Ahhh the end of term feast. Demetria came down to the Great Hall and sat at the wonderful Gryffindor table. This term had gone by wayyyyy too fast. As she waited for the Headmaster to speak, she looked around for one of her friends to sit with.

Smack. Smack. Smack.

Winnie made her way down to the Great Hall in high spirits. Another term come and gone, but another to look forward to, eh? Just in case, since she wasn't real sure about the state of the castle recently, she wore duck-fin swimming slippers on her feet. Got to be prepared to tread water.

She sat at the table and carefully crossed one flippered foot over the other. "Hullo," she said cheerfully to those already at the table. "We appear to be dry."

Jack walked into the Great Hall, surprised to find that he was one of the first people there. He sighed and took a seat next to one of the younger students who had just walked in wearing--swim slippers? He blinked and stared at her feet before looking back up at her.

"Erm yeah...all dry now...is that why you're wearing those?" he asked, pointing to her feet.

Chris walked slowly into the Great Hall and took a seat at the long table. This year had been absolutely crazy. There was no other word for it. Half the school had been flooded, classes had to be shortened or moved because of it, and the Headmaster was attacked by Professor Lupa. The last part really shook him. He had always liked Professor Lupa so much but she was a werewolf and they could loose control sometimes. He hoped that the Headmaster was ok, and that they weren't too hard on Professor Lupa.

Some other good things had happened this term too. He had helped defeat the evil merepeople and helped rescue their princess, he had earned a load of points for Gryffindor and had hung out with his friends, and new girlfriend Paris.

As he sat there looking up at the Staff table and the slowly filling Great Hall he realized something that really was sad. All the seventh years were leaving. That was a fact that, even though he knew it was coming, hurt him every term. He would be losing Anna as his co-Prefect and buddy. He would still see her hopefully out and about but not like they used too. He would also be losing some other fellow Prefects, Clifford, Evangaline, and Vanessa. And not just them all his friends that would be graduating. He hoped he could see them all before they left!

Chris headed to the Great Hall. It was already the end of the term? Really? Cause it was going way to fast. He went straight for the Gryffie table. And looked to see if he knew anybody. He then saw Chris? The prefect? Chris hadn't seen him all term. Probably cause he was off being Mr. Prefect. He sat down near him. "Hey Chris." He said to the fourth year.

Chris turned as he heard someone greet him. "Oh hey Chris! How have you been this term. We haven't seen each other in a while." he said smiling.

This term??? Ummm. Confused! But not anymore hehee. "Umm pretty good. Getting kind of sad and excited for my seventh year." He told Chris and shrugged. "Yeah I know it's been awhile. So how about you how was your term?" He asked.

Selena made her way to a remote, empty space in her house table and sat down. She felt a certain longing to stay at Hogwarts (not that at home was no fun), but the school have partly became her second home. She couldn't believe she actually compared the two castles together and looked at the school with disdain - the mistake of the century. This term had been hectic, yet so adventurous and fun (with some downside events like between Headmaster Bontecou and Professor Lupa). As her thoughts flitted to them, she began to worry. Will they be OK? She have heard about a werewolf having to leave the school because of pressure from parents. Would this be the case of Professor Lupa?

Daniel walked with a heavy heart towards the Great Hall. He was sad for his seventh year friends. He is also sad that he will be all alone again this summer. He walked towards their house table to look for friends.

"Hey, Chris!" he yelled. He then giggled for he saw two of the Chris he knows.

Winnie shrugged. "Got to be prepared, yeah?" she said. "Constant vigilance and all that." Winnie leaned back and surveyed him through squinted eyes. "Aren't you the Quidditch captain?"

At the Ravenclaw table, Clark Landers had just yelled, something that reverberated around the room. "SHANA MILLER IS IN LOVE WITH ME, CLARK LANDERS?"

With a smile on her face, Anna Greingoth pretty much dashed into the Great Hall and towards the Gryffindor house table. A few feet away from her destination, she sort of slid across the floor, coming to a stop just as she reached a seat near a few of her friends. "Graduated! Graduated! Grad-u-a-teddd!" she sort of sung out loud. She'd woken up this morning with a new outlook on permanently leaving Hogwarts. She'd decided to celebrate it. Her time here had been amazing and filled with so many wonderful memories. It just wouldn't feel right to leave it with tears and a frown.

"Goodbye, Arithmancy. Goodbye, Quidditch. Goodbye Astronomy, house points, and homework assignments. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye," she said, talking to no one in particular. She glanced over at Winnie and added, "Hello, Mrs, Newellll!" Yup, Anna was in a pretty good mood today. She glanced up towards the staff table and waved at her now-former professors. Had any of them actually seen her? That she did not know. At least she'd made the effort, though. She reached for a glass of pumpkin juice and casually began sipping on it. Life was good...it really, really was.

Click clack...-pause and blows running nose-...click clack click clack clack clack squeak trip...iron out front of YELLOW robes.

"Bananaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa," Lyra cried as soon as she saw her Gryffie friend. This was awful! This was sad! Why did she have to wear YELLOW? She wanted PINK! "I need a...a..." -sniffs- "hugggggggg."

Chris smiled and nodded, “I can imagine your excitement and longing not to leave.” He looked around the amazing Great Hall. “I can’t imagine anyone ever wanting to leave this castle.”

“My term was very good, and very eventful. I’m surprised I got as much homework as I did done with all the distractions and what not. Fighting off merpeople, working against floods, and rescuing a locked up MerPrincess. I just am hoping for a less eventful term next year. Which I bet isn’t a reality at Hogwarts.” He laughed.

Chris turned around as he heard someone yell Chris. It could have been meant for him or his frind Chris sitting next to him, so he turned around just in case. He saw that it was a fellow Gryffindor that he had practiced with in the last Defense Against the Dark Arts class. “Oh hey Daniel! How are you?”

Chris looked up as his co-Prefect strolled in and took a seat. He smiled at her and scooted down to sit by her. “Hey Anna! I bet you are excited for the summer!” he said hinting at her upcoming wedding. “Oh but I’m going to miss you so much! I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like without Anna Greingoth in Gryffindor Tower.” He said making a puppy dog look at her and then laughing. “What I’m trying to say is I will miss you tons.”

Chris turned in his chair to face the newcomer to his conversation with Anna. He smiled brightly at another graduating friend. "Hey Lyra. Oh you are leaving too! I will also miss you alot!" he smiled sadly as he watched her be really worked up about it. This whole thing made him think about the day it will be his turn to leave the school. Oh well he had a few years before that was going to happen.

Anna continued to casually sip her pumpkin juice, until she became aware that a very familiar click-clacking sound was quickly approaching. What was that, though? Click-clack sniff? Hmm? Anna laid her glass back down on the table, then turned towards Lyra. She gave her friend a sympathetic look, then squeezed her into a tight hug.

"Oh, Lyra, dear. I know you're sad about leaving Hogwarts, but you really have such an exciting life ahead of you. You have Christian, and I have Cale. Could life really get any better?" she said, hoping her words would comfort her friend. "I know something that'll cheer you up...hopefully. I'm getting married in two weeks! Two!"

"Hey, Chris!" Anna replied, brightening at the sudden appearance of her now-former co-prefect. "Oh, I am! I really am! I'm really excited!" She sort of giggled a little at the thought of her wedding. It really made her rather giddy just to think about it. Her expression softened, though, when Chris mentioned missing her. She'd certainly miss him...and all of Gryffindor..., too. "Oh, Chris. That means a lot to me, you know. I'm really going to miss this place. I don't think it's really hit me yet that I'll never come back again. It's a weird feeling, you know. It's especially going to be odd when September 1st rolls around, and I'm not on that train."

"Well Im glad you are excited! You have a whole new adventure ahead of you." he nodded and picked up a goblet of pumpkin juice and took a drink. He smiled brightly. "Well it's very true. Im sure the whole school will miss you." he laughed. She was exeptionally nice to everyone. "Oh well we should definatley try and stay in touch. I would hate to lose contact, just because you don't go here anymore. And I can talk to you and Cale!" he said excitedly.

Lyra stopped in her sniffling/crying pity party feast to look at another person that spoke. "Oh Chris," she said as she completely stopped crying and tilted her head to the side. She patted him on the shoulder as she gave her best yet saddest face.

"I know you will miss us terribly," she spoke as this was coming straight from her heart...about her own self...as usual. "There will never be another me that roams these halls. I know you are upset but," she pause as she sat between Banana and Chris. "I know that you will be strong. We..." -sniff- "still have the..." -sniff- "train h-h-home."

And drama was her forte.

And when Banana spoke of Christian, Lyra huffed slightly and folded her arms to her chest. "Trust me, it will be a couple of years before I catch up with that fine boy," she said as she crossed her legs and looked up towards the cool Hogwarts ceiling. "I know, it's sad and you and Cale will probably already have children by that time but...it's something that I know is in the stars. Something that I know it will take us forever to meet up again. Although I surely don't understand why but...that's how the ball bounces."

But then her friend spoke of WHEN she was getting married. "Two weeks?" It was as if a light in her head went off as her head snapped towards Anna. "You are getting married in TWO WEEKS?" Holy Merlin's Beard that was just...AWESOME! "So do you need help? I can do whatever you need me to do, just ask." She did have a tight schedule coming up and hopefully she could work around it.

Cam, from the Slytherin table, had eyed a puuuurdy older Gryffindor giiirl who was... gr-gra--graduating! Why couldn't Hogwarts accept students until they were like, 40 years old?! Hopping over to the Gryffindor table with legs put together, and trying to retain his balance, he eyed the Head Girl and sniiiiffeedd sadly.

THIS WASN'T FAAAAAAAIRRRRR.

He wanted to jump out and cling to the Head Girl's legs so she wouldn't leave at all. Anna was leaving. Continuing to hop--which was harder than it looked--Cam reached the table in front of the Head Girl with a few other people beside her.

"Errr... hi Anna," wasn't he suppose to say "bye Anna?", but... He didn't face her in the eyes, turning red all of a sudden, and looked down on the floor.

Chris tried not to laugh. It was a sad time and he was going to miss Anna and Lyra alot, but Lyra could be such a drama queen. He felt her pat him on the shoulder and listened to her gush on about how he will miss her. And he nodded along with her. "I will try be strong Lyra!" he said nodding and patted her hand that was on his shoulder still as if she was trying to steafy him, thinking that he may faint because she was leaving.

Selena watched the goodbye-crying fest commotion while playing with her fork absently. She wasn't sure she would miss Hogwarts that much, nor was she sure she could have some friends to say goodbye to. As Anna mentioned her wedding in two weeks' time, the Gryffindor Chaser turned towards the Head Girl and smiled serenely: "Congratulations, Anna. I'm sad to see you go, personally, as Gryffies would be missing a great Keeper and Head Girl, but as they say - you've got a whole life open behind a new door!" Lovebirds seem to choose this season to get married. After all, she was to be a bridesmaid for two weddings the upcoming summer: Rose and Hitomi have both begged Sel and her twin to do it.

Daniel was still giggling when he was acknowledged by Chris Potter. He smiled and approached them, "Is this seat taken?" he asked.

He then looked around to look for Anna, he wanted to talk to her and say goodbye to her none the less. He spotted her at the Staff table and waited for her to return to the table to talk to her.

Awwww. He was sooooo sweet! And he sooo deserved a hug and a kiss on the cheek as well. "Oh Chris. You are such a wonderful person," she said as she stood up and then leaned in to give the Gryffindor a huge hug and a kiss on the cheek. She had to say goodbye to the boys she was going to miss as this would be the last time to share her flirty ways with anyone else but her one and only Christian.

Chris grinned as obviously the two Chris's was pretty funny. "Yeah sure Daniel, you can sit here." he nodded and scooted over some.

Chris grinned brightly as Lyra gave him a big hug and then a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks." he said a little suprised but not angry. It wasn't like she liked him or anything. "You are a great person too!" he said kind of awkwardy.

He then asked. "So what do you have planned for your after school activities?" he asked. He then thought it was kind of funny to refer to your whole life as activites. HAHA

Daniel, while waiting for Anna, heard a familiar voice. It is Lyra. She is also a seventh year, isn't she? He approached her and remembered where he had worked with her in school.

He then remembered that it was her potion that made him the rainbow lad.

HE cleared his throat and said, "Hi, Lyra. You know, evethough we don't really know each other well, I will miss you as the member of the PINK ladies." he said with a smile.