" Oh yes, I am "Glitter Boy" Rex told Fee." Well if you want me to throw first, I am ok with it" Rex said to Fee." Glad we are popular" Rex smiled. Rex threw his Chiang-Teng sticks on the ground.

Selina was so excited to see Fee. It was strange that she had seen Fee's boyfriend more than Fee. She was so thrilled for the two of them. When Hugo had told her she was astatic. They were obviously very into one another, it was only a matter of time until they started to date.

"I made the Quidditch team! I'm the only first year Chaser and one of the only two first years on the team!"

Josephina looked mildly confused for a moment there, and Jared took that moment to contemplate why that might be. Weirdness did not just lurk round the corners, here, it took centre-stage. Practically. Finding nothing puzzling about that comment, he dismissed the thought.

"Thank you," he said neutrally. "I might take you up on that offer." He noted that she, too, had a duo of pets. Like at least two other professors he had come to know.

Salute? Jared gave her a polite half-smile. "Of course," he agreed, as the pause in the conversation seemed to fade away. He excelled in several other subjects himself. Care of Magical Creatures, for one. Defense too, but he supposed he ought not to say that out loud too often, in case a certain Gryffindor somehow heard it and found reason to further stretch his theories about him being here to take over Tate's job.

He nodded at her explanation, a light nod. "You've been quite the traveller, then?" he asked. She had, after all, mentioned South Africa and several other countries.

Now this was just one touchy lady... or girl 'cause it fits more perfectly, yep. Cedric was... well, emotionless; his face bore a very pleasant expression, very pleasant looks, indeed, that tells you Ah-Okay or I'm-Not-Interested or best, When-Would-You-Stop-Talking. After Melanie had finished her speech, he cocked his head to one side and his gaze started to wander which soon fell upon the tree that was said to whomp anyone and anything. The tree looked harmless, indeed... but would it still be when he or Melanie or anyone step just a bit, bit more closer to it? Hah! That he would quite relish to see.

Cedric's senses was suddenly woke by Melanie's little laugh. Was he actually staring at the tree for too long? Ugh. No. Can't be! Shall be pretty embarrassing in his part! "Ah, yeah, I guess so." Cedric mumbled, red spots starting to flare on his cheeks.

Katie had deiced not to wear her ring to the whomping willow, just in case it smashed it, and Katie did not want that to happen. Katie had no idea why she was here actually, she could break a bone and then *le gasp* No Quidditch! And Katie was beater, that would be sad, Katie turned around and saw a girl chasing a piece of paper, Katie quickly grabbed the paper as it flew off next to her, "Here" Katie said handing it to the girl smiling, she then said "I think you nearly lost this"

Phew. A girl handed Ellie her letter. "Oh. Thank you." She said with a exasperated laugh, grabbing the letter from the girl's hand. She stood up and brushed the grass off her knees. "Yeah, that would have been bad if I lost that. Thanks." She said again.

Hmmm, how could she repay her..? Ellie dug her hand in her pocked and pulled out two lemon drops. "Want one?" She asked, holding one out for the girl and popping one in her own mouth.

Katie smiled YUMMY! CANDY! "Your welcome and thank you" Katie said as she took a lemon drop and popped it in her mouth, yum! "I'm Katelyn Star by the way, people call me Katie though" She said putting out her hand for the girl o shake.

Emmaleigh frowned at the conversation. Even if she was willing to use the money Michael had pulled out, 75 galleons was way too much. Only one notebook would be rather useless. "Three contacts?" she muttered to herself as she though about that. It could work, but it would be incredibly difficult, and work in a chain like fashion. As she though, Michael continued with his barrage of questions. 5000? hearing michael say such a high figure, the girl gave him a hard look. They could not afford anything for that much. Hearing the question about underage magic, she decided to speak up. "But you would still have to use magic to make it work wouldn't you?" of coarse, if they were at home during the summer, some of them could communicate using a phone or computer. She nodded as she mentioned working to make them hold more contacts. "That would be great." She looked questioningly at the older boy when he mentioned a book. "What are the knights?" she asked.

*Matty smirked and pointed to the notebooks again.*
"That's just it, your not really using magic at all. Your just brushing your wand around on the paper. No spell or magic is being done at all. But in case your wand is spell happy you can use a quill. It's will just take a few more seconds to clear."

*At the mention of the knights Matty smiled and looked over to Mikey then back to Em.*
"The Knight were mentioned in DADA class but when I went to the library they had nothing on them. So I asked my uncle and he sent me a few books. I believe... Albert... has something to do with them."

Lemon drops were Ellie's favorite since she was little. Her mother always told her her teeth would rot out... Needless to say, Ellie didn't care. "You're welcome." Ellie said with a smile.

"Nice to meet you, Katie. I'm Ellie." She introduced and shook the girl's hand. "I'm in Ravenclaw, you?"

Emmaleigh nodded at this, and was glad you didn't have to use a wand. it would look weird to do that in the muggle world.

"Oh" The girl said sheepishly. "Those Knights. Theres nothing on them? that seems odd." She thought a moment about his last comment. "You may be right. It would explain his outburst in class."

Cass walked towards the Whomping Willow with a sad expression on her face. It was Christmas again and she was all alone. Fee had Hugo, Freya had Elliot, and she was pretty sure that even Heather had Ed. and where was she? She was nowhere...

She tightened her Slytherin scarf around her and sighed...some Christmas this was turning out to be...

Heather had been looking all over the place for Cass. Amidst the white snow, and people by the whomping willow, she found the familiar head of blonde hair and waved her left hand. "CASS!" she called out and began to walk fast towards her best friend. she had to be careful not to slip in the snow. "Hey Cass!"

Cass turned around when she heard a familiar voice calling out to her. At first she shrugged it off merely as the blow of the wind. It wouldn't be the first time that she heard voices...

But then the voice wouldn't stop calling her! She finally turned around, annoyance clear on her face. "What?!" She started to say, but then it had died down when she saw that it was Heather calling her. Her frown disappeared as she waited for her best friend to reach her. "What's wrong Heather?" She asked

Finally! after a certain incredible amount of time, she had reached Cass. Heather, though panting, smiled at Her best friend. "Where have you been all day? I wanted to hang with you, and tell you something." she said a little bit innocent-looking.

"Well, I've been in the Slytherin Common room." Cass said, still a bit confused to why Heather was looking for her. Then she raised an eyebrow at her and asked a bit rhetorically "Do you think that I would hang out in the cold all day?"

"well...no...but it's just that i haven't seen you in awhile...not since you pulled me away from edward." Heather tried her best to not blush upon saying Edward's name. She shook her head and wet back to Cass. "hey cass, i was going to tell you something. You know, i think i'm on the road to a full recovery soon...so i have to be more careful from now on." she said with a smile and noticed a faint confused look on cass's face. OH RIGHT! she has no clue yet about what happened to heather! "oh, sorry cass....you didn't know. it's been like months now, but suring the summer holidays i sort of got into an accident playing quidditch with my dad's friend's kids." She smiled awkwardly. She was pretty sure Cass would ask her how THAT happened knowing how much Heather loved to go on a broom and is actually a good flier herself...

Cass eyed her curiously, silently ordering her to keep on talking before she even asked

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. Heather knew very well that look Cass was giving her.

"well...........we were playing quidditch ad i took the position of beater." she grinned. "during the game, i didn't see the bludger, and it hit my..." heather pointed to her right arm. "...my arm. To double that, i lost my balance and fell of my broom and landed on the same arm that was hit." She moved her right arm a bit, showing it to cass. "but i'm getting better now....see? i just need to be more careful."

Melanie, being Melanie, assumed he was just shy. In the girl's eyes, that was the only thing that could account for such a dull response on his part. Of course, she assured herself, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with her random rambling a few moments ago. She wasn't sure how to answer him so she just sorta nodded before turning her head back to the tree. Melanie didn't have anything else to say, really. Perhaps Cedric had a better topic in mind. If not, silence was fine by her. She wasn't going to say something else, for the fear of another short reply.

"I love it. It's pretty awesome. And filled with some amazing people too" replied Justin. Was he referring to one particular person? Maybe! Ok, yes he was but he wasn't about to tell him that, was he? "Certainly is" Hey, he replied without looking up at it. Miracle! "It's the only way I can write an effective song. Plus, it makes it easier to relate to"

" I am so happy when boys and girls love HogWarts" Rex told Justin. " Very amazing people" Rex agreed with Justin." I admire your writing of songs" Rex explained to Justin.

"I actually wondered the same thing," Kurumi said scratching her head. "Headmaster Tate was trying to make us all look at Dark Wizards in a different light. You know, break down the stereotype image that we have of them all being like Voldemort. Mr. Iken--- erm, Albert, mentioned that he was on the losing side of history..." Kurumi paused for a moment hoping that her next comment wouldn't make anyone want to tear her apart limb from limb. "I don't think he is all that bad. People are always afraid of new and different things, but that doesn't mean they are bad..." He had served her delicious green tea after all!

Emmaleigh listened to Kurumi's comments. "I'm afraid I was rather confused during the lesson, and I still can't make heads or tails of it. Like, I don't understand why only teaching purebloods would be a good idea. And what is the losing side? I didn't get that either."

"Its not that he's new," Emmaleigh said in earnest. "Mean, we have alot of new professors, and I like them well enough. Sure, all the lessons are a little odd, but I don't think that is a coincidence." She paused, "Its well, its that he's creepy. Didn't you notice that he just appeared from no where. And it seems like he can read minds." She whispered the last bit, because that was absolutely terrifying. "And lets not forget his less than spectacular introduction to the school." Everything that had happened at the feast, and what she had seen since then showed the girl that he was a very suspicious character that she couldn't trust.

"I don't trust him... My uncle knows almost all the people in security at the Ministry of Magic and he's never heard of him. Also the way he went on about purebloods having a responsibility... At the pub he was buying drinks and dishing out chocolate frogs like father Christmas but it all seemed so fake... the way he was acting."

*Matty had tried to give them man the benefit of the doubt at the pub, but the more they talked the more he had worried him. Matty was just glad he didn't eat or drink anything the man had given him. That was one of the first things his uncle had told him. Don't trust the person then don't trust the food.*