Tammy gave a light giggle as Melanie went on and on. "You know, Isee why youre friends with Nattie." She spoke with a grin, she was finally being cheered up. And Melanie had no total idea she was doing it.

HAH-

She gave the other girl who had came to Melanie a light smile. She didnt want to introduce herself much.

"Better than disney world? I guess so." She laughed quickly, it was true. Hogwarts was better than disney world. Better than any place in the world.

Jack yawned as he walked through the carriages, Biscuit the cat curled up in his arms. For once, the orange tabby was being relatively quiet, relaxing in his master's arms and taking a snooze. He finally found an empty compartment and opened the door, watching as the cat sprang out of his arms and curled into a little orange ball in a patch of sunlight coming through the window.

He sighed and stretched his legs out in the compartment, closing his eyes and trying to take a nap. This term had been beyond exhausting, but now he was looking forward to next term. He had already made up his mind that he needed to try and be more social next term...he had a girlfriend now. He needed to be more confident. And less jumpy too.

The compartment door slide open, and Anna Greingoth wasted no time in letting her big mouth be heard. "The Fritzman!" she yelled out, jumping a little into the air and then landing on the seat directly next to him. Was he sleeping? Oh, heck no! This was quite possibly one of their very last encounters---ever---and he opted to sleep? "Dude, wake up! Are you asleep yet?" As she asked that, she tapped his shoulder a few times, ensuring that if he had been catching some Z's, he wasn't anymore.

"Dude, I've come to say goodbye! Get up!" she said. A few moments later, a creature pushed its way through an opening in the compartment door, and Piccadilly the crup strolled inside then jumped up on Jack's lap. "Oh, look! Even the crup's come to say goodbye! Now all we need are Charlotte and Blaze. There was no telling where her owl and phoenix were right now, though. Merlin could only hope she could round them up once the train arrived at the station."

Jack's eyes shot open as someone entered the compartment--VERY loudly at that--and he shouldn't have been surprised to see Anna walk into his carriage. "Anna! What the...?" was all he could get out before a tiny little crup jumped right into his lap. Across the carriage, Biscuit opened his eyes and stared at the crup, watching it intently.

"Goodbye?" Jack asked, frowning as he realized that Anna was, indeed, not coming back next term. "But-this CAN'T be goodbye! I'll see you sometime, right?" he asked a tad uncertainly.

Laura smiled back at Thomas, and she realised that he had more in common with her than either of them knew. "Yeah, I grew up going to a muggle primary school," she agreed with a nod. Then his next statement threw her off guard. "I guess it would get quite boring, and the change would be great," she voiced. "But I'm never in the house really. When I was little, I used to get my Grandfather to take me and my sister out all of the time, to Diagon Alley and such. I could never be in the house with my dad." As if a cold wind had blown through the carraige, Laura shivered, but it was just the memory.

"That can never happen now," she added boredly, as if the subject of her dad dying was of no real interest to her. Then Thomas asked her where abouts in London she lived, and Laura had to stop and think about it. "Well, she began. "It's not really London, but more of the Countryside around it. A wizard can't miss the house, there's nothing but a forest and grounds around it, for miles. A muggle however..." she added, by way of explanation. A muggle wouldn't be able to see the house, due to thw numerous spells cast upon it. Even her mother had to be accompanied by a wizard.

Hehe, Tammy was giggling, perhaps...the sad mood had already passed then? If so ,then good. Sad was bad. "And I can tell you two are related." she replied, tilting her head slightly and looking her up and down, head to toe. She definitely resembled her cousin in looks.

Guess? No guessing. "It is." she answered decidedly, grinning back at her. Melanie's smile dipped slightly so as her comment earlier dawned on her. "So... you're ride next year is you're last...? Or this one...?" she asked, biting her lip. She was pretty sure Tammy was only in 6th year...

Before she could say anymore she was being dragged by Shana into the other compartment... she didn't really fight much though, just let herself be dragged along, though she did grab a hold of Tammy's hand, trying to pull her in with her, her grasp tightening a little as she realized she didn't really recognize very many people in the compartment, she'd just been pulled into. Well....no she recognized Cam Karsten, but that was about as far as it went. "Uhhmm, Hey everyone!" she said a little nervously, giving the occupants of the compartment a small wave and smile in greeting as well as a wary glance, hoping they wouldn't be mad at her for taking up they're oxygen or something.

Either way she was staying close to Shana. Melanie plopped down in a seat near the door, next to Shana...who appeared to be sitting on some boy's lap. Odd. She turned to her friend though, giving her her full attention as she began to speak...

And as she finished Melanie could have sworn her jaw was touching the floor. "Wait...okay so firstly, Claude the Pudding Killer, you kissed him? And then he proposed...And then you stalk Jake...I mean he thinks you're a stalker. I thought you were avoiding him and- and- and..." Sigh. "I think it may take me a while to comprehend all that." she informed her, blinking a few times. "I'm...pretty..peachy though." Melanie replied, a small smile forming on her face.

Blink. Blink. Blink.

Honestly, she'd thought she'd been good, knowing there was a flood and all, now Melanie couldn't help but feel like a hermit not know ALL of this.

Guh.

Leaning her head on Torin and nodded.Yes,And before you ask No! I wasn't stalking Jake. She nodded again firmly before poking Torin's face,He still hadn't started singing seriously,didn't he know when his cue was ? Boys,seriously all aliens.

Tammy chuckled. "Im nothing like her okay. Shes..." Wait, if she said some stuff, Natie might hate her. Think about this carefully Tam. CARE-FUH-LLY. Eugh, thinking wasnt her thing. But she was concentrating on thinking alot and was unaware of everything until the harshest tug pulled her from her little moment. "OWWUH." Sigh, Tammy actually did sigh as she tugged her hand back and went back to nursing it.

"And next time give me some warning Melanie." She half scolded, on accident. She began to nirse it once more rubbing the sore area. She looked up at the place she was in and closed her eyes briefly. She knew NOONE in there. And she wasnt in a meety greety kinda mood.

"Anyways Mel . Ill uh... proably see you in the summer. Considering im at Natties permanently now." She shrugged and gave the girl a smile.

Anna collapsed into a fit of giggles when she saw how surprised Jack was to be awakened from his nap with such a loud greeting. When she recovered, she scooped up Picadilly and put him in her lap instead. "Hey, sweetie. Did you get lonely without your mommy?" she whispered to Picadilly. "Guess who's waiting for us at the other side of this train ride? Daddy is." She pet the crup a few more times, then looked back up at Jack, a rather serious look on her face.

"Yup. Goodbye. This is it, dude. You plus me equals never again. I mean, I know you're wondering how you're ever going to go on without me, but I promise you'll survive," she joked. "No, really. We'll keep in touch. You're coming to my wedding, right?"

That was exactly the person she needed in order to feel better. Forget Peter's lousy book, there was nothing better than a good time spent with hyper Sarah. And the Gryffindor sure was happy! Happy and hyper. Trust her to be the only seventh year not sniffling about.

Merlin, how she adored Sarah Corner.

"Lost me? I totally ran away." Evangeline joked with a small chuckle, taking her seat back and letting Sarah get in. Merlin, she hoped she'd get in. That book really was boring. But who cared about books now? Not even bookworm Evangeline, because Sarah was here!

She smiled grimly at her best friend, glad she didnt seem to notice her puffy red eyes from crying. That was good, at least. Because Evangeline had totall been leading them. "I wouldnt say leading them .." HAH! "But I was in their ranks until I've realised that life is too short and we need to have fun."

Meaning? Evangeline was moving on.

Grabbing the huge bag of candy, Evangeline offered it to Sarah. "Candy?"

Jack nodded. "I should be coming...Reese needs a date anyways," he told her with a grin. Hehe. He had a GIRLFRIEND now. That was so cool to think about! "And I'll owl you all the time and keep you updated on how me and Reese are doing," he explained.

EEEEEEEE HE HAD A GIRLFRIEND!

He cleared his throat. "And the team--I'll let you know how we do in Quidditch next term. We're shooting for both cups again," he told her with a grin. That would be his goal in life until they achieved it. Or he graduated.

"Hah! I knew it. And here I thought my love would bound you to me forever," she continued with her dramatic voice - as she squeezed into the compartment, flopping down next to her Slytherin.

Yes. If someone could match her oh so appropriate enthusiasm, it was Evangeline Green.

She, however, did eye the Slytherin. She did not exactly seem .. right. Hearing her, Sarah nodded - before taking the candy from the big bag between them. And then, she flanged her arm round her shoulder.

"Do you reaaaaaaaally think - I'll leave your butt, Panda Bear?" she asked. "No matter what, I am sticking o your butt until you get married and have loads of babies"

Firm Nod.

Melanie shrugged slightly, giving her a small smile. "If you say so." she repeated. In her opinion they looked a lot a like...she hadn't really known Tammy long enough to compare they're personalities though... so whatever.

"I will...I guess. Sorrrrrry!! I'msosorry!" she asked her, brows furrowing slightly. Awww come on, she hadn't tugged on her arm that hard had she? She hadn't meant to anyway.

She was leaving now though... Melanie's shoulders dropped a little, but waved Tammy goodbye, nonetheless. "Bye then, I hope I see you then then then." she replied truthfully, frowning as she watched her holding her arm worriedly. It didn't appear to be too bad though, anyway... "Have a nice summer!" was the last thing she said to her, before looking back to Shana.

Shana, the girl accused of stalking the boy she had a crush on. "Are you sure you weren't just...a little?" she asked, raising a brow slightly, a half amused and half serious look on her face. "No...ninja stuff? Watching him, stalker-ish acting. You didn't follow him around at all?" she asked, trying to grasp why the boy would think of Shana as a stalker.

"No...eyehole cutting in garbage cans, trying to break into the Hufflepuff common room, none of that?" she continued, giving Shana a searching look.

Perhaps she should get a checklist made.

Because Jakers Upstead was SMART, and smart people didn't regularly go around accusing people of being stalkers for no reason, that was for the dumb ones, therefore there just had to be a good reason.

Probably just a misunderstanding.

Tammy smiled at Melanie and turned on her foot leaving the compartment and heading off down the corridor looking for a certain prefect.

Siiigh.No! I didn't even think about Stalking Him! It never even crossed my mind! NOOO! I didn't,Okay,I didn't try to stalk him I was trying to avoid him.So why would I stalk him ? Excatly I wouldn't. She stuck her tounge out and shrugged.

Feeyo? Reese shook her head at Cam as they boy pronounce Fyo's name wrong. "It's F-Y-O," she corrected him. How hard was it to remember his name? It was only three letters long! Well, his full name was six letter long, but she never called him by his full name.

She stared at Cam when he started talking to Torin about his ideas. She raised her eyebrow then turned to Fyo and Shana. Honestly, she didn't want to know what ideas Cam was talking about. Unless, it was about who told Cam about her Jack. Then, she was interested.

"They better not come back," she muttered when Cam mentioned the merpeople. She didn't want to one merman that hit on her to come back again. She wasn't afraid to hex him off the universe if he dared to come back. "But, yeah. Learning Mermish might actually be a good idea," she agreed. "I think my notes on Mermish are somewhere in my bag." She glanced down at her purse beside her feet and hoped that her notes where in there.

Mosi and Nakato? Those were cute names. Before she could tell Cam that, one of the lemurs jumped off of Cam and landed onto her lap. Awww. It was so cute! She was about to pet it until Cam said something about not killing her. She hesitated for a moment and then began to pet the lemur. Lemurs couldn't kill, could they?

"Oh, yeah. Your dad works in the toy factory," she said. "I forgot about that." How could she forgot Cam giving Lima that Lima doll two terms ago? That was like an unforgettable memory. She wished Cam's dad made a Reese doll. That would be awesome. "I hope you have fun camping," she added. "Don't get attacked by any bears or anything."

"Bowtruckles? Hmm. Good luck with finding some," she told him. She didn't really care if Cam found a magical creature or not. She jumped a little bit when Cam blurted out some random thing. She blinked and looked towards the compartment door, hoping no one heard that.

"Why hello," Reese greeted Fyo for the third time. She laughed a little bit, because greeting each other over and over again was quite funny. "I'm good. Sort of excited about going home and yet I'm sad about leaving Hogwarts," she answered. "What about you? How are you?"

She nodded. "Camping. That sounds like fun," she replied.

"No. No. No. NOOOOO," Reese repeated herself. "You are not going to put love potion in Baked Alaska. I won't allow you." She seriously was not letting Torin go through with this plan if it's the last thing she did. Even if it called for telling Bunbury about the love potion before Torin ever cave her the Baked Alaska.

"He's been lying a lot lately," she said. "Torin, it's fine. I can deal with this." Yep. She was just going to take a little trip down to Cam's house over the summer. Hopefully Jake knew where he lived and if he didn't maybe Lima did.

Gasp! She put her hand over her mouth with Torin asked what the big deal of the lemurs where. "You don't know?" She told him. "Lima and the Lemurs. It's my band I'm in. I thought you knew that!" She paused for a moment and then added, "Plus, Lemurs rule!"

Reese looked up when another person opened their compartment door. Great. Just great. This compartment was going to be SOOOOO crowded. She moved down on her seat to make room for Cedric. Well, at least she wasn't Torin right now. It seemed like everyone wanted to sit next to him. She had the whole seat to herself while the seat across from her had Torin, Fyo, and Shana on it. Hehe. "Hey Cedric," she greeted him.

Reese looked at Shana when the girl whispered to her. Oh, poor Shana. She didn't know half of the people in here. "Um, that is Fyo. Torin. Cedric. And Cam," she pointed to them as she called their names out. "Everyone, this is Shana!" She smiled at the girl.

Smiling at Reese as she looked at everyone as Reese pointed to them.She waved and smiled.Okay now she knew everyone.Kinda,well she knew all their names now just to Remember them.She looked at Torin and hopped off His lap,She twisted and Went to sit on Reese's lap instead.Reese,Will you sing for me ? Torin missed his cue to start singing

"Please, Reese?" he begged her. "Pretty pretty please." He was givingher that puppy dog face again. He wanted to give her love potion and he would if it was the last thing he did.

He suddenly wondered if Cam would help him out there.

Speaking of Cam... He figured out what Reese thought he said. "You know, I wouldn't have told him that, Reese. I never told anyone about that. At this point I don't really care about it. It's all sorted out." He shrugged.

And then the lemurs made sense. "That's cool. So like this Lima likes lemurs then?"

Then Shana jumped off his lap. "You are such a liar, Shana," he said laughing as she sat down on him again.

That house is probably really cool thought Thomas but he has three houses through out the whole world but all of them could be seen by muggles. "Well my house is also in the countryside but it can be seen by muggles. I have another two houses in the world well... Actually one is a mini mansion. One is in Denmark and the other one is in Austria but, we like most the house in the small village next to London," he said to Laura giving himself a poke on the elbow.

Cam was about to give Torin a lecture on lemurs, though suddenly another person came into the compartment. Was there even anymore room left? But oh, it was only Cedricar which was certainly noooooo problem to him at all. Nope. He looked back at Torin... OH? So the boy was complimenting him now was he?! Yes, he took weird and insane as compliments--obviously because the opposite of those were plain boring.

Everyone at Hogwarts were insane. It was a fact indeed. "Thaaaaanks, I guess?" But HOPEFULLY, they weren't going to talk about the lying anymore, right? Right!

And then in ALL of what was happening, Mosi had jumped from his arms straight back onto his shoulder, when SOMEBODY just SAT, right THERE, on his LAP. WHAT?!?!?! He eyed Cedar and gave him a small glare, though he was trying not to unleash his Slytherin-ness on his friend. Hmmnopenopenope.

"Doooooooooodd!" he said, shooooing Cedar from his lap, "ya almost smushhed Mosi! Scared 'er half to death aaaalright!" The small lemur was almost scared to death and its eyes and was now moving all over Cam. Cam snatched the small lemur back in his arms and started petting it--again, hoping ANOTHER incident wouldn't happen.

Would this whole train journey give his poor lemur some sort of a coma?!

"Youuu bettah say sorry to 'err," he nodded at Cedar, because animal cruelty was not allowed in his world and must be STOOOPPPEDD with a sorry. Yes.

He looked back at Feeyo--no it was Faiyo, right--OH it was FYO. It was an easy name to remember... but suuuurely he forgot about it with all of the term's events. "Oh. Right. Fyo. Hi, again," he greeted, still petting Mosi and making sure not to rest his arm on his lap again--in case someone else was going to sit on it.

And eeeeeep, there were so many conversations going at once here!

"Chyeaaaah, that Mermaaaaid Princess was AWESOME. She had like MUMBO JUMBO," he told them, imitating the mermaid princess's weird finger move thingy she did, "and she went like a AAIYIIAYIYIYIYIIEEEGJKAGDD and broooke ALL of the glass," he screeched, yet again hoping the compartment door was soundproof, "and then CHYEAH."

Totally.

And then Fyo was now giving him a HUGE smile, it freaked him out only just a biiit but SMILING was always allowed right? HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY. "I'm... doing awesomelyyy awesomely awesome." It was noooot true, because he didn't want to leave from Hogwarts... oh the food. Sniff.

Then... back to Reese.

"Yes, Reese, I knowwwwww," now, and eyed Nakato that was still on her lap. "And yahhhh, ya all better learn Mermish, who KNOWS whenever they'll come back--maybe not next year but ... just in case, alright!" Notes? His notes? Ohhh yes! Cam had notes too, though he was gonna have a hard time reading all of them, obviously because he had scribbled way too fast at the library.

Fun, dangerous terms were always the best terms.

Nakato, though not scared of the human, stared at her right in the eyes and the human started petting her, her hands smelled even nicer than her master's. With that, she crawled around and around the human until she reached the shoulder, looking back at her master and then back at the human, touching her neck with her cabbage-smelling hands.

"Yessss, yes he does," Cam told Reese when she talked about his dad, "and dun woooorrrry, I have some bear repellent I always bring along with meee!" Not in his possession right now but... there ought to be some sort of a bear repellent in Diagon Alley right? He hoped so... he didn't want to be eaten by an animal. "And my mum's tended tons of bear cubs before, and even a few polar bears, and a loooot'ta other creatures," he added.

BUT STILL...

"Heh, thankssss, the least I could find are bowtruckles really--I want to find more than just that, maybe even a few Clabbertsss if we're lucky, though, I don't know wheeeeeere exactly we're camping so eh," he told Reese and the more he talked, the moooore excited he got!

Talking about Leema? OOOH! "No noooo, Torin, see, Leema IS a lemur. She's a LemurWoman--I heard that she's human by day and lemur by night, saving innocent civilians in the Wizarding World from dangerous creatures!"

He nodded seriously.

Hmph.Weell that waasn't nice.Amm Nooot! The glue yeah I was stucked and Magic,Umm yeah Magically un-stucked me Cause Im awesome and everyone knows that,Yeah so HA! She stuck her tounge out.And just for calling me a Liar.... she got back up off Reese's lap Again,And went and jumped on Torin's legs,Trying to hurt his legs as muuch as possible.

Reese moved in her seat a little bit and eyed everyone in her compartment. Cam was going on and on about the lemurs and Torin was begging her to let him put love potion in the Baked Alaska he was going to cook. Gah. She was going to scream! Ignoring everyone, she was about to stand up until Shana came over and sat on her lap.

Grr.

She eyed the girl for a few minutes and then she FINALLY got up and walked back over to Torin. Thank goodness. She stood up and grabbed her trunk from the rack and everything else that she had brought into the compartment. Geez, she brought too much stuff. Once she had everything in her arms, she headed towards the compartment door. "I'm going to go. This place is getting too crowded for me," she announced. She opened the door and walked out into the hall and closed the compartment door behind her.

Now where was she going to go?

She wandered down the back of the train for a little bit until she stopped by a compartment that Jack and Anna were in. Oh, yay! She was going to get to talk to Jack AND Anna. She sat some of her stuff on the ground so she was able to open the compartment door. "Hey guys," she said. "I hope you don't mind if I join you two." She picked her stuff back up and headed into the compartment. She put her trunk up on the rack and sat her two animal cages on the ground next to the seat. After closing the compartment door back, she took a seat next to Jack.

Wow, three houses? Laura was stunned. And one in Austria, and in Denmark! "I bet you travel quite a lot then?" Laura asked, almost sure of the answer. She herself had never actually been out of Great Britain, and would've loved to have houses in other countries. But she wasn't so lucky.

Noticing Thomas poke himself, Laura frowned. "Erm, something wrong, Thomas?" she asked, not meaning to be rude.

"Yeah everything is fine, just I think I sprained my elbow and it really hurts," he said trying to ignore the pain. He knew that because he used to be a gymnast he should see this stuff coming but he hadn't done gymnastics for a month and it never hurt him like this.

Thomas thought a bit about Laura's question with the countries. "Every summer I go somewhere unusual like this year I am going to the Grand Canyon for a month," he said trying not to show of but to be a bit modest. "What countries have you been at?" he asked politely.

As she looked at Sarah, it hit Evangeline that she really didn't know what Sarah wanted to do with her life. Except for that candy shop thing with .. him. Whatever it was Sarah wanted to do, a career in theatres should not be set aside, that's for sure. Corner had always had a little bit of a likeness for being dramatic.

Bless her.

Sarah just seem to take away all the sadness and loneliness she was feeling, whenever she got there, and that was why Evangeline loved her. She was just a walking sunshine. "I honestly can't blame you. I do have a pretty good looking butt." Evangeline teasinly said, reaching in between them to get another lemondrop. Those things were GOOOD! "But I'm not getting married, not having babies. I've had enough of men and testosterone." Yes, she had.

Hmpf.