Tay laughed and smiled at him- "It's actually quite exciting! Finding out your house! I mean, I wonder if mine would be different If I did it now. I think it would be." she told him honestly, looking out the window at the passing countryside, she leaned forward and took in the sights- "Isn't it so beautiful out there?" she said with a big smile- she hadn't really taken the time to aprreciate it on the last few journeys.

"yeah, I feel that too, made me sick of hiding things I cannot understand back then, and till an old man came and says that I am like him a special man, doing things without raising a hand, I remembered too that I was scared when he says 'you must go with me to control that magic of yours, I'll take you to London, to Hogwarts in-order to study magic'" Raven long talk about his past being a muggleborn

"now, I'm happy, that my specialness is something like ordinary in wizarding world", Raven paused, he remembered this is conversation not exclamation. "sorry, too much talking"

"Oh you have been deprived. He is absolutely brilliant and he is old so you'll like him." Selina joked.

He was a really great guy. The more she got to know about Christopher the better they got on. She was hoping he would continue to talk to her when school started, even though she was a first year.

"Well I'm looking forward to your horrible singing as well. And thanks, he is really awesome and I love 'im a lot. Tell me 'bout your parents. What do they do?"

Hugo peeked out of the window of his compartment. It was- Jacqueline! She seemed to disappear and reappear a lot. "Hey, Jackie," he exclaimed to the girl she had met on the platform exactly a year ago. "How was your summer?"

"No, it's fine," Kurumi smiled. "I find it fascinating learning about where everyone comes from. Whether we be muggle-borns or purebloods, everyone has an interesting story."

"ooh, thanks Kurumi you are very understanding" he smiles
"how about your story?"

Kurumi blushed and looked down at her knees. "My story isn't very uplifting," she said slowly. "My life was terrible before coming to Hogwarts - things didn't get that much better at home after I learned I was a witch either." She paused for a moment to collect herself. "In my town, people who are half, half-foreigner that is, are frowned upon. My father is British, so when my classmates learned about that...they bullied me...everyday. I hated being different. I even wore brown contacts to hide my violet eyes." She looked at Raven and smiled weakly. "You sure you want to hear all this?" Better ask now before she got too far into it.

In all this mess that was going on around her,she saw someone that just brought a wide smile on her face. It was Hugo,her very first friend,and it was always great to see him. Yup,it was a year ago. ''Heyy Hugo!''she yelled. ''Oh i missed you so much! Oh my summer? Well,nothing special really. Usual stuff. Oh i had some fun days with Rex,yea we chilled together so it was awesome! And what about you,man? How are you? What's going on with your life? Tell mee!'' she was smiling all the time. She quickly put her stuff away,and relexed. All this time,they haven't had a chance to talk. Now,the only thing she wanted was to just talk and talk with him and enjoy in the trip to Hogwarts.

"Yeah, old people are pretty brilliant," Christopher laughed. "Horrible singing is really awesome."

He blinked at the mention of his parents. No one ever really asked him that. "Erm.... well.... my dad is an architect and my mum is a television producer." He was willing to bet that she had no idea what that meant, but he'd probably end up explaining it to her. She was Halfblood though, so he mentally took that back.

Whaaat? Was she pointing out that the Thaddeus in this compartment could be evil-ish? Treyen would never let that happen, no. He eyed the creature once more and laughed at her comment, "Yes, better safe than sorry, no?" he said, eying the thing once more. Nah, it wasn't evil, it was the cutest little knarl in existence.

And he smiled once more as he nodded as a way of saying 'You're welcome'. Yeah, she didn't look evil, nor seem to be so, and she was a Ravenclaw, not many Ravenclaws have been evil in the past. At least not on purpose. So, it was all good.

Huh? Another smile. "Why, thank you," Hufflepuff had won the Championship that day, team work, of course, AND...lookit! She had only ONE team, perhaps not all girls were weird and undecided. "Well, that's good," not as great as the Arrows, but hey, at least it was ONE team, "You know, the last Captain that Hufflepuff had," because the tournament had made it clear that no Captains were involved last year, "now plays for them, Miranda, yes, she plays for them now," she didn't even finish at Hogwarts, pretty awesome, no?

It was awesome. Or more than awesome. To him, at least. The rest of the family seemed to be ashamed of what Gilderoy did, but they failed to see the main picture. "I guess so, it's not like he's that famous," and he couldn't believe he'd just said that, after all the years he'd spent saying he--no, wait a minute, Treyen never said Gilderoy was famous, he only said he was the greatest wizard ever, right? Or something along the lines, but famous? No, no, he'd said 'celebrity', and that's slightly different. Sliiiightly. "No, I'm a Hufflepuff...though, honored that you'd think I was one," yeah, he was okay with the Ravenclaws, and Gryffindors too...it was the Slytherin crowd you were bound to be suspicious of.

"Horrible singing, check. Wow look how much I've accomplished and I'm not even in Hogwarts yet." Selina laughed.

As he explained about his parents she nodded along. He looked at her like she wouldn't understand what he had said, "That's cool. By the way Christopher I'm a Mixed Blood. It means that I'm not exactly a half blood, but I'm not exactly a pureblood. My line is something like a pureblood married a half-blood who married a pureblood who married a muggleborn and so on. And that whole rant sums up the fact that, I know what those two jobs are."

She giggled and tucked a hair behind her ear, "Anyway what does your Mom produce?"

"Aww, being a witch or wizard is differently something, but in a country having difficulty in race is another story, but yes, listening is my forte, understanding it another, haha" Raven laugh weakly, and he remember there is delicious cookies in his hand, bite it again

"Really? Why is that?" he asked regarding her idea of being in a different house.

He gazed out the window with her enjoying the beauty of the countryside to some degree it reminded him of home.

"It is really beautiful, i hear Hogwarts is amazing to look at" he said to her.

Benjamin walked onto the train looking for the emptiest compartment he could find in the back of the train. Apparently the back was the social hotspot to be. He finally found one with another Slytherin in it. He overheard the bigger girl speak, asking what the school was like. he opened the door and dragged his trunk inside.

"I hope you don't mind that I join you? I won't be any problem at all. I overheard you say your name's Jamie? I'm Benjamin Trevors. First year, if you can't tell by the nervous sweat on my brow. I brought my chocolate loving owl with me. If the trolley comes back here, I'll show you. But he can only have a little bit a day, or he doesn't eat well. His name is Zeus, by the way."

He took a seat and opened the golden cage that Zeus was in. He stuck his hand in, and the big eagle owl grabbed Benjamin's fingers. And Benjamin pulled his arm back, and pulled the bird out. Zeus fluffled his feathers and looked around. He stretched out his wide wings out, and saw the girls chocolate. Benjamin whistled softly and the bird looked at him.

"At least he knows who his owner is. Hahahaha."

Jake had taken a tour of the train, eyed the firsties and marvelled that he was ever that short, if not shorter. Now he was back at his compartment, which HAD been filled with people.

And now... it was empty.

But peoples' STUFF was in here.

Gr. Eyes narrowing behind his sunglasses, Jake flopped into the seat beneath where his trunk was stowed and put his feet up on the seat across from him. Lolcat took this as his cue and jumped into the boy's lap before curling up. Jake... would change later.

Kurumi smiled. Raven was very understanding and much more mature than most of the first year boys she had known. "Thanks," she nodded with a slight giggle in her tone. "Well, understanding is my forte." She allowed herself to embrace the light moment before she continued. "Um, growing up, I didn't have anyone to talk to besides my family. I have three older brother who I spent most of my time with. My father was usually busy with work and my mother always seemed to be afraid of me unless I was doing normal things with her like baking or playing the piano." She paused. "Eleven years go by, eleven years of being tortured everyday, and then this owl shows up at my home with a letter and my mother faints. Turns out that my family had been lying to me...they all were witches and wizards. Well, everyone except my mother." Kurumi found it hard to continue now as burning tears were beginning to form in her eyes. Talking about her family and everything she had gone through up until she had boarded the crimson steam engine last year was like reliving everything over again. "S-S-Sorry," she whispered pulling out her yellow handkerchief. "I didn't mean to start crying..."

Jacob was thrown a bit off balance when he was hit by a small... something. after regaining his balance, he looked around at what it was, if it was Pat, Jacobs fist would have already collided with Pats chest Jacob actually had to look down a bit to see who it was... obviously it wasn't Patroclus, and apparently Jacob had grown over the summer.

He looked at a girl.. who was apalogizing. Why would anybody apologize for running into him. Jacob wouldn't appologize, he would just laugh and leave... weird new generation..........eww, that made hime feel old. "It's fine, it's fine" he said quietly

Jacob tried to smile at her, heh, first years. Little new people. People who he could scare.... wait no, Jacob had to be a role model now. That wasn't fun! "Well, it's nice to meet you" and she was being formal with full names and titles... might as well be formal back. "Jacob Blunt, fifth year, Ravenclaw Capt-" he stopped... And looked around. It slipped... at least he didn't say it completely, and hopefully no one heard

Jacob then felt something at his feet... "What in the world?" he looked down and saw a cat... terrible scratchy animals... little furballs.

Someone else was apalogizing too. What was with all these apalogizing people. It got on his nerves...whatever. "It's fine, they have minds of their own" humans wanting to control animal minds was just tampering with nature

"Well... I told you how i've kinda turned over a new leaf- I had to. Things have changed a lot since last year! I wasn't... well, I just wasn't myself then. Things were going wrong at home and I was just trying to create some sort of... I dunno hard shell. It didn't work very well to be honest. But I suppose with my family and all... that was probably the main reason I was put in Slytherin. I don't mind. But... everyone thinks we're mean- and I'm not mean!" Tay laughed, holding onto his hand.

"Oh, it really is! It's really pretty!" she giggled, smiling at him- "It's so pretty at Christmas time too. I love it!" she admitted, turning to him. "I'm sure you'll love it too!" she said, kissing him on the cheek and grinning widely.

Kurumi breathed a sigh of relief. You just never knew how people were going to react to her cat just barging in and stick his nose where it didn't always belonged. "This is Walnut," she said as she scooped the cat up. "I'm Kurumi." He seemed, agitated. Kurumi glanced down at Walnut. She was going to have to talk with the fur ball later about respecting people's space. "I'm..I'm a second year, in Gryffindor," she said bowing awkwardly. She felt like she was back to being a first year again. A very awkward and clumsy one at that. "Oh, sorry, you don't bow here..um..." she flopped Walnut under her left arm and extended her right. "Sorry, let me start over. Hello, my name is Kurumi and it is nice to meet you." Phew. A somewhat smooth save.

Selina inwardly grinned at this boy's smirk. All of the older kids seemed to wear one like a badge. They all knew that fresh meat was coming in and they could take complete advantage of that fact. As he looked like he was about to strike Selina prepared herself, but when no blow came she was confused. He seemed to be holding in his quick remark that would surely "frighten her".

She was puzzled by his role model behavior, but when he slipped she knew exactly why. He was Quidditch Captain of the Ravenclaw team. And oddly he did not want that advertised. Of course she could see why. The nonstop questions could have the potential to get very annoying, very fast.

So with her own smirk she added, "Quidditch Captain? It's okay, your secret is safe with me. But I do have one question, what is with all of the secrecy surrounding your title. I mean I could see how questions can get annoying, but that is really awesome that you are..." her voice dropped below a whisper, "...captain."

Jenny somehow managed to sleep through all the conversations going on in the compartment (which was perfectly fine; too much quiet can be quite scary); even her owl, Snappy, seemed to be sleeping. Her eyes perked up when Walnut scrambled around somebody's leg. Hehe, just seeing Walnut made her smile for some reason...such an innocent little cat that always gets into trouble.

"May I have another cookie?" Jenny asked, not wanting to bother Kurumi's conversation with...Raven, right? Jenny couldn't remember if he introduced himself to her or not.

"Yea, i can understand that. So where do you think you would of ended up if not in Slytherin" he asked.

Draven knew deep down Tay was kind hearted but her legacy within her family probably had a lot too do with her sorting. She definitely wasnt mean or arrogant as most Slytherin's were or rumored to be. He knew that from the day they met. She continued to tell him how beautiful it was at Hogwarts and he couldnt wait to see the place.

It was still very surreal to him that he would be attending the legendary school and how awesome and interesting it was going to be. Hopefully he got along with other students. But he would continue to focus on the friends he already made with Kurumi, Ellie, Trixi, and even Tay and Amber. Even to some degree he felt Tay's former boyfriend Alex was friendly.

He looked over at her and smiled.

"I love you sweetheart".

"ooh, what a story, seem like fairy tale, you must be strong and brave enough being a gryffindor, because that means you conquer the past" Raven smiles sweetly to lessen the situation.

"as for me, my mother a muggle - a filipina but my dad is likely he admit he knew that I am a wizard but didn't sure because he is squib - never attending a wizarding school
himself"

"yeah, that's right, Raven - you're Jenny right, hungry after fall asleep"

Keeley had been walking up and down the train corridor for quite a while, and she really couldn't spot any open compartments. Of course, she had been too lazy to look and see whether there was anyone interesting in those taken compartments. Meh.

But her trunk was getting rather heavy, and her old cat was getting rather annoyed. Hm, well.. the floor seemed kinda comfy. So, Keeley plopped down in the middle of the compartment, on top of her trunk.

You know, this really wasn't bad, not at all. As lond as nobody stepped on her, this plan seemed quite alright. The girl adjusted the red and gold headscarf that she had gotten last summer from the gypsy caravan, and hummed a little tune to herself. Not that she was a singing star or anything, but it was enjoyable anyway. Now, all there was left to do was to wait for something interesting to happen.

Now that Alex had his trunk all secure in the baggage cart, it was time to find a seat. He'd promised his sister that he'd sit with her for a little while, but he'd lost her--again--and decided that rather than fight the crowd, he'd just...sit in one spot and hope she came to him.

Making his way through the compartment, he quickly learned that everything he'd heard about the train was entirely true--the compartments filled up fast! He'd have preferred an empty one...he'd rather the people come to HIM, you see...but that didn't seem to be a possibility anytime soon. He sighed and looked around, catching a glimpse of a nearby compartment that only had one dude occupying it. He had a cat curled up on his lap--well, cats were cool. Maybe this guy was too.

Knocking on the compartment door, he quietly slid it open and cleared his throat. "Erm...hi. Anyone sitting there?" he asked, pointing to the space where his legs were. What?! He could be saving it for someone!