Felix always thought she was a brave person, but the boat ride after the train ride rocked her core belief that she wasn't a scaredy cat. For one she didn't like water she couldn't see the bottom in and secondly a nasty little boy thought it was great fun to rock the boat as they bobbled along the black lake. Felix clung to the side of the boat with one hand and tried to hex the boy with her left hand. She missed entirely, but the boy got the message.
By the time they docked she was sea sick, but at least the lake water had made her hands less sticky.
Her sorting was uneventful and thankfully she got into Slytherin. It made it up for her hellish boat ride over. She skipped over to the Slytherin table amid the applause.
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He was so not wasting any time this term.
Two disastrous feasts at the start and close of his first year had set the mood for what would likely be the small boy's entire Hogwarts career. Bypassing the boats this time because he was a Grown Up Wizarding Person now, Jaemin had hopped in the first carriage he could catch and had waited impatiently for the horseless (not horseless, he reminded himself. The book thing said they were not horseless, even though they were.) thing to get up to the school. Once there the diminutive Slytherin had hurried himself inside, because if tradition held true, this would be a war.
Frowning a little to himself, Jaemin scanned the entirety of the table before deciding to walk down the side furthest from the Gryffindor table to find a seat. While he had (mostly) forgiven Gryffindor for their trespasses against food during his first feast here... he had not forgotten, and he would definitely be prepared this time. He was going to get to eat this time around, and he was going to make darn sure of it.
Eyes flickering up at the staff dais, the boy took a seat nearest to it. Some of the professors were already there... he looked from face to face, openly curious about the woman he didn't recognise. A new person? Did that mean that there was an old person that wasn't coming back?
...and a kitty. A BIG KITTY. Which sent Professor Flamsteed on the run. Maybe he was allergic? He would probably run from things he was allergic to as well. Nonplussed, Jaemin continued his staring, eyes circling back to the spot where the cat was as he waited. And waited. And waited.
Food please. So he could eat before the havoc began.
Felix looked around for somewhere to sit. Her daddy told her that it was very important to pick the right seat, you had to make the right sort of friends. The sort that wouldn't rat you out in case of trouble and the kind that ran slower than you incase you needed a quick getaway.
She sat next to a tiny boy who hadn't been in the sorting so he was older.
"Oh good another small person. Its always nice to find someone on your 'level'." She said using air quotes for level.
"I thought I was going to be the tiniest person here, most of the time I'm always the smallest even with all my cousins. My little cousin Persia is almost taller than me and she's only 6, but her daddy is tall. But you shouldn't frown so its not good for the growth spurt." She pulled out her jawbreaker to make sure it had survived the boat ride.
"My aunt says beautiful people shouldn't frown it prematurely ages you." And the boy was beautiful, in the Barbie doll sort of way.
"I'm Felix. Felix Greenwood." She offered the boy her hand that didn't hold her jawbreaker.
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Anna Banana Ariadne Greingoth made her way into the Great Hall with confidence in her step. She was a SECOND YEAR now, and NO start-of-term food fight was going to scare her under the table this time. A quick glance down the table told her that basically none of her regular friends were in the Great Hall yet. SLACKERS. hee hee She gave a small smile and wave to the people she did see (everyone here) then took a seat kind of in the middle.
Her brown eyes flickered up to the staff table. She couldn't really see much with all the comings and goings, but she just bet there were loads of new staffers. She'd heard other people say that there were always new staffers. There was no food out yet either, which was no good, because Ariadne was starving! That one chocolate frog she'd had at the beginning of the train ride hadn't kept her full at all.
She fidgeted in place then looked around again.
Felix looked down the length of the table and spotted her train buddy. Well was she a buddy? Felix didn't even know her name, but they had shared candy maths together. That had to be the start of a beautiful friendship right?
She waved at the girl.
"Hullo." She smiled at the girl hoping the girl wouldn't pull a snob act like some of her older cousins do when they are all out in public.