For a moment, Lex just kinda stared at him. He sounded....genuinely surprized that the lions had won the cup...amidst all the lion decorations that covered the Great Hall. She highly doubted the other houses would have been fine with Gryffindoring the whole thing when they were the rightful victors. Merlin, how long had he been out? At least he caught on in the end. It'd be a shame to leave as a champion without even knowing it.



Oh Jasmine would want the details of the trip? Well that wouldn't be hard at all. "I'll be waiting to give them to you! Should be plenty epic and best of all there won't be any snow." Even if by some miracle it did snow in California, there was NO WAY it would happen during the summer. Nope.

Lex grinned at the best wishes extended for the summer. "I'm sure we will. And you too, enjoy your summer, might be the last you're happy til the end of next term." Because something bad always happened at Hogwarts in case the girl couldn't tell by now.



See that right there? The excitement about this whole thing? This was what she expected they would all be like when lions won. Loud and happy about everything. If only the rest of the table could understand this. It made her miss Mikey. He was always one for the roaring celebrations. She could still remember his entrance to the table his first year. Merlin that kid and now this one. "Reckon we'll be able to get up to more stuff next year. Last year and all I'm gonna have to make it count." Couldn't leave without showing Aubrey a few things now could she? It just wouldn't be right.

Lex laughed at her enthusiasm for the castle. "I'd think anyone who's seen nothing but castle walls since January would be eager to be rid of this place." Lex was. If she never saw these gray walls again it would be too soon but alas, she'd be back next year and with more castle walls. 'Least there would be no lock in with some luck. "But I'm glad you enjoyed it...despite seeing nothing but it."



Welcomed indeed, though in truth, she didn't mind the yellow...not really when you considered other things. "Honestly I'd have rathered yellow, if the only other option was green but we did it! It's so.......I wouldn't say weird but...yeah. Never seen the Hall in Gryffindor colours before. It's good I get to see it even once before we leave for good." Now even if they didn't win next term it wouldn't be so bad. She could no longer say they'd never taken home the house cup and for that--plus no snow outside--Lex was the happiest person in the room. No matter what floated your boat, we guarantee, Lex was floating higher.

It was an even greater victory once you tied in the fact that closer to the end of term Lex rallied people to log in the extra points. It was great they got the points but even better that they actually listened to her. No force needed, just loud shouts and hyper pep talks. Funny that.

"I don't know about you but I'm usually dying for summer by September 2." You know, train ride was fun and all and yay feast with a lot of food but then classes....and homework....and idiots.....unless epic things began immediately, Hogwarts did little to hold Alexa's interest outside of time spent with friends, but she was losing most of them now, wasn't she? Just her, Lottie and Aidan remained. That.................was actually REALLY depressing so she would happily focus on talk of summer.

"Overseas as adults." Birthday being tomorrow and all. By the time they hit the states they'd be free to do whatever! "Nothing but sand, sun, adventure and astronomy fit in somewhere there." How could this NOT be perfect?



Kinda weird having Schuyler already leaving. She could still remember that feast she spotted her, a new face amongst the lions, mostly because they weren't known for having new faces. Those went to other houses. "Excited for the big plunge?" She asked, noting her simply having a glance around. Probably thinking about how much more epic her life would be once she was away from the castle.

One more year before she could think like that. Some people had all the luck and others had very little. The graduating class housed 80% of her friends. Lex was still lucky for Lottie and Aidan reasons but not having the rest of them...was that even possible?



Something was definitely off with the younger lion. Lex squinted, scrutinzing him for a second. It was written all over his face and his smiles were doing little to assure her otherwise. Even the wincing seemed a bit off to her. It wasn't what champions did; not that she knew of anyway.

Oh but he was worried about Kevin? "With any luck they've left him to rot in the dungeons." She wasn't practised at speaking ill of house mates but Kevin had earned it. There wasn't a time when he wasn't rude to her and the Prefect didn't have the time nor the compassion for people like him. "But no, you can stop worrying." She pointed toward the staff table. "See? He's alive. Probably being kept up there to ensure he behaves and I rather like him better up there." Sorry to say, or not so sorry.

Her brows rose at the weak smile offered once more. "Keep that up and I'll slip an elixir for euphoria into your drink when it gets here." Joking, only joking except not really. GRIN.

She had been wondering when the ghost would show up. First victory in forever, it was only fitting that he be present to witness it and take part in the celebrations in what way he could. "Glad you could join us Sir Nicholas! I'll have to agree with you, the Great Hall was made for these colours." FAR better than for the green and silver. Horrid combination that was.

"You haven't happened to get some gloating in with the Bloody Baron, have you?" She noticed he wasn't at the feast. Must be off hiding his ghostly tears. He and one Sophie Newell could do that together. From where she sat, Lex could see her sulking too.