SPOILER!!: Arya and Lina

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Nn... Looked like Tibi needed some time to calm down. Oh look! Ivory and Arya! She edged around Raiden and Tibi and made her way over to the girls.

"Hey," she said quietly, walking up. "I was just... kinda checking up on my patients." She shifted lightly, biting her lip. "I mean... Just I really wanted to see how everyone was doing. Last time I saw you guys things were a little... stressful."

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SPOILER!!: Ivy & Lina

She had been staring at a bowl of mashed potatoes, wishing she had brought Perseus with her when Ivory sat beside her. Squeezing her hand in return, she spared her best friend a glance, unable to force a smile to her face. With her other hand she pushed away all the butterbeer from her sight, she was NEVER drinking the stuff again...EVER.

At first she didn't acknowledge Lina's pressence, just continued to replace the butterbeers with pumpkin juice. She knew that coming to the Great Hall would mean she would have to speak to someone besides her kneazle and pygmy puff. Still she longed for an invisibility cloak, anything to keep from the inevitable conversations that were to come ."I'm fine." She lied solemnly, moving the last butterbeer and placing her hands in her lap. Still she spared the girl no glance, but atleast she spoke....that was better than nothing right?

Feeling the reassuring squeeze from her best friend, gave Ivory the strength it took to acknowledge that she wasn't alone and she was able to lift her head just a little.

Pushing a few strands of hair behind her ear, she watched as her friend started pushing away all the Butterbeer and turned when she heard Lina voice.

...how everyone was doing?.... stressful...?

Gulping down the need to just run out of there, she heard Arya's hollow voice answer that she was fine. Fine. It was a good word for the occasion. A good ambiguous word that could mean anything. Lina was asking how they were doing as patients. As patients it meant in health, right.

Taking a breath her mind flashed to when she'd been sold in the arena and then healed by a random man when she'd been near broken and then fast forwarded to when Lina herself had healed her again not more than a few hours later. If it hadn't been for the man and for Lina, she might not have been here right now. So that meant in health she was fine now right. She was healthy. So the question deserved an answer. Lina deserved more than silence...she'd helped her. She'd become a friend.

"All my cuts are healed...I'm fine."

Mina shook her head slightly after realizing she had been staring up at the ceiling. She was way to quiet and the voices were about to talk to her again and she didn't really want to deal with them at the moment. Yes, they would be her only friends once she was on her way to her 'banishment' but she did have actual friends here and she wanted to spend her time with them.

Glancing back up and down her house table, she made out familiar faces. There was Keeley and Jacob. She hadn't really talked to Keeley in some time and she felt terrible. It had been a rough year for her and she lost touch with so many of her friends. And Jacob, she hadn't really had a chance to talk to him outside of Quidditch. Looking back to the spot before her, she bit her lip. If she was coming back next term, she would seriously have to change all that. She was so social at the beginning of the term and now she was back to sitting alone like she was a first year all over again.

She seriously needed to change that, she needed to stop regressing and keep moving forward. Shaking her head, she promised herself she really did need to change things and that had to start now. Pulling out a small notebook from her robe pocket, she busied herself with some plans.

Occasionally, she glanced up and around the Great Hall. Her eyes stopped on the Staff Table shortly. She could have sworn she saw some movement up there, but shook it off. It was an empty table and no one was up there. Her eyes were just playing a trick on her. The next time she glanced up, her eyes stopped on the Gryffindor table and her heart fell a little and a sharp pain hit her. She knew that pain and she had been fighting it for weeks now, but she wasn't going to let it get to her, no she was stronger than that. Shaking her head, she turned back to her notebook and her scribbling.

Keeley wished that they would get past this awkward, get to know 'ya stage of the conversation. But it was always nessasary when talking to people. She idly glanced up at her hair, deciding that brown was too ordinary for the occasion. It wasn't every day that you graduated second year. So, brown morphed to blue, perfect for some wacky Ravenclaw pride. "Yeah. I've never been though. I did go to America last year, that was pretty fun." But, the boy seemed reluctant to talk about quidditch, which was fine by her. Ugh, just thinking about her miserable flying lessons and trips to the hospital wing made her shudder. "Well, I know for a fact that you're better than me. I fell off of my broom this year in flying lessons. But I guess I'll have to go to a quidditch match and see you play." It was much easier to put confidence in others than herself. But, the boy would obviously get on the team, just because he didn't think he would. That's how it always happens. Ugh... now they needed another subject to talk about...

"Well, I'm glad for that at least," she said quietly, watching the two of them. Other than that, they didn't look fine. But who wouldn't at this point. There were so many children that had gone missing, and come back battered and bruised. But how could she really ask about something like that? Likely, they didn't need someone poking and prodding. Not this soon. But then, they didn't have much time left here before they would all be returning home.

"You know, I liked working with you guys in herbology. Maybe others will get on my case for helping out a couple of Ravenclaws, but if you need anything... tutoring, or just someone to talk to outside of each other, I'm here, alright? And... look around for me if you're ever in Diagon Alley over the summer. I'm almost always there. Pretty much live there, ya know?" She offered them a small smile, even if they weren't looking. "It would be nice to not always be alone this summer."

She stepped back with something of a laugh. "Anyway, I guess I'll leave you two. You probably don't want some nosy Slytherin hanging around your table."

Jacob quickly looked down at the table to make sure that he didnt miss the food appear. Darn, still no food. He sighed and looked back up at Keeley, he could have sworn something changed, eh...he shrugged and listened to her talk about her bad quidditch skills. "We all fall off our brooms once in a while, I just pick the worst times to fall." Like when he fell from fifty feet into the ocean. Good thing his grandfather was sailing a few feet away, and saved him. "As long as you keep going to the flying lessons, you'll get better." he said, well Professor V's class helped him alot, he'd never even touched a broom before he came to hogwarts. Except for the non-magical brooms. He hoped she would keep flying. Ravenclaws werent quiters, unless they were faced with a question they didnt know the answer to. In that case, they left it so no one knew they didnt know it. "Okay so your not into flying, what do you do in your spare time?" He wondered what he would do without quidditch. Last year was so quiet for him. "How long do you think it'll take before we can eat?" he had to ask, his stomach was screaming at him now

End of term already? SO much had happend to Emily this year. Her grandmother had died, she found out her father was a wizard, and that she had a tin sister who was somehow her cousin, but she would solve that mystery later. She came in and sat next to Keeley.

"Hey, do you and Bella want to go to India with me? I got a letter from my father saying I could bring some friends." Emily said. "We are going to stay at a five star Hotel in New Delhi, we will visit the temples, do some shopping. Then my parents can take us by side apparation to mumbai to see the bollywood film indutry in action, then we can go see the taj mahal in Agra. It would be fantastic." Emily said just dreaming of the sari's she would buy while there. She then realized that Emilya would be coming too, but now that her father wasn't pretending anymore, he could doo apparition too.

Keeley was staring dreamily at her plate, picturing some savory rolls sitting there. "Well, if I got past the getting beaten and bruised every time I go near a broom phase, it sounds pretty cool. Maybe you could teach me?" That'd be fun. And it would definately help both of their skills. If you could consider her failing 'skills'. And thankfully, the subject was turned away from quidditch. That could be worried about later. "Well, I draw." The pale girl stated simply, and pulled out her sketchbook. While she saw so many flaws within the pages, others said that they were brilliant. Huh. As some more embarrassingly loud stomach grumbling ensued, Keeley stared at her plate. "I don't know. But it'd better be soon, I'm starving."
The girl smiled as her friend plopped down on her other side. "Of course. That sounds absolutely fantastic."

Turning, she finally looked at Lina as she began to walk away. "Bye Lina. Thanks for the help.....before." It was because of Lina that she didn't have to make a second trip to the healer and for that she was grateful, even if it didn't show on her face. She felt bad for chasing Lina away, but not enough to try and stop her.

With one last look at the Slytherin she swerved back to the food sitting before her. After a moment of pondering Arya piled some mashed potatoes, corn, and turkey on a plate. It wasn't for her though. Once done she slid the plate infront of Ivory, giving her a look and resting her head on her hand. "What are you doing this summer?"

Hm...Jacob teaching. "Well I'm not an expert at flying" yet that is, hopefully he'll get much better. Because flying was awesome "but I can at least help you get into the air, and if needed into the hospital wing..." worst circumstances of course. "We could work on it when the practice pitch opens next year, and during class time I could help you out a bit." Alright so she wanted him to help. That was fine, just as long as she didnt get badly injured and he was blamed.

Drawing, that was good. Not a skill he had, but he liked coloring outside the lines. As she pulled out her sketch book he asked "May I see it?" eager to see he drawings.

Cela wasn't sure why she felt nervous coming down to the feast, she'd been back from St. Mungos for a few days but she'd kept to herself in her dorm, mourning the loss of several of her pets that had died of starvation while she'd been kidnapped. The curses were gone so she could now speak freely about the events of the term, an auror had come to take her statement while she was still recovering in St. Mungos.

No matter who she'd asked, nobody would tell her if Professor Kazimeriz was alright, though she'd got to see Professors Lawson and the cute new baby. It had made her cry because seeing a brand new baby had reminded her how old Professor Kazimeriz was and made her even more afraid that he'd not be alright.

She couldn't See a thing about him, except darkness and she didn't think that meant death but was afraid to peek any more.

Of course part of her nerves were down to the fact that she still didn't have her wand. Or her badge. It didn't make her feel particularly prefect-y.

Her uniform was impeccable; worn precisely to the rules, without her usual embellishments, and not so short as she'd usually wear her skirt. Hair pulled back she looked like someone who followed the rules to the letter.

Well, she was going to try to from now on.

Or try to try.

The only physical evidence of the trials of the term were her slightly pale countenance and somewhat thinner than normal form. They'd offered her food while she'd been gone, but hadn't had the heart to eat. The fight had gone out of her too, her usual spark was dulled and she appeared subdued.

Celandine approached her house table and bit her lip, hovering nervously without taking a seat.

Tiberius hazarded a small smile at Raiden. Good. He didn't want to older boy to write to him because he felt bad. "Good."

He swung his feet a little, thinking about the possibility of not returning. "It's... up to my mum, really. I didn't want to come back for this term, but she made me." Tiberius reached up and scratched the back of his head. "I.. I just don't know," he whispered, looking away.

And that was when he saw her. Celandine. He'd fallen asleep in the hall and when he'd woken up, she and Raiden were gone and now they were both back and ok!

"Celandine?" He called over to her, waving hesitantly. Did she.. want to sit?

SPOILER!!: Arya and Lina

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Originally Posted by grangerfan8

Turning, she finally looked at Lina as she began to walk away. "Bye Lina. Thanks for the help.....before." It was because of Lina that she didn't have to make a second trip to the healer and for that she was grateful, even if it didn't show on her face. She felt bad for chasing Lina away, but not enough to try and stop her.

With one last look at the Slytherin she swerved back to the food sitting before her. After a moment of pondering Arya piled some mashed potatoes, corn, and turkey on a plate. It wasn't for her though. Once done she slid the plate infront of Ivory, giving her a look and resting her head on her hand. "What are you doing this summer?"

Ivory nodded along with Arya's words. "You're not nosy and Diagon Alley sounds like a good plan later on. Listening to her voice leave her lips she realized that maybe it was a good plan. Maybe 'later on' when time had passed and healed well maybe things would be different or better yet things would be back to normal.
"Have a...good...summer." She added at the retreating figure.

As she said her goodbye, Ivory realized that she hoped as much for herself too. A good summer is exactly what she needed the most right now.

Or rather what she thought she needed the most. When Arya pushed a plate heaped with food in front of her, she couldn't help noticing what else she needed. Food.

If things had been different she might've joked about fattening up before a summer of getting only what her brother's left over. Or maybe about having to be rolled back to the dormitories. But for now she just gave her friend a grateful if resigned glance and grabbed a fork.

Plunging it into the potatoes she swirled it around a bit before taking a small mouthful and washing it down with some pumpkin juice as she pondered her friend's question.

"Probably just spend time with the family. Maybe we'll go on vacation somewhere, I'm not sure." Stirring the food this way and that before taking another bite, she looked around the table at the bottles of Butterbeer. She knew one thing she [i]wasn't]/i] going to be doing that's for sure.

Seeing Celadine's arrival, Ivory felt the need to give her a small half hearted wave before turning back to the food and her best friend.

"You?"

She looked over her shoulder and waved at Arya and Ivory a last time before walking away. As Lina made her way back over to where Raiden and Tibi had been, she saw Celandine come to the table. It was good to see that she was back too. She hadn't heard any losses so far, and she was grateful for that. Of all of them, Celandine had been the one she was able to help the least. All she could tell anyone was that she had a curse on her, and not much else.

She wanted to say something to the girl, but she couldn't think of what to say. She had been very brave, and now she looked... almost beaten. Well... She stopped close to the girl, offering a small smile. "Thank you." If there was more to say, Celandine could say so when she was ready... if she ever cared to.

She made her way over to Tibi and Raiden, closer now that they seemed to be doing alright. "If I'm interrupting, do say so, but I wanted to see how my boys were doing."

Some part of her heard the speech by the headmaster. Only one thing mattered: no one died. Oh thank Merlin.

Her head snapping up abruptly as the headmaster's voice rang over the Great Hall, Ivory cocked her head to the side as she listened.

No one died?

Well sure that was one way of putting it. If one thought about it in that sense then well...yeah everything was fine.

Bringing her hands together in a weak clap at the end of the speech, she realized that her first term was over. She wasn't a little girl anymore, not by a long shot. But looking back she realized she did appreciate her time spent here. Aside from the last few weeks, the year had been well it had been her first year at Hogwarts. Was there any other way to say it? She doubted.

Arya watched with complacency as her best friend scoffed down her food, her eyes flickering over to Cela when Ivy waved. Atleast one of them needed to be eating. Shruging as the question was tossed back to her, she watched her play with the food before awnsering. "I was gonna go visit my brother in Australia, but after all the stuff that happened......I think I'm just gonna stay home, away from magic."

The more she thought about it, the better it sounded. No magic would do her a great deal of good, her life was much easier before coming to this school.

She was going to add more when the Headmaster began to speak. No one died... That was the ONLY good that came from all of this...cayos. Arya quickly discarded the thought, instead thinking about the good time she had at the school. Yes, the more she thought about it, the more she WAS glad she came.

Some of the professor's won't be returning?

If at all possible, the thought of her favorite professors not returning depressed her even more. Sighing she turned back to Ivory, eyes on the food. "You can come and visit me......if you want."

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SPOILER!!: Ivy

Arya watched with complacency as her best friend scoffed down her food, her eyes flickering over to Cela when Ivy waved. Atleast one of them needed to be eating. Shruging as the question was tossed back to her, she watched her play with the food before awnsering. "I was gonna go visit my brother in Australia, but after all the stuff that happened......I think I'm just gonna stay home, away from magic."

The more she thought about it, the better it sounded. No magic would do her a great deal of good, her life was much easier before coming to this school.

She was going to add more when the Headmaster began to speak. No one died... That was the ONLY good that came from all of this...cayos. Arya quickly discarded the thought, instead thinking about the good time she had at the school. Yes, the more she thought about it, the more she WAS glad she came.

Some of the professor's won't be returning?

If at all possible, the thought of her favorite professors not returning depressed her even more. Sighing she turned back to Ivory, eyes on the food. "You can come and visit me......if you want."

After another small bite of mashed potatoes, Ivory pushed the plate back towards Arya with a determined meaningful look. She needed to eat too.

Away from magic? Well that sounded....great. Quiet. Just her and a good book and maybe helping her mom garden. The sounded like a nice way to spend the summer. But-

An actual small spark lighted somewhere in the recesses of her eyes at hearing her friends invitation. She'd never had that good of a friend before. Family and cousins of course didn't count. This was real. This was a friend to visit NOT during school. With no obligations.

"Visit you? Why that's a great idea! I'd love to."

Holding out another fork to her friend, she tried to think about what dates would be good.

"I'd have to ask my parents but I'm sure they'd be fine with it."

Mina looked up at the sound of Headmaster HottieTate's voice. She had once again been spacing off and was in a bit of a trance. Maybe she really wasn't as okay as she thought. Listening to the speech, she frowned a bit. Some professor's wouldn't be returning? Well, wasn't that fitting. She wasn't sure if she would be returning either. So many things were going to change for sure next term, she only hoped she would be there to see them.

Setting her notebook back into her robe pocket, she glanced back up and down the table. She would miss all the familiar faces for sure and even the faces she didn't really know. At the beginning of the term, she had promised herself to get to know more people, but she partially failed and only got to know a few people. She would probably make the same promise to herself next term, if she returned.

Shaking her head of those thoughts, she noticed all the familiar faces and how most of them she really looked up to. There was Cela, Tibi, and Raiden. If she didn't return in the fall, she knew she would have memories of those three from her two years there to keep her company. The upperclassmen had taught her things that at the time, she didn't really realize and now she saw. And Tibi, just made her want to be a better 'claw. Maybe it was just her competitive side coming through again.

Glancing back at the spot before her, she sighed. She really didn't want to leave now. Yesterday, she couldn't wait for the moment the train would arrive and take them home. She was readying herself for her summer of being molded into something she wasn't, but now she just wanted to stay and hideaway all summer. She could spend the summer by the Front Gate sitting a top her rock and think things over. She could work out all her emotions and maybe figure out why she was so angry and jealous lately.

So much anger in such a tiny body.

And now the voices were back again. She had really hoped not to have to deal with them until the train, but it really wasn't as if any of her real friends were around to help keep them at bay. She did need to get used to them again, they would be her only company the next few weeks. Why couldn't life just be simple for her?

Arya eyed the food, her stomach pleaded for her to eat but she just didn't have the heart for eating at the moment(or any moment for that matter). She took the fork from Ivory and played with the food, hoping that would be enough to satisfy her friend.

A light that had left her eyes weeks ago returned when Ivory accepted her offer. She just couldn't go all summer without seeing her best friend, especially after all they had just been through.

"Great! I can show you the whole place, and even teach you how to ride. It'll be great. My family will love you."

Swirling the mashed potatoes she paused for a second, "You can come by floo, we have a fireplace. I don't think you can fly cause I live in a muggle town." This fact she was gratefull for, it meant even more peace and quiet.

Bonnie walked in her lip quivering slightly. She missed Kevin. Sooooo muchhhh! And Damon hated her for some stupid reason! Grrrrr! She was thirteen, smart and TOTALLY troubled. Yuckkkkk!

"I can't say I wouldn't understand if you didn't come back." He himself would be lucky if his father didn't lock him in the house to keep him from Hogwarts after this. "It... would be sad but not surprising. I think a lot of people won't, next term."

Even professors, apparently.

Tibi calling Cela's name made him perk up a bit; Raiden's eyes flicked to Tibi, then following the direction of his gaze to Cela. Neither of them had really... reintegrated themselves over the few days they'd been back, he realised. A few people seemed to be seeing her for the first time today, as well. Her hiding was understandable. His probably wasn't.

Before he could say anything to get her over there (or even think of anything to say, in general), Lina appeared, and Raiden's face turned red. One of the few memories he'd managed to recollect involved her, and it was embarrassing. She'd been trying to help and he'd been acting stupid, trying to brush off what had been a much more serious injury than he'd apparently thought. For someone who'd always been involved in stuff of the medicinal nature, that had been some fail right there.

"We're okay." Kinda. Physically, at least, but he wasn't about to say that aloud. "We were just talking."

Keeley smiled a little as he agreed to teach. Maybe she could see a broom and not run away in fear! That was always a plus. Aaand, her drawings. It probably hadn't been the best idea to pull that out. But, she reluctantly handed over the almost full black leather book. Not that she didn't do anything else all day. Exploring and sketching.

Laurel sat down nervously. She had just got sorted in the headmaster's office some time back. She did not see the point in coming to Hogwarts simply for the end of term feast or that's what it was called anyway. As far as she could see there were very few people attending and well,there was no food. She had come up with some weird disease right on the day she was supposed to start her first day and had to have private tuitions. She wondered if all the students got sorted in the office. She sighed and then looked around. There was a big boy hugging a small one,probably his brother, a girl who seemed zoned out and another boy. Well,atleast she was not expected to socialise.

Miles walked over toward his table from the Hufflepuff table and sat down with a sigh at the far end of the table. Was he wrong? Should he wait til they were older, had jobs, and got their own place? He pushed the plates away near his area, feeling sick, and laid his head down on the table. Had everything he'd felt been wrong? What if he went through with it and she said no cause they were too young? Ugh....

She has seen him walk away from the hufflepuff table, but then she'd been talking to Fia. Bu after that Brody was making her way over to the ravenclaw table. She had been worried about Miles for while, especially after that Fia had told her, and now she wanted to go and find what was bothering him.
The way she found him when she got to the Ravenclaw table did not help ho she felt. She walked over to him, resting her hands on his shoulders. "Miles?" Was he okay?

Miles looked up as he heard his name but knew it wasn't Fia. "Brody," he said setting his chin on his hands and watching his Ravenclaws the excitement passing between them about them being first for the House Cup not penetrating him at all. "What brings you over to the blue side?" he asked cheekily and turned his head to look at her.