Holli chuckled. 'Yeah, of course I'd know...' she smiled. 'Aw, I wouldn't exactly say "stuck"' Holli teased.

'A graduation ring?' Holli asked curiously, taking the ring from Maine carefully. She looked at it. 'Wow! It's beautiful! The beautiful magic, am I right?' Holli asked, looking at the engraving. Interesting. 'Trés bonne!' she grinned.

'I wish we got rings like that at Hogwarts. That'd be awesome...' Holli said sadly. 'I have pictures from Hogwarts. Quite a lot of us doing Quidditch practise. Allie was Captain. There was no way I'd be made Captain. Too mischievious!' she smiled cheekily.
'Thank you! I don't know your name...' Holli said. embarrased. 'I know, we were surprised too. Confuse you, eh?' she smirked. 'Yeah, that's an awesome th to do. We'll have to try switching one day...' she said mischieviously. 'Oh, me and Allie were the pranksters at Hogwarts!' she grinned, her eyes twinkling. Pranking was amazing. 'Naw, not any other siblings, just us!' she said cheerfully. 'Do you have any siblings?' Holli asked.

'Oh, sorry,' Jackie smacked her head. 'It's Jackie. Jacqueline Maryellen Elizabeth Porter, if you really wanna know. I'm not all that great in manners.'

Jackie grinned. 'Wow! I'm of the opinion that the best pranksters are always twins; they can fool everybody so easily! And you two seem that type. Hogwarts! You went there too? I was there, up until last year. Miss it so much, really.' Jackie smiled. Here was another fellow Hogwartsean.

Holli laughed. 'Nice t'meetcha Jackie!' she smiled.

Holli chuckled. 'Yeah, we were VERY prankster-y... Once raided the boys dorms of all of the houses and stole their clothes. With some help from their housemates...' Holli winked. 'Hmm. If you were there until last year, you'd remember that prank, right? What house were you in?' Holli asked.

'Talking about me, are we?' Allie grinned, appearing at Holli's shoulder. How was her twin so social, talking to a million people at once. Allie just lost track of who everyone was.
She smirked. Holli was talking about the clothes prank. That was the most hilarious thing ever. True, the twins had got into a lot of trouble doing it, and detentions were never fun, but it was well worth it, shoving socks into inkwells in the Charms classroom and things like that. Hogwarts never had a dull moment when Allie and Holli were in a pranking mood...
Sighing reminiscantly, Allie introduced herself to Jackie.
'Hi,' she smiled. 'I'm Allie.'

Holli smirked. 'We may have been!' she grinned at her twin, hoping that they'd be able to confuse a few people, as Allie was right beside her. She heard Allie sigh and knew she was thinking about the clothes prank. 'Remember those kind Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws? And that ONE Slytherin who took us into the common room? It's times like that that we all know that Hogwarts is somehow united. Even if it is through pranks.

'Yeah,' Allie laughed, yawning. 'But the memories of detentions stick just as well as the memories of pranks,' she shuddered. Allie hated detention, and a stupid Slytherin had turned the very sheepish looking twins in, and told the headteacher, meaning the twins had to suffer what seemed like hundreds of hours of detentions. 'That was an awesome prank though,' she said, 'I remember the one where we stuck the Slytherin beaters to the Quidditch hoops,' she laughed. 'That was so FUN.'

'Yeah, we got loads of detentions...' Holli said, smiling sheepishly. Usually it was her fault. She always thought they could go ONE step further in the prank, before BOOM. They were in detention. 'Oh yeah, that was hilarious!' Holli laughed. 'And the one where we stuck Nosebleed Nougats and Puking Pastilles inside most of the drinks in Hogwarts?' Holli chuckled. 'I felt a lil bit guilty, but we had people queuing for hours to get the solution!' she smirked.

That didn't make any sense. They were being jipped out of three extra months of magical education. What a strange thing to do. Maybe they thought they were qualified enough to skip the last little bit of schooling. And who knew, maybe they were. Leo moved on.

Maine. Presley would absolutely adore her. She was sweet, polite, high class, and had parts of her past that weren't just peachy-keen. For that matter, Leo adored her. She was an excellent friend, unbelievably beautiful, and willing to help him with hours worth of paperwork. She paid attention when he spoke, she was genuinly listening to everyone around her. Leo very much admired that quality.

"I thought we could just run to the cafe with coloured umbrellas. You know the one? In Diagon Alley, right in the middle?" That was where he usually went for lunch. "Unless you'd rather go somewhere else?" He hastily ammended. It didn't need to be fancy. This wasn't like...a date. However much Leo might wish it was. Maine didn't like him like that. She was a sweet girl with a tragic past, looking for a good, true friend. She probably didn't think of him in a romantic capacity at all.

"Actually, Holl, It's Beauty in Magic." Maine smiled. "Oui? I was under the impression that you pranked together."

"I used to play Chaser." she smirked. "We could play sometime?"

Meeting his questioning gaze, Maine had to stop herself from drowning into his eyes. "There are two times for the ANS, really. One in January, the other in May. Just that Gabby and I took the earlier one." Because we had idiot fiancees waiting for us to get out of school, she added silently.

Speaking of Gabby, she'd really love Leo. For starters, he wasn't French. Gabby loved change, embraced it, actually. He was nice, too. Caring and actually, the polar opposite of Alan.

"How's the Muggle Café of the corner outside?" Maine asked. "It's nearer. But the one with colored umbrella's fine too." It's just that Maine loooooved Muggle food. It was delish.

But it wasn't a date, no matter how much Maine wanted it to be. Leo was probably seeing someone else and Maine really wasn't that great.

Jackie smiled. 'It's great to meet you two too.' Oh, they were THE twins! How could she have forgotten! 'You're them? O'course I remember that. Made quite a story, that one.' Jackie giggled reminiscently. 'I was in Gryffindor, where the brave dwell.' Jackie winked. 'You?'


'Hey Allie.' Jackie waved. 'Yea, Holli here was telling me about the pranks you guys did at Hogwarts. I was there in Hogwarts up until last year too. I remember that prank. Wait, I did tell you my name, didn't I? It's Jackie. I forgot my manners here to Holli by not telling my name; didn't want the same to happen to you too.'

Jackie looked at Holli and Allie. They looked so alike! It wouldn't be long before she forgot which was Holli and which Allie.

It really was about the same distance with apparition. The thing was, you couldn't apparate into a muggle cafe. Then again, the idea of a short walk in the snow with Maine, was not a bad one. "I'm okay with the muggle cafe. Let's go," He arranged all of the paperwork into two separate piles (done and undone), stood up, and picked them up. He was going to lunch with Charmayne LeBlanc.

'Nice to meey you Jackie,' Allie smiled. 'You do look familiar... What house were you in?' she asked. Allie and Holli knew a lot of people at Hogwarts, generally through pranking them or through praise for their pranks. And the fact they were twins with bright ginger hair always made Allie and Holli stand out quite a lot in a crowd.

'Same here, same here.' Jackie smiled at her. 'I was in Gryffindor, where the brave of heart dwell.' She grinned. 'One of you were in Gryffindor, weren't you? I'd only heard of you guys. 'Course, I'd met you many times, but never really had a chance at actually meeting you.

'Hogwarts has a lot of people, so I couldn't really socialize with everybody. Well, I guess this is our chance to make up for it.' Jackie winked. She was a little disappointed at the fact that she'd never really interacted with these people much at Hogwarts. Oh well, now was her chance.

'Oh, Meh, I was close!' Holli laughed. 'We did, it's just that I always made us go past that little imaginary line between alright and DETENTION NOW!' Holli chuckled.

'Chaser? Me and Allie were twin Beaters. My boyfriend was the Keeper on our team!' Holli smiled. 'We actually have to play sometime. We now have Beaters, one Chaser and a Keeper. Just a few more...' Holli grinned.


'Ah, our fame surpasses us, I see!' Holli beamed. Aw, people had heard of them? Well, of course they had, they put their name's up on the clothes. How could people not know who they were? It was still nice to know that they were well known by Hogwarts. Awesome! 'Me and Allie were in Gryffindor as well. Brave to the point of stupidity.' Holli winked.

Jackie laughed. Both of them were so charming! But she didn't think they were stupid. Just funny and mischievous.

'It's funny how we know so little of people who studied with you, right? I mean, here we are, in the same school, same House, and yet we're meeting properly here, at the Ministry! Funny world.' Jackie smiled.

'I forgot to ask you, which department are you in?' Or had she already asked? Jackie didn't remember them telling anything.

'I know! I never thought I'd meet people from Hogwarts at the Ministry! Small world! I also met our old team mate, Rupert, here! He was a Keeper for our team. Then I asked him out, being the feminist I am. He just wouldn't ask, so I did it for him! That's where I got this necklace...' Holli smiled, twiddling her sapphire butterfly necklace happily.

'Oh, I'm in this Department...?' Holli said, not sure if that's what Jackie meant. It seemed too obvious an answer. It was obvious she worked in this Department. 'I'm the Portkey Recovery Witch!' Holli smiled. 'How about you?'

'I know right? Small world.' Jackie smiled. Then laughed. Holli was the outgoing type. Very inlike her. 'Well, it's a good thing being a feminist. And that's a really pretty necklace. You both are still going on?' Jackie hoped it wasn't a deeply personal question. But, as much as she knew from Holli's personality, she wouldn't mind much.

'I think I asked the wrong question. I actually meant to ask your position. I'm the Brooming Games Liasion, whatever that means.' Jackie grinned. 'Both of you same job? Please tell me no.' Jackie begged mockingly.

It would be a mess if both of them got the same job; twins, and pranksters, which made it worse. But fun. Oh, Jackie was pretty sure everyone'd be in for a few surprises while they were here.

Holli smiled. 'Thank you, I love it...' she grinned. 'Yup, we're still going on, happily as well!' Holli said cheerfully.

'Ah, well, yeah, I'm Portkey Recovery Witch. No, me and Alli have different jobs, luckily for all of you guys!' she chuckled. It'd be epic if they both had the same job...

Phew! 'Oh, good! Is he in the Ministry too? I hope I'd be able to see him sometime. What's his name?' Jackie knew she was asking private questions, but she thought Holli didn't mind. Hoped she didn't mind.

'Phew! At least you guys have different jobs. One difference to look out for. Holli - Portkey Recovery. That's probably how I'll differentiate between you guys. Sorry, I'm sure many would have already told you, but you both look so similar!' Jackie groaned. 'I know I love twins and all, but it would be nice if I'd known some visible difference. Is there something I could check on?' Jackie knew that even if there was some specific difference, they would probably not tell her, but still, it was worth trying.

Andie swallowed what she had in her mouth and smiled back "How nice to meet you Tim im Andie Jordan." That wasnt so hard now she at least knew someone!

Andie laughed "You make it sound like theres LOADS of twins here. Im Andie, Andie Jordan and how nice to meet you Holli!" She smiled still half laughing.

''Hello,I'm Tim Prexton''He grabbed a cookie and sat down next to her.''I work in Floo Records,Where do you work?''

"Apparation, License Issuer and Records Liaison" she replyed. "Cant wait to start" she said with a smile " how long have you been here?"

''I've just started,How long have you been here for?''Ryan said.''I can't wait to start as well.''

There was so much talking and conversation going on in the breakroom--Armen loved it. He couldn't remember a time when the roomw as so alive with people and chatted and it absolutely warmed his heart to see his Department thriving with new people. Smiling here and there as he made his way back to the head of the room, he stood and clapped his hands for attention once more.

"Attention everyone!" he said cupping his hands to his mouth and projecting his voice throughout the loud and bubbly audience. "Alright, well isn't that better? I am very excited that so many of you new faces have been able to get to know some of us and each other much better in this little get together brunch we set up for you today. Now on to business!" He said bouncing slightly.

"Our Minister Lord Borr says that a hard worker is a smart worker and I live by that same philosophy!" He really did adore Lord Borr, especially since he liked him right back. "I am going to place the list of new tasks for everyone on the Announcements Board as I leave this evening and you all may get started on them tomorrow morning. I look forward to seeing the results of your work and helping each of you along the way."

"Now continue to chat, eat, and then head on out to decorate your desks. The rest of the day is your's and I will see you tomorrow bright and early for work!" And with that Armen's speech was done and he was going to mingle around a bit longer before going to attend to the memos in his office.

'Yeah, he's in Games and Sports, he's called Rupert Weasley.' Holli nodded, smiling still.

Holli laughed. 'Yup, Holli Portkey Recovery, that's me!' she winked, then laughed again. Jackie was funny! 'Yup, we've been told that a lot. Especially by people who don't realise we're twins!' Holli beamed. 'Nope, I don't think there's any physical difference, is there Allie?' Holli asked her twin, not poitive there actually were... She couldn't be sure, they'd have to both be standing by a mirror, which they didn't usually do, and when they did, Holli didn't look for differences.
'Maybe there is...' Holli said suspisciously. 'Andie, nice to meet you! You have just met one half of the pranksters here!' she beamed, thinking af another prank they had done at Hogwarts, releasing wild badgers into the Puffs common room. They were forced to apologise after a few people got bitten, but everyone still laughed about it...