Gryffindor House Table
 

Eat, drink, and be merry, O Lions, for tomorrow we return home again.

Kurumi made her way towards the Gryffindor house table with her head hung a little low. She was disappointed that Gryffindor's streak in winning the House Cup had come to an end this term, but there was always next term. Kurumi found a seat towards the front of the table, and glanced over her shoulder at the Hufflepuff one, her hands clutched around a small box holding a cup cake that she was hoping to give to Treyen before the break. She still hadn't seen him since their conversation over a month ago, but she was feeling much better. Her head was more clear.

Setting the box to the side, Kurumi brushed her bangs to the side and scanned the table for the elusive pumpkin juice...

Nika walked into the great hall and glanced over at the Slytherin table. They were all probably going to have a party now and Gryffindors would just have to watch. Sigh. It had been a great term, though winning the house cup again would have been nice. She found her table and instantly looked for an empty seat, which surprisingly wasn't hard. The table was just about empty! Well except for where Kurumi sat alone so Nika skipped over to her fellow lion. "Mind if I sit here?" She gestured towards the empty seat beside her friend. They hadn't really talked all that much this term.

Rose walked to the End of Term Feast, feeling very upset. She didn't want to leave Hogwarts... It was her life, she was gonna feel so unhappy at home, not being able to do magic, not seeing her friends all the time. She was nearly in tears by the time she sat down. Bad things had happened this year, including one horrible boy, but all the good things outweighed them. She had new friends. She had BEST friends, which she had never had, due to her 'weirdness' or magic, as she had found out. She was gonna miss it...

"Nika! Good evening," Kurumi smiled as her hunt for a glass of pumpkin juice stopped for the moment. "Of course, I don't mind at all." Despite Slytherin sweeping the board this term, Kurumi felt more at peace than she had last term. Then again, she had been going into the feast last term after having ended things with Adam, so her heart had certainly been heavier. This term hadn't been much easier. "How did your second term compare to your first?"

Nika smiled as she sat down next to the soon-to-be fourth year. "It's nice to see you again, Kurumi. I haven't talked to you in a long time." She reached out to fill her goblet with some water because all of the sudden she had gotten really thirsty. "Well, this term was amazing! But I think I liked my first term more. I guess it was just the feeling of complete shock when I saw the school that I loved, you know what I mean?" For a muggleborn this was beyond even Nika's imagination. "I had a great time this term too though, don't get me wrong." Even with all that's going on with her best friend, Emily, and that she'd be moving this term, she really did enjoy second year. "What about your term? How did you like it?" She asked before taking a nice long sip of water.

Thomas walked into the End of the term feast he had been so busy he hardly had socialised! He sat in a empty seat hoping to catch sight of Jordan. While he was waiting he grabbed a sandwhich and drunk some pumpkin juice.

Alex strolled in and spotted 1 of the many great friends she had made here at Hogwarts, Rose the friend who she helped when she fell out a tree. That memory was going to stay with her forever until the end. Alex went and sat down at a fairly empty side of the table thinking of what foods would apear on the golden plates soon...

"It has been a while," Kurumi nodded. She had been spending so much time on the Quidditch pitch and in the library this term, more so than usual...especially with the Quidditch pitch. Outside of Flying her first two terms, she had hardly ever stepped foot on it. "This term was...." What was the right word? She didn't really think that it had been better than the previous ones. No, there had been too many things that had made her term more complicated and depressing to be considered better. "...well, I grew a lot more." Yes, that was a safe answer. "With each passing term, things seem to get more and more complicated - both in a good way and in a bad way." She paused for a moment. "I think I am more ready for the summer than I have been any other term though."

Kurumi then saw Simon enter the Great Hall and for the first time it REALLY hit her that this would be the last time she would be sitting down to a meal with him. Perhaps even be the last time she would see him at Hogwarts - unless he came back to teach or something. Her broom, thankfully, had been repaired and was not packed away with her other possessions. She wouldn't be flying too much over the summer, but she would try to get some practice in when she could or else face the wrath of Selina.

Noticing the sadness in Simon's eyes, Kurumi knew that discussing how much she was going to miss him probably wasn't the best thing to do. Spending the entire night in tears certainly wasn't how she would want to spend er evening.

"SIMON!" she called out waving her hands around in the air.

William walked into the Grat Hall for the feast. He will meet up with Witsy on the trian. "Did we all have a good year?" William called out to any and all Gryffindors who will ansqwe him.

Hearing his name being called, Simon reconized who it was even before he looked in the direction it was coming from and spotted Kurumi sitting at the table waving at him. He waved back abeit slower before resuming his walking and headed straight towards her. His face carried a smile not quite as bright as his usual, but he was striving to keep upbeat as much as he could. He wouldn't waste this night with himself being too upset...they needed one more happy moment to share together.

"Hey..." he said sitting down and setting his small load on the table beside him. Simon hadn't noticed Madam Donovan at the staff table quite yet so he would need to wait.

Cove walked into tue great hall. Well more like skipped, but that wasn't important. She took a seat near some people she knew, but didn't really notice that he had. She was too hungry to pay attention. She filled her plate up with food and dug in. Yummy. :)

Slowly but steadily, Legend made his way into the great hall. With his right hand in a fist stuffed into his pocket, his left had remained tightly clenched to his chain pendent which he always wore. This would be the last Hogwarts feast forever. His eyes were locked on the great hall. Taking in everything from the floating candles to the enchanted sky to the Professors at the front for the very last time.

To think, just the other day he had been a little kid, apologizing to Jack when the older boy left. And now..he was that boy would would leave. As his green eyes trailed over to the Gryffindor table, Legend forced a small smirk before taking a seat next to Katie. His hand still clutching the pendent. "Hey Cub." He murmured quitely.

Kurumi's full attention was on Simon now as he approached her. She really needed to take everything in right now. Simon had been her big brother lion long before he had been her Captain. Somehow, the two never seemed to match up to the same person in her head - which really was ridiculous seeing as Simon's personality didn't change between the two.

Kurumi spotted the small package and began to wonder who it was for. He had already given her a broom, he really didn't need to give her anything else.

"How did your exams go?" Truth was that she really wanted to pick his brain about NEWTs...

Nika raised an eyebrow, but nodded all the same. Well that's one way of answering the question. Then Kurumi started to explain a bit and her answer made more sense. Nika wasn't really sure how to react to this statement. "Well, it's nice to have a break from all of this drama and excitement here once and a while I guess." She wasn't really sure how true that was, but she knew that she wasn't ready to leave yet. It was as if the term had already started. "So much has happened this term and I'm just not sure if I'm ready to let go of it all yet." Well that's probably one of the deepest things she's said all day. Normally Nika was always hyper, but it seems that this feast and the one from last term had really brought her energy level down.

"It's going to be nice though, coming back as a big third year." She smirked at the thought. She could just picture it, Nika Adler not an 'ickle firstie' or a 'still cueless second year', but Nika Adler THE third year. Yeah the thought just made her excited on it's own. She was so proud of being a second year and next term she'll be even prouder. "Do you think you're ready to be a fourth year Kurumi?" Wow. A fourth year. They grow up so fast.

Such a strange term this had been, as Josephina watched much of it seem to whirl past her. As she was headed toward her usual spot at the staff table, the Arithmancy Professor passed by several faces of whom this would be the last time she would be seeing them inside Hogwarts castle. Some faces, she would dearly miss, others, not so much. Two such faces though in particular caught her eye, as it hadn't been terribly long ago when they left her a gift in her office.

"Miss Mae. Mister Chosen." Fina spoke as calmly as possible. She was not going to get choked up over this. "I just wanted to express my gratitude for your thoughtfulness. Thank you." For everything. Being her students too.

Drama. That word almost seemed like an understatement when she looked back on her year. Everything that had happened with Treyen, the things that had happened with the Polyjuice assignment...and she only knew about the things that had happened while she had been polyjuiced as Sierra. Her stomach tied in knots thinking about what might have happened while Sierra was walking around as her. Probably best not to think about that. Her eyes glanced at the cupcake still sitting in its box. She had wanted to give it to him after the Championship match, but the Hufflepuff had been very elusive. Kurumi merely nodded at Nika's statement.

"I suppose..." she giggled. "To be perfectly honest, I really do not feel that much different from when I was sitting here as a first year, other than being a little taller." She wasn't entirely sure what to expect as a forth year, but she had learned that you really shouldn't go into any term at Hogwarts with expectations about how things will be. The castle always proved you wrong and threw you a bludger when you were expecting a snitch. Merlin, she was using Quidditch analogies now. Selina would be proud. "I'll be as ready as I can be, with cookies and all."

She returned to scanning the table and finally found the pitcher of pumpkin juice. Yay!

"You have any plans for the summer?"

If the captain registered Kurumi's attention on the package for the librarian, it wasn't noticable for his attention was on the third year not where her gaze lay even for a moment. Or even on the wrapped gift at the moment. "Well I hope..." Simon answered truthfully. Even with all the stressing and the studying over the NEWTS, he still couldn't be absolutely confident on his work on them.

"So...another year gone by..."

Anyone?!
 

The term was over.

Riley walked into the Great Hall and looked at the enchanted ceiling, the large ornate tables, the staff, all his friends, EVEN THE PUFFS; He was going to miss it all. The Gryffindor made his way over to his house table and sat down, tyring not to think about how it would be his last time. He was now wishing his mother would have made him transfer to Hogwarts sooner than his fifth year but the past was the past and he just needed to enjoy this night.

Nika took another sip from her water, except this time much smaller than the first. Now that she thought about what Kurumi said the more it applied to herself as well. Did she even feel that different being a second year? The only real difference was that she's able to find her classes a bit faster than last term, but even now she still gets lost in the school. Nika's been telling herself all term that being a second year is so much better than being a little first year. Others mistook her as a first year several times, but really only she could tell the real difference. It wasn't all that different at all. Other than having her hair dyed so that it wasn't brown anymore nothing really had changed. "Yeah, I don't feel much different either," She quietly agreed.

"Good," Nika replied with a smile, "Because if you didn't have cookies then I think all of Hogwarts would be disappointed." Merlin those sweet treats are good. "Me? Eerm... Not really. I guess I'm going to try and talk to my sister and hang out with her a bit, but other than that nothing really." She might end up visiting a friend or two like last term, but that was all up to how her sister would react to their "bonding". "What about you? What are you're plans?" She was sure Kurumi had some sort of trip planned out for the holiday. She was so popular among the students that she was bound to go to someone's house or vice versa.

Legend and Prof. Hadley <3
 

Katie and Prof. Hadley YUP
 

Rubehhhhhhhhhhhh!!
 

Had RUBY ABIGAIL BLAIR seriously just called BRAEDEN STONEM "funneh"!? REALLY?! He wasn't dreaming?! This was... this was really happening?! Is this just fantasy?!

But before Braeden could celebrate too much or get too smug, with his brand new butterbeer mustache that he was still completely oblivious to, the redheaded girl was confirming that she heard the music too. Oh, thank MERLIN. So he wasn't going crazy after all! Hiccup. He might've not been crazy, but he certainly seemed to be something else...

"... I travelled South... I found a tiny house, and I can't help the way I feel..." the boy muttered under his breath as he listened to the music playing in his head. HEY WAIT A MINUTE. "I know this song!" he suddenly announced, brown eyes going saucer-sized on his face.