"Hi." Celandine laughed happily as she waved at the firsties and watched them wander up to the dorm.

"More than...?" Cela just laughed. "Oh thats good, I hope you do, since it will help our house win the cup!" Her tone made it clear that she doubted it would happen. The only term she hadn't been top, was the term that she'd spent more time running around climbing trees with Garret and eating too much candy. She'd made up for it with a vengence the following term, achieving the highest points total for one person in Hogwarts History.

"Of course I mean it." Cela agreed cheerfully. "We'll go down tomorrow?" Cela suggested.

Owain stumbled into the common room a little short of breath - he had had to run in order to catch up with the group and so not get lost.

After a few deep breaths he began to look around, marvelling in the potential views - the windows were obscured by the orange glow of torches which made Owain giggle as he recalled earlier conversations - and also the interior; a tasteful collection of his favourite colours and materials.
He was definitely going to enjoy this space.

Oh, she sounded like his mother when he told her that he was going to fly. He recognized that tone. Why did no one ever believe Tibi could do the things he said he would?

"Mmmhmm," he said simply. Well he'd just have to show her. "Last term I was close at the start and then between... Tibi trailed off, looking at all the new students. Probably best not to mention attacks and dying students and losing his memory and all that. "Erm. Last year I had... distractions. This year it'll be better. Yes." It would. He'd decided. Work hard. No trouble. Yes.

He smiled when she suggested they go the next day. Abraxans! And so soon! It almost made up for the fact that detention would be starting, too. "Tomorrow sounds good. Should I meet you there?"

Tibi pulled his legs up on to the chair and sat cross-legged, leaning on the arm of the chair as he looked over to her.

Mina walked into the common room and felt even more at home than before. Last year, she was a bit terrified of the year to come, but this year was different. She had plans and goals to achieve.

Looking quickly around the room for a sign of any of her friends, she plopped down in one of the armchairs. Dal was probably on her way up and she would just wait here for her. But while she waited, she continued to people watch and think about all the memories she had of the room and all the memories she would soon have in the upcoming year.

Isabella walked in the Ravenclaw Common Room.ah how she loved this place.she went and sat on the couch near by and began reading the Evening Prophet.

A couple of meows, and a desperate call for a Phantom broke into the Ravenclaw Common Room. Annie was desperate to find her journal. What if someone read what she had written, what if Drew or Torin read what she commented about them on that diary. Oh, no...it'd be her doom.

Tired, she was of looking around the castle for that book. Annie ran to sit by the fire and took her converses out, they were killing her, worse than heels would ever do to her feet.

"Where are you...my Phantom?" She muttered and let out a looong and stretched sigh.

Damien walked into the common room and paused to take it all in. The room itself was very beautifull. Seems like alot of thought had gone into the designe and decoration of the room. Looking around he noted that there were alot of people already here, but he scanned the crowd for someone he knew. Mainly Kellen. He was almost certain that he had come here, so where was he?

Miles walked into the Ravie common room humming to himself. As he reached the door he answered the question that was asked and smiled as he walked in. Looking around he spotted Celandine and grinned. "Hey Cela?! Did you know there's a jungle gym here now?!" He was really excited about it...like whoaaaaaaa. Grinning he plopped himself down on the sofa and placed his feet on the table. "You should go check it out."

Allison rushed out of the girl's rooms to find Arya. And bam she crashed into a boy around her size. Finding her balance Allison looked up to say sorry and recognized the boy, "Woah. Damien right?" Allison grinned.

It was the boy from the Ravenclaw Table who she and others had teased about his eye. It was great to see a familiar face among the chaos. "Looking for someone?" Discarding the fact she had crashed into him.

Considering the boy was so short, Kellen was surprised that he spotted Damien almost as soon as he entered the room. He'd been idly looking out the window, but upon seeing Damien he waved and pointed to the stairs, "Hey Elric! I'm going up to the dorms, feel free to follow!"

He headed up, a little nervous about what he'd see. Just brace yourself. This is your home for four years...

Damien was looking around when all of a suden the world seemed to tilt and the air was pushed out of his lungs. Now was it just him or did something seem off about this? It took him a second to realize what had happend. The girl from the Ravenclaw table, Allison if he remembered correctly, had crashed into him. Sending him tumbling to the ground.

He blinked at the girl. Ok, that was not an inteligent response, please try again. "Ya, hey! wasn't expecting to run into you again so soon, litterally." he chuckled "And yes, I do happen to be looking for someone." He climbed back to his feet, and looked around again.

Ah! there he was! Turning back to Allison he said "Well I seem to have found him. If you'd excuse me I need to go speak to Kellen, but I'll see you around again I'm sure." He smiled at her, gave her a quick wave goodbye, then followed Kellen quickly up the stairs he'd pointed at.

NUUuuUUUuUUuuUuuUUUUuuuuu! To Allison's dismay the person Damien was looking for was none other than Kellen. One of the two people she was avoiding at all costs--at least for the first night at Hogwarts. With a grimace on her face, Allison half-waved goodbye to Damien and watched him go into the Boy's Dormitories.

Groaning, it was just her luck for these sort of things to happen to her. First she ends up in a room with people who fall asleep early, then she remembers she was to meet Arya and Anastasia at the Entrance Hall after the feast, then she rushes because she's late, then because she is rushing she knocks Damien to the floor silly, and then she is witness to the sight that Kellen was already in the Common Room.

It finally hit her, these were the people she'd see most often in her House. Oh Merlin. Remembering the time Allison rushed out the Common Rooms at light speed, tripped, crashed into a wall, and later found Arya; all of this occurring on the way to the Entrance Hall. One thing: Darn moving staircases!

So this is where Niko would be calling home for the next school term. It was warm, and cosy- he could say that at least. It all just seemed too knew, and these robes! How they itched. It may have just been because he was nervous. Did he smell?! Oh no, how he hoped he didn't smell.

Nikolaus walked up to a portrait as he hid his face down his shirt, and took a small wiff. Ah good, he didn't smell. Well at least yet.

Celandine just smiled encouragingly. Oh how awesome woould it be if ALL the Ravenclaws attempted to out-points her! Then they'd definitely win since she was the best and they'd hopefully at least get close to her totals.

"Yes meet me bright and early, before breakfast." Celandine informed Tibi.

Yay for Abraxans.


Celandine twitched.

"A jungle gym? For climbing?" She twitched again, fighting the urge to run down and find this thing. "Is it big?"

SRSLY it had to be big or she'd stick with trees.

Of all the things that Cela was, smart and pretty, a fan of sugary goodness and all that, the most fundamental thing was that she was a climber of THINGS.

Michelle walked into the Ravenclaw Common Room for the first time since the new term started. She took a deep breath and glanced at every corner of the room. "It's good to be back!" she sighed, and went and sat on the couch with her book.

As Madiison Winloch followed the massive crowd heading straight for her new home, the redhead was not entirely sure what she would expect when she got there. Sure, she had HEARD a great deal about Hogwarts from her father who was over the moon about Di's decision to attend this school, but it wasn't the same as BEING there. Being there was a lot more exciting and Madiison started wondering if Merlin ever attended Hogwarts. How old was this castle anyway-

BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE!, the redhead squealed internally the moment her eyes were attacked by the blue and bronze that surrounded her. And OHMYGOD BOOOKS!

The shelves were kind of a little dissapointment though for by the way her father had spoken of the common room the little thirteen year old had pictured something ... grander.

But still. The room was cozy. She could spend time here.

Lots of time.

Hehehehehehee. Tehehehe.

The best thing of all was that she was NOT a Hufflepuff. So no dirty great Skrewts were going to come and eat her.

Feast over, Adrienne had dragged her feet a little on the way up to the tower, not really sure if she wanted to go in or not. Her worries about certain people trying to avoid her kept pushing to the front of her mind, and while she was glad they kept her from worrying too much about tryouts, and the fact she'd actually be overseeing them this term instead of simply participating, she didn't like how the other worrying made her feel. Even more abandoned than she had last term whenshe couldn't find Chloe anywhere. But then, her best friend was in Hufflepuff, so she could pretend it was understandable. When the disappeared was in the same house as her, it was a different story. And then there was always why he might be avoiding her, which only made her feel more weird. At least she didn't have to worry about getting lost, on top of all that.

But as she got to the entrance, she had remembered her pygmy puffs, and the want to make sure they were settled in had superseded anything that would keep her from entering. So after a deep breath, she stepped through the door and into the familiar common room, her heels not making a lot of noise on the carpet. She'd just deal with the rest later, and as she saw the people inside, she smiled as she headed for an open couch and sat down. At least she wouldn't be alone. maybe she could get into another random conversation, like at the feast, that could help her not think about things.

After taking the longest walk she had ever had to take in her life (well, not really, she was just really very tired), Georgie was relieved to have finally reached the Common Room. Almost immediately, she felt the urge to plop down on one of the cozy, squashy looking couches and just doze off. But that would be unseemly of her. It was better to make it up to the Girl's Dorm and collapse up there.

But hey, she had energy to spare.

She had just spotted the girl from the train, Madiison, or Di, as she recalled. She also recalled that the girl particularly liked her pink dress. While she was no longer wearing it, maybe the girl would notice that her uniform was now incorporated with pinkness. Mhmm.

"Hey there," she greeted, tapping her shoulder first, then waving enthusiastically at her.

It HAD been a while since Georgie heard a compliment, and it seemed that this girl was just full of them. She really liked her. Heh.

It had been a long day and Arya and Allison had not covered much of the school. Surely the following day they'd look at more. What was most interesting to Allison was the method of answering riddles in order to enter.

Her brother had once told her that he had managed to sneak into his girlfriend's common room--being Ravenclaw, by answering the riddle. However, she had no idea the riddles would be so complicated. What kind of doorway asked those things? She had thought of all these detailed answers...and had gotten it wrong each and every time. Until finally she gave the answer that had first come to her and it opened!

Allison's feathers were ruffled and she was sleepy. Walking in quietly into the common room she thanked Rowena for thinking of such a nice carpet to muffle her angry steps. It had been Rowena...right? At least she had understood that from her readings. Regardless, tomorrow would be better day.

As she walked in she saw several students were still about and an idea occurred to her, perhaps Robin would like to go to her new home. Unless of course the owl preferred to stay. It was still a baby and Allison did not know much about him.

However before she could manage to get half-way in the Common Room, Allison noticed Adrienne. It was common courtesy to approach her and be nice, she knew, but her one true desire was to run for her life. Instead--with her mother's voice pounding into her head about manners, Allison walked over and gave her a very odd smile.

"Adrienne! I...I-HOW nice to see you!" In her head Allison was seeing herself sign her name under the Quidditch tryouts, having a panic attack, signing, and running out. She couldn't look at Adrienne's face without wanting to hide behind something.

Too bad Mr. Robin, you are going to have to wait.

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After taking the longest walk she had ever had to take in her life (well, not really, she was just really very tired), Georgie was relieved to have finally reached the Common Room. Almost immediately, she felt the urge to plop down on one of the cozy, squashy looking couches and just doze off. But that would be unseemly of her. It was better to make it up to the Girl's Dorm and collapse up there.

But hey, she had energy to spare.

She had just spotted the girl from the train, Madiison, or Di, as she recalled. She also recalled that the girl particularly liked her pink dress. While she was no longer wearing it, maybe the girl would notice that her uniform was now incorporated with pinkness. Mhmm.

"Hey there," she greeted, tapping her shoulder first, then waving enthusiastically at her.

It HAD been a while since Georgie heard a compliment, and it seemed that this girl was just full of them. She really liked her. Heh.

Di wanted to do SOMETHING. What the thing was, the redhead didn't quite know yet. One thing she DID know, however, was that she was not tired despite the energy she used up that day. Miss Winloch really didn't know where she got all her energy from. Oh, wait. She did. It was from all those chocolate frogs she consumed. MMHMM. Now, however, she was too full to consume any more of those sweet little devils.

Maybe she could read some of those books.

Before she could explore other possibilities she felt a tap on her shoulder and the girl whired around to see who had dared to disturb her pondering when she found herself facing Georgie, the girl with the pretty pink dress. Pretttty pretty pink dress.

Hmm. Di was over pink actually. She was more in the mood for something .... yellow.

Like sunflowers. Or fires.

"Haaaiiiiii!" The redhead chirped, brightly and then her eyes fell on Georgie's robes. And the PINK in her robes.

"Your DRESS!" Madiison said, pointing. "It's got PINK!"

Her robes had PINK in it. Her robes were UNIQUE.

Unique was GOOD.

Was she allowed to do that? Maybe Di could modify her own robes once in a while. Maybe she could unique-ify them too.

Adrienne had simply decided to stare at the flames in one of the fireplaces, conveniently in her sight from her position curled up onthe couch. Conversations were going on around her, but so far nobody had seemed to want to approach her. As far as she knew, she wasn't scary. But maybe they thought she didn't want to be interrupted, as if she was doing anything other than trying not to think. Hearing muffled steps that seemed like they might be coming toward her, however, she broke free of the half-trance she was in and glanced around in time to see Allison. The little first year who had seemed curious about Quidditch. "Hi Allison," she said with a friendly smile, before she realized the girl seemed a bit nervous. "Are you okay?," she asked with some concern, flashing backto her thoughts about if she was scary. True, she knew some people might be scared of her shoe collection, and the fact she actually wore them here at Hogwarts given the dress code, but other than that (and Riley's annoying teasing about her being evil), she didn't think she deserved nervousness or fear.

Georgie was quite pleased with herself at her decision to speak with Di. Quite pleased indeed. ^__^

"Helloooo!" she replied, actually expecting the enthusiasm from her. Mmm. And she also liked the fact that she noted her uniform! Hooraaaay for stand-out, hot-pink stitches in a dark uniform! Hmm. She'd have to wear her pink-stitched sweater some time. Piiiiink. Squee!

"Why yes, yes it does." She twirled a bit and flipped her skirt around, proud of her unique uniform. It did look like Di liked it a LOOOOT!

"You like it?" Just for reassurance. Hehe.

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Georgie was quite pleased with herself at her decision to speak with Di. Quite pleased indeed. ^__^

"Helloooo!" she replied, actually expecting the enthusiasm from her. Mmm. And she also liked the fact that she noted her uniform! Hooraaaay for stand-out, hot-pink stitches in a dark uniform! Hmm. She'd have to wear her pink-stitched sweater some time. Piiiiink. Squee!

"Why yes, yes it does." She twirled a bit and flipped her skirt around, proud of her unique uniform. It did look like Di liked it a LOOOOT!

"You like it?" Just for reassurance. Hehe.

"I do." Di told the girl, awed. What a brilliant idea! "It's unique!" She wouldn't do PINK of course since she wasn't really interested in it. But maybe she could make it blue ... or or or or ... hot purple or even red!

Ugh. No. No red. Yellow would look BAD with her blue tie. And it would look Hufflepuff (Sniff). And she was not Hufflepuff (PHEW). Blue was good. She could change her thread colours to BLUE.

"How did you do it?" Di knew of no spell that could change colours of threads.

Yet.

Isabella watched the 2nd year girl whom she met last year walk in
hey Chelle! she called out to Michelle,who currently was a second year student.

Beaming still, Georgie flaunted just a little bit more, for Di's benefit, of course. She could get used to this. Mhmm.

"Thank you!" she said again, giggling just a little bit. "And it's not hard. I mean, here," she then pulled out a note from her chest pocket and handed it to the girl. "It's this spell right here."

She was doing good things for Hogwarts. Yep.