Arya looked jopfully as Allison sat under the sorting hat, and was broken hearted when it yelled out Ravenclaw."Makes sense though, she loves to learn."Arya smiled at how well she already knew her friend and turned to eat some of the delicious food that sat before her. She had pilled all the food she wanted onto her plate and was about to start eating when she felt something pionty hitting her repeatedly in the head. Fustrated she reached up and ripped what seemed to be a paper airplane out of the air. Curiously, she opened the the airplane and read the note. Most of the note sadened her for she felt the same way, they would have to find a way to spend time together.She smiled at the last part of the message.Looking over Allison did seem to be having fun with another Ravenclaw."Anastasia, Allison says congrats on being in Hufflepuff." Quickly pulling put a piece of parchment she quickly scribbled a message down and folded it into a crane. With a flick of her wrist her wand was in her hand,"Wingardium Leviosa." She led the crane over to Allison as it landed softly on her head.

Tyler shook his head and chuckled. Girls were confusing as ever these days. So maybe he was right. Cadence probably only got nervous around him. It seemed pretty obvious why she did though. But this was a little too fast for Tyler. "Oh, do you know why?" he smirked at her. He knew the reason, but he could always be wrong. Cadence had to be the one that had to admit it first.

Having received the paper crane Allison read it fervently. And with a tinge of sadness that could only be shown on her eyes, Allison smiled and waved at Anastasia and Arya from the Ravenclaw table.

"Um... I don't know..." Cadence said looking at the floor shyly and playing with her hair. She sat in awkward silence for a moment before turning to him and looking him right in the eyes. Overcome with word vomit, she began spilling her guts to the boy she barely knew. "Look, Tyler, I don't really know, and I think that's the truth. The truth is also that I think you're sweet and funny and cute, but I've only known you today, so I can't say that I... I like you or anything like that because I don't know because I barely know you. That's the truth. I just know you make me nervous for some reason, but not in the scary way, just in the I'm so afraid of saying something stupid way...."

She took a deep breath and looked down at the table again. "Tyler, I've been practically locked away for two years. My first year here, my parents died, and my boyfriend was murdered in the library. I went crazy and destroyed the Hufflepuff Common Room completely before passing out in a professor's arms. Or so I'm told. That's just what my grandparents told me when I woke up in St. Mungo's. They kept me there for a year, and then I went to live with my grandparents. I still wasn't allowed out, though, or allowed to know any news about Hogwarts or anything. All I was allowed to do was eat and do school and take ballroom dance lessons, and I had to beg them to allow me to do that."

She looked back up at him with a hint of tears in her eyes. "So, like I said, I don't know why you make me nervous. I just... thought you should know that. That's why I'm supposed to be a fourth year, but am only a third year and stuff...." she trailed off and looked back down at the table. I guess it's good that I just... told him. I'm sure he was going to find out through the grapevine anyway. It's better he finds out this way. At least now if he doesn't want to be friends or anything it's still easy to walk away.

Arya put down her cup of pumpkin juice and watched Allison's reaction to her letter. When Allsion turned to face Arya, her eyes were filled with sadness which made Arya feel sad for her friend. She was lucky to get in the same house with Anastasia but poor Allison was in a house alone. Hopfully she would mke some friends. Arya sent a warm smile back to Allison before turning back to her food.

Jung walked in as he looked around he noticed a empty spot so he sat down and looked around hoping to see someone he new...

As Arya looked around as she ate her food, checking to see if anyone she meet in Diagon Alley was a Hufflepuff. As she took a sip of her drink, she noticed a boy sitting closer to the staff table than she was. She studied the boy with a puzzled expresion. For some reason he seemed familar but she couldn't remember where she meet him, if she had ever meet him. Suddenly she remembered,The funny kid from the Ice Cream Parlor! Grining at the boy she wiggled her fingers under her chin, keeping up there informal greetings.

Another Hufflepuff girl who was sitting alone came and sat next to Evelyn and introduced herself. "Of course you can sit with me. I'd love you to! I'm Evelyn. Evelyn Rochester. Are you a first year, Scipia?"

Nunually looked at Emalyn and made a cute yet funny face, "Well, I am allergic to pineapple and rabbits." she said softly and she made another silly face, "But other than that, I think those are all of them." she said and sighed. As she listened to Ema's story she smiled. "You remind me of mommy!" she said happily "Mommy didn't know I was allergic to it until I was six and my adopted daddy made pumpkin pie for Halloween, because mommy wanted it." she said and giggled. "Mommy often forgets especially when we go to the market, but I still love her and I love you too Ema you and Georgie are really close friends so far my only friends, I haven't asked Esme or Anastasia." she said and gave her the warmerst smile she had. Nunually's tummy began to rumble and she blushed slightly and took some potatoes and chicken as well as brocoli. As she ate the brocoli first she started choking on it and she hit her chest until she swallowed. Then she smiled and attacked her mashed potatoes. As she was eating she thought about what the hat has said. Her parents her real parents had been in Slytherin. "Ema, how is the house of Slytherin?" she asked Ema and Georgie.

Emily looked over at the Hufflepuff table and smiled to herself. Sitting down at a empty part of the table, Emily began to look around at the other Huffies. Most of them she has seen on the train, but she hasnt talked to one at all yet. Being her shy self, Emily waiting til someone spoke to her, before joining in a conversation.

Nunually saw a girl sitting down by herself and she knew how that felt. That was how she had been her whole life in the muggle word. Always alone. She never grew accustom to it and she had hated the feeling. She never ever wanted anyone to feel that. So she headed over to the girl and gave her the warmest smile she had. "Hello I am Nunually C-" she stopped, Nunually remembered what the hat had told her or had called her Cao, Siblings, I have sibling she shook the thought away and continued to smile "Nunually Mustang, or Nana for short." she said

Evelyn turned her head and spotted another young girl sitting alone at the table. She seemed to be waiting for someone to speak to her first, just like Evelyn had been doing. Evelyn wished she had the courage to introduce herself, but all she managed was a smile in the girl's direction.

" Hi, I hope you remember me" Rex told Emalyn. " How are you doing?" Rex asked her. " Well, we survived the train trip" Rex laughed.

" You are a beautiful girl and person" Rex told Kay. " Yes, I am ok" Rex laughed. " I will never feel uneasy with you" Rex said to Kay. Rex fed Kay and hoped she would do the same to him.

" Hello part of " The Magical Five" Rex called out to Georgiana. " I like having you as a close friend" Rex said to Georgiana. Then he tripped over his shoelacxes as he was going back to talk andd sit with Kay.

Before he could do anything about it, there was a hand flapping around in Jake's face, causing him to do a weird, thousand-times-a-second blinking act before he could recover himself. Leaning his head back, Jake saw that the owner of the hand was, in fact, Emalyn.

"Hey," he smiled back, folding his hands on the tabletop, watching Ema prepare her food. He should... really get to doing that. But he couldn't bring himself to eat the first food away from his family since he'd found a real home. Or something sappy like that. "I've buhhh-been... I wwwas ad-ad-adopted in thuuhh-the sssssummer," Jake announced, beaming widely, since it had been the happiest moment of his life.

Wait, what? Different? Did he have, like, a booger?

Picking up a spoon, Jake checked his reflection briefly. Yes, he'd grown four inches and with that, acquired some muscle (which was soon disappearing... due to his laziness towards the end of the summer). His hair had been cut into the usual style but, though the spoon didn't show it, his face had lost SOME of the childlike quality to it. Still he shrugged.

"It wwwwas my buhh-birthday yuhh-yesterday," he announced, again proudly, childishly. "Hhhhow was yuhh-your ssssummer?"

If only the darned stutter would go.

As Jake looked down to the door into the Hall, keeping track of who was coming and going, the boy laid eyes on a familiar girl, and it took him a second to remember her (since he had been under the influence of sugar the last time they'd 'met') but remember her, he did. Returning the greeting by sticking his tongue out, Jake broke the tradition of the weird greetings and leant down the table, speaking loudly since the table was full of chatter. "Hey," the boy called, voice going a little deeper as it usually did the louder he got. "Fuh-fuh-first yyyear then?" Jake had, of course, seen the girl get Sorted. It seemed to make sense.

"I'm Jake."

Laughing, Kay shake her head. "What am I going to do with you in a Potions class. I'll have to make sure nothing spills on you." Kay said holding up a strawberry to Rex. "I hope you like strawberries." Kay said softly and smiling at him wickedly.

Lucille plonked herself down at the hufflepuff table and stared around. Hmm. No one here she knew yet.
She picked up a nearby silver spoon and breathed into, watching as the surface fogged up and slowley cleared again.

Arya giggled at the boys face before taking another sip of his drink. She leaned towards his end of the table when she saw him try to speak to her above the other conversations."Yup"She said this proudly, shaking her head in a childlike way."I'm Arya, what year are you?"Arya wasn't phased by Jake's stuttering, one of best friends used to do the same thing so she was used to it.

Cedric went to the their house table happily then sat down. He was excited for the feast, and then he glanced at the staff table in perusal and he noticed new school staffs and recognized old professors he's know for four fantastic years and he noticed too that some of the old professors was gone, they were replaced he guessed. Ugh. He would definitely miss the old professors like Professor Ashby and Professor Truebridge a lot. He just hoped that the people that replaced their favorite professors is as good as them and as intelligent and skillful as them. Well, he was sure that all of the newly appointed school staffs would do pretty well 'cause they was chosen by Minister Taylor and her standards are really high enough to find some great people that could be their new teacher.

He wondered where Miranda was. He would want to talk to her 'cause he'd missed his friend that had spent some quality time with him at the diagon alley.

Booyah! Jake got it right. Now he felt real smart, oh yes he did. Nothing was stopping him from getting Os in classes and, of course, world domination.

BWAHAHAHA!

But, for now, Jake smiled, nodding his head. Arya... must remember that. Unique name, shouldn't be too hard. "Fffffourth year," he replied, nodding again. At 4'9" he wasn't a typical fourth year... but he'd GROWN!

There was a definite lull in the noise and Jake used it to talk with softer tones. And of course, what else would he talk about but...

"You tuhh-trying out fuhh-fuhhh-fer Quiddddditch?"

It was, of course, just a casual question. Jake didn't know what else COULD be asked.

Estelle sat down at the table and took everything in. She couldn't believe she was finally here and sitting in the great hall, her dad had talk about Hogwarts a lot but she didnt think it was this amazing. Looking down at all the food he just grabbed what was closest to her, there was so much.

Arya thought about his question.Hmmm....Quidditch. According to her brother it was a pretty barbaric sport, and she wasn't one for sports with objects thats soul perpose was to knock her off the only thing that kept her from plummeting to her death. But then again she loved it when her dad took her up on his broom with him. "I don't know....its a pretty violent sport, and I'd like to make through this year unharmed. Sooo I guess we'll have to wait and see." She smirked at Jake, a hit of sarcasm in her voice as she spoke. She would have to think more about Quidditch, she did like to play sports but magical sports she wasn't so sure about."Do you play Quidditch?" Sh eleaned her arm against the table and began to play with her hair.

Violent? Was it really? Hmmm... Jake must have missed that.

Well, he probably had... he always got distracted when playing, something Kaika had warned him about many a time.

"I nuhh-never got hhhuh-hurt," he pointed out. Though unless you counted his first year when he never was able to land. He always got a mouthful of mud. Which didn't taste too pleasant. Or... unless you counted injuries that weren't quidditch related. But they weren't. So it was all good.

He nodded his head, tracing out the grain of the wood on the table as he did. This was another reason to hate the start of term, he'd never know if he'd make it back onto the team. In his position. HIS.

"Yeah... Sssseeker," he added, looking straight at her. Yes, if it was dangerous, he would prefer not to persuade younger kids to get hurt. "So... what ssssubject are yyyou luhh-looking ffforward to?" Jake asked this because... well, he wasn't too sure. He knew that there were staff changes, and one look at the staff table and the head honcho proved he wouldn't look forward to many classes.

Especially since the teacher of his best subject was GONE.

Which reminded him.

Seek out KAZIIIII.

Okay, okay, okay, okay... Okay? Yes, Okay. Okay then... Ugh.
Miranda poked her head between the big doors and peered into the Graet Hall. She wasn't sure she wanted to go inside...Oh, but the chicken looked SOOOO goood! Her stomach rumbled and that was what probably made her decide that it was time to go inside.

But the nerves...She was really nervous about this... Her shiny Captain's badge was fastened on her robe, and she was not sure how her teammates would react to this newly appointed...thing.

Well, only one way to find out.
So she took a deep breath, straightened up and walked inside and headed for the Hufflepuff table. She sat down somewhere and only concentrated on the food... That chickenleg looked DELICIOUS!

...

...

...

That was Kaika's badge.

And that wasn't Kaika.

Jake bit his lip as he stared straight at Miranda, distracted for a moment. He had absolutely NOTHING against Miranda, and he'd expected her to get the badge if she wasn't made prefect. And then if she was then Jake had expected Reid to get it... and he didn't know Reid, so yay.

But... he'd not said goodbye to Kaika. The last time they spoke, Jake had made Kaika cry. Still...

"Miranda," Jake called out, to get her attention. "Th-they mmmmade an ex-ex-excellent choice," he smiled, gesturing towards the badge.

No Kaika this year.

That was just un-called for sadness.

Cedric took a toast, took a bite on it, and started masticating the food. He glanced around, wondering what the others were doing and then Miranda. He'd just seen Miranda. He missed his friend, he hoped he had fun throughout her summer.

He went to Miranda, smiling widely then hugged her for some seconds. "Hey Miranda! How have you been?" asked Cedric enthusiastically and then right there on Miranda's chest, there is a gleaming badge which was pinned up and it says, Hufflepuff Captain.. Wow.. She have been appointed as the new captain. So nice!

"That badge looks great on you!" Cedric chuckled as he playfully ruffled Miranda's hair, messing it up just a little bit. "Congrats!"