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AlwaysSnapesGirl 
Yes, food. This was great. Hopefully Alexa was gonna do this every year. If not, Penelope was gonna try to remember to stuff her pockets with treats before leaving the train next term. Because starving while waiting for everyone to get settled and for the Headmistress to give a speech was just not okay. She didn't like being hungry. Never had, never will.
Bribe an elf though? Penelope munched on another cookie as she considered it. "I dunno. Maybe? Not sure what you could bribe one with though. There's not a whole lot that they seem to want." Except for...serving people, oddly enough. It was practically programmed into them or something.
That right there, was a good point. House elves just always seemed so happy as they toddled about and if they weren't they were usually hurting themselves for making things not happy. She never understood them really.
"Alright, I dunno. They could be on strike." But then she couldn't think of anything that would make them do that either. They were happy to help no matter what.
This was making things extra hard now.
She took a bite of her cookie and thought it over.
"Guess the Headmistress will tell us. She usually does that explaining bit anyway." She looked around the Great Hall. The plates were one thing but the place itself was a mess.
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Mell Oh. Oh yeah. He had forgotten about the end of term feast. He was just trying to get through this one. So apparently he would need to have back up food for the end of term feast as well. "Right. So it's best to make sure that I am stocked up." He could do that. Not that he really needed to. He was a bit like his dad in the fact that he could go for long periods of time without food but there were occasions where she would burn so much energy that he would find himself hungry. Like today. With all the excitement in coming to Hogwarts. The news about people going missing or dying didn't phase Michael at all. His mother told that when she had been at school that three of her housemates had died. Apparently things liked that happened here. Hopefully not to him.
As Alexa spoke of all the things he needed to look out for while at Hogwarts, Michael listened carefully and nodded his head every one in while as she spoke. he already knew about the Whomping Willow and he and Z had plans for that. The bit about DADA interested him and he perked up a little. "What is the DADA Professor like? And is Professor Lafay really as bad as they say?"
He was getting the right idea.
"Yeah, once you hear there'll be a feast know there's a catch and you won't actually be eating 'til everything else is taken care of." It kinda made the sound of a feast less appealing if you asked her. She could get more by just walking down to the kitchen. No waiting. Just elves and food.
"The Professor's really good at what she does! Her name's Professor Romanos, you should remember that." Nod.
"She's kinda careful though, like, we were meant to learn a hex that could take your fingers off but she didn't want us practising that on each other," though she could think of a few that she had
really wanted to try it out on,
"so we had to learn...a...um...nicer version of it I guess. I went looking for the actual hex though." What else was she to do?
Not learn the correct incantation and such? No way. She wanted to be able to use it one day.
And he'd already heard about Lafay? Either he did his research or his parents made sure he was well prepared.
"I wouldn't say...bad, just, real interesting." If you wanted bad, go knock on Professor Scabior's office door. Oh but wait, he wasn't here anymore, was he?
"She's definitely not someone to mess with, once she told me that if I blew up my cauldron she'd kill me." And she wasn't exaggerating either. She'd ask and the woman confirmed it.
"What have you heard about her??"