The didn't really know what to do without her scowl. She shifted uneasily in her seat and tried to summon up a smile. She did NOT fancy getting into detention with Lafay. Seriously. The woman was a loony.

"There was no manner, Professor. I was merely stating a fact." Lafay HAD ordered her to sit. But she smiled - however fake it was - making it look somewhat believable and made it very clear she wasn't going to make any more disruption. She wasn't losing points from HER house, thank you very much. Not points her house had worked hard for. HMPH.

So she sat. Like a good girl. HMPH. Because staring at hedges was SO fun.

The girl knew fashion, Brielle had thought there was something about Cosette that was worthy of Noel's attention........but Fashion was more Brielle's department, so in her books Cosette got big ticks!
"Merci!" She smiled as she took the spot next to the girl, "I muzt zay your tightz are trés chic." It was only polite to compliment a complimenter.......waz zat a word?

The Former Champion, listened to Cosette's rationale for her allegiance, and she could not help but agree. It had been Glitterpuff Fletcher who had helped her after the first Task. Her desire to repay him was the only other reason beside Noel and Monique, why she was here. "OK, zo I will let you 'ave zat one," she smiled, "pluz 'e is rather attractive too...." she said as nonchalant as possible. Brielle found Fletcher attractive yes, but she was sure that Cosette had eyes for another.....

"Noel iz one of ze bezt Wizardz, I know. Il sera bien" Brielle had know Noel since their first year, and he was always one to get him out of trouble, and this Tournament was nothing different. He would be fine, and better yet, Brielle was sure he was going to win. "You like 'im don't you?"

It was straight to the point, but able to be taken two ways. The gauntlet was down, would Cosette take it up?

"Oh... I thought that maybe you would have." She said, glancing to the small girl. Greeeeeeeeat. Leilani thought something was going on between Jimbo and herself, didn't she?

GAH. Well...

There wasn't. Nope. They were just friends. Even if Jimbo did.. uh, well... l i k e Iris. You can't help those things. They just happen.

Iris slouched in her seat a little bit, and sighed. "Y'know, they really should have gone all 'Big Brother' with this thing. With magical cameras floating around the champions. So we could actually watch the action." But no. Tate didn't think like that. Did he just want his students to be BORED whilst waiting for people to immerge?!

Cosette gave the girl a smile when she took a seat next to her, moving her small leather rucksack. She may sometimes be fashionable, but half the time she is all combat boots and plaid and leather. She was a bit of a spitfire when it came to that. "Merci," she beamed. She had learned a little bit of fashion over the years. She did live in Paris, for goodness sakes. "I got zem when I firzt came to London." She had heard it got dreadfully cold up here, so some tights were a definite want.

She gave the girl a smug smile, knowing she was probably wondering why she was rooting for both of them. She couldn't help at least being nice and rooting for Fletcher too. He was a silly man, but a good one none the less. "Oui, 'e iz. Though, 'e iz juzt a friend." She blatantly severed the ties she had with him in the non-romantic manner, due to the fact she didn't want anymore run in's with getting her hair pulled out or expelled for that matter. "I can put in a good word for you, if you want?" She smiled at the girl, giving her a wink. Hey, if she wanted to know Fletcher, she could provide access.

When she brought up Noel and his skills, she couldn't help but smile. From their recent conversations and discoveries, they were almost to alike to manage. "Oui, I 'ave no doubtz about zat." She didn't know what was going down in that maze, but she knew he would make it out on top. Just like he did the last task. "'E is very knowledgable in 'iz spellz. 'E makes for a good dueling partner, I bet." She wanted to duel with him sometime. Her words made her wonder though. What was he like back at school? She had only seen him a few times in the halls back at Beauxbatons, but she wondered how he acted there.

"Oh!" Now the next question served as a surprise. Folding her pale cold hands in her lap, she looked at Brielle astonishingly. Did she really just ask that? She had never liked someone in her whole life, let alone wanted anyone in that way. But she bit her lip. Was the feeling she has been developing for Noel become to liking? She never knew the feeling, so it must be that, right? Giving her a small sigh, she nodded her head. "Oui, I do." She finally said it, out loud to hear. "I zink it waz ever zince we talked at ze courtyard." It was strange, but it felt.. oddly nice. She looked at Brielle, knowing she was one of his closest friends. What did she have up her sleeve?

Hugo looked up at the wayy older girl. "Oh hai," he smiled. "Thanks," he said looking back at his book. Quidditch through the ages. Yup, he wanted to make the team later. Then, a second older girl ran up to them.

"I'm Hugo," he said a bit hesitant. Suddenly they were treating him like he was a cute baby. LOL! He was already... eleven...

Iris grinned to the boy, "You're welcome!" She looked down, as he looking to his book. Quidditch Through the Ages. The prefect frowned sadly, the book reminding her of Aaron. They'd sat on the floor of the Quidditch shop, reading that book in the summer before coming to Hogwarts.

Sad times.

Then, she grinned again. There wasn't any point in being all sad about Aaron not being here, could she? Besides, he was coming to visit soon! "Can you fly?" She asked, indicating to the book. Maybe it was a silly question. Who knows? Who cares? Iris didn't.

Mneh. *cough* 'Kay she jumped to conclusions a bit quick on that one.

"Oh. Nah, I haven't seen him." Hmm, where was he? Probobly like, eating or doing something else Jimbo's do. Which waaaas... what again? Pranks, eating, harrassing small children. Yup, they should all be afraid.

LOL "That would be so cool! You should put in a request that they do that for the next one." Wait, there were three tasks right?! ... Yes there were. Huh. Well plus, with Monty being Prefect and all people would actually listen to her.

Yup, that would have been awesome. Buuut it wasn't.



Leilani smiled. "Hello Hugo, my name's Leilani." Aww, wasn't he just adorable with his book and stuff. She had to fight the urge to mess up his hair. Heh, she did that to Jimbo sometimes...

And again with the Jimbo thing. WHERE WAS HE?

"Of course you may!" He scooted over a bit to give her some more room.



Glancing around, Keefer saw Treyen looking his way. He shuffled past some people to make his way over to where Treyen sat. "Hey! How have you been? Who do you think will win?"

Jack was hoping that, on coming down to the stands for the second task, he would be able to actually see what was going on, since last time he couldn't see a bloody thing and it had rather angered him, causing him to be quite rude towards one or two firsty years.

Not only that, but he felt a bit more oblidged to spectate, considering he had found out only a few days a go that one of the champions was indeed his long lost twin. Hmm. Strange term it was becoming. And, because this twin was in danger once again, it was more suited and kind of him to cheer his brother on.

And he wouldn't get angry this time, even if he couldn't see again! What was it with this tournament and not being able to see anything? What was the fun in watching?

Bundled up in another wool coat (considering that Lafay still had his other one), Constantine sat in his seat and stared at the hedges. Hedges really weren't that much fun, but he would have to grin and bear it (minus the grin). Fletcher had made it through the first round and Masterson had figured that the least he could do was show up to the next round.

Perhaps he should have brought a book as well..

"Yeah sure.. scary stuff is what this tournament is all about blah blah blah.." She knew all this talk of these heroic tasks they were meant to go through in order to be 'heros' and she didn't like it that much. ".. why don't they just use some puzzles.. like really tough puzzles." That way she might think of going into a tournament. "Which we don't know if there are any yet.." Hey eyes went to the maze once again.

Louisa rolled her eyes at Enya. "Of course no one. What was I thinking." She murmured before her head snapped up at her friend's last question. "Why do I care?" She repeated unbelievingly. "Why do I care about participating in a public school event? Or why do I care to cheer for my own home-school in an international contest?" She said stung a little bit.

Alice had come slightly more prepared weather wise for this task than she had been for the last one. She brought her gloves and scarf, along with a beanie to try and save her ears from freezing off.

She had a feeling this was going to be like the first task, where really everyone was there to show their support without being able to see anything. Alice didn't mind though, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a book she had found in the library about Household Plants for Witches and Wizards. Flipping it open to the first page she began to read.

Rubiey hummed to herself quietly. How long were these peeps gonna be?! It was cold out here, and, really, it was quite insensitive of them to take so loooooooong.

Alright, it wasn't their fault. But Rubiey was tres bored. She shoulda bought a book with her. Or x-ray goggles so she could see through the hedges.

Looking up, she spotted a blonde Gryffindor reading a Herbology book three benches up. Grinning, Rubiey got up, and climbed towards her, then plonked herself down next to the girl.

"Sup Alice." She said brightly to her bestie. "Your lucky you came prepared." She said, eyeing the book in her hand.

Enya raised her eyeborws at Louisa, why did she have the feeling the girl didn't like this conversation? Why where they even having it? It was pretty boring - well to her anyway. Looking around them she mulled over Louisa's question. Why didn't the task's have puzzle's in them? Hmm. "Well..maybe they'll put puzzle's and scary stuff in the same task?" She asked hopefully peeking down at the younger girl. Well they could right?

Enya heard the girl mumble something, although what she wasn't sure about. She really couldn't be bothered to ask so she let it drop but it was still mulling around her mind. Rolling her eyes at the girl's second question she didn't look at the girl. "No why do you care about what i do all the time?" She asked still not looking at her. She suddenly found the corner of the field before them very interesting.

Emmaleigh let out a hearty laugh, despite of the cold. She was so glad Brittany had made it down to the task this time, because its amazing how much laughing warms you up. "I'm more team Fletcher than team Hoqwarts. After all, he is from our own house." Emmaleigh leaned and said quietly, so only Brit could hear, "And I'm not sure if I like that Slytherin guy. I mean, I don't know him, but, well, I don't know." She straightened back up, "Plus," she continued, "It seems like Fletcher doesn't have enough Fans out here. There is very little yellow." She pointed to her house scarf.

Em took another sip of the cocoa, " That was nice of them. So did you enjoy being back home?" Yeah, it was probably a dumb question, Brit seemed like the type of person that got along with her parents.

"YEah, definitely," Em responded. "I'm just still a little surprised I even went up to him. I think It was the first time since I have been in the magical world that i introduced myself to someone before they had ever spoken to me." And that was a big deal to Emmaleigh. It meant that she was ever so slightly returning to her normal self. She used to be bold, and not afraid to speak to new people, or be active in class. But ever since the first time she entered Diagaon Alley this summer, she had found herself intimidated by magic, and its users. And stuttering, She hated that stupid stutter she had recently acquired. Returning back to the conversation, she continued, "But I guess what made me walk up to him was the fact that he just looked like he was freezing. I mean, it was a cold day to begin with, and he came out of the tunnel barefoot, shirtless, and soaking wet."

She then looked back out at the Quiddich Pich, that that had been turned into the maze. "I Just wish we could know if everyone is ok." she said aloud. It was quiet down there, too quiet. What if the things they were facing were a lot worse than the first task? Some of the champions nearly died in the first task... Em shook her head. She did not want to think about those horrid portraits that lined the common room walls.

"well you know if you look at it that way you have a good point.' she said Grinning. "Maybe we should have gotten some Pins that read "Team Hufflepuff Champion.'.' she said chuckling. 'Oh I loved being back home.' Brittany said happily. "I enjoyed seeing my family but i really enjoyed not being so cooolldd.' she said shivering a little bit. Not that it wasnt cold back home. It just didnt get as cold as it did at hogwarts. Where she was from she rarely seen snow. And they seen snow all the time there. *sigh*

Brittany gave her friend a comforting smile and a small pat on the back. She knew how hard it was for em to talk to new people. She was shy too but not as shy as Em. 'well that was really sweet of you to do." she said with a smile. "a good deed will come back to you." yeah maybe she was a little superstious. "

'I know what you mean. This is the wizarding world. They should hae something to show us what is going on in the inside." she said with a little scowl

Evan saw Iris' look and motion to join them, but really, he wasn't up to interrupting her conversation or whatever that was with that little kid. And now that a friend of hers joined her, he'd rather stay here and be out of a girl talk. Thank you. She was probably still angry at him anyway with what he had told her in Three Broomsticks... nope, better to stay here safely.

He did notice a Slytherin though, a few seats away, who looked... annoyed? Bored? Hmm... the blondie couldn't tell. But he looked like he needed a friend or something. Going there to sit with him, he greeted him with a friendly smile and "Hey."

"May I sit here?" Never mind the fact that he had just got up from his seat to move over here.

"Ew." Jeremy repeated with an amused grin. It sounded funny when she said. Probably because of her accent. Heh. Oh, and she WAS positive about things? Raising his eyebrows at her in mock doubt he regarded Maya for a moment before whispering, "You sure about that? What exactly are you positive about?" Now he was curious...teasingly curious. "Señor?" He repeated with a rather surprised chuckle. She was 'señoring' him now? Was he annoying her? Good.

Wow, she took the hat without protest. Without any negativity about, say, the color or just in general, the style or something. Nothing. She just took it. "Looks good." He gave the fluffy ball on top of her head a small flick. Heh. And back to Mister Zookara? Was that a bad sign? "You're welcome. And you may keep it, Mi-" ss? Mrs? Err. "-Miss? Is it Miss Saylen?" Cue slightly sly grin. He had just released her from the pain of freezing ears so she HAD to answer, right?

Did he miss it? "Well, I just went back for Christmas for a few days. I think it's a mortal sin to miss a Zookara Christmas Celebration in our family." Jeremy gave her a small grin. But back to her question. "Yes, I do. I really do miss my parents and brother some time." His sister had decided to follow him after all so he got to see her once in a while. "Do you?" This was getting sort of personal...

Brant yet again had nothing to do so he sat down in the stands bundled in his coat and hat and gloves.

Why was Cam SO mad? Had what he'd done been THAT bad? Seriously, sometimes Cam needed to look at things from other perspectives than her own selfish one. Cos leaving her there (or attempting to) hadn't been selfish at all, had it?

He just continued to smirk a self satisfied smirrrrrrk at the redhead. He winked. “Best served cold, babe.” He replied nonchalantly. Meh.. what was he gonna do? Set some Ravenclaws on her? That wasn't a bad idea actually. *snort*

He raised a brow. “Not necessarily scared. I'd just watch your back is all.” He shrugged and looked around.

Were they going, or were they gonna chat here all day?

He chuckled at the squid comment. “I'd bet on it that you wouldn't if our dip in the lake last year is anything to go by. OR..." He pointed at her and grinned. "...Did you finally grow that Gryffindor backbone?”

Ouch! Below the belt.

Meh.

She started it.


Turn him into a potions ingredient!? That was actually a terrifying thought; and the glaring was even scarier. “No, professor.” He replied, a small pout appearing on his face.

But it vanished the moment the woman asked about his 'interest in potions'. Like, seriously, did he look like a wannabe potions dude? Heh. Cam was so gonna pay for this.

“Not strictly speaking, professor.” He replied honestly. “I think for some reason unbeknownst to herself, Cameron is stirring up shizz here.” He shot the redhead a quick smug look. “I'm much more practical than academic. Quidditch is more my thing than Potions. But, you know, that speaks volumes for that you can hold my attention during class.”

He was aware of one of the Durmstrang girl's watching him as he continued to dig his own grave addressed Professor Lafay and he shot her a friendly smile.


He also smiled and nodded at the younger blonde girl who was conversing with the professor.

He shot Cameron a look when she kept on at Lafay. “Perhaps the professor was interested in talking to you.” He mumbled to her. “Jus' shurrup, 'kay?”

Silly gobby moo.


Oh and there was Trixie, laughing her butt off. Oliver's mouth curled downwards. Oh ha ha.. yeah.. hilarious. Though, in all honesty he would have giggled if it had been Trixie in his place.

He looked at her, trying to communicate with his eyes that he was probably best staying where he was for now.

Anyway.. he had a good view.. of the hedgery.

"Or you know, we could just cheer for him." She said grinning. "GOOO FLETCHER!" She yelled. She had no idea if he could hear the noise from the stands, but she cheered anyways. Atleast the others knew who she was pulling for. and yeah, it made her feel a little foolish, but it was just more step to her reverting to her normal bold self.

"Its usually pretty cold back home, and We tend to get a fair amount of snow," Emmaleigh said. "But we are not this far north, so its colder here. But I really liked being home too. It was good to see my parents, But I think the thing I enjoyed most was being able to see the animals again. Its amazing how much kittens can grow in four months." Emmaleigh smiled thinking about Mystique's kittens, they were such cute little fur balls.

"I Don't know if I would actually want to see whats going on." Em admitted. "I just want to know if they are alright." She turned to Brit. "Is the second task supposed to be harder?" she asked before continuing, "Last time, a lot of people were injured really bad, and one or two fainted. SO what if its worse?" True, the ones that were injured badly had been eliminated, and, Fletcher had been one of the least injured, but if it was harder, the ones that made it might not be able to deal with the things inside the maze. "Someone could die," she thought, and just as quickly as that thought entered her head, she pushed it away. She did NOT want to see Fletchers portrait hanging in the common room.

Amber sat down in the stands, still carrying her pom poms and huge sign cheering on the Hogwarts champions. Well, her pom-poms screamed WOOOOOOOOOOOO, but that was beside the point. The point was that she was freezing, even though she was bundled up like an eskimo. But she noticed someone who looked equally bundled up. GASP! IT WAS BRANT! She hadn't seen him in forever! He was always off doing some prefect job whenever she had some free time. She walked over to him and said, "Hey Brant! Long time no see, eh?" She smiled, rubbing her hands over her arms. She was soooo cold!

"hey Amber, how are you doing" he asked her while noticing she looked a bit cold, due to the fact she was rubbing her arms. Brant had brought a blanket just in case, thank goodness he did. "Did you want to use my blanket im not using it?" he said while laughing. "you should come prepaired for these types of things....." laughing again he scanned the stands. "Alot of people like to watch these things, if I had something better to do I would have stayed up in the dorm." he said while shaking his head.

Brielle's eyebrows rose at the mention of Match Making.......Brielle had her eyes on someone already......but it was not Fletcher, or was it?

"I zhall keep zat in mind," she smiled back coupled with a gentle tip of the head, as her eyes narrowed trying to find any signs of life in the Maze. She could not help but be slightly concerned for Mon....Noel was rather cool under pressure, but Mon had her moments.

"Oui, 'e iz a zpectacular duelling partner, I would know!" She smiled again, Brielle and Noel had been in the same Defence class back on the Continent, and had been partners quite a few times.......and their scores were tied, that's how good he was! "I am zure he will give you a duel if you ask?" The French girl smirked at this comment, there was no way Noel would say no to a pretty girl, such a gentleman he was!


Cosette's reaction to Brielle question, offered more indication than her words did, Cosette was "in to" him, and by the way Noel had been acting lately, she was sure he was in to Cosette as well. "I will not intrude, I am 'iz friend, not 'iz zizter, but I will zay, jealouzy can be a demon, make zure you are confident in yourzelf enough to deal with the throngz of girlz that throw themzelves at Noel!" Brielle approved on this one.....she was attractive, clever and spirited.

Cosette chuckled lightly, pressing the back of her hand to her mouth, stifling the chuckle. She didn't want to seem rude to the girl, but it was quite funny to see her eyes raise at the slight mention of her giving Fletcher a little nudge about the french girl. She seemed like a good gal, nice sense of fashion, that was for sure.

Nodding to her words, she also looked back at the maze. There was no indication of anyone coming out yet, let alone any sounds of explosions or anything. It was definitely unsettling. Even with her confidence in them being alright, she still had some worry. "I will be 'ere the rezt of ze term if you change your mind." As long as she doesn't get thrown out for anything, of course.

Her eyebrows did raise. So they have dueled! Listening to her, she wanted to duel him even more. Even though he was a year earlier than her, though her birthday was this month, she knew she could take him. With her extensive knowledge on spells and dark arts, she could school him. "Zat muzt 'ave been a fair duel." She smiled. She would have liked to see how that turned out. She was probably a great duelist. "We 'ave talked about it. We need to zet a date." She couldn't help but smirk. "'E doezn't know it, but I will go zhow no mercy on 'im." Even if she did like him and wanted to kiss and make up after a duel, she wouldn't bend her talent to make him feel good.

Now that made Cosette let out a melodious laugh. That was something she knew would most likely happen. She already knew Rhea was a bit irked about her and Noel's.. budding relationship. "You 'ave not to worry." She did have a jealous demon, but she had never let it rise to anything. Well, except for when it came to schoolwork. "I don't zink they would want to mezz with thiz anywayz." She could have a really non-approachable look sometimes. And she, not wanting to be vain, she was quite pretty. Putting a hand to the clasp of her moleskin and fox fur cloak, she did an involuntary hair tousle, making fun of her last sentence, a smile to her lips as she chuckled to herself.