed about the same age.

And speaking of Mo.. He gave the younger Ravenclaw a grin as he looked in his direction, "Hi Mo.." He watched a bit curiously as the boy was building a pyramid and some other sort of contraption out of the disposable tableware. Seemed like a legit way to occupy one's time while waiting for food to get here and his mind started wandering about his own place setting. Turning the blue plastic cup over, Ethan began tapping the side of it with his spoon, then the top, as a sort of percussion instrument. "So.. good summer?" he asked the other boy as he tapped out a little tune. "You'll be going out for the team again, yeah?" At least he hoped so.. little bloke was a fierce player.

Once his plastic percussive song was finished, Ethan glanced back up at the sorting hat as a new Ravenclaw was sorted. Aw, look how pleased she seemed.. Oh, wait, she looked familiar. The 17 year old searched his mind to make the connection, finally realizing he had bumped into this girl while shopping over the summer. Or rather she had bumped into him. Beaming back at her as she approached the table, he said, "Welcome to Ravenclaw.. I'm Ethan." He couldn't remember if he had introduced himself when he had met her earlier, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to do it again even if he had. The boy was sure she would be overwhelmed first coming here and might not remember anyway.

Starting to get a bit distracted, Ethan glanced up to the Hufflepuff table. He spotted the person he was looking for and he smiled a bit as he watched her surrounded by friends. Maybe he'd go see her in a little bit.. though he did really want to especially greet the new Ravenclaws. But surely he'd be able to slip away for a few minutes shortly.. Lost in his reverie, Ethan didn't notice the Gryffindor who had come to the table until she was next to him. "Oh.. hi Christmas," he greeted the girl with a smile as he finally caught notice of her. "So.. what did you get up to over the summer?" She had told him earlier that she had a good holiday, but hadn't been all that specific.

Having grown bored of tapping on the cup, Ethan interest now turned to the plastic spoon. Though it really wasn't a spoon, now was it? He examined it carefully.. It was shaped like a spoon, yet had a prong-ish end like a fork. Sort of like a spoon and fork combination. Ethan had never seen a spork before, his parents had never exposed him to disposable dinnerware. And, though he was far from impressed with the shoddy looking place settings, this piece of cutlery was remotely interesting.

"Hey, Beezus," he grinned at his co-prefect as she slipped into the seat next to him. "Look at this," he said, holding up the spork in front of her. "You can use it like a spoon or a fork.. weird, right?" He shook his head and shrugged a bit at her question before setting the utensil down. "Yeah.. I don't know what's going on here.. Have you seen the decor?" He gestured towards their frayed banner. "It gives the atmosphere an almost.. inferior sense." Shame really, because he didn't consider himself to be such a snob, but this just wasn't right. "You'd think with all the money they raised at that fundraiser last term, they could afford to keep the place up." Wasn't it something like in the millions of galleons?

Ethan glanced up as he heard his name. A Ravenclaw he didn't know well, but was familiar with all the same. "Oh.. hi there, Nigel," he gave the younger boy a smile, then shrugged a bit at the question. Certainly seemed to be the hot topic of the day.. "Yeah, we were just talking about that.." he glanced over at Beezus before turning to Nigel again. "I'm really not sure.. might it's like an icebreaker kind of thing.. you know, to get people talking?" Because it certainly seemed to be working, he thought with a chuckle. That was one thing that seemed to be on everyone's mind.

Feeling a pair of eyes on him, Ethan looked over to see a younger girl eyeing up his badge. Another familiar one whose name he was unsure of. "I am.." he grinned, glancing down at the badge. "I'm Ethan, one of Ravenclaw's prefects." Well, along with Beezus, of course, who had already held the title a little while. Chuckling a bit, he shook his head. "No.. not Spike.. Professor Cerulean, actually.." And quite the surprise for the seventh year. He looked at the girl for a moment, sure he had seen her around the common room last term. "I'm sorry.. I don't believe we've met.. what is your name?"

And here was yet another Eagle whose name escaped him, but he was for certain he'd seen her in class or something. Ethan watched her for a moment as she greeted a few other of the younger Claws, then offered a smile in her direction. "I don't think we've met before.. I'm Ethan," he introduced himself when she seemed to be looking his way. Because, yeah.. he was making a point to at least know who all his housemates were.