Frowning, Sabel listened carefully as Merlin vacated his lap and climbed up to curl up on Alexa's lap. The kitten bumped its head against her chin before turning two tight circles and lying down, as if to say 'You're alright now. You're safe.'

A small smile touched Sabel's lips at the action of his cat. Sure it could be a menace, but admittedly, he could also be cute. His frown returned as he debated her story. Diagon Alley. Was it just a coincidence, accident or was someone intentionally trying to upset the students at Hogwarts. The incident with Brant ran through his mind's eye again. Each had to do with some form of food or drink in which potions or spells could be hidden without raising so much as an eyebrow. If someone wished to attack an enemy, the food and supplies was usually the first to go; cripple them and make them weak.

Then again, he might just be over-analyzing the situations. Still, he couldn't shake the unease from his gut as he gave Alexa a gentle smile. "It's Sabel Dakest. We haven't...really been introduced properly before."

He considered her for a moment as he organized his thoughts. "You said you were looking for the King of Hogwarts, Headmaster Tate. Do you remember why? Was it because you knew something wasn't right, or was there something else? And, perhaps more importantly, have any of the Professors been told of this?" In light of what happened to Brant, he vaugely wondered if the Headmaster should be notified of what happened to her and Enid.


Watching Merlin nuzzle her leg with a quiet purr, he rested his chin in his hand, wondering who Jason was and why he had his own castle, and what exactly this boy, Rex, was playing at. It was none of his business, but he was curious as to the reason behind Rex inquiring into Alexa's actions of choice if she had a problem with somone.

Temper.

He didn't have a temper! He was just loud. Legend shrugged at what Daphne had said and looked toward the ground.

Usually at times like these he would just retreat back to the Dorms. But he wasn't tired. And he was still bored, and there was nothing else to do. So if he couldn't beat them....

Walking over to where he had thrown the pillows Legend reached over and picked them up. The three he had in his arms were all gold but one was really small so er...

How did she say to do this again?

Clearing his throat he looked around the room. "Does anyone want to...er...help clean the Common Room?"
He asked loudly. Legend walked over to the boy-Rafe? (Right? That's what he had just said his name was?) and tapped him on the shoulder. "How do you do this again?

occ :I have not been notified by emails about posts here, dunno why. So it looks like i have lost track of the (lots of) happenings. Starting over. Sorry if i passed anyone.

Standing in the middle of the common room, Josh looked around gazing at his housemates around him with a little grin on his face. The rumours about himself that came to his ear was not one of the most pleasants ones and he was going to find out who created such a nonsense. It was going to be fun and easy since he was standing in the middle of Gryffindors. A Gryffindor could not be a coward who denies or tries to hide what he or she had done. At least this was one of the qualities of the portrait of a Gryffindor in Josh's mind.

''ALL RIGHT!! ATTENTION PEOPLE!!!'' he yelled to the whole common room clapping his head in order to get the necessary attention focused on him and as he did that he jumped on the chair which rested empty next to the studying table. ''Recently i have heard that someone among us believes me to be a traitor to the whole Gryffindor house mentioning this to the fellow Gryffindors around. I want to know who that guy is and congratulate him for having such a great sense of humour!'' he laughed and stared at everyone ''Okay? Now, can this person rise and shine...please?''

" Hi, I am Rex Trigwell, sir" he introduced himself to Sable. "Sable, that is an interesting name, did your parents choose to call you Sable for a reason, sir?" Rex asked him. "What year , sir as I am a fouth year transfer student from SweetWater, Texas, sir" rex asked and explained to Sable.

"Sir, if you want to get attention, yelling is not the way, sir" Rex told him. " My mother always told me bewing polite is the way to get answers" Rex said to tha annoying boy. "Well , I must have the great sense of humor sir" Rex said calmly. " When you told me you were going to help Slytherin get me, I had been appalled, sir" Rex explained to the boy. " According to my friend Jason, him being the pride of the Lions, that a Gryffindor siding with or helping them to get a Gryffindor is tantamount to being a traitor" Rex did more calm explaining to the boy. " My name is Rex Trigwell and it seems you want to get me along with Evelyn and Destiny from Slytherin and I am not ok with it sir" Rex told him. " I also hear they do not like my girlfriend Kay, so you probably agree with them but I will not let anything happen to each of us, sir" Rex said politely. Then Rex waited for an answer.

evanna jumped into the common room after history of magic. they talked about the book "hogwarts a histroy" and if having one of your moms best friends is hermione granger weasley means getting that book the summer before entering hogwarts ment she knew it pretty good.
she was just a first year but alreay evanna fells like this is the place where she belongs.

"Umm, right, I'm just using the Accio spell to summon on the pillows," Rafe pointed his wand to a chair he missed by the window and without a word the pillow came over and he grabbed it before it hit the guy who tapped him on the shoulder. He placed it with the medium-sized pillows.

"Then you can use the levitation," Rafe demonstrated as he levitated a red pillow next to another pillow, "to sort out what colors they go with. I'm not quite sure what Daphne wants to do, either sort them into all three categories individually or sort them three seperate times."

Rafe waited for Daphne's further instructions. "I'm Rafe Lycaon by the way," he said as he extended his free hand. "I guess when we clean we can use Scourgify or Tergeo?"

"So you're from Romania? I wouldn't have ever guessed!" exclaimed Daphne, her mouth slightly agape. Then she reminded herself to close it. Ahem. He didn't even have an accent. That was remarkable. His willingness to help was also pretty remarkable. "Yes, yes, to everything you just said."

Turning to the pillows she sorted...Daphne fixed them up again. Size first, then color. "Stargaze? Isn't Jack into sparkly stars too?" Jack Fritzera that is. Speaking of Jack...where was he? Probably with Reese Upstead. Thinking of unpleasant memories made Daphne pull a face.

Not pretty.

Blinking, she was brought back to reality when she realized Legend Chosen was still standing around while someone else was shouting about something or the other. Blinking, Daphne....turned again to Legend from a lack of a better response. This time he had pillows with him, instead of throwing them. Huh? "Chosen, are you going to help me then?" she asked and grinned. She could have clapped. COULD have but she was sure that somehow would ruin the effect and/or make him run away. "Size first! Like Rafe said then color then pattern. Let me show youuuu!"

Taking the smallest of the cushions from Legend's arm, Daphne set up on the sofa. "Like sooo. See. Rafe's pretty smart, don't you think?"

Edd awoke from his morning nap, his schedule was free all day so he decided to go down to the common room to study when he slowly began to drift. Sinking into the soft armchair falling seamlessly into a dreamless sleep.
Now awake and alert he noticed the other Gryffindors talking amongst themselves, so with a less than dignified yawn he sat up and tried to gather what was going on around him.

Daphne seemed to be focusing on the small pillows and he felt attached to the medium-sized ones, so he turned to this Chosen character, "I suppose you can group all the large ones."

Rafe laughed at her comment about Jack. "Well he seems more interested in outerspace, I like constellations mostly and their history." Hmm...Rafe hadn't seen Jack all year, it was sad that he wasn't going to be Quidditch captain this year, but he was happy to see he signed up to try out.

Rafe already had his medium pillows and began grouping the blue pillows together. Rafe couldn't help but blush a little at her compliment. He just continued to focus on his pillows.

Ah! Summoning and Levitation spells, those were fairly easy. "Makes sense." He said nodding his head. Taking out his wand the third year began spinning it with his fingers. He hadn't been able to use magic in two months!

"Nice to meet you Rafe, I'm Legend Chosen." He said shaking his hand firmly. Eh, this guy wanted to clean but....he didn't seem too bad. Maybe he was just bored too."What would we clean though? The pillows? The....tables?" Maybe even the fireplace. Even Legend had to admit with all the ash or whatever it looked dirty.

He gave a big sign then smiled. "I guess. Nothing better to dooo." Legend watched as Daphne took the smallest pillow and put it in an order. Size. Color. Pattern. Got it. "Sure I guess he's... smart?" The blonde didn't even know this guy that well! "I guess he would be smarter if he hung around me for a bit but his idea's for the pillow arrangement aren't too bad." Taking the two other pillows in his arms he put them in a medium pile.

Looking over his shoulder as this guy entered loudly, Legend rolled his eyes. "STOP YELLING OR I"LL THROW A PILLOW AT YOU!" And THAT would ruin their whole arrangement. Some people were so inconsiderate. "Bigger pillows? Alright I got it." Chyeah he had the best ones.

Little pillow. Little pillow. Golden little pillow. Crimson little pillow. Black little pillow? Staring at the pillow in her hand, Daphne momentarily wondered if this even belonged in their common room. "Ohhhh," was her incredibly unhelpful response to Rafe's declaration. "I like History of Magic."

Daphne Hopton knew next to nothing about constellations. Reason Number One she wasn't going to be taking Astronomy this year.

Daphne was...doing it the good old handsy wave and Legend Chosen was swishing about his wand like a conductor with his baton. Interesting character he was...and loud too. Unchangeable Legend Chosen. He grew on you though, not that Daphne would be admitting that anytime soon.

"He's smart," she insisted frowning at Legend. "Are you saying he isn't?" Done with her little collection of pillows, Daphne took three steps back and observed what they had done--well what was already accomplished.

"Ahh, see? I already feel ten times lighter!" Whatever that meant. "Not that it's not going to be all disorganized in ten minutes." It happened. "Thank you, Legend and Rafe. You're actually the first two to help me do this. Ever. And I've been here five years, you know!"

Gwen entered the common room. She had never seen anything like it before. It was very larger, larger than she had expected. It was a very handsome room. There were paintings on the wall, and a very large fireplace stood out. A tremendous fire was roaring inside of it. It cast a beautiful light, and the warmth it emitted was incredible.

Gwen turned around to see if Ginny had followed her.

Ginny followed Gwen into the Common Room. "Wow this is beautiful", she muttered to herself. "Do you want to sit in front of the fire?", asked Ginny.

Alexa felt someones eyes on her for a moment and glanced around until her eyes fell on the girl... organizing pillows... Huh... that was odd. And it seemed as though she had recruited Rafe and some other dude to help her. What an odd day.

Alexa smiled as the kitten hopped up into her lap and started purring. She scratched it behind it's ears absentmidedly as she listened to Sabel's questions.

Alexa looked at the boy with puzzlement. "Dude, I had no idea who I was really, much less do I remember why I was looking for the Headmaster... wait.. Tate. Who is Tate? I spent the summer away, I had heard there were staff changes. Oh bugger. This is the worst start to the term I could imagine." she said whilst shaking her head in confusion.

Looking at Rex she said, "Me, personally, I would just hex them in their face and go on about my business, but then again... Just ignore them. Those stupid little Slythies caused problems with me last term. They only talked a lot, never acted. Be the bigger person." She then began to scratch the kitty again as she looked at Sabel... hopefully she would remember something... everything... eventually.

Letting out a breath, Sabel decided it was best not to be rude and gave Rex a brief nod of the head. "Nice to meet you Rex." His mind was racing in every direction with everything going on, so he decided to keep things simple. "My parents liked the name. And I am a fourth year transfer like yourself." He gave the boy a smile before glancing over at another kid calling for attention. It seemed to catch Rex's and, not wanting to interrupt the conversation that was sure to follow he turned back to Alexa.


Once again, the girl surprised him. Hexing seemed like a little bit of an overkill to him, although he supposed it was a step down from the beheading she may have called for in her previous state. At least though, she had sense to tell Rex not to bother with retribution.

Shaking his head he rubbed the back of his neck, a long breath escaping him. "Alright. So, you don't remember anything but snippets of what happened and you don't know why you were looking for the Headmaster." Glancing over he watched as Merlin soaked up the attention, loving every second of it. At the time, when he had been ignorant, she had seemed like a really strange and quirky individual with her head in the clouds. Now, a pang of guilt for that gnawed at his gut.

"It is a pretty crummy way to start the semester." He tossed a sympathetic glance over to her. "But, though we can't change it, we can do something about it now. You didn't get hurt, which is good, and no one else got hurt." Scratching his neck he considered her. "Tate is the new Headmaster..." Should he ask? Probably. "...Do you think seeing him, or telling him about this would help?"

Shaylee walked into the gryffindory common room, nearly tripping over her shoes. She fumbled and then started walking agian. She mangaged to get to a chair before falling on her face. She sat down and looked around. Boy it was good to be back here, she had missed hogwarts.

Ainsley walked through the portrait hole shortly after another older housemate, having been out wandering around to get reaquaited with the familiar castle. Seeing the other girl nearly trip, she closed the distance between them as the girl moved to sit down. "Are you alright?" she asked out of concern for her fellow lion.

Josh stared at the blond boy from where he stood, on the chair. It did not take much time for that person to reveal himself as he guessed. But *blink-blink* this kid was speaking weird. Sir? *Blink-blink* ''Well...its my way of getting attention and it is not rude'' he said jumping off the chair and walking to the boy ''Yeah, exactly i'm a great fan of your sense of humour and...what...'' at first staring at him as he was an alien, Josh laughed loudly ''I did not say such a thing. No one is going to get anyone and i'm not helping anyone. And i would never even try to get my enemies, i leave them alone.''

He was having difficulty with beliving that this boy thought he could hurt someone physically ha! No way. ''Hear this then. Down at the Great Hall i stood against you because you seemed to cause trouble to my friends. It looked like you were bothering the girls so i came for their defense, defending my friends like a Gryffindor. I don't know you but they are my friends since the beginning of the last term and i like them. So my behaviour was quite natural and it does not make me a traitor. Can you understand this?''



Josh shut his mouth up and stared at Legend with a little grin when he yelled ''Ooooo but you are...whatever'' he shoke his head and raised his arms in a surrendered position ''All right! I'm silent. Please don't throw me pillows!! Or i'm gonna wet my pants....'' unable to continue at this point he laughed and walked towards him only to find finding Rafe and a girl along with the blondie being busy with pillows. ''Hey, what's with you and pillows?'' he asked giving them a questioning look''Making them ready for pillow fight?'' yeah a pillow fight would soo much fun right now.

"Sure," she replied, and she followed Ginny to a couch by the alluring fire.

"I can't believe we are actually here. It seems so..." she was searching for the right term to use, "surreal," she finally said.

"Well, I will take your advice. mam" Rex told Alexa. " Jason told me you are cool and boy he is right, mam" Rex said to Alexa. " Jason told me about you and he would be proud of the way you have changed, mam " rex explained to Alexa.

"Well, it is sort of unusual name for a boy because I knew a couple of girls named Sable who went to my school, sir" Rex told Sable. " Hopefully we will see each other around sir" Rex said to Sable.

"See I know someone who would be dissapointed in you Josh and his name is Jason Potter Weasley,sir " Rex explained to him. " I have the courtesy to use your name, sir but you do not have any courtesy to call me by name,sir" Rex told Josh. "AS far as sticking up for friends like a real Gryffindor, I stuck up for myself and my girlfriend Kay where as you sir decided to help the Slytherins to get me and Kay" Rex told Josh. In this case, you are a traitor to Gryffindor unless you do not say anything bad to me or Kay nor agree with those Slytherin Girls when Kay and I are in the same vicinty as all three of you" Rex continued talking to Josh. " I will be the first to apologize, sir" Rex said to Josh.
"Is this the right way to handle the situation, mam?" Rex asked Alexa,

Daphne looked up at the boy who had come in shouting who knows what into high heaven. Hands on her hips, she did her best to follow along but she just had no clue what he was talking about.

"WHY would I organize the pillows only to have you people throw them around like a bunch of wild animals?" That made absolutely no sense!

Rex saw the stern look on this girl Rex started a pillow fight and the pillow hit this poor girl and it is Shaylee. Jason told him what Shaylee looked like because she is as clumsy as Rex.

And swish and flick and wand up and flick and big gold pillow, big red pillow. Legend was actually enjoying the relaxing repetitive motion. It was good practice too. If anyone asked he wasn't cleaning he was practice his spells. Muttering the spells under his breath he wondered how Rafe could do all this with out a wand.

That wasn't fair.

He had to beat him.

AH. He was being attacked again. Stopping in mid spell Legend held his arms up as to say he meant no harm. He didn't say anything wrong! Not at all! "No! I just- fine he's smart. Smmmmaaart. Happy?" Girls were so annoying at times. "I'm still smarter." He murmured.

History of Magic? What about it? OHH they were talking about their favorite subjects. "So youu like to read alot then right? I find that History of Magic is one of the subjects that take like alot of researching." It was sort of...a dull thing but Svensson was his favorite Professor.

OH So the loud guy had been the candy thrower! Legend was tempted to throw a pillow at him anyways. But he didn't. He was just that nice of a guy."No pillow fight." He answered eyeing the other boy incase he was about to start throwing candy again.....or worse...pillows. "If you touch those pillows I guarantee that Hopton here will find a way to kill you...niicee and slowly." Should he be scaring this dude? Probably not....but...it was FUN!

"Uh...your welcome I guess. I'll help, like whenever..." By that Legend meant whenever he was bored of course.

"I know", said Ginny as she sat down near the fire.

Alexa shook her head. "I would rather not to tell anyone else about this. I am not close with any of the Professor's and I don't want the Headmaster's first impression of me to be that I am troublesome. " she said, still shaking her head. She felt like enough of an idiot that she had to visit the Healer on the first day of term.

She continued scratching the cute little kitty's ears. He was too cute for words and rather comforting to Alexa at the moment.

She chewed on her bottom lip and trued to remember something.... anything.... "Dude, I have no idea why I was trying to find the Headmaster. Was I ever violent or odd... well it all sounds odd, but you know.. did I seem like I had an agenda or anything." she asked, not sure if she wanted to know.

Alexa smiled weakly and looked at Rex. "Thanks, Rex. And yeah, that is a great way to handle things." she said before turning her attention back to Sabel.

Alexa quirked an eyebrow at the obviously crazy girl... She seemed like fun. Bless her heart they were getting her all worked up though. THat wasn't very nice... But Alexa hadn't the energy to do anything about it.