After supplying the term's password, ‘Tribble Troubles’, the Fat Lady swings her portrait open revealing the entrance to your home away from home. The hearth has a few low burning embers just enough to give it a homely warm feeling in the Scottish highlands, and its low light illuminates the comfy armchairs before it.

The common room has a fresh feel to it, with curtains in Gryffindor house colors drawn across two new rooms in the back that shall have to remain a mystery until morning. The sweet aroma of chocolate frogs, cauldron cakes, pumpkin pasties, and buttered popcorn fill the common room, and there are large white mugs filled with hot cocoa or tea set out on a long table near the fireplace. A few roasting sticks, along with all the fixings (including an assortment of gourmet marshmallows in various flavors) to make delicious hot schmoes smores can be found on the opposite side of the fireplace.

On one of the end tables beside the large sofa in front of the fireplace are two stacks of parchment for you to take should you so desire. It would be in your best interest if you did, however. Will come in handy for those lions lacking life experience.

For those who are returning, this is an excellent opportunity to catch up with friends and for those that are newly sorted, this is an opportunity to make friends. Unless your bed is beckoning you, sit, relax, have some snacks and chat. Your Head of House and House Assistant wish you a pleasant start to the new school term.

OOC: This is the common room thread for after the start of term feast - our first night home! The general common room thread will open in 3-4 days for regular RP depending on how much fun and chaos you all cause in here. Welcome to, or welcome back to, Gryffindor!