Cedric glanced around the hall, Then he walk towards the Hufflepuff house table. There he noticed some familiar faces like Dominic Denton, Kaika Lockhart and Jake Upstead. He patted Jake at the back as he reached them then he took a seat at their table, "Hey Jake!" Cedric greeted him happily. They are now third year students, Two terms to go and they gonna take OWLs, He's so excited about it. "How's your vacation?" asked Cedric, He wondered where Jake were up to, and he barely sees him at Diagon Alley. Then he took a bite on his muffin waiting for Jake to answer.
Then he turned to Kaika, Their Quidditch Captain. "Hi Kaika." Ced greeted her, Its so nice to see her again. And he remembered that Kaika was now a seventh year and he feels sad about. She's a very good captain and all. "Umm, You're seventh year already" Ced told her sadly. "You gonna leave Hogwarts soon" Ced continued, He don't want to cry and all. He's just sad that Kaika is going to leave Hogwarts, leave them.
Finally, He turned to Dominic. And Ooh.. WHAT?! He just noticed the shimmering Headboy badge on Dominic's robes. It just means that he's the new headboy. Its great to have the headboy on their house. Dom did very well, He's proud of him and so does his fellow Hufflepuffs. "Dom!" he exclaimed gazing at Dom. "Congrats Dom, Awesome! You're the new Headboy now" Cedric told him ecstatically.

Ray sat at the hufflepuff table. It was his last year at Hogwarts and he was going to miss the old castle. But it was again his seventh year which means he had one of the toughest exams in his academic life, however it didn't mean he wasn't going to try and have fun. Plus he had another mission this year... To become Forrester Hufflepuff, his uncle, eyes!

Penelope saw an open seat near a student who looked to be first-year as well. She couldn't help noticing that the petite girl seemed to look a little lonely, something Penelope understood. Penelope drew a deep breath and called up her courage as she headed toward the red-haired girl. Reaching the table she gave a quick smile and sat down. "Uhm, h-hi," Penelope spoke, her voice cracking slightly. Clearing her throat, she continued: "I'm Penelope. Is this your first year too?"

I run to the table. When I got there I took a set. I looked at all the people smiling at me.

"Hi" i said "My name is Kay."

Many of them smiled and than went back to what they were doing. Boy this is going to be a long year. I look around the room to see the floating canldes and the way the food came to the table. It was truely magical.

"I so love being here. even if I am alone." I said saddly.

As alert as he now was, Jake couldn't help but jump nearly a foot in the air as someone patted his back. WHYYYYYY did people feel the need to scare him like that?!

"Oh, hey Ced," Jake replied, glancing round at the boy and mumbling a response. "It was good. Went to beaches and I also went on a climbing expedition. How was your summer?"

Settling down, Jake swung his feet back and forth as Cedric spoke to Kayla, not intruding, until an unpleasant piece of information reached his ears.

Kaika. Was. A seventh year.

"WHAT?!"

Cue lip quiver.

Miranda grinned, "I learned how to say Hi!...It's Hej!" she was proud of that. "We went to see the broomrace in...uh..." gosh what was the name of that place again? "The city was called...um...Arieplow...I think..." Miranda paused with a pensieve expression. Anywhooo "It was awesome!"

Listening intently at Kaika's summer, Miranda's jaw dropped. Seriously, her captain was the awesomest. "A Quidditch camp!?" She didn't even know they existed! It totally made sense that they did, and she totally had to go some day! "How was it, what did you do??" in all the excitement, Miranda served herself a spoonfull of meatballs, a food she had been overly consuming in sweden, onto her plate and shoving one into her mouth - excited to hear about the camp.

"Whoooa...Head Boy..." after finishing her meatball, Miranda started to gaze out into nothing. Imagining being the Head Girl, imagining all the POWAAAAH! Eeeh...
"So how was your summer Dominic?" she said with a jerk of her head, as if someone had poked her to stop daydreaming.

As she paused to hear Dominics response, Miranda caught Kaika's look. Uuummmm... Why was everyone so...different... And they were going to talk? About what? What were they going to talk about? And since when do Kaika and Dominic talk?

Just then, Miranda's grin returned as she saw Emalyn, as fun looking as ever, walk inside the Great Hall and sat down. "Emalyyyyyyyyn, heeeeeeeeeeej!" she practically yelled and waved her arms to get her fellow fourth year's attention.

Mirandas flailing arms froze, her grin froze and turned to a grimace. What was this huffie saying? "Hahehuuu..." she giggled akwardly turning towards her team. "What...are you talking abouuuut...?" Miranda playfully slapped Cedric on the arm. Kaika, her captain, was a seventh year. Hmmm... Well that meant that... Noooo, it doesn't mean anythiiing, NOTHING AT ALL!!!

Then that must mean that Dominic... Head Boy... ooooooh... Oh this was bad, this was the term of sadness.

Abigail walked up to the table and sat down next to another girl who had just been sorted and was introducing herself to someone ells. ‘It’s time to make more friends, it’s a bit weird that I’m going to be living with these guy’s but I don’t even know their names.’ She thought.

Looking at the girl who she heard say her name was Penelope and smile. “Hi my names Abigail. Did you have a good time on the train?”

Sarah entered the Great Hall with mixed feelings.For one she was wary of what would happen this year: a werewolf attack at the end of last term, a teacher being killed in front of her in Diagon Alley only a few weeks before.This was either going to be extremely eventful, or as she hoped...UNeventful.But there was also the part of her that was excited about starting her fourth year, watching all the new students getting sorted added to that feeling.

It seemed a few of the new Huffies had already made their way over to the table, sat chatting in some cases, looking slightly nervous in others.Being the welcoming, friendly person that she was, Sarah gave them all a beaming smile as she passed on her way to an empty seat.To her disappointment she couldn't see Ryder, her boyfriend, present.Although she hadn't seen him on the train either. "I really hope he turns up soon," she muttered to herself, glancing over to the Ravvie table to see if Mariel was there.Upon spotting her friend talking to some fellow blues, Sarah smiled and made a mental note to go over when she had eaten and heard the speech.

Sitting herself down in a spare space on the bench,Sarah leant forward and grabbed at several pieces of food in front of her, piling them on her plate.All she had had on the train was a lemondrop sweet that she nearly choked on, so she was starving.Taking a quick peek up and down the table, she noticed a few people she knew, but they were already talking to each other.So with a sigh, Sarah began eating.

Perhaps sitting with Jake was not a good idea after all. She jumped a bit when he practically yelled her name, again. He honestly looked so adorable demanding an answer.

But she didn't want to, really...not now anyway, he'll figure it out on his own, right? "Umm, you must mean 'what year are we in?' and the answer would be '2069'" she said, with a smile and a nod.

"Hi Cedric!" she said, while giving the boy a smile, but then....no, no, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! NO! NO!

Oh, he did it!

She'd managed to keep out of the 'seventh year' part and she was mostly sure he heard that, or at least he heard the 'you gonna leave Hogwarts soon' part. Oh, no!

"Mmmhmmm, so, are you trying out for Quidditch again?" she asked, trying to change the subject in case Jake didn't hear him, and also because as a Quidditch Captain she had the right to ask such a thing. Yes, she did.

Oh, no! Oh, no! He heard. Not nice. Not nice at all.

Kaika knew Jake's response, well, response-question was due to the fact that he found out the answer to his constant question. Still, she jumped yet again when he 'yelled'. "Jake, you have to stop doing that, or I won't be able to drink my pumpkin juice" which was not even served yet. Great.

"Jake, what happened?" she asked, trying to be as oblivious as she could about how she didn't know what he meant.

"Hej!" she said, the pronunciation very close as Miranda's, "Wait...you did? Did you take pictures?" how cool was that? Miranda's summer was certainly awesome as well. Kaika grinned at the excitement of her friend. It was still a mystery how the girl managed to get into such a great mood.

"Yes!" she exclaimed, "It was...unbelievable...truly amazing...we got to play Quidditch most of the day, because, well, you know, one has to sleep, apparently" Kaika didn't mind the sleep at all when Quidditch was involved, "The people were funny, well, Americans sort of are..." she started to keep the chatting of the Camp as much as possible, "...and we all got to meet new people, and shop sometimes....so, there were many things to do if you wanted a break from Quidditch...we barely did, though" a break from Quidditch, occasionally necessary but clearly not wanted, "And we also got to travel a lot, since we have to move around so Muggles wouldn't notice...there are very nice places in America" yup, true, plus, she was far away from home. Nice touch.

Ack!

This Cedric boy!

Thankfully, Miranda was focusing on him, not her. So. Good. Yeah.

Seeing a huge gigantic boy look at him near the entrance to the hall, JD squeaks and dives under a table, crawling as fast as he could underneath, he bumps into legs accidentally.

There was no way anyone was going to get that hat on his head. Nothing was going to read his thoughts. Nuh uh, no way!

Last start of term feast. You aint coming back Tam. Just be brave, dont cry.

She was not going to cry. That was NOT going to happen. NUH-UH. Until she got up to her dorm later that night, and found herself, faced with Eva. And the realisation that seeing her was more than likely going to entail more arguments. But she was maturing. Well trying to mature, as much as it was failing.

Awh, she needed, desperately NEEDED to find Kaika. She needed to 'talk' to the other friend who knew Eva. Who could get the other girl to see sense in Tammy. Because Eva wasn't seeing sense. No she was not.

Scanning the table quickly she gave a sigh of relief, and quickened her heel assisted pace until she came closer AND closer AND closer to the person she was looking for. BUT. She was with people, being able to name a few she gave the group as smile as a whole.

But it was partially excluding Dominic. Because HE hadnt told her he was headboy. HE was the one who needed to tell people the truth and not miss IMPORTANT things out. "Kai-iay-iay-KA." She grinned, and threw her arms around the girl. "I missed youuuuu." She sang softly, chuckling, before releasing her and taking a step back, she was in peoples way. And she didnt care at that moment.

This year, the two girls were going to talk, considering it was their last... Last year they would see each other until another one. Now that sounded better than the tear jerking line of last year, final year, NEVER AGAIN!

Honestly, did she think he was an idiot or something. "I know what year it is, thank you very much," he muttered thickly, looking around them for something that apparently he couldn't find. "And I'll also thank you not to talk to me like I'm stupid," Jake added, feeling himself heat up in embarrassment over her apparently thinking he didn't know what year it was.

Oh, and apparently she didn't like when he exclaimed things. Hmmm.

"You know exactly 'what happened'," Jake snapped, stomping his foot beneath the table. "You seem to have selective hearing. You keep ignoring me when I ask you a questionnnnn..." His method of speech had somehow progressed to a whine, and you could tell that this cranky thirteen year-old never really should go to bed any later than nine. Unlike the night before.

Though technically, for Jake, it still was the night before, if you know what I'm saying.

"Quit being mean..." Jake added quietly.

Well, things were certainly looking up. As soon as someone mentioned her name, or something that sounded like her name, she knew who it was.

And then arms were around her. "Tammy!" she exclaimed as cheerful as ever, "I missed you toooooo" she said, before turning to face her, because she couldn't talk to Tammy with her back to the seventh year. Eek! Another seventh year. This means, Eva was also a seventh year. Oh.

"How have you been? How was your summer?" she asked, the excitement in her voice wasn't fake, perhaps it was Dominic the one that has been making her sad. Then the Quidditch Captain saw something on Tammy's robes...shiiiiinyyyyy!

"Congratulations!" she exclaimed, "Prefect...how awesome" she nodded, this was just like when Vannah got her badge, Kayla got her badge, and when Vannie got her badge...and now Tammy!

Excuse me? Well, this was the first time she heard that tone on Jake's voice. It must be the company of that Willie Crocker boy.

"I wasn't..." she couldn't finish, because somehow she knew that Jake wasn't buying it, well, she knew he wasn't buying it because he was saying so, and it was sort of her fault for not answering the question in the first place.

Yes, Jake wanted the truth once and for all. 'Selective hearing'? More like 'selective answer', but perhaps she was making a big deal out of this, perhaps Jake would react badly to her leaving, after all, that's what people eventually did in Hogwarts. Leave once their final year is over.

'Ignoring him'. No, she's never ignored Jake, except now, sort of, and it wasn't ignoring Jake, it was ignoring Jake's question. That's when her eyes started to water a bit. How could anyone in their right mind ignore Jake? Certainly not her.

'Being mean'. Her eyes widened, how--what---when---? She wasn't being mean, was she? No, Dominic was the one that could be mean, not her. That's when a single tear left her eye. "I don't like you to think I'm being mean, Jake...I just...I'm sorry I didn't answer" she started, and proceeded to remove the wetness of her eyes.

"But if you want to know, and I think you know already, I'm in seventh year, my last year" she said, as nicely as she could manage.

Brody being Brody had just have to go make sure that her hair looked just fine before she went to the great hall. She couldn't walk about with her hair being bad. No way!
The blonde smiled as she walked into the great hall, walking towards the hufflepuff table, although she would have been much better sitting alongside her best friend.

But oh. Reese was there. "Excuse me....Reese is it?" She spoke coldly, squeezing herself in between the girl and Toin. "I already told you to leave Torin alone."

"hey everyone i'm kyrie i'm in my first year so i;m a little nervous whats it like being in hufflepuff?"

"Yes. Tis meee." She giggled, as Kaika turned, it has honestly not been fun hugging her from behind, but it was almost the same. Hugging Kaika, was just normality. Somehow you got some sanity, when you hugged her. No matter where you hugged her. "Everyone misses me! Duh." Tammy grinned, almost cheshire cat like. She missed herself. If that was even possible. BUT, she could ask someone about that soon enough.

"Me? I've been awesome." That awesomeness was the little badge on her robes fault, had it not been for that.. Then she would have been feeling depressed. This summers letters with E had failed. Seventh year, was heading for a fail.

Her summer? The letter story could wait. Dom was NOT hearing that. He just wasnt. He had enough to laugh at her about, considering he was miles taller. AND could reach the ink. How much could she hand him out on a plate? NO MORE! "It was okay, sunbathed most of it. Tanning is a necessity when you're pale." She smiled.

"And the same for both of those questions to you, because I cant find the strength in myself to repeat those. Although I have actually just spoken more." Awh, she was rambling. She had nothing to say now. And that wasnt Tammy like. It just wasnt.

Seeing Kaika's eyes fall to her badge and back up Tammy grinned. "MmmmHmmm. Somehow, it happened. No idea how. But thanks anyway." She grinned, and shifted her weight from her left ankle, to her right.

"Captain again this year?" She wasnt observant. That was obvious.

Her eyes glanced at the people with Kaika, and she gave Jake a small smile. e probably still thought she had an eyebrow disfunction. And that wasnt nice.

Turning he sits down squarely in underneath the middle of the table. Accidentally sitting on someone's shoes unaware, he pulls his knees up to his chest, and wraps his arms around them, resting his chin on his knees.

Ross was now buzzing with excitment, he was back and he would now have a chance to play quidditch again if he got on the team. yep this year Ross would try his hardest to get on the team and play the sport he truly loved. Now though he had to eat food because that little monster in his tummy was screaming at him for food so looking around for food he gave up as his head fell to the table. Hyperness had been a usual thing recently for Ross but when it had ran out he would just collapse were he sat or worse yet......stood.

She's been awesome. Great. Well, you could see will all the happiness around her. But, something must have happened during the summer, because her face dropped a bit for like a second.

It was okay. Hmmmm. Yes, definitely something happened. Apparently only Kaika and Miranda seemed to have an awesome summer, based on the reactions of others. "Sunbathing, so you went to the beach, then?" she asked, the beach she enjoyed, mostly because it was right behind her home.

Then Kaika grinned, "Don't worry, I like listening" she said, with a nod, "My summer consisted mostly on Quidditch" she said simply, "I went to Quidditch Camp in America" she added, "And it was...well...pretty awesome, you know, for someone that likes Quidditch" true, otherwise you'd be bored to death in there.

But her eyes narrowed next, "What do you mean you don't what happened? Clearly you posses the qualities a Prefect should have" she eyed Dominic and then at Tammy. Same qualities but different personalities for sure, considering Dominic was once Prefect. "Yup, still Captain" she said, still smiling.

"Boring for all of--" Arrick checked his watch and frowned. It had stopped working completely, as if the battery was dead. "...ten minutes. Prob'ly the same as at any one o'those other tables," he drawled, still unimpressed. He really didn't see many differences between the Houses other than the colors.

Keeping quiet throughout the whole of Kaika's response, so as not to distract her from the truth, Jake noticed the girl's eyes were tearing up. He had no sooner noticed that than experienced it, and quickly turned his head so he could glare down at his knees (and proving this to be a bad move, because it just made it easier and more obvious for tears to fall).

"Okay," Jake finally said, meaning to sound content with the answer... and nearly reeling in shock as his voice went an octave higher, followed by a hitching of the breath. He was... crying. Looking up at the girl, Jake shook his head slowly. "Don't go," he begged, quietly.

"Oh ok" replied kyrie "yeah its more then likely the tables are pretty similar and may i ask what your name is good sir" kyrie said smiling

Arrick had to wonder if the kid was serious. The only time he'd been called 'good sir' was by some old dodgy curator on a museum trip.

"Arrick. Arrick Melliv. Nice meetin' you, I guess."

He smiled for the first time when Brody came and joined them. Or well more like squeezed between them. He wrapped his arm around her and kissed her on the cheek. "Just ignore her. That's what I'm trying to do." He really didn't want her getting madder and starting a fight with Reese. Not on her first day of school here.

"nice to meet you to Arrick i'm Kyrie Rival"