"Sure," Kurumi said handing Jenny the blue box of pumpkin cookies. "Try not to get too full though," Kurumi laughed realizing that she had eaten her fair share as well. "There is going to be loads of delicious things at the opening feast!" She couldn't wait to have some of that pumpkin juice. She had tried making it at home over the summer and failed miserable. She had ended up drinking pumpkin goop for a few days because her mother refused to let her throw it out.


Kurumi had never thought about herself that way. Was that why she was sorted into Gryffindor? "I think you have a point there, Raven," she smiled nodding with a sparkle in her violet eyes. "I guess that is my bravery, or at least a part of it." She paused to listen to the next part of his story. "I wonder why people have things against squibs," Kurumi wondered aloud. She had read about them in her history books.

Zoey wandered around to the back of the train.

Really, it looked exactly the same as the rest of the train. That was usually how trains were designed. Hmm. If she designed a train someday, all the compartments would be different. The seats would be different materials, the wallpaper would be different in each of them, the carpet would be different- the whole nine yards, right down to the kind of screws used.

However, she did not intend to design trains once she got out of school. Nope. Though it might be an interesting backup plan. Honestly, she didn't know what her first plan was but it was always good to have a backup.

She scoped out the rest of the back before deciding to turn around and head the other way.

OH BUT WHAT WAS THAT?!

Bending down, Zoey found a shiny and rather expensive looking bracelet. Ooooh, somebody was gonna be in trouble with their mommy for losing their expensive jewelry. *snicker*

Walnut? It's name was walnut? Wasn't that a Food? Why would people name their animals after food, what were they going to eat it? Thats disguisting, thats a domestic pet, you don't eat domestic pets. Wait she bowed. Bow?... Why bow, he wasn't to be respected... You Don't Respect People who scream at the sight of cake. Thats just not right... Again, Weird Generation.

And again with these full titles... Gryffindor? She might know where Pat is. Jacob smiled. "I'm Jacob, and it's nice to meet you as well." he said and looked at the cat... as long as it didn't scratch he was fine. "Gryffindor, eh? You wouldn't happen to know Patroclus would you?" he asked, hoping she knew him, and knew where he was. Cause Pat would be the most helpful person at the moment... Jacob didn't know whether to be excited or somber about being captain. It was a weird sort of feeling.

UGH! Too much of the word had sliped through his lips, and she knew what he was saying. Thats great... Wait she thought it was a secret? If it were a secret, everyone would have known by now (stuff spreads like wild fire here), apparently the only people who knew... and believed that he was captain was Vashti, and this kid. Ellie wasn't going to believe him anytime soon, and JD was gone. So Right now he was completely alone with it except for this kid and Vashti.

Oh great... SEE QUESTION! "Some people don't think its awesome." he said, including himself. "In fact I know of at least one person who would try and impeach me if they could" Ellie was definently not going to take this sitting down. "And a lot of people don't think I have what it takes." Including himself, "actually, they probably would throw me out of the window" The Wrath of Ellie is a scary thing, and she is rather strong for such a small person

She returned the smile "Yeah I bet you will meet lots and lots of new people eveyone I meet was really nice." she said looking at the chocolate that was offered to her. She loved chocolate but she had some and she wanted to share hers with Jamie too. "Yes sure. I have some chocolate too, we could swap some." she moved to her bag and pulled out a big bag of chocolate and other candies. "Well the professors are mostly nice If you don't act like a fool, just one teacher scares most and thats professor Lafay, the potions master." she replied "she is only like that so she can get her point across she is really a good teacher. Professor Di was my favorite teacher."

Hearing a knock at the door, Jake raised an eyebrow. It had to be a firstie, a transfer or someone who had a nervous disposition. Jake wasn't used to people knocking.

Turning to find the knocker, Jake directed his face down and peered over the top of his sunglasses before smiling. "Not that I know of," he said, moving his feet down to the floor, the cat miraculously staying still.

He loved having long legs.

Sometimes.

"Yeah we could trade," Jamie said nodding enthusiastically."Well I don't know much about potions but my mum was reading to me about Ancient runes and Charms. I liked the sound of the first one more." Was, a past tense word. "What happened to Professor Di?"

Raven's triumph to get Kurumi back in her self, "See, there is always an answer to every question" he thought
"yes, I've been decided, I will be sorted in the Gryffindor House, no matter what" Raven stubbornness is release eventually without notice, his politeness will faded

Selina cocked her eyebrow and replied, "Well, you seem like a nice enough guy. If you can play Quidditch I'm sure you'll make a fine Captain. And whoever is bothering you will have to get over it. You are Captain and that kind of is a sticking title. I think you'll do fine and no one ever said the road the victory was an easy one."

After she was done Selina looked at his broom and gaped. She was not usually this inarticulate in front of people, but she had to admit she was jealous. Her own broom her Dad had gotten her was sitting home in the shed. Growing up with a professional Quidditch player as a Dad made her crave playing Quidditch more than anything on a real level. Playing on the Quidditch pitch in the back yard was fun and the drills made her a better Chaser than all of her ten male cousins, but she was itching for a real game. Too bad the lady at the Quidditch shop had told her first years were not allowed to try out... but there was always breaking into try outs.

Then Selina got an idea. She had someone with knowledge right in front of her about the game. She could always ask, "Listen last question about Quidditch, I promise. But can first years... try out?" It was worth a shot.

Awaiting his reply she began another topic of conversation, "So do you like being in Ravenclaw?"

Huh. You would think that the train would have a bathroom in it or something. Not that Legend had to use it really badly...but if some firstie had bladder problems that wouldn't work out too well!

Passing by a girl in the corridor of the back end Legend noticed that the girl had picked something off the ground. "Is that..er- yours?" The blonde asked, an eyebrow shooting up. She could have been stealing!

Kurumi frowned. "I do know Patroclus. I haven't seen him around yet," she said as she adjusted her hold on Walnut. And she had just gotten Jacob to smile. He certainly did seem down for whatever reason. Perhaps he was like Eino and just hated train rides? Or, perhaps he was hungry? If that was the case, she still had a few of her pumpkin cookies left in the small blue box she was carrying. Kurumi wasn't sure if this guy wanted to confide in a second year, let alone a shy as a mouse one, but Kurumi hated to see someone look so sad on the day they were all returning to the magical world. "Was Patroclus mean to you? You look a little sad." Like, did he steal a rare chocolate frog card from Jacob?!


"You know, stubbornness and ambitious are very Slytherin traits," she teased nudging him in the side.

Melanie shrugged. "I like to be alone every once in a while. Just not usually." Alone time was okay when she needed to think something through or when she was just feeling grumpy, but Melanie liked being around people most of the time. Her eyebrows went up for the second time when the girl mentioned she had a fiance, but Melanie chose not to comment on that. "I have a friend who transferred here." she told her, smiling slightly at the memory of trying to tutor him when he first started. Hehe. Melanie wasn't the best teacher. "That's cool. So did you just get your magic late or did you go to a foreign wizarding school up until last year?" Melanie had started as a first year, so, naturally, she was curious about what it must be like to be a transfer to Hogwarts.

Ohhh! "Alice and Wonderland... That's like, a classic!" A really old classic! "I haven't read it, though. When you're done with it, could I maybe... borrow it?" If she said pretty please with chocolate on top and gave her puppy dog eyes and whatnot? Eh, she'd wait to see if she said yes or not first though... Yeah.

Melanie was caught off guard when Rene complimented the badge on her robes. "Erm... thanks." she replied after a moment, fiddling with it a little. She still hadn't told anyone about it yet.

Taking some of Jamie's chocolate and handing some of her chocolate to Jamie "Those were my two best subjects, charms and runes. It is always good to read up on the infromation before going to class." she said "Well she tought Runes at Hogwarts last year. There was some talk at the end of the year about her maybe changing postions. Nothing really happened to her." she said

"Yeah sometimes alone is good" she replied that was a dead subject to her so she decided to move on. They were niether alone right now so she felt no need to talk about it right at this moment. "What happened to your friend?" she asked. Then it came to the obvious question why I hadnt attended Hogwarts before last year. "I got my magic alittle late so I attended the New York Academy of Arts before I got accepted to Hogwarts. Im a dancer, Ive been dancing since I was six." She replied

"Ohh..definitly. Your going to enjoy it plus im almost done with it." She said openning the book and seeing what page she was on. seeing that she only had a few more pages to go she sat the book back down. She would finish it later.

"Yeah. So whats it for?" She asked If it was okay if she didnt want to talk about it Rene would be just fine.

Alice pulled her trunk behind her and held her raven cage in the other hand. She wore a green victorian style dress with matching spats which had silver buttons. The dress had white lace detailing and was adorned with green satin ribbons. She pulled herself into an empty compartment and put her trunk in the ove head and opened her raven cage taking out her raven Percival and placing him on her shoulder and popping the cage into the overhead as well. Her hair was down in soft blonde waves.

Alice then sat down and allowed Percival to nip at her finger as she sat in her seat, quietly, hoping for someone to talk to.

Aaand there was someone. Someone coming towards her. Waaaay too fast and waaaay too close.

Ellie didn't screech or scream, but her face bunched up, braced for an impact.

One that, thank Merlin, never came.

"Just a little." she breathed. She lifted her head to see who her almost-murderer was, to see a face that had almost matched her own. "Are you alright?" Was he...hurt? Or something?

Alex smiled sheepishly at the boy and sat down in the seat where his feet had just been, looking around awkwardly. He wasn't sure if the guy wanted to talk or not--most of the people he'd met so far had struck up conversations right away but this guy had sunglasses on. Maybe he was trying to sleep.

He sat there and twiddled his thumbs for a few moments before he decided to hold out a hand for a shake. "Hi, I'm Alex. Alex Greingoth," he said with a smile.

"Hehe, don't worry," Jenny said as she took out a pumpkin cookie. "I'm planning to sleep the rest of the way." She carefully bit into the cookie. Mmm...Jenny can't make cookies as good as Kurumi does...but maybe she should start making sushi for her friends from now on. Why not?

Oh, wow...Raven must have read her mind (either that, or he could tell by how Jenny couldn't call him by his name whenever she tried to talk to him). Whew! Jenny was not one for knowing names. "Yes, I'm Jenny." Jenny smiled as she bit one more time on her cookie. "And yes, a good nap makes you hungry sometimes!" she chuckled.

Unnoticed by Jenny, Snappy woke up in his cage. The barn owl looked around a bit, annoyed by the loud sounds the humans were making before turning to a cat one of the humans was holding. Quickly Snappy decided to hold back his owl instincts and watched the cat a bit more.

Jake hadn't spoken... he wasn't the best at starting up a conversation.

But still.

Greingoth. That made the corners of Jake's mouth twitch as he recognised the name, but said nothing of it; he knew it sucked to be known by a last name. Well, it did to him and he believed that basically everyone thought the same.

The young man stuck out his hand and shook Alex's whilst Lolcat stretched out and eyed Jake with displeasure. "I'm Jake." Just Jake... it was easier that way. "You a transfer or something?"

Couldn't be a firstie... looked too old. Jake let go of Alex's hand and stroked Lolcat who instantly started purring.

Kurumi smiled and decided that she was going to eat another cookie too.
Oh? Another pretty birdie?! Walnut began swishing his tail back and forth again. Maybe this time he could get a closer look...

Rene spotted a girl seating alone and this was no way to spend a journey to the best school she knew. She popped her head inside the compartment "Hey, why are you sitting alone?" she asked. The girl was much younger than herself and that was probably why she was alone. She was a wee firstie but she had a very pretty dress on. "Why dont you join me and some of my friends in the compartment next to this one?"

Alice looked up and smiled, "Sure" she said a hopped over to the next compartment. "My name is Alice." she said curtseying. "What's yours?" she asked now stroking Percival's (the raven on her shoulder) head and neck.

Vashti nodded. Definitely better safe than sorry. Because you never really know. Something similar had happened before, hadn't it, back in Harry Potter's time? So it never hurt to be just a liiittle cautious, right? Even if the knarl looked quite innocent and very unlike a human pretending to be a knarl. And she probably wouldn't even be thinking about it if she hadn't heard the story about Thaddeus Thurkell. So much for constant vigilance.

She smiled at his thanks then tried to force her mind down memory lane once more, trying to see if she could remember the previous Hufflepuff Captain. She could, just a little, though she couldn't remember ever actually meeting her. "Wow, really?" she asked, her eyes widening slightly and a smile forming once more. "That's really cool! Good for her." She must've been a pretty good Quidditch player if she was now playing for a professional team.

Not that famous? Well, no, maybe not to those crazy people who didn't read, but to Vashti anyone who'd written several books, or had at least written one really good book, was pretty famous in her mind. But maybe that was just her. "Hufflepuff's a good house too," she commented. "I think it'd probably be my second choice for a house if I wasn't in Ravenclaw, although - and I know it sounds really shallow - I really don't care for the color yellow." Even if she'd worn yellow once before in support of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team in that one game against the Slytherins. But that was only temporary, not something she had to deal with wearing or seeing every day in the common room or anything.

Simon wasn’t sure his words had any effect on his companion, especially as she made a face and ran a hand through her hair as if she was as nervous or as sheepish as he had been just a moment before. “Yep pretty much,” he replied in agreement. “All I’m saying is don’t be one to stress totally over it for its not really worth it. My fifth year might have been smoother if I hadn’t.” Or at least his friends and girlfriend wouldn’t have given him flack for all the book studying he had done through the months.

“Thanks,” he said having a feeling he was going to being thanking a lot of people as they found out for students tended to be interested in that sort of thing.

"Really?" Simon questioned looking a little incredulous at that bit of information. It wasn't often something on heard from an older student for while you might not be that into sports you usually got dragged to at least one game through the years. "I wouldn't say really good...at least about myself. It kinda came as a surprise actually though I guess its all how different people view things," he commented with a shrug.

Another friend yeppie "Im Rene, Rene Cullen" She replied. "Im a seventh year hufflepuff. I asume that you are a firstie." Looking at the girl and then back to the raven perched on the girls shoulder "Nice raven, He is rather calm" She noted

Zoey looked up at a boy that appeared to be talking to her.

Was it hers? Well nooooo. She shook her head in response. "No I found it on the floor," she supressed a grin, raising one eyebrow and dangling the piece of jewelry from two fingers in front if the boy's face. "Is it yours?" She choked back giggles as she watched his face. Hehehe.

Absentmindedly, the girl looked around for anybody that might actually have lost the bracelet. It really didn't look like anyone had. Hmm, she could probobly take it to the conductor and they could see if someone had lost it. That was a good idea actually.

She said he was going to be good, when she didn't even know him, these people were so weird. Silly New firsties. He wanted to mess with them, maybe the first few days when they ask directions. He could send them to the seventh floor towers instead of the dungeon and vice versa. That would be funny... he could just say that he made a mistake.

Oh... More questions. Liars! They were all Liars!!!

"Yes. they can try-out... can't have your own broom though." he said. He saw her eyeing his broom. yes the school brooms would be what they would use. "But you use the school brooms." eww... that sounded bad, and tried to fix it "But Professor V. Keeps them in great condition and their very reliable" phew, he didn't want Vindictus to get all these complaints about having to use run down school brooms., cause they really were good brooms. "If you have anymore questions, you might want to save them for your appropriate captain, once your sorted." unless it was him... if it was him then dont ask when he's working on homework or strategies, and definently not when he's studying for OWLs.

Ravenclaw. "Oh yes, great house... tough to have to walk up 7 floors though. But its great excersise" he said with a small laugh


Oh, She hadn't seen him either... bummer. He looked at the cat again, just to make sure it wasn't planning anything. Cause the gorilla was enough, he didn't need an evil cat too. Let a lone a real evil cat

She though pat was mean to him? "No! Of course not!" he said defensivly, "Pat's too nice to be mean." though he still wanted to punch the kid, he got out of quidditch last year, but this year, there was definently going to be a bludger heading his way. "I just need to talk to him"
Sad... he looked sad? "Sad, no. cponfused, lost in thought and scared, yes." he said simply. again wasnt a secret, he just didn't want to feel the Wrath of a certain Ellie Stone... Hmmm... what an appropriate name. Its amazing. Ellie stone... was probebly going to stone him... or bludgen him with a bludger and a bat.