Blossom walked to the Ravenclaw table after being sorted into Ravenclaw. " Wow the castle is so cool" She said to herself. Sitting down she straightened her robes.She had, that morning, made herself look good compared to normal circumstances. Normally she would chuck on some comfy shorts and a t shirt then go outside and play quidditch with her friend Kayla who was going to Beaxbatons instead of Hogwarts.Today though she made sure her long blond hair was perfect and that her clothes weren't crimpled or dirty.She sighed, she was hoping to make some friends. Other than this Blossom was over the moon. She thought about trying out for quidditch. " hmmm i wonder if i am any good" She thought out loud since her games were only for fun and not competitive. She helped herself to a piece of pie and started munching enthusiastically. Hogwarts will be great she thought to herself smiling.

Leaning back with a full Stomach damian looked at the Girl who sat down on the other site of him.

"Hi. Your a first year, right? My name is Damian. I am also a first year" said he. "Do you like Hogwarts?" asked Damian curious.

He couldn't manage to yell as the fork was quickly ripped out of his nose. His eyes however teared from the pain as she muttered a spell that seemed to have cleaned the blood. Trying his best not to let those tears fall down, Willie quickly sat up and rubbed his eyes. His pants were still down, but he didn't care at the moment.

At the moment, all he cared about was getting his revenge.

Yes, sweet... sweet revenge.

Living with an older brother your whole life and people who tend to tease you makes you want to do crazy things. And this, revenge, was one of them. He was going to make sure the girl feels the pain he had felt the very moment she ripped the fork out of his nose.

"Shut up." He muttered darkly to the boy who was trying to be nice to him. Right now, his happy mood was destroyed and was now replaced with a darker one. If this were to be drawn in cartoons, Willie would have a dark cloud above him, with lighting striking down.

Grabbing onto the boy's hand, Willie pulled himself up. "Nameth Willie." He told him after the older boy told his name. Even though he was angry, that didn't give him the right to be rude to other people when they'd introduce themselves to him.

"I ain't 'ungry," he murmured, pulling his pants up. He needed to get these fixed as soon as he can. He couldn't stay in these clothes any longer, he just couldn't! They were too big for him.

Oh, shoot. Thought Lyra. Why did I have to say anything? She thought fast.

"Lasca didn't break the rules! She just told me she didn't bring her broom. And please don't punish Mariel. I'm the only one that should be punished." She really hoped the man listened to her.

Qaz had seen enough of the kid with the droopy drawers, so she dug around in her bag and pulled out a nice long peice of leather lacing...it was only about 6mm thick but it should do the trick...

'Hey, Willie, I have some leather here that you can use as a belt....you'll have to tie it because there's no buckle......that's if you're interested' she offered him the length of brown leather....

Rian turned to her food and sort of dropped out of the conversation. Liz seemed to be doing great, so Rian put a spoonful of mashed potatoes on her plate and a roll, then started eating, trying not to eavesdrop, but she was just too curious.

When Liz started changing her appearance, Rian tipped her head to look. She'd never seen her do it intentionally. ...It was really cool to see. When she realized she was staring, Rian quickly turned back to her plate.

Damain turned to Willie. "Hey. I can give you my belt because I don't really need. It's just an Accesory." proposed he kindly. "You can give it back if don't need it anymore".

Aggie had heard Tobi’s beckoning from across the Great Hall, but only after she had already loaded her plate with food. She wasn’t about to waste what she had grabbed, and therefore had calmly sat in her seat at the Gryffindor table, ate and then once she was done, got up and wandered over.
”I thought that the duck wasn’t bad. I was actually surprised to find they were serving it.” Aggie was standing behind Tobi whose curly head went up to her chin. This was probably the only time she’d appear taller then the gangly Gryffindor with the crooked smile. “Put of course the plum pudding was the best.” It didn’t occur to Aggie that perhaps the tables had different foods on them.

Taking a glance at Rian, Liz gives her a grin and turns back to Copernicus.

With her now long hair and sky blue eyes. She says to Copernicus "I guess you finally met a metamorphmagus!"

Sarah walked the full length of the Ravenclaw table trying to see her friends.
"Oh..so many people with their heads down talking," she sighed. "Mariel,Lasca..where are you?"
Straining her neck she continued looking.

Robert walked calmly over to the Ravenclaw house table. He sat down and yawned. A chestnut-brown cat casually strutted after him (Obviously unknown to Robert). The cat walked under the table and found a comfy spot on top of someones foot. Robert took a small peace of parchment out of his pocket and started scribbling on it. He folded it into a paper airplane and threw it at the large wooden door. The paper airplane flew through the room and turned in mid air out of the room and out one of the windows above the entrance from the courtyard. Robert relaxed and tried to think of something to do while he was waiting to see if his friend made had arrived already.

Barry looked over to Garret as he saw people at the staff table start falling. And Willie of courcre but he was more concerned for him "Hey big man " he called " You want a chicken wing?" he asked. Well thats the nicest he could be to the boy.

He looked over to Cela and said "One heck of a term right?"

And Mariel thought that ancient people had diminished hearing. Apparently this one had super-human hearing as she was sure she and Lyra were very quiet. That didn't matter though as her eyes widened in horror as the elderly professor began reprimanding the two girls along with Lasca. Fifteen points?! All she did was offer the girl some helpful advice - if you're going to break rules, don't get caught - and now she was being accused of starting a conspiracy. That little thought nearly made her laugh as she thought that almost sounded like being a spy - well, they were whispering.

Mariel quickly pushed that thought out of her mind as she composed her features into that of respectful obedience. Giving the man a curt nod, she managed, "Yes, sir," as politely as she could, surprising herself by the lack of sarcasm in her voice. If she was going to be punished, she would certainly take responsibility for her actions as maturely as she could, although she felt it somewhat unwarranted. What she didn't get was why Lasca had points deducted. Lasca never even said that she brought a broom, she was only being asked if she had, so why on Earth would she lose points? Of course the girl could speak for herself if she found it necessary.

Turning away from the professor, Mariel helped herself to dessert, stealing a few glances his way as he introduced himself to a few others. Great, Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, one of those required classes... He would be completely unavoidable now. Watching vaguely as he was led away by the candy girl, she turned her attention to Lyra. "Just leave it, Lyra," she said, defeat coloring her tone. "The points are already gone. We'll just have to be sure to make them up." Then she added, "You will have to surrender your broom though."

Her attention was diverted by another girl joining them at their table. Smiling warmly as Nathaniel introduced them, she turned to Nathaniel. "Oh your girlfriend?" Turning back to Sophia, Mariel said as she shook her hand, "I don't think we've met before, but it's good to meet you Sophia. I've heard nice things about you." Chuckling, she added, "Yeah, it seems as though Nathaniel has forgotten that Great Britain is an island."

Trying not to be nosy as the two of them talked, Mariel focused on her dessert, but looked up as she heard a familiar voice. Finally locating the sound, Mariel waved a bit as she called, "Sarah, over here." She would certainly welcome another friendly face after recent events.

Lasca's mouth dropped open. She was about to answer Lyra when the DADA Professor came over and started chastizing her and Lyra. She was at a lose for words, that is until her turned back and asked for the brooms by dawn. That's when her voice decided to return with full force.

She reigned in her knee jerk reaction to shout and took on instead a more calm and collected demeanor. "You will pardon me Professor, but I have no broom to give. My broom is at my house in the Carpathians. I had thought to ask if I could have my Papa send me my broom if I made the Quidditch team. That is after I gained permission from one of the Professors. But I am assuring you that I have broken no school rules. I have no broom in my possession."

She wanted to yell and scream that it wasn't fair that she had been wrongly accused but she didn't. She took two calming breaths and got herself under control. Looking again at the professor, hoping he would hear what she had to say. "I can however understand if you still see fit to take points from me. I will take the punishment readily if thats what you believe is right." She had been taught to respect her elders and he was her teacher so he fell firmly into that catagory. She just hoped that he would hear her out, she really hadn't done anything wrong.

She was trying very hard not to look at Lyra. She still liked that girl, she was just a tad angry at the moment and didn't want to say something she would regret. She wanted to give herself time to calm down. She did however look at Mariel. Her friend seemed cool as a cucumber, while Lasca was ranting inside. She hoped she was being as calm and collect to everyone else.

"Finally!", Sarah sighed,giggling. "I thought I'd never find you."
Looking at the expression on Mariel's face,and seeing one of the professors departing,Sarah became concerned.
"Are you alright? You don't look very happy,have I come over at a bad time?"

Squeezing in next to Mariel Sarah smoothed out her robes and smiled at her friend.
"Did he say something to you guys?" she asked,in reference to the professor.
Oh so many questions,but she was genuinely worried.

Willie eyed the boy, his green eyes furiously drilling a hole in his head. "No." He snapped, holding onto his pants tightly. "I dun wantchu belt, mate. I gotth it alll unde' control."

"I thaid I ain't 'ungry! Willie snapped once more at the other boy, his cheeks growing red. He couldn't stay here any longer. They'd know him as the poor boy whose pants fell. Pouting, he stood on the tip of his toes and tried to look for Garret.

Well, that was a total failure as he couldn't see past the boy who was in front of him. There was only one way to search for his dear brother!

Falling to the ground, Willie began to crawl under the tables and under the students feet. This was the fastest way he could think of. Walking would be dangerous, this was better.

"Ok. Calm down. I was just friendly. No reason to snap here" said Damian calm.

*what a freak thought he*

Robert's Cat, Dublin who had sneaked under the table, jumped out from under it and leaped off the floor and onto the thick stone wall with a loud hiss. Dublin tried to cling to the wall but failing that he landed on his feet and stood with his tail erect and hissed at the table.

Robert jumped back in his seat and looked around but by the time Robert looked, Dublin was standing under the bench a few feet away.

"Yep, I sure am," Natka replied with a smile. She helped herself to some potatoes and chicken.

"So... how was your summer? Did you go anywhere? By the way, if you don't mind me asking, that is - are you pureblood, half half or muggleborn?" Natka inquired.

"I'm half-half myself, my Mum's a witch. She's a healer at St. Mungos... my Dad isn't really a fan of magic, though," she added with a half smile.

She looked around the hall, and couldn't stop the excitement at the new school year from bubbling inside her. She'd missed the castle, the lessons, the teachers, the ghosts... everything about the magic at Hogwarts, really.

Natka spotted a first year sitting down at their table alone. Smiling, she waved over to her.

"Hey there, I'm Natka," she introduced herself. "Great to see another Clawy here!"

Nia had managed to end up just trying to take in all the commotion. In fact, so much was going on, she gave up trying to follow what had happened since the new headmaster's speech, and instead hungrily ate her bangers and mash. It was one of her favourite meals afterall.

After both second and third helpings, Nia could've sworn she felt something brush past her leg. Bending to look under the table, a frown on her face at the fact something had interupted her meal, she was intrigued to see it was in fact a young boy. The very one that had a fork up his nose earlier. She could even see those pants. Rolling her eyes, she gave a cough. "Excuse me, but what exactly are you doing under here, interuptting my bangers and mash? Wouldn't you be more comfortable walking?"

Returning her head to above the table, and straightening out her hair, Nia watched Natka pile food onto her plate. "It was pretty good thanks. I got to practice a fair bit of quidditch with my Dad. And then my new baby brother had the audacity to be sick on me a couple of times." She rolled her eyes for emphasis, though she would admit he was quite cute when he wasnt crying. Ah, the lovely sleep she'd get here without dear Nathaniel and their parents having to keep getting up. "I also managed to fit in my daily annoyance of my twin brother." She chuckled, shame Theo had stopped relying on Buzz now. Took away half the the fun. Her eyes twinkled mischeivously.

"Ah, not at all. I'm a half half too." She smiled, "My Mum was Muggle born, and my Dad is a pureblood. Both work in the Ministry and the Department of Games and Sports." She took a sip of her pumpkin juice. "Dad used to be a professional quidditch player. I want to follow in his footsteps." She grinned at the thought of tryouts coming back soon. They had a championship to defend, even if it was under a new captain. She glanced along the table to see if she could work out who it was.

Tobi started a little. How long had Aggie been standing behind him? had she heard him arguing with Cale about the status of their non-relationship? Was she going to beat on him again? Why did she smell like peaches again? There was no peach-food being served!

Relax man, it's just Aggie, for crying out loud. You could probably take her in a fight... maybe... it would be fun to try anyway...

"You always like the baked puddings the best." Tobi craned his neck around to look Aggie in the eye. The result put their faces awfully close together. He immediately scooted closer to Cale to get away - making room for Aggie between him and the now silent Valentine.

"Have a seat with the cool kids, Ag," he joked to cover his sudden discomfort.

There Tobi went again, acting all weird. She swore he even sniffed her tie. She wondered what the boy’s problem was. Perhaps he needed another smack to the head; what was it Gran always said? Boy’s brains rattle around so much they sometimes need a good wallop to get them back into place. Aggie considered it for a moment, but by the time she came to her conclusion of what to do, Tobi was acting normal again.

Well, normal for Tobi.

“What exactly,” Aggie asked slipping onto the bench between Tobi and Valentine. “Are you implying about your own house?” She elbowed Tobi a little trying to get more room. Perhaps she should have stayed at her own table. From the looks of the Ravenclaw table, which she had never before sat at, they didn’t have duck, and she had been hoping for another course of roast duck.

“And I do enjoy a good pudding. But Duck’s almost as good. Pass the mince meat pies please.

Amy looked up at Jake with a kind smile. “Now don’t say that I liked you,” she noticed him returning her smile and noted the twinkle in his eye. Almost to the point of blushing until the smile quickly faded away. She listened to Jake and could tell he was leaving pieces of the story out. Though he had not pushed Amy into telling more then she wanted about her summer she decided not to push the subject with him either.

Then again her cheeks felt flush and her heart fluttered as she repeated what he said in her mind, I am sure she’ll love you too. After a moment she forced herself to speak, “I would love to meet her as well at the reason of them.” She placed her hand on top of Jakes, “I would take you to meet me mother for the holiday, but now is not a good time.” She gave a small sigh before continuing. “But hey maybe we can go see your family,” she said in hopes to cheer herself as well as him up.

Tobi reached past Cale and well into Aura's space with his long arms to get Aggie the mincemeat pies, passing back the plate in short order.

"I'm implying that since three quarters of our friends our Ravenclaws, it makes way more sense to eat with them than hang out at our table," Tobi said diplomatically.

He didn't point out that neither he nor Aggie got on particularly well with many Gryffindors, in fact they seem to be the ONLY Gryffindors that either seemed to be close to at all. Tobi liked Daphne okay, in a 'you're bizarre and thus interesting' kind of way, but he liked Celadine in a similar way, and she wasn't a Gryffindor, or... a raging snob.

But no Tobi geniunely enjoyed Aggie, when she wasn't kicking him in the shins or doing her level best to drive him mad. Kinda even then too.

"Besides, this table has superior Pie a la Mode." Tobi pointed with his fork to his blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream.

Absent mindedly, Melly started to wiggle her legs to and fro underneath the table while trying to check if the Great Hall had changed in any way during the couple of months she had been away from the castle. She probably looked for some fifteen minutes, barely noticing the flying bits of chicken and potato that had flown over her head (thankfully, she was too tiny and therefore hidden between the people who towered over her to be hit), only to finally realize that it was exactly the same. Sure, she might have taken notice of some cracks on the walls that she swore she had never seen there, but besides that...

A happy smile still lingering on her lips, she finally set herself to analyze her fellow students. At first, she recognized none of the people who were there, but then her eyes fell on a certain male. Immediately her cheeks switched to a rosy color. Copernicus was there. And... Merlin, he was a Ravenclaw as well! That meant she would have plenty of time to get to know her - erm, that is, the prince that he was. That meant she had bigger chances of becoming his friend. Not his princess, no, she wouldn't dare to dream that far, but a friend... Ah, she'd like that indeed.

Finding that it was better not to interrupt prince Copernicus while he spoke to some other people - she'd introduce herself yet again once he was alone or with less people -, she kept looking across the table until -

"Juni! Issy!," Melina squealed with a huge grin, hopping from the seat where she had been for the last minutes to run towards her friends.

Once she reached them, her tiny arms circled Juni tightly before turning to Issy and doing the same. "Oh, Issy! I haven't seen you for so long!," She declared, her cheek against her friend's hair. And indeed she hadn't. As far as she could tell, they had barely spoken the previous term and if they had, well, then her memory was even worse than she believed it to be. Well, that or it was too busy remembering details of fairytales and other books she read to actually keep track of her own personal life. It was a rather sad prospect, yes, but Melly didn't mind it much for, in a way, her books [I]were[I] her life and letting go of them would be just awful.

Finally releasing Issy, the thirteen-year-old looked at the two girls with eyes twinkling with joy. "How have you two been?," She asked brightly.