"Hello Satine. May I join you two?" She asked after greeting Satine.

Aww, this guy seemed rather embarrassed and uncomfortable. And his nose seemed rather sore too. But nothing too bad and he figured that it was just a bit of a bump that he'd survive after. "You're new, aren't you?" He looked it because Torin had never seen him before. Probably a transfer.

"I'm Torin. And you didn't invade my privacy." The compartments were all open and he liked meeting people. Maybe opening up and starting a conversation would get him to loosen up a bit.

Avery arrived on the train all alone. She did not have the opportunity to meet people at Diagon Alley or in any of the shops. But now she was hoping to see all the new people that will now be part of her life. Avery walked up and down the the Hogwarts Express looking for an invite into a compartment. She decided that she would go up and down the train just one more time, if she did not recieve and invite she would just have to make herself known in a random compartment. The problem for Avery is that she was so shy she had a hard time starting conversations, not keeping them going, but just starting them.

Looking up from Verity, Lorelai nodded in acknowledgement of Brody. Miss supposed queen of the world, who enjoyed moving pictures in magazines. She looked nice today. She did indeed. "Brody. You look nice, trying," but failing. "to impress someone ey?"

Obviously not.

"Prefect, practically perfect in every way, shape and form." She wasn't going to ask how Brody was.

"Trying? I don't need to try?" Brody giggled, as she twirled a strand of hair around her finger. "I don't need to impress my boyfriend" Que smirk teehe. She didn't need to impress something that was already hers. "Actually we can go find time." Brody nodded, picking up her bag, and standing up.

"He's very hot." She giggled, before taking Lori's hand, pulling her up and out of the compartment. She only had to walk down a few before she found him. "Jooorma." Brody smirked, as she flounced to his side, sitting down. Then she saw Torin. Awkwwaard. "oh. Hey Torin."

"Oh, thanks," Jack said, blushing a bit. It was still weird for him whenever he received a compliment--he was still used to the mentality that no one really cared about whether or not he did well at stuff. "Ehhh, it happens, but I'm sure Ravenclaw will bounce back," he told him with a smile. "They had a young team, but I'm sure you guys will be back on top again this year. Ravenclaw has never really been one to sit back and watch another team start a winning streak," he joked. Well, it WAS true. He really wished his team had that kind of drive!

"Flying's a piece of cake," he assured him. He could tell Tiberus was nervous--it was only natural though. "Everyone is nervous when they first get on a broom. It's really easy to learn though, and once you figure out how to control the broom, it will start to come naturally!"

Having stopped in the doorway to an empty compartment, Adrienne stood there for a few minutes, feeling Rochester shift on her shoulder as she sensed people walking by behind her. But while she wanted to put her things down, she wasn't entirely sure she wanted to sequester herself in a compartment, which was why she hadn't done anything. But as she heard a voice, she swiveled her head before stepping to the side, hearing muffled squeaks coming from the basket as her owl also got testy from the sharp movement. "Hi, sorry. Do you want to use this compartment?," she asked, half-illogically, as she set the basket down on a seat and stood back up. At least that freed a hand, when it seemed the boy had extended his own in introduction. "Adrienne," she said in return, as she took his hand. At least he wasn't trying to be rude or anything. She knew that if it had been Riley, he would have disparaged her or something else less pleasant. Unless Phoebus had been there with him,but even then that usually didn't stop her brother.

Dylan smiled, "I actually just want to put Artie down. Unless you don't mind me sharing it with you." Since she had just put a basket down in it. "My crup hasn't really travelled before. And he is a bit nervous or excited. I am not really sure what is wrong with him." He set the crup down on the seat, "Stay." He commanded his crup to stay still. He didn't really want it to start running around the train yapping away.

He nodded, politely, "Nice to meet you Adrienne." He gave her hand a soft, slow shake, before releasing it. "So what year are you in?"

Screeeeeeeeeeeech!! Goodness. That was a sound that made her smile...Screech marks? Are there any behind her? Lucy glanced to the space of flooring behind her and stared carefully in search of the tiniest marks. After a few moments of searching, she realized that there was nothing...until something caught her eye.

"What is THAT?!" she whispered loudly to herself. It appeared to be tiny itty bitty, hard-to-see black marks...on the ground...in the shape of...well, the shape was unknown, but nevertheless, it came from her shoes!! HER. SHOES. Yes, yes, yes. Her shoes. She immediately dropped to floor and and began studying the marks...her first skid marks. Such a fascinating thing. The fact that was was fast enough to stop, screech, and produce skid marks was simply magnificent! She petted, and stroked it, wishing she had a camera and take snapshots of this sight. Unfortunately, her last camera died when a little dog on the street passed by and magically took it from her. Stupid dog...hmph.

Thankfully, though, her mind was like a camera. In fact, there was a word for such a gift where one can easily remember situations, scenes, moments, and things said without struggling or ever forgetting. Oh, well. Forget it. Scientific words were not important right now. What was important were the amazing skid marks and hopefully...no one would DARE to disturb this moment.

Lori rolled her eyes. "Congratulations on the boyfriend. I wouldnt have pictured you as one to settle with someone. Admirers are better, they give you bunches of flowers." Or Adam did anyway. "And they sing to you." Like Adam had. "Find him? I'm oka-" WOAH.

"Can I have MY hand back please." She hissed as she picked her kitten up that had ran after them. Torin. "Hey Torin. Congratulations on the badge, ey? You seen Gold yet?" She asked quickly, taking a seat, totally ignoring Brody and the boyfriend now. They were just not that hot.

Okay, this was weird. Brody suddenly ran in and sat beside Jorma, happy to see him. But whatever... It wasn't like it mattered what she did now. She wasn't his girlfriend.

"Hey, Brody." He smiled at her and picked up his book so that he could start reading it again.

But it seemed that he was not meant to rad now that Lori had come in too. "Oh, hey! Thanks. I just saw her in the Prefect compartment recently." He smiled at Lori, though he still wasn't sure if she really liked him much.

Adrienne shrugged as it seemed Dylan had msigivings about using the compartment, which made it a good thing that as soon as she'd put her pygmy puffs' basket down, Rochester had flown off her shoulder to perch on the handle. "I don't mind. I mean, the compartment's already gonna have more animals than people in it. What damage is an excited crup gonna do? And he probably is just nervous/excited/scared because he doesn't understand the train's movement," she said, trying to help figure out the problem even though she had no real experience with crups. Or even dogs, for that matter, beyond the one she'd been around occasionally. Although she was curious if Dylan's crup was going to actually listen to him.

She smiled at him as he spoke, slowly shaking her hand. And she didn't ignore the fact that she knew that could have gone a completely different way. As in, spastic shaking, even though she hadn't really experienced that. Polite hand-shaking was beter anyway. "It's nice to meet you, too," she said, pausing as she analyzed his question. "I'm a seventh year. Ravenclaw." And new Quidditch captain, but she still wasn't going around actually broadcasting that. She could count on one hand the people who knew that already.

Gabe strode, almost running, along the corridor towards the front of the train. He was pretending to be in one of those action films, acting as a hero running along the train to kill the bad guy.

"You won't get away from me..." He muttered under his breath, completely lost in a world of his own. Gabriel was about to reach the front when he suddenly hit something hard on the floor and almost flipped head over heels.

Completely disorientated, Gabe found himself on the floor. He rubbed the back of his head gingerly, finding a bump where he'd hit the train's floor with it. He looked around to see a girl in the middle of the corridor, staring blindly at nothing on the ground.

"What the hell are you doing there?" He squealed at her, still rubbing his sore head. "You could've killed me! I could've died!"

Dylan chuckled, "He might rip something. He is only 9 months old. He is house trained though. So he won't pee on you." He had trained Artie quite well. He didn't pee on things, and he obeyed. Just. "He doesn't understand alot. He has just live in my house. I am not allowed to take him outside the house because his tail hasn't been docked. I live quite close to muggles."

"Ooo a seventh year. I am going to be a fifth year. I am 16 in a week, actually," he smiled. "I don't know what I am getting though. I am getting it owled to me." He might get an owl. That could be quite exciting.

As she stared at the floor in awe, two things happened: 1) She realized Tammy was so totally right about the fact that she spent too much time with the floor, and 2) Someone had evidently fallen on top of her, tumbling over in front of her, forcing Lucy to come face to face with the floor. Lucy began mumbling indiscernible words, not willing to look up at the idiot who had caused all of this. HMPH!! What the heck was he doing?! And...WHAT? Lucy looked up at the boy, rubbing his head.

"I could have killed YOU?! I daresay...you could have killed ME! You weren't even looking at where you were going!" Killing him...how foolish he was! How could she had killed her by sitting still in the middle of the walkway while everyone else is walking around, capable of seeing? "If anything, you'd do well to get your eyes checked so as not to come closing to killing anyone else! Falling on top of me...pah!"

She struggled to get up from the floor, and, sitting on her knees, she covered her face with her hands, making sure nothing was badly injured. Thankfully, nothing was wrong. Of course, she felt a slight tingling sensation on her back, which she assumed would eventually pass. Still...imagine if the boy had broken her back! Owwie.

Adrienne shrugged again, fighting back a grin as Dylan laughed. "Hey, it's not my train compartment. I'm just using it right now. So as long as he doesn't tear anything of mine apart, I think we'll get along just fine." At least there was the housebroken thing, because she definitely wouldn't be on the crup puppy's side if he peed on her shoes. "I guess Hogwarts is going to be really interesting for him then. Kind of like last term with my pygmy puffs." Since she had only just got them before last term, and she didn't think the Weasley Wizard Wheezes shopkeeper made a habit of bringing his merchandise randomly to Hogwarts on the possibility a student would buy them. "Muggles, huh?" Interesting. Beyond her reading, and her attraction to shoe designers, she couldn't say she knew a lot about Muggles. Well, other than Muggle Studies class.

She laughed at his reaction to her year, though. "That's nice. I don't really know how to look at going into this term. I mean, I have no idea what to expect, since Professor Truebridge got fired last term. And I'll have NEWTs." She blinked as he said he was going to get his house owled to him. "I didn't know that was possible. I mean, I thought everyone had to go through the sorting ceremony and everything." Not that she'd seen too many older students doing so, previous terms. But she'd never questioned it, and Dylan was the first person she'd met who didn't know what house he was in yet.

FIFTH TIME she had reached the front of the train. The FIFTH - and she STILL hadn't run into people. She ALMOST felt like a first year again - there were so many people she didn't know! Of course, unlike her actual first year, they were all familiar in the face but apart from that - zilch.

Feeling movement coming from her bag, she abruptly glanced around to make sure no one had noticed before making comforting shushing sounds at the big fancy bag she had recieved from her mother during the summer holidays. Oh how her mother would DIE if she knew to what use Rachel had put the bag to.

Hehe. Making her mother angry was fun again.

Tired of walking, and feeling sorry for the contents of the bag, the seventeen year old decided to just waltz in into one of the compartments and hope that it didn't ONLY contain young kids.

...
Ah, she was in luck. It was Adrienne; and a boy whom she had never seen before in her life. "Hey Adrienne - do you mind if I join you?" she asked, trying REALLY hard to keep her bag from tilting as she peeked her head through the compartment door. Smiling at the boy there, she waited to be let in - or rather, HOPING, since they may be having a private, er, conversation.

Gabe had no response. He was never good with good comebacks. Besides, girls scared him. He just stood on the spot, almost quivering.

"I was ... I was ..." He couldn't tell her he was pretending that he was about to save the world, that would make him look like a baby. He really had nothing to say. Gabe simply stared at the older girl as she slowly got up from the floor.

"WAIT! What were you even doing on the floor?" Finally, something to say. He didn't look like a stupid little idiot now. "That was a pretty stupid place to be, if you ask me."

Winner. He folded his arms with a smug expression on his face.

"Ok I will make sure he doesn't," Dylan smiled. "I'll make sure he just rips up the seat then." He placed his suitcase on the seat and unzipped it. He pulled out a teddy dog and a little blanket. He placed the blanket and the teddy on the floor. The crup ran to his blanket and sat down on it. "Oh great. That is all I need. A crup that just won't sleep."

"Yeah. I try to stay away from muggles as much as possible, but some of their culture fascinates me. I love going to the theatre. I have an RSC membership," Dylan smiled, "I try to see Shakespeare as much as possible."

He shook his head, "I don't know. I was just told that I would be told later. I presumed it was by owl. But maybe not. I don't really know how it works. Does it not work by owl?"

Suddenly some other girl joined them. She knew Adrienne. Which was quite cool. "Hey come on in. I am Dylan. You are?" he said, standing up and offering his hand.

Lucy watched at the boy stood in silence, and smirked at his inability to find a proper response. Of course, she made sense. Besides, what she was doing was probably a lot more important and mind-blowing than what he was doing...whatever it was. What was he doing, anyway? She glared at his smug face, and shook her head.

"What was I doing on the floor? I was simply examining the skid marks I had created on the floor while...slipping and skidding a few minutes ago." Lucy pointed at the area she had been looking at previously, and glanced at it, hoping the marks didn't disappear on the accord of this boy. "It was a miraculous moment for me since it was the first time I have ever created skid marks. And then...YOU RUINED IT." She squinted her eyes at him, attempting to look evil and upset, and pointed a finger at him. "You ruined a simple moment for me thanks to your clumsy nature! HMPH!!"

Nothing could beat that. Everyone knows that it's rude to interrupt an important moment in someone's life! Hopefully, he'd understand it and apologize. Yes, apologize. Glare glare.

"Avery!!! Avery!!! Avery!!! SHUT UP!!!!"

Aaron's owl was squeaking and shaking like there was no tomorrow. "COME ON! QUIET!" Aaron awkwardly looked around at everyone on the platform hoping that no one thought he was crazy. "I'm not crazy... I'm really not..." he said to himself. You just talked to yourself. Your crazy. Hey... this is me talking to myself. Are the voices finally gone?

No.

Dangit!

Aaron finally got Avery to shut up by tossing an owl treat into her cage. All this had to happen RIGHT after he said goodbye to his parents and right before he got on the train; that awkward stage in between "it's summer," and "I'm going to Hogwarts."

Aaron stepped onto the train and started heading down the hall looking for a familiar face. Hopefully Iris. She looked absolutely fantastic in Diagon alley. Wow. Since last year Aaron had really chilled out about Quidditch... Okay, that was a lie. Aaron couldn't WAIT for Quidditch. He came so close at Diagon alley on wasting all his book money on a broom. Yes. That would be awesome. But one thing that has changed s that Aaron was going to be more outgoing and random and funny this year... Hopefully.

He went past a couple of compartments before running into:

"Wassup people?" he said walking into Iris, Satine, and... Um... Some girl he never met's compartment. Aaron lugged his trunk onto a holder (ooc: for lack of thought of the correct word) and put Avery on the ground in front of a seat next to Iris. It seemed a lot easier to put his trunk away than the last two years. Maybe because he was getting stronger. Oooh, stronger. Being stronger would be cool. I'd be all strong... And stuff.

After putting Avery on the ground, Aarpn quickly gave Iris a hug, and then went over and gave Satine a hug. He then looked at the new person and said

"Hey! I'm Aaron."

Iris nodded, "Sure, I don't mind."

Iris was looking between Satine and Lucia when she she heard a familiar someone telling a bird to 'shut up'. She looked at Satine and grinned brightly. It was Aaron. She watched him as he found their compartment and came in. She smiled at him, real brightly. I was like she'd not seen him in forever. Or a week. Iris watched him heave his trunk up, and smiled at Satine happily whilst Aaron's back was turned.

"Heeyyyy, Aaron!" She hugged him back as he hugged her, and the butterflies where back. Greeat. This train ride's going to be great. Iris ignored the weird feeling in her gut when Aaron hugged Satine too. She watched him as he introduced himself to Lucia, and then scooted closer to the window, quite obviously indicating that she wanted him to sit next to her.

As so as Iris gave her the okay to have a seat Lucia set her trunk over with the other and took a seat.
Thinking about starting school and what house she would be sorted in she was getting nervous now so she started to play with her chain and locket.


Luica stopped playing with her chain and locket and looked up from her seat at the boy that giving the other hug and greets."Hello Aaron, I am Lucia," she said back to his greeting to her.

"oh!" Scipia exclaimed, startled a bit..."yeah. I'm Scipia, a first year...."

Nymphy went looking for some students to sit with. He couldn't find a seat so he went to a random compartemnt and opend the door. Seeing their superior age, he quickly asked, "Sorry to bother but have any of you seen any first round 'ere?" he smiled politely.