See, the thing about saying something like that was that he was now curious. And with Kellen, curiosity often ended in him doing the very thing that people advised against. Hmm. Might work, if he put some charms on the chute before takeoff...

"Eight, six, and five. Just little." Kellen planted an albino tree (steamed cauliflower) and looked around at the other food near him for inspiration, "They already have a nanny, and a kind-of tutor... I guess I'm most worried about what Katarina... the six-year-old... will act like once Hateya's come to Hogwarts. It's a real mess."

He propped his chin on his hand, and looked at her out of the corner of his eye with a smirk, "Hey, you said you wanted kids. Can I foist Katarina onto you?"



Watching the exchange between the two, Kellen felt one of his eyebrows raise. Don't let any of them catch on fire? Was that a reference to the fall, the same thing Sabel had gone knight-crusader on?

Miles smiled as Cela patted his cheek and smirked. "Can't really be the best Cela if I'm the only...." He smiled and looked around still looking for Fia unsuccessfully.

Hearing her question he looked at Cela with a straight face and nodded, "Promise." He'd look after them from each other and professors.

Emily walked into the great hall, late for the first time. She had her head held down, she wore an amazing red sari with gold hand stitching and intricate design under her school robe. Her hair was down and in delicate tight blonde curls. When she got to the Ravenclaw table she sat down and looked up. She looked amazing, her tight curls framed her face perfectly, her Ice blue eyes could have melted anybody in her path. She wore a topaz bindi which accentuated the shape of her big eyes. As usual she had a satchel tied to her waist, Inside lay her Tarot cards, Runes, crystal ball, and a delicate tea cup. Her bag, of course, had a magical expansion, and her tea cup and crystal ball had protection spells on them to prevent them from breaking.

Emily smiled, radiating a warm feeling of contentment all around her. So much had happend to her that year, as well as the year before. Her twin sister was now dead, and she found out that she was to be the new knowing one in her mothers families gypsy village. She had a big summer comming up and she couldn't wait to get started on learning advanced divination over the summer from her aunt (she isn't really her aunt... it is an aunt that has greats before it, but emily couldn't remember how many).

"Lovely feast" she said to anyone who would listen to her.

"Awwww cuuuute." Celandine decided. "I could babysit! Me and Copernicus!" She didn't even give a second thought to volunteering Cope for something like that. Anything she did, it made sense he'd do it with her.

She tucked into her potato, watching Kellen out of the corner of her eye. "Are you looking forward to next year? Have you thought about what subjects you're taking? How did your OWLs go?"

Cela laughed a little and poked her tongue out. "Well you're the best one I could have imagined. I had fun and I'm glad that we got to work together and be friends and stuff. Where's Fia?" Cela glanced around for the Huffie and then back to Miles.

"Good. You can totally hex if you have to you know." True. It was worth it.

He smiled. At least he knew that she would miss him too. And missing people wasn't great, but at least he wasn't dealing with her not missing him; that would have made him sad. "I like being Hagrid." Because Hagrid had been a nice guy. So that was always good.

so many people are leaving." Him, Brody, Chris, Raven, Teegan, the Lawsons, Truebridge...

"Really?" He pitied Copernicus, truly.

"Yes, no, and pretty okay, in that order." Kellen stopped being artsy and started consuming his island. Upon swallowing, he continued, "I think the examiners all wanted to hex me for my History of Magic speech. Or something. I didn't know we had to present it until I was going to hand it in. There was some stuff in there I... probably wouldn't have written if I knew I was going to say it." Like teenagers flying around on dragons and causing mid-air collisions because they were text messaging instead of paying attention to where they were going.

"Sure. We babysat for his little sister, and I have little nephews and I love babies and Cope is super good with them too."

Mmmm gravy. Mmmm potato.

"Some of mine were weird because like, they weren't at all a part of the curriculum, not for me. I only knew them because I study up. Like it was stuff that Copernicus did in his NEWT year, and I got extra tuition for so I'd know it too." It was crazy. But she was so sure she did well.

"I love History of Magic. Two of the best professors ever taught it after all. Lainey and Truebridge." She peeked up at the staff table and smiled to herself. No point in saying goodbye to either of them really, considering the one had ties to her brother through babysitting stuffs and the other had ties to Copernicus and would probably earn an invite to their future wedding. Teeeeeheee.

"I'm glad we got to too." He really was going to miss her. "I...don't know where she is," he said with a small frown. "Haven't seen her," and that worried him.

"I'll keep that in mind," he said with a smirk. Not that he was likely to hex a professor but...he'd keep it in mind if he had to.

It wasn't really making her feel better, but at least Grayson knew she'd managed to let Torin know how she felt. And she'd found out he really didn't mind her comparing him to Hagrid. She'd had suspicions, from that one time at the Huffie table, before he'd read the stories, but it was nice knowing she was right. And Hagrid was awesome, so she didn't know why anyone would mind being compared to him. "Yay," she said with a little grin. "I sort of have my own half-giant now," she said facetiously. "The stories are amazing, aren't they? You'll have to try and keep remembering them now you're leaving us." He better. She'd find some way to test him, even if it had to be by owl. She could always find one to manage to keep in touch.

And it seemed he was even more tuned in to her thoughts than she would have thought, as the next statement out of his mouth reflected what had made her sad in the first place. She hadn't even managed to distract herself with the food that had appeared. "I know," she said quietly. "You should write me. Otherwise I might go and do something stupid." Of course, she might anyway. She still hadn't accomplished that idea of sliding down the railing of the moving staircase. But she could use the threat to get her way. She needed to talk to Raven about keeping in touch too.

Maddie grinned and reached for some fooood. She was huuuuungry!
'Yeah, I know what you mean. And I somehow feel really sorry for the Seventh Years' she mused. Poor them. They had to leave. Forever! 'Oooooh, I was right? Yay! How did Annabelle take it?' oh. And now he was asking how she knew 'Hmmph. Maybe I'm just a stalker...' she joked

Lily-anne leaned forward and grabbed a spoonful of salad and plate. she sighed and began to eat.

Amy turned from her own table and spotted Lily-Anne, sitting, eating on her own, she stood up from her bench and crept up on her Boo! she said in her ear, before taking a place next to her, hey how are you? she asked when seated, before grabbing a goblet of pumpkin juice

lily-anne was looking up at the staff table when someone approauched and said boo jumping slightly she smiled when she realised it was Amy "Hey" she said "yeah not too bad i havnt seen you for a while"

Amy nodded, me neither, did you get ill again? she asked, wondering if that was why she had gone AWOL on her for ages

Lily-anne laughed slightly "no i just way too absorbed in my studies you know ravenclaws" she said with a smile. she leaned forward and grabbed a goblet of water she was alittle tired of pupkin jucie

Amy's eyes widened, oops, the exams she said panickedly, well I won't be getting through to next year then, I've done terribly, well I might scrape em, she laughed, so are you going to be going to diagon alley again over the hols?

"deffinetly" Lily-anne said with a smile "i loved it there last summer being at FF's with everyone"

Great, same we need to meet up lots and lots and lots and lots, I need to buy new stuff too Amy said, but then it suddenly broke on her, it's really over, for the next few months, no waking up in dormitories, no eating in the great hall, no visiting the giant squid. For months, she spoke quietly and sadly, remembering all the memories of this place that had been home

Lily-anne laughed "no lessons, no studing to crazy hours of the night. im going to miss the grounds though i love sitting by the lake" she sighed "but we will beback soon" she said with a smile

"Yeah, I was in the same boat. But hey, now I know how to shoot arrows, so isn't that something?" Kellen's lopsided grin said that maybe no, it wasn't such a good thing that he'd gained that knowledge.

"Were you in the Kitchen Battle earlier this semester? I didn't see you there," but then again, that battle had been nothing but pure and unadulterated chaos. His head still hurt every time he thought of it.

Well that sounds fun! Not, but yeah the grounds, theres no where else like them near me, she sighed too, wistfully, remembering the paintings and drawings of the lake that she had created, well Lily-Anne was right, they would be back soon, yeah but I'm still going to miss it she told her, taking another drink from her goblet

"Um...I'm not really sure actually," Brody said, considering. "I haven't seen her much after that." She cried though, and he felt baaaaaaaaaaad. He sent her a look that said 'I know you're lying now tell me the real reason. Humph.

Oh. That was normal anyway. She wouldn't want to be around Brody... and she'd probably not want to be around Ella either. Maddie remembered that time when she didn't know Brody was dating Annabelle so she tried to flirt, and Annabelle was incredibly mad. Not good.
'Yeah, probably a good idea' she said to him 'No, seriously. I'm a stalker. I know everthing about everyone. It's imperitive - so that I can get good gossip!'

Namitha walked into the hall.End of the term-which meant that she was going home.She walked to the table and sat down on the bench.

Luna looked around the table trying to find her friends. She suddenly found Maddie Force one of the first wizards she met. She rushed over. "Hey Maddie!," she smiled. "How are you?"