Kurumi listened to Emmaleigh as she spoke, understanding everything she was saying, but silenty disagreeing with several of her points. "I admit at first the I found him frightening, but then I went to speak with him," Kurumi explained deciding that she should probably just take a seat as this was going to take some time. "I went to his office and found him rather pleasant actually. He answered questions, wasn't scary or rude unless others were rude to him first, and was very kind." He had even managed to make Kurumi feel good about herself and gave her some hope for the relationship she had with her mother. "A boy with me actually asked him if he was a Legilimens, but I was ushered out of the room before I could hear his answer."

Kurumi had to admit, she had not gotten all her questions answered and she found herself even more curious than she had been before entering his office.

"I'm planning on going back to talk with him," and drink more of that delicious green tea and bake him some cookies.

"Are you saying that you doubt he works at the Ministry?" Kurumi asked. "My father also works for the Ministry and he knows about him. You did say almost all...Professor Lafay said that Mr. Iken---Albert, is our way to talk directly to the Minister of Magic." If everyone was so adament about the Professors being the good guys, they ought to know that now all the professors were against him. Professor Lafay had actually been rather kind to her when she had visited her office the other day.

Kurumi did have a point. Albert hadn't been that scary at the feast, she was just terrified of him because of Tate's warning. But then again, he was horrible to Vindictus, and the things Brit had said and "Well, he sure seemed pretty scary in Defense class." And the way he had spoken to the headmaster? As far as She was concerned, anyone who spoke to Tate in that way didn't deserve her respect. "Legilimens? whats that?" she asked.

Em nodded at Matty's remarks. "I didn't go to the thing in hogsmeade, but that does seem odd." It made her think of those kids who tried to buy their friends. But then again, she hadn't been there, so she couldn't really judge him on giving out candy."What did he say?" she asked, hoping to get more information on the gathering.

"Lafay?" the girl said, with just a hint of a laugh. "That woman terrifying, and just a bit cracked. Why would you listen to her?"

"He said a lot of things. To one girl, a Slytherin, that she of all people should know what responsibility pruebloods must do. Then I asked if he was alone in his security of Hogwarts. At first he was vague but then pretty much said are any of us really alone. After that my friend Mia talked about the classes being strong on muggles and muggle care, this interested Albert and he said to hang in there and listen, even if the professors are repeating themselves."

*Matty didn't like anything the man said at all. He seemed to dance around questions. And Em was right, Matty was sure Albert could read minds. He had gotten that feeling at the feast. Most people ask more questions when people talk about certain things. Albert only asked to make things look normal.*

"A Legilimens is someone who practices Legilimency which is the act of magically navigating through the many layers of a person's mind and correctly interpreting one's findings," Kurumi rambled off as she had memorized it from her textbook. "Voldemort, Severus Snape, and Salazar Slytherin were all Legilimens." Actually, when she listed off those people, it did not seem like a very good thing. "Oh, Albus Dumbledore was one as well." There, people liked Dumbledore didn't they?

And now she nodded. Just... nodded? Cedric watched as he turned her head back to the tree. Perhaps she was getting bored at him already. And that very thought started clogging the boy's mind. Well... that was expected. Really. Quite unsuccessful in his quest for a word or anything appropriate to say for the moment, Cedric turned his head to the huge tree once again and let the awkward dead silence went on.

...

"What's it's like being captain?" asked Cedric, strength to do so he very much mustered. He couldn't just be silent like a dummy and all... especially with a girl. He was very articulate. And he didn't have any plans of forfeiting his articulateness and way of words. Perhaps you could say he just didn't want to look silly and all.

Cass raised an eyebrow at her as her blue eyes flew from Heather's face to her arm. "Is that why you were crying when Ed was gripping your arm?" She asked

Heather nodded her head. "but he didn't know, so it's a given mistake. I already forgave him about that. I spoke with him and we hung out in Hogsmeade after." She noticed that Cass's stare was still icy. It took her a long time before she finally told Cass about her injury though. "Sorry it took me too long to tell you about it. i was...pre-occupied."

"Preoccupied?" Cass said tersely, her eyes merely blue slits of fury and her mouth a straight line. "You were too preoccupied to tell me that you got injured?"

Oh how was Heather going to explain this? First were classes. As usual. Second was Edward. She was thinking about the boy lately ever since the incident and ever since they both made up. Third was her dad...who apparently hadn't been returning letters to her at all. 4th was the fact that she had to always be careful of her arm so as to not heighten the damage it had since she was on the road to full recovery now.

there was just too much to explain. "Yeah...i was. there had been a lot of things on my mind lately. I'm really sorry Cass." she said. She had decided to tell if Cass asked what she had been thinking about lately, but perhaps, she didn't have to elaborate about Edward's part. Cass LOATHES Edward-she definitely won't like hearing anything positive about Edward especially from Heather considering the history Ed and heather had before that wasn't very pleasant and angered Cass very much.

Justin smiled. "Because if they're happy, you're hapopy, right?" he replied and shook his messy head of hair. Not that it actually needed sorting out. It never did. Teehee. "Certainly" What could he actually say to that? Wait, someone was actually admiring his music? MIRACLE. "Thanks. It sort of gets a little out of hand sometimes and it isn't always a good thing" he repleid. And by out of hand he meant he totally lost the meaning of the song sometimes. He was still shocked that someone was actually admiring his music. Maybe Rex could help him out a little right now though. "Do you know anyone called Fee?" he asked hoping maybe he did. That meant he could possibly help him out a little.

Chloe headed down the grounds and saw the menacing sight of the whomping willow. She really did not like it here but this is where her freind Josh wanted to meet. If he did not show up she was certainly gonna get on his case for it. This is the last place she wanted to be right now.

" Yes, everyone would be happy" Rex agreed with Justin." WEll, I am sure you make your music sound nice after it gets out of hand" rex said to Justin." Yes Fee and I are best friends" Rex smiled. " By the way, would you like to come to my wedding with Rene happening after this school term in July?" Rex asked Justin.

Hands in pockets, Josh wandered around in the school grounds and as he did so he seemed to be in a quite good mood for an unknown reason. Actually it was not much surprising to find Josh Carter happy since he was usually cheerful but today the boy was feeling different.

Anyway...

Remembering that he was planning to meet a housemate, Chloe, near that big, stupid tree that scared everyone, the Gryffindor made his way towards there and after a moment or so his dark brown eyes spotted the girl there waiting for him.

Then, with a huge, warm smile on his face, Josh ran to her and bowed at her exeggeratedly ''Ah, Chloe! It's a great pleasure to see you here. Thanks for coming''.

Chloe soon noticed Josh's arrival. She was a bit surprised to see him bow before her but Josh was always a bit strange. She chuckled and responded, "It's great to see you too, but the bowing, yeah. That was a bit unesseary. So did you bring the your Chinese sticks for Arithmancy homework. I've got mine.", Chloe said taking her sticks out of her bag. And I wanna get done with these and get out of here

The things Matty had said were definitely disconcerting, and she wasn't surprised to realize that her hand had already found its way inside her bag and was gripping her towel. The whole pureblood thing still confused her but that wasn't the worrisome part. "So you're saying there could be more people like him around Hogwarts? And I wonder why he is so interested in the focus on muggles."

"So its mind reading?" IF more people were suspecting this, then it must have meant something. "Do you know who it was that asked this?" because if it was someone more knowledgeable, it would add more weight to the idea. And hearing Kurumi list off known legilimens, she frowned even more. "Well, thats a rather unsavory list." Even if Dumbledore was one too.

He really needed to socialize. It was his last year and after that he was never coming back to this wonderful place and soon after he would be married and already have kids and he didn't want to leave this place not knowing about THE FLIRTNATORR. No one could forget about him. He wouldn't let this place forget about him. NOPE. Now who was this Sebastian person that his sister wanted him to meet?

Sebastian was by the Whomping Willow, far from it so it couldn't reach him, but close enough to enjoy the view. Something in the sky, caught his eye and he stood up, trying to figure out what it was. Just then he bumped into someone and he turned around. "Sorry, mate." He said, glancing at the sky once more than back to the guy. "I don't think I've seen you around before, the name's Sebastian." He said, his hand stuck out for the guy to shake. Little did he know, this Beck guy was his enemy.

Beck was lost in his thoughts and then someone ran into HIM. At first he thought it was his fault but the guy was saying sorry to him. "It's okay." Beck said in his French accent. "I've been here and there for about a month now. My sister was here for the first two months." Beck said. "I'm Beck Salvatore." Beck told the guy.

"I'm 5'6", actually," Alex told her. He hoped to Merlin he never got much taller than that! He could live with being this tall his whole--well, actually, grown up guys were a bit taller than him. He could deal with being around 6 feet, but NO TALLER. No, he absolutely refused to let his body get that tall.

"Erm, a bit, yes," he admitted. He didn't want to end up at the hospital wing THIS EARLY in the school year! He looked at her with a slightly puzzled expression when she said she was a pureblood and proud. Great. She'd get along with Sierra just fine. "That's great." We can act all high and mighty together. NOT. "Are you...Slytherin?" he asked. "Maybe you know my sister, Sierra?"

Sebastian nodded as Beck explained to him about how his sister was here and now he was. Wait a second.

BECK SALVATORE?

"Your sister is Melrose, I'm guessing? Hmm, nice girl, but I'm going to have to take a rain check on you. Go right on ahead and get Bonnie, because now you're in the way." He said taking back his hand and started to walk away.

Beck nodded. So this guy knew who his sister was. Well was that a good thing or a bad thing? He didn't know but he was going to find out.

WAIT!!! Did this guy think that he was going to date Bonnie? Ew no he had no feelings for Bonnie in that way at all. Well he loved her but in a friendly/family kind of way.

"Why would I go and take Bonnie?" Beck asked. "We're just best friends. I don't like her like that at all." Beck told him.

"It's much more than just simple mind reading," Kurumi said shaking her head. "If you are really skilled at it you have the ability to extract emotions and memories from another person's mind." Kurumi looked up at the Huffie. "Mind-reading is just being able to see someone's thoughts in that instant. Legilimency is being able to see everything down to the first memory a person has." She scratched her head for a moment. "I actually think it was another Hufflepuff that asked."

As the other girl spoke, Emmaleigh ended up pulling out her towel, and holding it with both hands. This was actually pretty terrifying. "Do you know if there a way to stop it?" she asked. She had been thinking about how she could block 'simple' mind reading, what ever that is. And Kurumi's next statement made her frown. "A Huffie?" well, that narrowed it down, but still, there were alot of people in her house. "Do you think you can you describe him?" that could make tracking him down easier.

"And that's what Bonnie said as well..." Sebastian muttered to himself, walking back over to Beck. Okay, so wait, they didn't like each other? So Bonnie was telling the truth? "You should help me with this." Seb said, running a hand through his hair, clearly stressed.

But what about his 'relationship' with Sophie? "If Bonnie was mad at you...how would you make her not be mad at you anymore?" He asked, really wanting to know the answer to that question.

seeing Em start to get worked up "Em do you think the note books will be able to comfuse him if we start scattering info in them in code than he might not be able to sift through it so easy"