Adrianna laughed. "Yes, I'm sure I'll be doing the same thing!" she said. "Our shoulders will be sore by the end of the school year!" she joked. "The classes sound interesting, I'm so excited!" she said, her smile broadening. "Wonder what we'll have as first years..."

Adrianna listened carefully, trying to store away all of the knowledge this girl was giving her. "Okay, so find nice people, don't stay out past curfew, don't take arithmacy, got it!" Adrianna said, only joking at the last point. "This is going to be crazy," she muttered.

Kevin nodded and said "Yeah i have been wondering that myself i know that we get flying lessons as a group with fellow first years" Kevin wasn't sure about what other lessons they would get

Mackenzie figured out that they had been talking about lessons when she had returned to the real world. "I think my brother said something about Transfiguration, whatever that is, and Potions and a bunch more classes first years can take." She said remembering things she had heard.

Hayden smiled."Everything else is basic. I enjoyed my first year. Made a few friends. This year I'm going to try out for the qudditch team and see if I make it. I didn't last year because I wanted to work on my studies through my first year."

Cela made a small noise of agreement, mentally committing herself to the task. She followed Seymour's gaze to his shoes, looking at them inquisitively and blinking as Seymour looked up at her sadly. "Uhh I guess so." Cela agreed, "But I'm beginning to realise that maybe," she peeked over her shoulder at the compartment door as if waiting for one of her big brother's allies to make an appearance. Cela lowered her voice, "Maybe it isn't such a bad thing that Nico is gone. Less angst and all. And more sugar." She smiled brightly and bounced a little in her seat, bringing her knees up and hugging them tightly against herself.

"Oh but I'm so excited to be a good Ravenclaw this term. I wasn't very good last term." Cela explained.

She'd walked right into it. Nancy and Jake seemed to know each other, but, stupid as she was, Kiri had mistaken Jake's hesitation for shyness. But of course it wasn't anything like that. Kiri didn't really care what their problem was, but she spent a few moments wondering why embarrassing situations such as this one always happened when Jake was around. This was the second time already! Kiri's faux-pas was at least partly covered by the fact that Jake's cat (Oh Merlin, he has one, too, Kiri thought desperately) chose this moment to start meowing very loudly - it was matched in volume by Nancy's cat, and Kiri wondered how Shana managed to stay asleep despite the racket.

What was done was done, though, and Kiri resigned herself to what would probably turn out to be a very uncomfortable train ride back to Hogwarts as Nancy made room for Jake and slid down into her seat again. Two cats and two people who didn't like each other... If it hadn't been for the pygmy puff, Kiri would probably have started tearing up right then and there, but the little creature in her hand, stirred into a right trembling frenzy by the two cats, managed to occupy enough of her attention to leave her eyes dry. She turned to Jake and said, a little awkwardly: "Can you watch out with your cat? I'd kind of like to keep my pygmy puff for a while."

Nancy turned out to be even more diplomatic than Kiri thought (at least on the outside) as she forced the conversation back to more mundane matters, and Kiri seized on the subject gratefully: "Are you looking forward to being back at Hogwarts? I've heard that we might have a few new teachers this year!"

As he sidled into the compartment, Jake felt the need to hold his cat's mouth shut... but that would be cruel. Instead, he removed Lolcat from his shoulder and lowered him into his large inside pocket in his jacket. The loud though muffled MEW...MEW...MEW...-ing, was soon cut off, as the kitten fell asleep with his head just about poking out.

"Sorry about that," he smiled slightly. "Lolcat never shuts up."

As Jake took a seat free from animals and people, he introduced himself properly. "I'm Jake Upstead... not Blackly anymore, like I think I introduced myself as to you," he added, looking towards Kiri. "I'm a first year." Sitting back a little more, Jake listened to the start of the conversation until it concerned him, trying to ignore the rustling in his packet which meant that Lolcat obviously felt he'd already slept enough that day.

Penny nodded in agreement with him. "That is so true. But he tortured me with it all summer. I wanted to hide." she told him. Mads and Pax were good friends and she knew of some of the mischief they got themselves into becasue of Pax's ideas.

Penny looked up at Mads when he sigh. When he told her that Nico was not coming back she froze. "What? Did you hear why? Seriously, that is crazy." she said and gave him a hug when he looked out the window. She knew how he felt. "I am sorry." she whispered. She really did not know what do say to him.

Barry was tired now he took his chocolate frogs and headed for a compartment of his own and began to eat, eat his chocolate frogs away. Sugar surley was addictive

Anna smiled once again and returned the hug Evolette gave her. "It's alright. I just thought I'd interrupted something that was meant to be kept a secret," she said. She eyed Evolette when she mentioned thinking Anna was someone else approaching. She wondered just who it was Evolette was trying to avoid. She didn't ask, though. She sensed Evollette really didn't wish to talk about the subject too much. Anna figured if she was meant to know, Evolette would tell her.

"You are?" Anna asked, confused to hear that Evolette was really that excited to start the school work. She didn't ever get the impression that Evolette really enjoyed her schoolwork, but then again, there was a lot to learn about her. When Evolette mentioned that the schoolwork would keep her busy, Anna eyed her once again. Something was definitely wrong.

In an attempt to lighten the situation, Anna laughed when Cale mentioned competition for the top point earners in the school. Anna was sure Evolette wasn't aiming to be the top student at school, though. She was going to use her schoolwork to distract her from something else that was going on.

Evolette arched an eyebrow, chuckling at Cale's question. "Why? Don't think I can beat you Newell?" she elbowed his arm lightly, "Already underestimating me? I like that." she gave him a smart, if not slightly evil smile. Evolette really didn't care about earning points, and usually classes bored her to pieces. But she had a feeling that this year, her smarts would be put to the test big time.

Shaking her head, Evolette waved off Anna's worries, "Of course not. Cale had only barely arrived when you showed up." she said, "Besides, I haven't seen either of you in far too long." She stopped herself just short of giving them the "My havent you grown" look. Like a crazy old Grama. Pull it together McKenna!

For some reason, she couldnt help but think that maybe Anna and Cale were both onto her. What? Was it written across her forehead? Don't let the smile fool you people, this one's gone insane. Pft. She had a fleeting desire to pull out a mirror and check, but, how weird would THAT look? No. Best to just play it cool. Besides, neither of them were asking her any questions about her behavior, so maybe she was just being paranoid.

"Flying lessons?" Adrianna asked, completely taken aback. "They actually teach us to... to fly?" she asked. She wasn't sure whether she was excited or nervous- probably a little bit of both. "That would be so cool!" she said, deciding it was excitement.

Adrianna nodded, listening to the various classes. Both of the ones that Mackenzie mentioned sounded interesting, and she was looking forward to the challenge. "This sounds great! I hope we get some classes together," she said, looking around their group.

"Wow!" Adrianna said. Another Quidditch hopeful. "Is Quidditch that popular?" she asked, looking around at the group.

Kevin smiled and said "Yeah they do i am pretty scared cause i hate anything to do with flying and yes qudditch is very popular"

"I hope we get some classes together too." Mackenzie said. "I'm kind of nervous to take flying lessons." she admitted.

No one in that compartment. Next one... no one familiar. Next. Nope. Nope, nope, no. Not a single familiar face.

Juniper sighed and paused to catch her breath outside a compartment. How long would it take for her to find Issy? After all, there were only so many compartments her friend could be hiding in. Hopefully she was on the train... Eh, that was a horrid idea. The Ravenclaw girl quickly put the idea that perhaps Issy had missed the train out of her head. Issy always took the train. Juniper simply had not found her yet.

But she would find her best friend soon. She just had to.

A tiny squeak, and Nakato the lemur crawled up Juniper's arm and perched on her shoulder. Juniper turned her head so that she was nose-to-nose with the lemur, and held the lemur's gaze for several minutes. Finally the lemur squeaked and nibbled the girl's hair, and Juniper snapped out of her reverie. She had been with Nakato all year. She needed to find Issy A.S.A.P., though.

Juniper took hold of her trunk again and began dragging it down the train, peering into every other compartment in search of her friend. Not in there... nor in that one. Gah. Juniper's brow grew gradually more creased as she began to worry that she would not find Issy before the train reached Hogwarts. She had to find Issy. If she did not find Issy before the feast, then Juniper would probably have to wait until they returned to their dorms after the feast... and that simply would not do.

Just then, Issy's voice wafted out of a compartment, and Juniper perked up. She just had to follow the voice, right? That would be easy enough, as long as Issy kept talking. Hopefully she would. And... There! There was a girl just inside a compartment, and sitting in that compartment... was Issy! Juniper abandoned her trunk outside the door and squeezed into the compartment, knocked the girl out of the way, and pounced on her best friend.

"Isssyyyyy!!!" Juniper squealed in delight, clinging to her friend for dear life. It had been far too long.

Sara enters the middle compartment looking nervously around. She had no idea what to expect, being the new girl who was not a first year. She recognized faces from Diagon Alley, but didn't know anyway. She silently prayed these people were nice and hopefully she would make friends soon.

She saw as an overexcited girl knocked over an unsuspecting girl and giggled quietly. Poor girl, she thought. This looks like it's going to be a great year.

She kept looking through the compartments trying to find an empty one in which she could seat comfortably, but watching the other students interact only made her hope she would make some friends quickly.

It was rather expected, to say the truth, that after some time of being inside the train, Willow would begin to worry for the whereabouts of her little brother, for in contrary of what the ninety-five percent of the Hogwarts population thought, she indeed owned a heart like the rest of the human beings. Besides, this was her brother; Noah –just like her-- was not like the rest of the children. Children that were loud creatures that often seemed to be dripping some sort of goo. Not to mention the not-so-pleasant smell that they possessed occasionally. Thankfully, though, Noah was not like that. But then, he was her brother, after all.

… But that meant little. It was not like her older siblings were the most civilized human beings ever—more like the opposite actually, for they usually behaved like apes. Sometimes Willow wondered if the reason why they were so… masculine –because she truly could not think of another word—was because they’d been the trials –so to speak-- of their parents. Like that little thing people said, ‘trial and error.’ Naturally, they had been sort of errors (personality wise, that is) errors, whilst Noah and herself were not.

Shaking her head at her own thoughts and thinking that there was nothing she could do about her brothers’ erratic behaviour, the fifteen year old continued to walk down the corridor of the Hogwarts Express, looking for the dark curly hair of Noah. Of course she was fully aware how ridiculous and what a failure her little mission would become given the fact that Noah was not by any means the tallest eleven-year-old boy inside the train, but she just had to try all the same. It was her brother, after all. What if he fell down and broke his nose? What if some bully –and she could think of a few—begin to pick on him? What if for some strange reason he ended up falling out the window of his compartment, and thus dying once he hit the ground outside? What if someone touched his hair?

Her father would most certainly assassin her if this ended up happening. A delicate shudder escaped from her.

Finding Noah was the most important thing to do right now.

… Or not.

Upon hearing the sound of an extremely familiar voice coming from one of the compartments that were located just a few paces ahead of her, and then a mass of equally familiar thick curly brown hair, Willow soon found herself following both the voice and the brown haired –and taller, too, she’d just noticed—female.

And so she continued to walk… Until she bumped into something.

Clumsy-ness did not come naturally to her. In fact, it was a very rare thing in the girl, but whenever she became distracted with something or someone, the coordination she possessed simply decide to leave her body. Like now, of course.

Looking down to see what had made her collide, one of Willow’s dark eyebrows jerked up as soon as she realized that she had not bumped into something, but into someone. And that it was a girl she’d never seen before.

Standing in the middle of the corridor is not a very smart thing to do—more like the opposite, to be honest. This train is full of compartments, so go and look for one before you cause yet another accident.

Those were the words she was aching to utter. But the badge on her chest was feeling oddly heavy as soon as the thought ran through her head. So instead of snapping that to the obviously younger girl, Willow forced the muscles on her face to curl into a very tight smile that even though was polite, did not reach her eyes. “You might want to watch where you are going next time. Be a little more careful.” Trust Willow to blame anyone but herself for her lack of coordination.

Giving the girl a curt nod after realizing that she’d reached the compartment, the not-so-tall brunette stepped around her in order to get a clear view of the packed little room.

Issy, Hugo, Nature-Freak who was supposed to be in Africa and some really short girl she didn’t know, and that was, by the way, blocking her way. For some reason, this was not what the fifth year had been expecting. And judging by the hug –cringe—Juniper was giving Issy, it was fairly obvious that this was the first time they’d seen each since that day where the two of them had cried water works. Unless Juniper Goodwin was the overly-emotional type; She really hoped not, and she also very much hoped not to see tears again. It wasn’t like she would be able to cringe away from those scary substances in such a packed little place that the compartment currently was.

“Issy, Juniper,” greeted Willow, forgetting that Issy was not the girl’s real name, and that she did not like nicknames. Besides, it wasn’t like the two of them would be able to hear her; Juniper seemed to be rather busy with her arms wrapped around the girl and whatnot, and it was rather possible that Issy would not be able to hear her, which Willow would completely understand. Sort of. “Hey, Hugo,” said Willow, a small friendly smile dancing upon her rosy lips. And then she looked at the giant that Terry Saunders was. “Terry,” She stated with a polite nod, before settling down in the seat across the two boys.

And then Willow turned to look at the short girl with curly hair (Vannie) still standing in the entrance of the compartment, before commenting lightly, “Are you going to come in or is it standing in the entrance of the compartment a more comfortable thing to do?” Surely not.

Christine walked through the middle of the train looking for somewhere to sit. All the compartments looked pretty full. She hoped to run into someone who she knew, but that wasn't looking promising as she looking into different compartments. Christine decided to just go into whatever compartment had an empty seat and she would just make new friends.

Standing in the middle of the corridor looking for an empty compartment, Sara stumbled forward when someone bumped into her. Turning around she sees an older girl, who happened to be looking for something or someone. Looking at the badge on her chest, she noticed that she must be the captain of a Quidditch team at school. Knowing she might be someone important in the school, she mumbled an apology.

Although she did notice a little attitude coming from her. Sara didn't know why she was apologizing, she was the one who bumped into me. She was the one who wasn't watching where she was going.

She watched as the girl acknowledge the overexcited girl and her friend and then say something rather harsh to a girl standing in front of a compartment door. Yup, definitely an attitude problem.

Reed walked down the corridor looking for a compartment to sit it. He looked through the window of one to see a girl that looked to be about his age, maybe a little younger sitting alone. He decided to see if she wanted his company. He knocked on the door and opened it enough to peek his head through. "Umm, excuse me. Do you mind if I join you?" He asked givng her a smile.

Sitting on a train by himself would have been a remarkable idea if Kyle wasnt so lonly and bored. He yawned as he fiddled with his wand wondering what this year would hold. He wished Gabben or CHristine were here. Then he wouldnt have to look retarded sitting by himself all alone while everyone else made friends. He laughed at the tought. Instead of fretting though, he swirled his wand again and looked out the window.

*He leaned on the door to the compartment and smirked at Kyle.*
"Having fun with yourself?"
*He walked in and sat across from Kyle. Before he fully sat down he saw a girl walk by the door. Gabben smirked and got back up.*

"But right back mate, hold my seat."

The sliding of the door caught Issy’s attention and she looked up at a familiar face in the doorway. It was in Diagon Alley that she’d met the girl… Vannie, was it? And there she stood, asking permission to enter. Her eyes were cast down to the ground, though, and Issy couldn’t help but catch the feeling that she seemed a little down.

“Hey Vannie,” she greeted. “Come on in. It’s fine.”

Before Vannie had a chance to enter, though, it seemed, someone was barging in through, pushing her to the side and a loud squeal of “Isssssy” was heard and suddenly, Juni was pouncing atop her, pushing her into a seat and falling into her lap, clinging dearly to her. It took Issy a moment to process exactly what was going on before her arms tightened around her friend. Holding her tightly, Issy released her breath.

“Juniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiii!” she squealed loudly, feeling her eyes growing wet. “Is it you Juni? Is it really, really you?” Her voice cracked as the tears filled her eyes and she could feel them clinging helplessly to her lashes. Holding her friend tightly, she knew she was being squished and unable to breathe, but she also couldn’t let go. It had been so long! So very long since they’d seen each other. Over a year.

Blinking through her blurry vision, Issy wiped her eyes to make sure she was, in fact, Juni. Sure enough, that was Juni’s dark hair and curls and her demeanor. That was Juni. Her Juni! The tears continued to spill over and Issy hugged her tighter to her.

“Don’t you ever leave me again, Juniper Goodwin!” Issy scolded through her tears, her voice quivering. “Hear me? Never, ever, ever go away!”

She was so wrapped up in the reunion that she didn’t even notice Willow’s less than dramatic entrance.

Walking through the corridors of the train and getting bored with the whole 'patrolling thing' she spotted a guy she had met earlier slip into a compartment and she decided to go and talk to him before she could even enter he was leaving again and heading in the opposite direction.

Kayla peaked inside the compartment to see who else was in there and she spied a boy about her age sitting on his own. She leaned against the doorway casually. "What did you do to your friend? He tore out of here like his pants were on fire or something?"

Maddox snorted and shook his head. "You know thats why I caved everytime he wanted to do something stupid. Because he wouldnt shut up about it and it was utterly annoying so I gave in." He chuckled and shook his head at the thought. "They the things i did with Pax werent nearly half as bad as what I did with Rudolphus thats for sure." He shuttered at the thought.



When she hugged him, he kissed the top of her head and said, "Its ok...and no. He still hasnt contacted me. I have no clue as to why he is not coming back." He sighed again, holding Penny a little closer. "But at least i have you." He pulled her face up to meet his gaze, smiled, and kissed her forehead.