This was not the way Willow had been wishing for the term to start. Getting in trouble with Vindictus for arguing with Gavin, Terry taking seat beside her... Honestly, where were her friends? Sabrina, Issy, Eleanor. . . The sane people, in other words. Willow just felt like smacking her head against the wooden table. Who cared if she got hurt? She could always visit the Hospital Wing afterwards.

Feeling the presence of someone else taking seat beside her, Willow did not have to look up to see who had been, for as soon as a cinnamon scent filled her nostrils, she knew it was Terry. No one else she knew had such a--beguiling scent.

Mentally, Willow gave herself a good kick for thinking this.

"Indeed, I'm doing alright, Terry." Not. Well--if she were being completely honest with herself, Willow knew that she was better now. Why? She didn't even know, and to be honest, she didn't want to, for the fourteen year old was sure that she would not like the answer. "Yourself?" Being polite to Terry was not as hard as Willow thought it might be, and it felt good in its own way.

If this was the outcome of having Professor Vindictus around, then he should hang out around Willow more often.

With the corner of her eye, Willow noticed a very small and rather flustered figure taking seat in front of her. Finally! someone sane. Finally someone who Willow didn't have to question their table manners.

A grin of relieve spread across her lips, showing a set of pearly white teeth. Oddly enough, this make her look quite a bit like her brother.

"I believe you are a bit late, Issy, yes. What happened?" Agreed Willow, still smiling. Now she was not going to have to deal with Terry, Gavin, and Vindictus all by herself. Isabella Cortella was probably going to be a distraction for Gavin, seeing that Willow knew they were quite close. And Terry, well, knowing him, he'll probably flirt with Issy in front of her.

The single thought of this felt almost as if something was burning inside her stomach a little bit. Quickly, the fourth year ignored this feeling, and introduce the two of them.

"Terry, this is my friend Issy. Issy this is Terry." Willow did a pretty good job introducing people, if she did say so herself--and trust me, she did. "Terry here seems to apparently have forgotten where is the Gryffindor table located, of course." She eyed Terry's plate briefly, before adding. "That's the only thing I can come up with to explain his presence in the Ravenclaw table." Her tone of voice was polite. Almost too formal for a mere fourteen year old girl.

Of course that this was only because Willow had not forgotten Vindictus was there. She had to be polite in front of the head of the house.

Terry scooped out some more potato onto his fork, having wayy more than he should have trouble trying to contain his smugness at the situation. It seemed to be exuding from his every pore.

'That's good then,' Terry smiled, eyeing her sneakily, 'I'm alright, I suppose. I could be doing better.' He continued on in an innocent tone, 'If I perhaps, actually knew your name this time?' Dude, she couldn't avoid him now? Not when they were going to the same school? And with several other students around? PLUS a professor? He had the feeling though she'd still find a way to avoid the question.

He was still having a hard time getting used to her tactfully being nice though. It kept knocking him off. He could certainly get used to it though. He grinned to himself when she didn't move away her arm, even though he would have bet his entire sock collection she was certainly itching to do so. SCORE! He smirked nonchalantly, 'How was the rest of your summer then? Get up to anything good?'

Gah, which reminded him. All this talking was making him thirsty. Reaching over for his pumpkin juice, he nearly screamed as a human bomb dived insanely straight past. Although of course, he would have screamed in a most manly manner. That is, if he'd screamed. Which he so hadn't. -cough-

He straightened in his seat, looking up only to find the so called 'bomb' had been a girl. And a very pretty girl at that. Who also seemed to be looking right at him.

How...not awkward. But thankfully her talking deviated his attention. 'Hey there,' Terry murmured, then made a show of raising his wrist up and glancing at his watch, 'Naah, you're not too late, I don't think. Only about two odd hours?' He glanced across at her, smiling mischieviously at her to signal he was only teasing.

"Patty," repeated Maura. "Got it. I'm in second year. It's nice to meet you, Patty!" she said.

"No. When the Minister got married, he and his wife decided to have two separate schools, one for girls and one for boys," she explained. "They named the girls' school belle's after Clara, and they named the boys' school Cooper's after the Minister. I'm not sure why they decided to have different schools, but Hogwarts is back now, hopefully for good. Does that make sense?"

Celandine was having trouble with Pirates.

She couldn't quite make them small enough for the boat; and they'd be able to eat her seamonster in one or maybe two bites. She took a mouthful of potato island, gravy sea and topped it off with the seamonster and the boat; and chewed thoughtfully.

Oh! She could make them stranded on a desert island! Cela used her spoon to push all the potatoes together and added a little more gravy. Her one-inch high assorted-vegetable-pirates she placed carefully in the centre of the potato island.

Very carefully, Celandine used the end of her spoon to mark an x in the potatoes.

It still needed something else.

Maura hugged Laylee. "I was lost for awhile, but of course I found you in the end. I loveitloveitloveit here!" she squealed. "You have to show me around!" the more she said it, the funner it sounded. She wasn't going to get any sleep tonight and that was a fact.

Barry smilled "Done yet or are you going to add a castle as well" he asked he thought this was very baby like behaviar but he wasn`t going to say that

Chris smiled and gave her a quick hug. "Yes it will." Chris said pulling out of the hug.

Celandine turned and shot Barry a long-suffering look. She had never been allowed to do this before and had 12 years of food creations to make up for.
"I'm going to eat it you know." Cela told Barry matter-of-factly. "Besides, Castles and Pirates don't quite go together." she added under her breath.

She tossed her head, sending her golden-blonde hair bouncing. "Can't a girl get a little creative once and a while?"

And the pirates looked really awesome so she was relatively content. It would be even cooler if she had the guts to throw the potato. But she wasn't in the business of losing points. Or getting detention. Unless it was with Steelsheen since that'd be pretty okay.

Melinda hugged Chris back and smiled to him as they pulled away. She held his hand and sighed. "I just...can't wait till tomorrow...it will be amazing..." She told him and giggled.

Barry was taken aback by what Cela had said "Creative? I`ll have to get you an art kit for chrismas ." It was true she needed something else to use which wasn`t food "I didn`t say you wern`t going to eat it um treasure goes well with pirates don`t they" ahh why did he say that now she would make that too

Lucas saw a girl making a whole village with her mashed. He was very keen to help her. He liked playing with his food. His family often times had spectacular food fights at the dinner table. "That is very nice. I like playing with my food too." He told her with a smile. "You are very good at it." She seemed very interesting.

Patricia cocked an eyebrow, in total disbelief of the lunacy of that decision from the minister. He gets married and the students get segregated for it? What an idiot he is, she thought in the back of her mind.

"Well, I'm happy to be here at Hogwarts and not that Bell-ding-a-ling school! What were they thinking of?" she said to Maura, "I'm sorry that you guys had to go there in the first place. Imagine if you'd done your first year here instead?" she really felt sad that last years students were treated so shoddily. She looked around again, appreciating the grand old school that Hogwarts was. She shook her head in disbelief.

Chris smiled as he held Melinda's hand. "Yeah it should be fun being back at the lake seeing everyone again." Chris said still smiling.

Melinda nodded. "So...ready to go in classes and make your house get a lot of points?" She asked Chris, excited. She hoped to make this and her last year the better for her and preparation for later her life.

Maura could not help giggling. "You don't know the half of it. There were flowers everywhere...the wallpaper...the curtains....the bedspreads....the sheets..." She shuddered. "Anyway, I'm so glad that I'm here now! Hogwarts is so cool!" she exclaimed.

"Well I won't say a lot of points, but sure." Chris said laughing. "But I should probably start getting ready for OWLs next year." He said, not really wanting to think about them.

Well, well. Terry was making himself comfortable in the Ravenclaw table now, and Willow was not in a position of telling me to get up and leave. Sighing, the girl reached for the chocolate cake, and helped herself with some.

Eyes locked on the cake on her plate, Willow's lips curled, allowing a little snicker make an appearance. Terry still wanted to know her name, and to be perfectly honest, Willow was not sure if she wanted to give him her name. Not yet, anyway. "Remember what I said about patience once? It is a really good virtue, you know... " She trailed off, leaving it there.

Snicker still in place, the girl grabbed her spoon, and stuffed some chocolate inside her mouth with one swift movement. The snicker, however, vanished as soon as her eyes noticed the smirk on Terry's face. He was enjoying himself, the young Ravenclaw was positive of this. Might as well let him have the time of his life, while he could. The feast did not last forever, and as soon as Vindictus decided to return to the staff table, Willow was planning to tell Terry Saunders one thing or two.

"It was alright. My brother got married, as your already know, and the father or my friend Sabrina got married, so I attended to his wedding," replied Willow pleasantly, almost as if Terry and her were a couple of good friends, catching up on the summer events. "Issy and some other friends were there, as well. What about you?"

Listening to Terry's and Issy's exchange, the fourteen year old rolled her eyes at him. Had he not heard Issy was her friend? He should not be saying that to her! Issy, Willow was sure, had a very good reason to be late to the feast. A reason that of course, was none of Terry's business.

Hannah turned around and said"Duck!!!"As she threw a plate of food at the boy who seemed to be at the wrong table."OH!!! FOOD FIGHT!" She said as she ran away!

Seeing the girl that had caused a mess at the Slytherin table, Freya grabbed a large handful of mashed potatoes, dipping it in the gravy on her plate. She quickly hurled it in the girls direction and managed to nail her right in the back of the head. "Ten Points!" Freya yelled as she congratulated herself for her good aim.

Melinda listened to Chris and smiled. SUddenly, a plate of food landed on Chis and as she looked at her clothes, something did as well to her.

"Excuse me...what did you just do...here?" She asked the girl, acting quite stressful about this situation.

Hannah truned around and dumped and glass of Pumpkin juice on her."15 points!"she yelled at her as she ducked under a table.

"Flowers? Everywhere? How girly-kitchy that sounds..." Patricia shivered just thinking about it. It reminded her of aunt Figgy's house, complete with flowered doilies on every surface. Merlin's whiskers! Some people had awful taste in their decor.

"I doubt that we'll see any flowers around here, apart from the greenhouses." she looked up to the staff's table. "There are some really gloomy looking people up there." Patricia made a funny face, making her brows go up and down to make a point. She giggled under her breath.

Chris turned when he heard duck. But turned right into the plate. The plate fell to the floor and food was now all over his face, and his robes too. He saw a Hufflepuff girl run away. He took a napkin as he tryed to clean his face.

Melinda shook in disgrace when the girl dumped a glass of pumpking juice on her hair. She was not going to respond, not her. She tried to dry her hair and looked at Chris, who was cleaning his shirt and face. "Let me help you..." She said and took another napkin and cleaned his shirt.

Winter ate some of her mashed potatoes then said "Yes, I know what you mean I"m beat, too." Winter pushed her plate away. She really wasn't hungry anymore she wanted to talk want to know more about her new freind so she decided to ask Patty some questions. "Hey, Patty what do you like to do for fun?" she asked.