"Nice to meet you!" Jordan said, smiling at them both. "Are you both first years?" he asked, unaware that they were twins.

Jory entered the train from the South end of the train. As usual, he was going to find a compartment at the back of the train.
Dragging hid trunk behind him and carrying his owl in its cage under his arm, he barley managed to wave to the people who called out to him.

Amy was boooorrred. Nessie had been comandered by her friends and had dumped Amy, after she had saved her skin from her olds. Rudeness. And she just hadn't found her short/taller blondo friend who screamed a lot and pretended to fight weeping angels. Well not pretend...but yeah, pretend.

OOOOH. THERE WAS SOMEONE. Oh. Everett, rude short boy with humungous feet and a hatred of brussel sprouts. Ah well, she had to find someone so she didn't look like a loner, and he would do. Well..no he would do.

EVEEEREEETTTT! Amy squealed bounding over to him.

Yes. Squeal. Whats so weird about squealing at people you barely knew, huh?

Faina wiped her eyes, feeling stupid. "This is the second time you've seen me almost cry," Faina laughed humorlessly, "I probably look like a blubbering git."

Jordan didn't really know how to act around girls, let alone crying girls. He grimaced awkwardly and told Faina, "You aren't a blubbering git," he reached over and touched her hand. "You don't want to be walking around with red eyes," he said to her as he used his powers to erase the red marks from her face. He'd discovered that he could momentarily use his powers on other people the previous year. "There you go," he said to her as he took his hand away and stepped back.

"Bloody hell!" Faina whispered. She stared at her hand in awe. She looked over at one of the trains windows, staring at her reflection. The redness she should have had from crying was completely gone!

"Thank you" she said smiling up at her friend. "Oh! I almost forgot!" Faina lifted up her white blonde hair to show him the teal streaks she had gotten underneath. They were underneath so that she could hide them from her parents. She had to sneak out into the muggle world to get them done. "What do you think? Cool, eh?"

"Your welcome!" Jordan said as he smiled at the funky streaks in her hair. "I like it, it's a very good look! In fact..." he began as he scrunched up his face in concentration as he copied her hair colours.
"How do I look with it?" he asked as he looked at himself in the window, "You look better with it!" he complimented as he shook the colour off.

Josephine flashed a grin at Maxwell "Thank you, and yep! I want to get on the boats too! They say there's a giant squid in the black lake! Can you believe it?" she asked, bouncing on the balls of her feet in joy.

Josephine smiled "Yep! We're starting Hogwarts! We're just waiting for some friends to come" she said and looked around "They're taking so long TT-TT"

Joseph looked at Maxwell "I bet you she will fall down the boat" he then yelped because of the hit his not-so-lady-like sister had gave him,


"Oh stop whining so much" Joseph rolled his eyes at Josephine "I'm the sane one of the two, she's the social one" he said to Jordan and Maxwell.

Faina laughed at the comparison in the window. He looked ridiculous! She blushed as he complimented her. "Thanks," she looked down, trying to hide her scarlet cheeks. She recovered and pulled her hair up into a high ponytail. "This way people can see it." She explained.

"Oh and do you have any skiving snackboxes on you?" Faina smirked mischievously.

Ivan was thinking about his wand core and picked up Fantastis Beasts and looked up Hippogriff. In his head he was saying, "Hippogriff M.O.M. classification: XXX (Competent wizard should cope)
The Hippogriff is native to Europe, though now found worldwide. It has the head of a giant eagle and the body of a horse. It can be tamed, though this should be attempted only by experts. Eye contact should be maintained when approaching a Hippogriff. Bowing shows good intentions. If the Hippogriff returns the greeting, it is safe to draw closer.What happens if it does not return the greeting?
The Hippogriff burrows for insects but will also eat birds and small mammals. Breeding Hippogriffs build nests upon the ground which they will lay a single large and fragile egg, which hatches within twenty-four hours. That's fast!The fledgling Hippogriff should be ready to fly within a week, though it will be a matter of months before it is able to accompany its parent on long journeys.
Ivan looks up and sees many more students waiting for the Hogwarts Express, then looks back down to read about the Horklump.

Everett was all being cool and lonerish, when there was this sudden squeal of what he interpreted as his name, or they were saying BLEEEEBLEEEETTTT. "Ahhhhh!" He half-screamed as something ran at him. When that thing was finally standing still he noticed who it was. Short, brussel-sprout liking girl. Amy.

"Hey," He said, still slightly taken aback that she had run and squealed. "Are you usually that energetic or did someone put too much sugar in your cornflakes this morning?" He asked with a slight grin.

He smiled as Faina put her hair up, he pulled two boxes out of his pocket. "The rest of them are in my trunk." He told her, "I've been tricking my brothers all weekend," he laughed as he relived the scenes of his muggle brothers all mysteriously coming down with somesort of injury.

Well it was that time of the year again and Mia was dragging her feet as she and Nik walked along the platform. It was no secret, to him anyway, that she did not want to go back. She already had planned what she wanted to do with her life and it really didn't consist of using magic.

Looking over at Nikolai as they walked, Mia opened her mouth but closed it again and let out a heavy sigh. It was her last year. Surely she could handle just one more year without him.

Well she could. She just didn't want to.

"Probably no point in starting that whole 'do I have to go back to school' argument again huh?"

They had already done that about a hundred times already.

KATH/ Kurumi *shifty*
 

Skye and her dad Dillon finely got to the south end of the platform. with her 10 year old sister sliding her feet and whining.
"i want to go to hogwarts why cant i go now with Skye its not fair."
Jazzabella was at it again she never stops whining skye thought " Jazz its your turn next and you promised you would look after Tilly for me. make sure you feed her and give her fresh water and clean her out weekly.
" Dont worry Jazz its your turn next year then i will have piece and quiet at last and you did promise skye that you will look after her rat"
"Dad Tillys a hamster not a rat!!!!!!" replyed jazz and skye.
"OK! OK! tillys a hamster. anyway skye have you got everything, all your books ,clothes and all your other things you need and dizzy is here of course i see" looking at the snowy owl who was fast asleep in his cage.
"yes Dad ive got everything" replyed Skye

Kurumi has been sitting down on a bench reading through a rather thick book with tiny text. Walnut, finally accepting that he had to spend the first part of the trip in his wicker crate, had fallen asleep and was purring softly. At least one of her more challenging bits of the day was over.

Looking up for a moment while she turned the page, she saw Jonathan go pacing by looking madder than a hippogriff on Sunday. And...why was he carrying a pair of gloves? It was far too hot for such an item of clothing, wasn't it?

"Y-You're hair looks fine," she smiled as she placed her bookmark back in her book and shut it.

Oh Merlin..

Mia was doing that dragging of her feet thing, and he was already groaning to himself at the thought of her bringing THAT conversation up. Again. How many times did he have to tell her she was going back to school? At least, so far, she was actually walking on her own. He really thought he would have to carry her onto the platform.

Nikolai almost rolled his eyes as he heard her sigh. It was her last year and he knew she would regret it if she didn't finish.

"Yeah, there is no point. I just walked through a wall to get you here." He was going to be glad when she did get on that train. That way, that conversation would never have to happen again. Well, it wouldn't happen until Christmas at least.

"Do you have everything you need?"

Jonathan halted when he heard a voice commenting him about his hair. Kurumi. Jonathan smiled as she saw her reading a book. Does every girl have to read books as thick as those all the time? Jonathan is not much a book lover, except for Potions. He reads books but certainly not all the time. Heehee.

"Really?" he said finishing fixing his hair. Jonathan sat down next to Kurumi and looked at the thick book which was now closed. "Oh, don't let me bother you with your reading" yeah. She could be reading something important. Besides, what is she reading about anyway? The covering looks nice anyway. Is it one of those muggle books perhaps?

"How are you?" he asked. Because the last time they saw each other was back then at the shooting range which by the way, still give Jonathan the chills. The game was full of adrenaline-- too much actually.

Geez, he didn't have to look as though he couldn't wait to get rid of her. Okay, so she had been just a little whiny in the past week about having to go back to school but seriously...

Mia was almost tempted to roll her eyes as well and she almost blurted that he didn't have to see her off, he was probably only doing it so that he could make sure that she actually got on the train, but she did not want to start a fight with him. Especially since she was not going to see him for the next four months.

She shrugged her shoulders. "I'm sure if I've forgotten anything you'll have no problems sending it to me." Or she could pick it up personally but she knew he wouldn't let her do that. Techincally though, Mia was of age and if she didn't want to go back to school she didn't have to. But even she had to admit that he had a point about her regretting not finishing her education, she just wished it didn't come as a cost at being separated from him.

"So dad would like us to visit for Christmas. Is that okay with you?" Eh now she was being all formal like. Maybe she should just get on the train before she said something really stupid.

cloooooooooooones <3
 

"It looks fine," she nodding in confirmation. She noticed that he was often playing with his hair, at least his bangs. Perhaps there was a spell somewhere that could help with his hair issues? "Oh, this?" she asked turning over the cover. "It's nothing really. Just another book I checked out on dragons. Something to help pass the time and keep my mind of...other things."

Kurumi smiled as he sat down next to her. "I've been alright," she said with a slight bow of her head. "Nervous about the coming term." She looked at him from over her shoulder. Jonathan would be a...fifth year if she wasn't mistaken. "So...you ready to take your OWLs? I am insanely jealous you know."
Kurumi smiled as she watched the family in front of her interact. It must be nice to come here with your family and be able to say a proper farewell. Kurumi had told her father to stay home and work - mostly because she was worried that he would make a huge scene - and the rest of her family was back in Japan.

Kurumi thought she saw the young girl, who she assumed was a first year, look her way, and Kurumi offer her a small smile.

With the way she said it..

Nikolai was going to have to go home and search the house for all the things she had forgotten. Most likely, all the things she had forgotten on purpose. It just seemed like something she would do. Did she remember to bring her demon puffskein? He was not going to have that thing running around the house while she was gone, having it stick it's tongue in his ear when he slept.

Although, Pepper would have fun with it.

Shrugging his shoulders, he pulled her trunk deeper onto the platform and closer to the train. Maybe if she saw how happy all the others were to go back.. Or maybe if she spotted some friends..

He stopped glancing around the platform hearing Mia's question, and his eyebrow threatened to raise at the way she had asked it. "That's fine with me." Like she even had to ask him that. "Do you do anything special for Christmas there?"

Dragons?
That's awesome. It's not everyday you talk to a person, especially a girl, who is very much interested with dragons. "That's wicked" he looked at the book. Jonathan would love to read about those stuffs but he can't even finish reading his CoMC book. And that book has plenty stuffs about different animals.

Wait.

She's reading a book to get her mind off thing? Really. Jonathan doesn't get that. Or maybe he just have a different way of approaching things. His mother was like that too, Jeanne as well, and if he remembers Fee and Cass do the same thing when they want to get their minds off something. Maybe it's a girl's thing. Jonathan laughed softly. "Definitely incredible" he added.

School stuffs and what not is always something to talk about, especially now that the upcoming term is a few days away. Bummer. "Fourth year... I got lazy by that year" he joked around. "You'll do okay." he smiled. Well, Kurumi is pretty smart. Of course she'll do well. Jonathan bets she can still pass the exams without studying.

And speaking of studying.... OWLs!
Jonathan is certainly not ready for those and here Kurumi is jealous of him. Jealous??? Jonathan smiled, it amuses him that she gets jealous over OWLs. "You'll have yours don't worry" true. When this year is over she'll have to answer her own OWLs too. "I'm doing well with Potions" obviously "but i'm scared i might fail Herbology" yeah. If Kurumi can still remember when they both planted those silly bouncing plants. Jonathan felt petrified at that still.

skye looked around saw the girl smiling, she smilled back and decided to say a last good bye "Dad i will see you at christmas, you too Jazz look after Tilly for me"" OK skye be good and send me a letter when your settled in" replyed her dad. " come on jazzabella we can go home and get some lunch. skyes dad quickly gave her a hug and he and jazz left.
skye watched as her dad and younger sister left she was going to miss them but was looking forward to the year. she started to look around to see where she could leave her trunk safely.

He really didn't care, did he? Mia was sure that he couldn't wait to get rid of her that's why he was being like he was. And for some reason she felt the need to be difficult. Maybe it was because he wasn't giving into her like he usually did and she was being a brat about it.

She knew this but yet she just couldn't seem to stop herself. Placing her hands on her hips, Mia merely watched him walk ahead of her while she just stood there. She was not getting on that train yet.

"Yeah. After the gift giving and the feast we all run around naked and give thanks to the gods for the wonderful life they have given us." Yep she was totally being childish and if she didn't stop it soon, Nikolai was going to end up leaving.

Running a hand through her hair, Mia let out another sigh. "Nothing special. Although we do have this tradition of playing cricket."