Ariana smiled her eyes twinkling, "If you'd like I can lend you a jazz record I have. I listen to it all the time here." she said warmly, remembering the cold nights that she stayed in her dorm, listening to the music on the old victrola..

She chuckled and nodded, "I agree completely." she said in responce to Kohans' last answer, "I often find myself wanting to spend more time with my cat than magical creatures. Though sometimes I swear she's more kneazle than muggle cat." she chuckled, shaking her head, "I'm assuming you've had an encounter with a creature before?" She asked curiously.

Madame Kohan was slightly taken aback as Ariana offered to lend her one of the records which she listened to. What a generous offer! Smiling right back at the girl, Angela spoke. "I would love that. You can come drop it by my office. Also, I have a bit of research that I think you might be interested in." She aed.

Chuckling along with Ariana, Angela nodded once. "More kneazle than muggle? What makes you say that?" She inquired. She had never really been one for pets, save for her owl, but she was curious.

With another laugh, she spoke again in response to Ariana's question. "Oh, yes, in the form of a goat. First, he chewed on my books and then tried to chew on my skirt. What a racket we made! Though it did seem quite amusing afterwards."

Ariana smiled, thinking of the pefect record to bring to Madame Kohan. At the mention of research she perked up, "Oh really? I must admit to completely forgetting about that. And am a bit surprised you actually went and found something. I'll come by sometime before exams and drop it off." she said nodding slightly to the librarian.

Ari frowned, "Well, ginger has this way of knowing who's good or evil." she began, "and honestly she's more loyal to my mother than me since my mother is the one who had her first. She doesn't act like a normal muggle cat at all, she hardly sleeps and never wants to have her belly rubbed." she chuckled "Sometimes I think she spies on the other Ravenclaw students while I'm sleeping, though I have no proof of that." she grinned.

Ariana laughed softly as Kohan described the goat incident. She shook her head and replied, "Oh my, that must have been very akward. I hope you were able to repair the books?" she inquired.

Kayla walked through the throngs of people all enjoying the dance and made her way over to a table and sat down. She watched with amusement on her face the people on the dance floor.

"Yea, that must be it," Gwen replied. "Being wizards and all, we don't need eletronics, but there's so much we could do with it. I mean, we have the WWN."

Gwen gazed at Kayla for a fraction of a second. "Hi," she said warily.

Kayla heard Gwen, the girl she'd had an argument with in that eventful charms lesson say hi to her. She nodded her head in her Gwen's direction. "Hello" she replied just as Ben took a seat at the table. She looked at him and smiled brightly. "Hi Ben, how are you?" Kayla asked.

Ah. She's receptive. Her wand is not drawn. Nothing has exploded. Good sign.

"Hope you're doing better," she said, leaving her to chat with the boy named Ben.

Kayla burst out laughing. "Yeah I am doing better, thanks. You don't need to look so worried I've got my emotions in better check, I'm not about to destroy anything" she said still chuckling. "And if you want feel free to join us."

Ben grinned. "Me? I'm great. And you, Kay?" he said politely. He had not talked to Kayla in a long time. Gazing at nothing in particular, he raised his eyebrows, but this was not obvious as his hair chose that moment to flop into his face.

Gwen grinned. "Sure, I'm just chatting with my new friend Excelsior here," she said. She turned toward him. "Mind if I call you Ex? Or do you just like Excelsior?"

"Yeah I'm good Ben" Kayla said as she looked at him closely. "You have nothing to worry about either, I'm not going to fall apart on you like last time" she said grinning. "So what have you been up to? It feels like ages since I seen you last."

Kayla looked at Gwen and smiled. "The more the merrier."

"Well Ben" Kayla said grinning slyly. "You'd be surprised at what I can do, I managed to kick Helios' butt in a duel. I'm no easy push over you know."

Angela smiled easily at Ariana's comment about the research. "I did promise you that I would." She pointed out with a wink. "But sure. That sounds good to me. I won't take too much of your time, though. You need all the studying time you can get." She remarked, knowing that the exams no doubt were harder today than years ago. Even then, they were difficult.

Listening intently as Ariana explained what she meant by the reference to her cat, Angela nodded slowly. "I see...Well, maybe she is part kneazle." She suggested, soon laughing at Ariana's remark about her cat spying. "I guess we'll never know."

"I'm in the process of getting it replaced." She answered with a slight grimace. "I was rather agitated at first, but then found it all amusing after the fact. Though now....the aftermath does make me want to give that goat a piece of my mind."

Jolie nodded in agreement, brushing away the blonde hair from her face. "I understand completely." She told her friend, "It's the same for my fifth year. O.W.L's where a killer." Jolie complained, "But I think I did fairly well."

Just then she noticed her friend watching a boy and a girl not too far away. And then only moments later the boy stood up and walked over. Another Slytherin, Jolie noticed.

"Hi Ryder. Nice to meet you." She said politley with a small smile.

Kayla looked back at Ben as he raised his eyebrows again, he really did underestimate her. "You know just because I'm in Hufflepuff doesn't mean that I am not as good or even better than those in other houses. And you met Helios in the great hall" she laughed. "Yeah and I don't think he was too happy that I beat him."

Her hair was in a ponytail and although she kept the plain white school short sleeved shirt, she had managed find and overly large school skirt which she tried charming pink. It didn't quite work and it was now some kind of fluorescent lavender color.

"Isn't that highly unhygienic?" She retorted, purposely ignoring his teasing tone. It would do no good to encourage such behavior. People were watching!