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SPOILER!!: Nigel
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SPOILER!!: Aquila

The banner? It was only then that the blonde Claw looked up and noticed the banners looking frayed. “Ohhh...” she breathed as she sat all wide eyed. Because she was still relatively new around here she didn’t even notice the banners upkeep looking any different until it was mentioned. But now she has noticed a few things and started to mumble “Does Hogwarts need fixing?” totally innocent question there.


Nigel was surprised that she not noticed the banner before. But whatever it was not important. At least they had a banner. Nigel start to think her question and agreed with her. But thought it was the groundskeeper who fixed stuff here at hogwarts.

"Maybe, but i always thought that it was the caretakers or groundskeepers job to do that." Nigel said shrugging. He had no idea really.

Hmm, Nigel had a point “Oh yes... the Caretaker.” She hasn’t been out around the grounds yet so she had no idea in what state the rest of the school was in “I was told last term that Elves took care of most everything.” Nod nod. Although now that she’s looked around it looked like they got to the castle even before the Elves could prep things for them. Or so she thought.



SPOILER!!: Mika
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Mika flushed a bit as she realized yeah she had messed up Aquila’s name and well, her name had been said properly. Yeah, that was only mildly embarrassing. “Oh thanks so much” she smiled embarrassedly over to the girl.

Her cheeks were not pink. Nope, not at all. “I have to say I love your name its so unique.” She smiled brightly. She had meant EVERY word. She just laughed when she heard her say she already had the cupcakes. “Oh good, they won’t go to waste!” She beamed, not that they would. She had cupcakes and she was sitting next to Mo.

Enough said.

Curious head tilting. Mika suddenly turned bright pink, and Aquila had no idea why. Obviously the mispronouncing of her name has gone over her head. Or maybe she just got so used to it by now. But the other blond got a big grin on her next statement “Thank you!” *BEAMS* “I like your name too!” Indeed she did, it was easy to remember, at least for her.



SPOILER!!: Mo
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Originally Posted by Cassirin View Post
"Well, it's sort of a complicated story. I don't think my parents were pointing at the sky and trying to debate whether I looked more like a Cassiopeia or an Orion. It sort of came together that way," Mo rubbed his growling stomach. Did he sound irritable? He didn't feel irritable, but maybe he SOUNDED irritable. "What's a sponsor? Your life is so... different."

Head tilting for this one too. “Oh... they were inspired to name you after The Hunter.” nod nod, that makes sense to her. And again if he sounded irritable, that flew way past her head too. That’s just how she rolls.

Oh he asked about being her sponsor “Uhm, she help me with lots’n lotsa things.... her family I mean. Some people found me somewhere and she arranged for me to live with the Priestesses.” A product of Vanderbilt philanthropy this one. “Is my life so different?” she murmured with those big eyes, twisting the end of her curls on the tip of her finger “Surely there must be others raised in an island of women.” Yeah totally doesn’t see anything odd about that.



SPOILER!!: Mika, Mo, pyramids and catapults oh my

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Originally Posted by McFeisty View Post

“You don’t know what a catapult it?” Mika asked grinning as she pointed at the spoon with cupcake expertly positioned. “Watch this.” She beamed as she made her palm connect with the edge of the spoon – keeping the spoon on the table the cupcake soared up UP UP and began to ark itself through the great hall. “Impedimenta” she slowed it down. “it’s the flinging device” she added, with a smile. “Wingardium leviosa” she spoke the spell – and that infamous flick and swish of the wand she aided the cupcake until it landed gently in front of Professor Flamsteed.
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Originally Posted by Cassirin View Post
He eyed the cup pyramid speculatively. How much taller could they even make it? "Hard to say how many more cups we need, but I think we're about to make people mad if we deprive them of drink receptacles. I guess that makes it tall enough for now. And a catapult..." He leaned back so Aquila could add the last of their cups. "It's a weapon of war. This thing here..." Mo pointed to his tiny little creation.


Oh ok so that’s as tall as it would go. But for some reason Aquila wanted to build wider and taller. Was she trying to make something that would remind her of home? Maybe. But now her eyes grows large with “Weapon of war??” she gasped then eyes those seemingly innocent spoon-forky things. Then Mika demo’d the whole thing and got this little girl gawking—the cupcake... it FLEW. And then it stopped in mid-air, and then landed on the Professors’ table. Wait... that last one didn’t look quite—

“How did you do that?” she breathed as she looked to Mika. The whole catch-levitating trick. That intrigued her.




SPOILER!!: Niamh
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Originally Posted by giant_squid_fan View Post
Niamh found herself disappointed that the girl she was talking to wasn't in the same year as Niamh. She felt that they could have been good friends. Oh well, maybe they still could be. "Beauxbatons; where did you used to study?" Niamh shook her head in jovial disbelief. She laughed a little. Realising that Aquila may have thought that Niamh was laughing at her for some reason, the blonde hastened to explain. "I'm sorry, I was just thinking how bizarre it is that so many people here have transferred from other schools. Hogwarts must be very popular!"

So this one came from a school this young one couldn’t pronounce, much less spell, at least not yet “Ohhhh....Bow-buh... Where’s that?” she asked all inquisitive now. It sounded like it was on Venus or something—which she was told is not all that impossible to get to given her kind of magic. “I... I studied at the temple....I mean Priestesses taught me. I grew up with them in our small island near Wales.” And now she was giggling. Another curious head tilt from this blond. Then she finally realized what was so amusing to the other Claw “Oh yeahhhhh... there does seem to be a lot of transfers. The Priestesses told me that Hogwarts is the best school that can help me with my magic. I guess Priestess magic is a little different from mine.” That’s why they sent her here, instead of keeping her back home.


SPOILER!!: Beezus
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If Aquila didn't bring it up, Beezus would NEVER had thought of that. Her eaglette was right. Where will they be putting the soup? The paper plate's were too shallow to be filled with something as soup. Merlin, Aquila and her was thinking the same thing now, eh? Which was: The soup will be in the cups. Please don't. Meh. "I.....have no idea but I do hope the Headmistress provides us with alternatives." Fingers crossed.

Prefect Bee looked surprised, and that got this little Claw all head tilting curious too. She loved soup, almost as much if not more than tea, and naturally that just had to be considered since she couldn’t even imagine a meal without some kind of broth at the very least.

SPOILER!!: Ethan
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Originally Posted by emjay View Post
Ethan nodded to the younger Claw as she understood his words. "Yeah, from our Head of House." Though he wasn't completely sure if she made that decision on her own or if it was a collaboration. "Nice to meet you, Aquila Llywellyn," he said as she offered her name. "I do remember seeing you last term.. common room, perhaps." Oh, he sorta felt bad as she told him that the other prefects ad welcomed her.. he supposed he should have to. But he would get to know her now. "So are you a second year, then?" Though she did seem a bit older than that, maybe a transfer last term?

She nodded meekly in turn. Indeed she may have met most of her housemates in the common room, but this young one was so shy and quite distracted last term she hardly got a chance to meet or talk to anybody face to face “I’m in my 3rd year.” she said “I moved here last term, was accepted as a second year.” Yep, and a small miracle in itself too given her skill set.


SPOILER!!: Raven
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Originally Posted by Goblinfrog View Post
"Thanks, nice to meet you too." Raven grinned back at her. "Um..my school was just called the Romanian School of Witchcraft. It was an all girls school. I didn't really like it, there was a nasty older girl named Jo-Jo who had a gang who picked on everyone. I like Hogwarts so far much better." She looked up at the table. "Are any of these teachers new?"

“Romanian? You’re from Romania?” she leaned forward curiously. Did she know any schools from Romania? No, but she knew Priestesses and apprentices from there. “An all-girls’ school!” oh yeah she can definitely relate with this one “... In my island, there’s just women.” And really she didn’t see anything odd with that, but off-islanders always regarded them as strange. “Ohhhh someone was mean to you at your old school?” see that has never happened to Aquila before, there were mean Priestesses, but that’s not quite the same. Looking at the Professor’s table she nodded her head “Some of them are.... and uhm, some are not there anymore....” she mumbled sadly. Alas she was much too new and distracted to immediately remember their names from last term.


SPOILER!!: Garrick
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Originally Posted by Eriin View Post
Garrick blinked a few times at the girl with the weird hair. "Even smelling things can make you sick." Where was the crazy crop of Ravenclaws coming from? Merlin.

"Would you like me to Transfigure your plate for you?" he asked with a beaming Ogden smile in place. He was guessing she would like something she could see herself in. Most girls liked to look at themselves anyway...

Oh! Strange boy offered to transfigure her plates “Uhm...” she wanted to say yes... but it was a NEW BOY and she was too shy to simply allow him to do her a favor. Priestesses always told her she should be self reliant “Uhm... I... I can try to do it....” At least she should try to do it on her own first “Thank you though for offering uhmmm....Whats your name?”




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Originally Posted by The Narrator View Post
Almost immediately after the Headmistress finishes her speech, the tables in the Great Hall are suddenly filled with food. But the first thing you will notice is that the food doesn’t seem to have its usual deliciously glowing aura about it. The food seems rather mediocre at best. In fact, the chicken is dry and flavorless, the mashed potatoes are a sloppy, boring mess, the broccoli hardly seems cooked at all - and there’s not even cheese on it! And on top of that, the butterless bread looks more like bricks of charcoal. Not only does the food look and taste somewhat unappetizing, there’s hardly any variety.

On the bright side, there’s loads of ice cream! Bowls and bowls and bowls of ice cream have appeared along the center of the table amongst the lousy dinner dishes. Good thing your mother isn’t here to make sure you eat your undercooked broccoli before dessert!
Ok so there were new Professors, two of which looked familiar. Her jaw swung open—they were those people from last term—their visitors. It wasn’t long after that their food materialized, and the young Claw found herself staring at them. Yes she noticed—they weren’t as mouthwatering as last term... in fact, it quite reminded her of food from back home. Simple and unchanged if possible.

It was easy to think that this young one would be as disappointed with the meal as most others are BUT this was where her humble roots comes in handy. She took a piece of the charcoal dinner rolls and started scraping off the burned bits. She helped herself with the sloppy potatoes onto her paper plate then started breaking off the dinner rolls however way she can, laying the pieces along the soggiest parts. Rock solid bread? Not any more once they’re done with the potatoes. The broccoli she took a few clumps of—she did like broccoli you know—and buried the heads upside down onto the steaming potatoes. It will cook somehow, if only just a bit more.

And it wasn’t long until she had pretty decent mashed potato pile, softened dinner rolls and bearable broccoli. Not quite the Hogwarts meal of last term, but hey it’s a better dinner than just ice cream.

Of course she will be getting a helping of that too. At least dessert will still be Hogwarts-awesome.
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