Celandine nodded in agreement, "Yup, Cela." She patted her new headband, wishing she had a mirror to see how good her Ravenclaw scarf looked with her blonde hair. Pretty neat she was sure.

She sighed when he moved back and asked if she was going to cry, "Nuh-uh I just have no candy," she paused, "Its okay I'd just use my sleeve anyway."
She smiled again, "So, who are you?" Spying a strawberry and deciding that was good enough as a temporary solution for her sugar cravings, Cela took it and happily began nibbling on it while her dark eyes watched the boy curiously.

No candy? "I ain't had candy in a long time." Willie told her, trying his best to look like an innocent little child, which he hoped seemed to be working. "Me mum, bleth her thoul, she neve' gave me no candy." He sniffed, rubbing his eye.

"Me? Uhh... Me nameth Willie, Willie Crocker, Mith." He smiled hesitantly, wondering if he should had told her his name or just faked another one. Although, he had a feeling that if he had indeed faked his name, things wouldn't go too well for him.

Samantha strutted into the Great Hall and headed towards the Ravenclaw table, trying to look proud and happy. But how could she? She knew no-one! Not anyone at all. Apart from her brother of course, but he was 2 years above her and in Gryffindorr.
Sam hadn't even thought about this. About not knowing any people. Why did she just let her self think that she would be able to strut into this huge hall go sit next to a bunch of popular girls and start having a good time.
Sam was now at the head of the Ravenclaw table, confused where to sit. Would she sit on her own, or introduce herself to someone knew? This was stupid.

But Sam gathered her thoughts together.*Dont worry, I am so much more better than this, I will go and make new friends. Right Now* Samantha thought.
And she hurried of to go sit herself down next to a sweet looking girl who was surrounded by a group of girls.

"Ohh I can give you some candy if you want some later." Cela offered between nibbles on her strawberry, " My mum doesn't give me candy either." Cela agreed without going into details about the whole not-supposed-to-have-candy thing.

"Willie." Cela repeated happily adding the name to her mental list of people-claimed-as-friends-that-don't-necessarily-claim-her-back right along one Dominic Denton. "Oooooh! Crocker!" Cela bounced happily, throwing her half-eaten strawberry in the air and catching it. "Like metal-mouth!" Cela used her usual name for Garret and popped the last of the strawberry in her mouth, accidentally smearing her cheek with strawberry juice from her hand in the process. "Mith?" she mumbled in confusion, "Ohh Miss? Nooo it's just Cela. Or um... if theres something easier thats okay too."

Willie beamed excitedly as she offered him some candy once she gets some. He'll make sure he will be good friends with her if she's going to give him candy. Yup.

His eyes narrowed at her as she repeated his name like it was some kind of toy. He then frowned once she bounced happily, her strawberry going into the air as she did. She caught it though, which amazed him. "Metal..Metal-mouth?" Willie blinked not knowing what in the world she was talking about. His eyes flared up though once she repeated what he had said and told him that if the name was hard on him he'd try something else. The small boy's left eye twitched as the thought of her making fun of his lisp angered him.

"Thela! I'll call ye Thela if I bloody want to, ye 'ear?!" He snapped, grabbing a fork and pointing it at her. "The-LA. The-LA. THEE! I'll call ye Thela! Thela! Thela!" He breathed deeply, the fork still pointing at her as if it were a sword ready to stab her in the gut.

Celandine nodded, "Metal-Mouth." she tapped her teeth in illustration, "Garret!" she bounced again a few times before stopping mid-bounce, eyes wide in consternation as Willie yelled and brandished a fork at her. Ooooh.

"Um.. okay you can call me Thela..." Cela responded a little uncertainly, she cast her eyes around a little desperately, spotted another strawberry and picked it up. She held it for a moment, moving slowly and watching Willie with her eyes dark and wide. With a slow movement she speared the strawberry on to the prongs of the fork as a sort of peace offering. Cela smiled hopefully, then as if to comfort herself she reached down her shirt, rummaging around for a moment before her hand surfaced with a little black scorpion. She watched it happily, giving it a little stroke with her pinky finger.

After nobody spoke with him, Damian took sadly some chicken and mashed potatoes and began to eat.

He drank some juice and looked to the other house where the students are laughing.

Rachel walked in to the Great Hall, and broke into a beaming smile. I've missed this... She hurried down the stairs with an excited gallop and just as she neared the end, tripped and fell down the last step, landing on her hands and knees. Ow! Rachel cursed herself for her clumsiness and got up, wiping her hands together and massaging her knees. She was fine but a little sore.

She made her way slowly to the Ravenclaw table, looking around like a first year again at the house banners and ignored the dull pain. As she looked up, she felt the pressure of the little pin on her chest and her smile grew even more. Her badge had been polished over and over again thousands of times after she had recieved it in the summer and it gleamed in the light of the candles in the rooom. She chuckled to herself as she remembered her and her uncle's initial reactions to it. It has to be a mistake, she had said as soon as it fell out of the envelope. Jake's eyes had bulged and he had seemed like he was having a cororany there and then. He had stayed up at night and just stared at the tiny blue badge, and it had amused her to no end because she knew what he was thinking.

As she neared the Ravenclaw table, her thoughts snapped back to reality and she spotted Cela sitting with a cute little boy, but there was something off about her face. She walked up to them and sat down on Cela's left, instantly grabbing a glass of juice. "Hey Cela! How was your summer?" she asked her brightly then moved her gaze until it rested on the boy. "Hello!" she said warmly with a smile, "My name is Rachel." Ahh... It's good to be back.

Cela looked up and smiled brightly at a girl that had sat down just a moment before, ignoring the streak of strawberry juice on her cheek even though she could feel something sticky as she smiled.

"Hi! I'm Celandine." she waved even though the girl wasn't far away at all.

Cela turned her head, noting a sad looking boy and deciding to try to cheer him up. Ignoring Willie, the fork being brandished at her and the strawberry she had speared on the end of the fork, Cela carefully scooped a spoonful of mashed potato and flicked it at the boy.

"Hi!" She grinned, waving the potato covered spoon in greeting. "You can come sit over here you know." She was fairly sure that Juniper and Copernicus and that other girl that she thought was called Issy, wouldn't mind terribly. It didn't occur to her to be concerned about whether Willie would be put out or not since... well he wasn't a Ravenclaw.

"Rachel!" Cela greeted happily, scooting over to make space between her and Juniper and knocking into the strawberry-on-fork that Willie was waving at her. "I had a great summer.I got a pet." Cela held up her hand with the little black scorpion on it, "Haven't named it yet though!" Cela tipped her head sideways and let the scorpion crawl up her cheek so she could have her hands free to adjust her Ravenclaw tie that she was wearing as a headband. That done, she scooped up the scorpion and held it protectively, wondering if her housemates would spaz out the way the Gryffindors on the train had.

Damian looked up to the Girl who spoke to him. "Hi! Really?" asked a little more happier, "If you don't mind? Sure", he said and sat next to her. "My. Name is Damian Drakow" he introduced him.

Rachel grinned as Cela made space for her. "Oh cool! What is i-" she cut off as she saw the scorpion that was slowly climbing up Cela's cheek. He eyes widened in shock. She got a... Swallowing, she asked in a whisper, almost afraid that if she spoke loudly it would attack, "A scorpion? You got a scorpion as a pet?" Rachel wasn't really a fan of insects and various bugs, but she didn't mind them that much. "Well, what type of name do you want to give it? A human name or something more original?" she asked, eyeing the little thing. She smiled as she watched Cela hold the scorpion protectively and wondered how it was possible to love a scorpion. Then again; there are people that have phobias of cats and dogs and owls and whatnot...

Hannah Leigh glanced at the Griffindor table. She wanted to talk with Marcus so much, just to hear his voice. She gazed at him, but was finally brought to her senses.
She looked down. She had sat alone. Of course, she had only met Griffindors on the trip so....

Meredith yawned. She couldn't believe it, she had fallen asleep on the train.. Still a little confused about just waking up she entered the great hall and sat down at the Ravenclaw table.

It felt great to be back, and she smiled sleepily. She shouldn't have stayed up so late yesterday...but it was her last chance to do Muggle things then.
Meredith looked around at the people sitting at the table. There didn't seem to be anybody she knew, or at least, she didn't notice anyone.

Damian looked around while he was eating. Next to him he saw a girl who smiled sleepily. "Hy. My name is Damian. You are first year too?" he asked her kindly with the project to make more friends.

Ludo looked away from his plate and the Staff table as Mari sat down next to him at the Ravenclaw table. He smiled, "Hey Mari." He chuckled at her comment about being hungry. "It's that obvious isn't it?"
He looked down the table at the question for Liz. "No I haven't seen..."

Ludo broke from his sentence and grinned as Liz walked towards them. "Well here she is..." he said a little obviously. He laughed as she called out a comment about his glance at the plate as well. "Everyone gets their hunger pangs!" He said, comically. Ludo motioned for Liz to join them on the bench when he noticed her attention was elsewhere.

He followed her gaze to a boy, the same boy he'd noticed Mari glance at. It was the same boy that had been in the compartment with the two that also recognized as a Ravenclaw in his own year. He seemed to be having a bad time with a Slytherin girl and Liz seemed to have noticed.

"I know, I can't believe how much I miss this place," Rian agreed, also grinning.

"Yeah, there's a lot of new older students..." she said, her voice curious. She looked around the Great Hall, seeing a lot of new faces, and was eager to get to know many of them.

When Liz looked down the table and called one of the boys cute, Rian giggled. "Him, right there?" she questioned, tilting her head toward the boy Karma was talking to. She tried to seem inconspicuous about it. "I don't know his name. But I saw him in Diagon Alley. I think it's Copperburn or something like that," she said with a nod. She knew she had gotten the name wrong, but couldn't remember if she'd heard the right name.

Nodding Liz turns back to Rian.

"Have you heard from Melinda? I didn't see her on the train. I sent a few owls, but never got a response..." Liz says quietly.

Rian frowned. The smile was gone from her face when she thought of her cousin. "She's not coming back to Hogwarts..." She told Liz quietly. She didn't know if her cousin already knew this, but she told her anyway. Rian quickly unwrapped another chocolate frog and started chewing on it thoughtfully.

Meredith looked who had spoken to her "Hi Damian, nice to meet you," she said smiling,"I'm Meredith, and I'm in my second year, I'm a little small." she admitted. She had grown over the summer, just not so much. "So, what do you think of Hogwarts?"
She drank a bit of her pumpkin juice, it tasted really good. She hadn't had much magical food in the summer, and no pumpkin juice at all. She yawned happily, glad to be back at Hogwarts.

"Nice to meet you", said Damian with a smile, "You are not small. I am to tall for my age", laughed he.

"I love Hogwats already. It is better in real than in Hogwarts a History. I came from Russia" spoke Damian while eating his chicken.

"I am a little nervous about the Lessons and the teachers."

Meredith laughed too. "Well, you are, but I'm still below average.." She ate some pasta with tomato sauce.

"Oh, Russia, cool. Did you live in an area where it's very cold?" she asked, wondering. Russia is so big.."Oh, and were your parents wizards or muggles?" she asked. "I mean, not that it matters, just wondering." she quickly added, blushing. She didn't want to sound discriminating. She always wondered how it would be to know about the magic world all your life long.

"Oh, don't be nervous, the lessons are great." Meredith said. "Well, you do have to do some work, but that's always with school..and, we're Ravenclaws after all." she said, grinning a little.

"You really don't look like you would be able to do that," Karma said. "That's why it would surprise me if you ever had to chance to do so."

The Slytherins were a mystery altogether. Most were the troublemakers who were always sneaky enough to get out of everything they did, and then there were others who had been put in there and weren't like the normal, stereotypical Slytherin.

"I do feel bad for the few who aren't 'true' Slytherins like Salazar wanted in his house," Karma said, making air quotes when she said true. "They get that same stereotypical image of others from houses who don't give them a chance to get to know them. I believe everyone deserves a chance though."

"I lived in Moskau with my Dad. My mom died e few years ago", said Damian, "and yes it is everywhere really cold, but when you see in winter the forest covered with snow, you forget the cold".

Damian misses his home, his friends.

"My whole familly are pureblood, but they had always Halfblood and mugglefriends", answered he.

Damian laughed, "Yes we are Ravies and I love to learn new things. It's just you know the teacher and how they are but I don't know them", explained he.

Laylee took a seat near the front of the Hall after scanning the room two people. Maura, and Chandan. Both of which she could not find. She looked down to see that the food had already appeared. Laylee grabbed a roll and munched on it as she waited impatiently for her friends. Hogwarts was getting less and less appealing to her. Maybe it was because she was going to have to leave it. She wasnt sure. But, it was bringing up sad memories and sad thoughts of the future. She wouldnt have Maura, or Phoebe, or... Chandan... What would she do!

Maura followed the huge crowd of people into the Great Hall. She made her way to the Ravenclaw table, gently pushing past the people who were in the way with an "excuse me, please." From a few yards off, she spotted Laylee's curly hair. She grinned and walked up to her and tapped her on the shoulder, sliding into the empty spot beside her. "Hi!" she said. "Haven't seen you since two days ago!"