Kimalia flashed her teeth in delight, finally the good stuff. She took both a piece of Vanilla and Chocolate and ate some in satisfaction. "Thank you, Professor."

Kurumi was just about to gather her things and grab herself a piece of cake with a rather delicious looking ripe strawberry on it when someone appeared out of nowhere next to her and she nearly threw her plate and fork up in the air. Thankfully, she was able to avoid the near disaster of some unsuspecting student having a fork sinking into their shoe.

"Eino!" she smiled setting her things back down. Well, that had been easy to find someone from another house. "Maybe...we will get to come up with a new Hogwarts house?" If they did, their new house color should be purple since Eino was a Ravenclaw and her a Gryffindor.

Simon smiled at the Professor as he sat down next to her. "So how you enjoying teaching?" Simon was talking to the Professor like she was his best friend. "Yes please I would love some cake." Simon took a piece of chocolate cake and ate a bit of it once he had finished his first mouthful Simon decided to ask the Professor something. "Professor why is Hogwarts, called Hogwarts?"

The cake looked delicious. He first tried some of the strawberry, then chocolate, then vanilla, but he was hesitant to eat marble. He didn't understand why the professor would feed them a rock...? Very suspicious. But the other three were very yummy so he had some more of it.

"That should be interesting!" Eino said with his mouthful of cake. "It would welcome international students above all!" Eino was original from Finland and Kurumi from Japan, so that was one thing they had in common that could be the foundation for their own house. Eino was already full, but he wanted more of that kool aid stuff, it was very good.

Anasta Lora Riddle, Slytherin House, third year: some time earlier I had a snack with a nutritious meal at the table with brand, knife and fork, but now we can cut into the cakes: "Thank you Professor Cerulean for drink and party!"

Concentrating on formed: "What is about qualities to answer? There is the basic one quality in the Slytherin House is ambitious commitment : that helps in achieving personal success. The germs of generality vaccinated slowly".

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The professor laughed at the young man...yes he was a character that was obvious, "So far so good...or atleast from my side of the fence it is...how does the lesson seem on your side of the fence?" she asked wondering what his thoughts might be.

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Gemma glanced out into the students to see how the moving and the eating and the mingling was going. It seemed to be going well...I mean there weren't any food fights or fist fights or hair pulling going on out in the crowd.

She stood up again after finishing the last bite of her cake and flicked her wand. The purple fireworks went off again which kind helped quiet things down a bit.

"Okay so let's talk about Hogwarts for a little bit...." she said glancing around a bit. "It is after all the 1100 plus Birthday party for Hogwarts that we are celebrating." she said enthusiastically. "Continue eating and drinking but let's move one with the lesson." she said as she took a quick drink of her apple kool-aid.

She motioned to the young man that had sat down beside her during the move..."Mr. De Simpson has brought up an excellent question so I'm going to throw it out to you all to answer." she paused raising her left eyebrow slightly, "Why did the Founders name our school, Hogwarts?" She was excited to hear what kind of answers the students came up with. She quickly added, "Now that we aren't using the board to list things you don't have to introduce yourself before your answer, just make sure you raise your hand please."

OOC: Please feel free to be as creative as you can with this one. There are no wrong answers. But conversations should be starting to dwindle since now we have to learn....a little bit...

Bella Reached for a Plate Of Chocolate Cake and Set it on the table . " Is this Really a Chocolate cake ? " Staring at the Purple Cake In Front of her .
" Well sure doesn't Look Like it . " Bella ate Silently, she had no idea This was how Her First Lesson Was Going to Be Like . She thought It would be like the Others, Long and Educational . Bella Didn't Like Learning But she Loved To Read .

NIKA! Isobel hurried over to sit next to her little red friend. "Hey Nika," she said with a grin. "Mind if I sit by you?" She considered that. "Well I'm sitting here anyway." She grinned at her before noticing that there was someone else there too. "Hannah right?" She said to her. The girl had shown up at her aunt's house that summer. It had been a little weird, but now she knew her anyway. And-look cake! Isobel jumped up to get herself a piece of chocolate cake before going back to sit down.

yeah hannah is right she said with a smile.sorry that can to your house this summer.you look like my little sister Bella she even has green eyes too.

Peyton sat in her seat and looked around. She didn't know anyone besides Fee and William and it seemed like they had their partners. Sitting back, Peyton listened to what the professor was talking about, but what she was really thinking about was cake. She loved cake, not as much as ice cream, but still, it was yummy.

The girl thought about the prof's question. What did Hogwarts mean. The first three letters sounded like 'hug', but kept that to herself. What if people laughed at her answer.

Arabella-Marie raised her hand and said "The four founders named our school Hogwarts because they felt it was a pretty good name for a wizarding school at the time"

"Hi Kurumi, I was wondering if you could introduce me to your friend." Zara smiled sheepishly. She couldn't take a minute without a Gryffindor beside her. So she decided to go over to Kurumi, since she was with a person from another house. Maybe she could do that, approach a Gryffindor talking to a Ravenclaw. It was counted in the category of sitting with someone from a different house, right?

Simon looked at the Professor and smiled. "Professor your lesson is great, I think your a great teacher." And Simon wasn't saying that because she had given them some cake, he was saying it because other than Professor Bishop, this Professor was becoming a firm favorate of his, though he wasn't going to tell him.

Simon went red when the Professor motion towards him, he had ask her that Question and now she had used it in her lesson saying that it made him feel kind of important like he was helping the Professor with her lesson and he loved that feeling, now all he had to do was wait for answers, he couldn't really answer his own question could he, he would just have to sit next to the Professor and wait for the next question and then he would answer it.

As Jordan was eating cake, he looked around the classroom to see if any Gryffindor First Years he could talk to while eating. "First day of History of Magic, and I get cake. New favorite teacher!" Jordan said to himself under his breath while his appetite was lost in the great smell of the cake his teacher was giving out.

Jordan had no clue as to why they named Hogwarts, Hogwarts. So he just kept quiet as he was finishing up his cake, and started to listen in on the answers.

"Maybe hogs were more valued way way back then." She waved her hand around, and it eventually raised to grab the new professor's attention. Arya was eased into a seat beside one of the windows, back resting against the wall while she eyed the purple cake suspiciously. Hm. "And warts.... one of them had one, so they threw the two words together and," More hand waving. She got the picture. Arya hoped she did.

Kurumi wasn't sure why Eino was looking at the marble cake as if it were going to attack him and suck his soul, but perhaps he had had a bad experience with that particular type of cake, or had something against mixing too many flavors into one sweet concoction. She would have to remember not to give him any checkered cookies in the future.

"International from whose point of view?" she laughed. That would be rather nice, a house for all students to have a common ground. However, there was the fear that something like pureblood mania could come about. You're only 1/4 Native American and lived in Cuba for only two years? Sorry, not international enough.

Putting such thoughts aside, Kurumi smiled. "Those who have a more worldly view and value communication," she agreed as she popped her first bite of cake into her mouth.

Why was it called Hogwarts? Isobel had absolutely no idea, she had actually been wondering that herself. But so far the only participation she had made during the lesson was have cake, so she decided she should at least try to answer. She raised her hand. "They were trying to decide what to name it and a hog with warts walked passed them." Yeah, because that made perfect sense.

hannah riase her hand I think They got Hogwarts from a hog and toad warts said hannah.

Zara looked up at the professor and raised her hand. This was bound to be silly, but she decided to push her luck, "I think it's called Hogwarts because 1100 years ago, wizards and witches probably treated hogs as something sacred, or thought highly of them. Like in different countries, with Hindu people they consider cows as sacred. So hogs were probably important to the people a thousand years ago, particularly to the magical people," she continued, "Warts maybe because way back, the Muggles depicted witches usually with warts on their faces. It's the trademark of a witch's face. So, the founders might've decided to combine these two important wizard symbols together and formed Hogwarts."

Zara blinked, was that okay?

Kurumi, mid bite and with a giant ball of fluffy goodness in her mouth, tried to finish chewing on her cake and swallowed it before raising her hand. "Hogwarts is a sort of lily and I've read that this area was once covered with them. Perhaps the Founders, when they found this location, were inspired by their surroundings. Sort of a way to constantly remind them of the roots of the school."

There Riley sat, in between two empty chairs in the danger zone. What if a weird kid sat with him, or a Puff? He would really be ticked if one of them joined him in this class, well if it was one he hadn't already met and approved of at least.

Before he could change seats and sit in one on the end, where there was less of a chance he would be sitting with someone he didn't like, Evelyn Shepard, his recent partner in crime sat down next to him. "Good morning Evelyn, checked out the points board recently?" he grinned mischeviously. He was actually kind of excited about that points loss, it was worth it at least. The Gryffindor grabbed a piece of vanilla cake, the most boring of the flavors and enjoyed it while people around him talked and socialized.

OK their fun time was over, now? He had barely been able to blow the averagness of vanilla cake out of proportion by whoops and hollars of its magnifcents. hehe Nah Riley sat his plate down and turned his attention back to the new Professor who, all in all, had at least made History of Magic a not total bore-fest.

Oooh why was their school given the name of Hogwarts? "Umm Professor." he said rasing his hand. "Is it possible the Founders named our school Hogwarts because it sounded alot better than Pigboils? The latter doesn't really roll of the tongue very well." he said shaking his head, his face serious.

Wait, wait, they get to choose someone from other Houses. His were instantly at the Gryffindor table, then the Ravenclaw one, and then he found the one person that looked like she needed a Treyen by her side, no?

Not-so-evil Sierra.

He walked to the girl rather quickly, without even looking back at his table. Maybe all the purpleness made him happy, who knows. Either way, he took a sit next to the other Greingoth and smiled, "You're my Slytherin for this class," he said, with a smirk on his face.

The boy eyed the cake laying in front of them, but decided not to take any piece of it. He was okay with the Cherry drink.

And what on Earth was Simon doing? He should just accept what the Professor was doing, clearly the chalkboard needed some help with the identification process of the sorts.

And Hogwarts? Yeah, he had his Slytherin, he didn't need to answer that question.

Wisteria went over to the table waiting her turn to grab a piece of vanilla cake. Vanilla was her favorite. She sat back down at her seat and pondered the next question.

She suddenly felt like a terrible student. She should have known why Hogwarts was named Hogwarts, it was after all, her school. She thought of the school crest and the writing within in, Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus which means never tickle a sleeping dragon...hmm... she raised her hand, "Professor, could Hogwarts have come from a species of Dragon?"

Ginny felt comfortable in this class. Even though she had no clue what the answer was, she felt like participating would make her enjoy this class even more - if that was possible. Ginny raised her hand.
"It seems to me that the founders really liked animals. I mean, we have a lion for Gryffindor, a bird for Ravenclaw, a badger for Hufflepuff, and a snake for Slytherin. They are all very vast animals, representing bravery, cleverness, loyalty, and ambition. Perhaps they thought that they needed an animal that represented many things, such as a member of the "pig" family, like a Hog. When you think of pigs, or hogs, you think about hunger. Well, when you come to this school you need a hunger for knowledge," Ginny said, then realized that perhaps she had said too much. "Or maybe they knew that we would have way too much fun analyzing the name." She giggled.

Slowly eating her piece of cake, Presley thought carefully about the question. She was sure she had read something about the name of her school somewhere. She pulled out her textbook, and flipped through it, and came up empty. Well, why not try anyway? I'm sure the answer was something similar to this She raised her hand. "Is Hogwarts the favorite word of the four founders? As in, they thought it would make for an interesting name, and attract students to the school?"