Originally Posted by Emms

Simon was busy building the wall of awesomeness with Grayson when he looked up briefly and saw a very familiar face. Josie? Man, he hadn't seen her in ages. Where had she been? Reading? Probably staying inside to avoid the cold? Smart girl. He had no clue what she had been up to but he hoped that he had been well. He also hoped that she had got to spend some time with Ethan .

He gave her a wave and then nudged Grayson. "That's Josie. She's a good mate of Ethan's," he whispered to his fellow Snake and then stood up to give her a kind smile. He waved. "Hey Josie! Long time no see. How've you been?"

Originally Posted by hermionesclone

[TEXTCUT="Simon and Josieeeee!"]Simon was a transfer as well! And not just from anywhere, from FREAKING AUSTRALIA. "You serious? Australia's WAY too cool." Beaches. It had LOTS of beaches, as far as this boy knew, and that was exactly why he wanted to go there. "What's it like there?" As for his question about being here for long: MAN, he wished! "Well, I didn't transfer from anywhere cool like Australia buuuut I am a transfer. Transferred this year from," He cleared his throat before putting on his best French accent. "Beauxbatons." And yes, he did know how to speak French. Talented, he was. "Uh huh! When's your birthday?"

The great thing about Simon was that he just KNEW. And they were on similar wavelengths too. GOOD. He didn't want to be building a wall of defence with any old loony. They would likely argue his points with dumb suggestions of their own and they'd get nothing done. So, thank you for being cool, Holden. "'Xactly! Because we're not cowards. Glad you understand, mate." Nod. Grayson streeeeetched out his arms and was ablut to start piling he snow up when--

Okay HOLD THE FREAKING PHONE. "How are you doing that?" The snow piling using MAGIC. Was he using a simple spell? And how come Grayson didn't know? HMMMMM?

Before he could question this, the third year was talking about someone that was nearby. A LADY someone. Hiding something are we, Holden? Grayson looked in that direction, watching the girl all too curiously, before saying, "A good friend of Ethan's eh? A friend or a friend friend?" Nudge nudge wink wink. Oh please say it was the latter! It would be oh so much fun to make fun of the guy about this.

"Hey, Josie!" he called, giving her a small nod, "Don't think we've met before. The name's Grayson." Hey hi sup.

Originally Posted by Emms

Simon hadn't been expecting to get Grayson's reaction towards Australia. His mate seemed to get very, very enthusiastic about it all so Simon just simply smiled. Heh. "Yeah, it's pretty cool. The weather's not too bad. It never gets this cold and its summer over there right now so my family's at the beach. Food's really good," he added. Oh yes, the boy missed the food a ton. The food at Hogwarts was pretty decent but he missed his family's cooking. Grayson had transferred from Beauxbatons? Wait. Did that mean the kid was french? "You... You can speak french? That's AWESOME," said Simon with a wide grin. The boy had always wanted to be able to speak in another language. He only knew phrases in different languages so if he ever went to the country, he could only get up to the "Hi, my name is" stage of it all. After that, he'd be cactus.

Oh right the spell. "It's Accio but I'm doing it non-verbally. Here, its pushing the snow on the floor, closer to me, and then its building it up. I only figured out I could do it a couple days ago. Experimentation, " he explained. The other day, he had been experimenting. Peeves had come over and dumped a lot of snow onto him and so Simon tried to fire a snowball from the other side of the room at Peeves. It hadn't worked because the spell made the snow come towards Simon (of course- as that was the purpose of this spell) but instead of hitting Peeves, it smacked Simon right in the nose. But he wasn't going to tell Grayson any of the details cause he had to keep it cool, you know. Grayson couldn't know that Simon was a complete dork.

As Josie walked over Simon nudged Grayson and smirked wickedly. "Friend friend but I didn't tell you," he said winking at the older Slytherin. Ehehe. Simon also took note of Professor Flamsteed and another student arriving. Perhaps they'd both eventually join in the snowball fight. However, the two of them appeared to be having a very serious conversation.