"Really?" Lucas asked with a grin. She actually had a wall of firsts? That was new! "Well, I suppose you could have my picture... I am a model in my spare time, after all. I couldn't let these charming good looks go to waste," he joked.

"Yeah, it's kind of weird, I know." Cove said smiling. "Photography is just as big of a hobbie as surfing is for me." She said. "Are you really a model?" She would believe it if he was.

Sammy shook her head. THen considered it, how would a brain taste? If it tasted like pasta she wanted to eat but then again, why in Merlin's pants would a brain taste like pasta? "Nope, no urge whatsoever" she said with another shake of her head. "So how have you been without me missy?" she asked, WELL SHE WAS INTERESTED.

"That's so cool. I've always wanted to learn how to surf." A grin spread across Lucas's face, and he laughed. "No, I'm not really. I'm not entirely convinced that I've got what it takes to make it in the modeling world!"

" Those are all good classes" Willaim told Kelley. " I like Muggle Studies and History of Magic" Wiliam said to Kelley. "What class do you not like?" Wiliam asked Krllry.

" Are you ok?" William asked Ronnie. " We can talk if you like to talk to me" William said to Rinnie. " i do not like see people feeling hurt" Wiliam expalined to Ronnie.

"Really? I can teach you! I'm a really good teacher." Cove said smiling. She worked at a surf shack for pete's sake, she better be a good teacher! "Please, if I can pose for pictures then so can you! Just give a smouldering look and then you're done!" Cove said laughing. She really hoped no on in his family was a model.........that would be bad. Even though one of her sisters is a model....

Ari hadn't been so carefree in days. Maybe even weeks. It was so relaxing to be around cheerful people like Nika. The firstie laughed heartily. 'So I guess you have all the four founders then? I still need Helga Hufflepuff.' Her collection was pretty large otherwise, since she had started it long before Hogwarts. Living in the wizarding world, she got easy access to Chocolate frogs, after all.

Merlin, she had forgotten Nika was muggleborn and probably that didn't make any sense to her. 'Dumbledore.' She corrected her friend. 'He was Headmaster of Hogwarts during Harry Potter's time, and a great wizard. In Harry's fifth year, the Ministry started to interfere at Hogwarts, kind of like now.' the girl sighed. 'They had an incompetent DADA Professor, so the students decided to make up a DADA group and they called it Dumbledore's Army.' Ariadne hoped her explaination would suffice for now. Honestly, did she read too much? 'I'll be there, sounds like fun.' she nodded.

Ari smiled when Nika praised her efforts, but was downright impressed when her friend turned the box into a hat. 'Wow, that's wicked! I'll have to remember that, it's a very useful spell.' she commented with admiration. 'So, it's ready now.' the girl added, eyeing the snowman. 'Pretty cool, eh? I wish we could take a moving picture.'

Isobel grinned. "Congradulations! You passed the test; you're not a zombie." Wait, so she was Sammy! "Sammy!" Isobel's exclamation came out of no where. "Where were you?" Oh, Sammy was asking her a question. Isobel considered it; well, she had been doing a lot of things. "Quidditch has taken a lot of my time," she said. "Especially now that I'm captain. How long have you been here? Were you here for the game against Slytherin?" Sammy was their number one cheerer, so they needed her.

Josh simply smirked when Lafay kinda scolded Destiny for not obeying her orders. Yea, that was what that girl deserved. She needed to learn to obey her superiors and whatnot. She needed to learn to respect Josh Carter as well because, above all the millions of reasons he had, he was The Master of Everything.

But what? They were going into the Lovers' Lair if Destiny would not hold his hand? Okay, he would understand the reason of punishment for the she-snake. She simply disobeyed Lafay but what had he done to be sent to Lovers' Lair with the crazy Slytherin? And why was Lafay threatening her with his presence anyway? That was kinda...upsetting. He was not a creature to avoid.

Apparently this little upset state of him reflecting on his face in the form of a little pout, he looked at Lafay when she commented about his hands. Those big and little she-snakes, apparently, were never going to believe him about the matter of hygiene no matter how much he had tried to explain himself so shrugging a bit he could decided to play along. ''Well...what great man did not get his hands dirty when he was younger, professor?''



And now, since he had been threatened well, it seemed like Destiny had decided to go with what the Potions Mistress was saying. He could see the obvious displeased expression on her face but was he supposed to care about that anyway? If she had not been simply trying to get him in trouble, he could have cared about how she felt but in this situation after what she had done...nope...he did not care.

He even snorted loudly when the she-snake spoke and looked away. ''And i swear if you happen to squeeze any part of mine, you will pay for it!'' And after sending that last glare at her, the Gryffindor closed the gap between their hands by taking one more steps toward her and slowly held her hand.

Hmmm...it felt slightly cold as well...like Evelyn's.

"Come on! You haven't improved? Not at all? Not even a little?" He teased, grinning. "Oh, don't be embarassed, I'm sure there are plenty of people at school who aren't good skaters. Enough where it's at least somewhat normal, anyway." He said, reassuring her. He chuckled, turning a little pink. "Thanks, but I'm not that good." He would've liked to be very good though. Skating was indeed a fun activity that he enjoyed. "Touche!" He chuckled. Getting chocolates in the Hospital Wing was pretty lame.

Christopher's face fell. "Oh, don't be. They aren't suffering anymore." That was all he could've hoped for. He shook his head at the next question. "Curiousity is a natural feeling. I lost my father yesterday." His face was hard, his eyes far away. "Thanks. Talking about it is supposed to help, but it's a little too soon. I don't want to bring down the conversation anyway." He said with a weak smile.

Sammy threw one of her fists in the air in victory. It's not every day you pass that test. WHAT. "HI!" she said after Isobel yelled her name for no apparent reason. "oh yes I heard that you're the new captain, Congrats!" she said with a grin before answering the other question "I was there for like ... the last second. 'Cause I over slept, then I got distracted by a statue, and I saved some firsties behinds and they didn't even thank me so I followed them for a while until they said thank you THEN I got to the game and it was basically over" she said with a bit of a sad face. She loved being loud at the games.

" You are Joshua Cater, right?" William asked the older boy. "Evelyn is looking for you" Wiliam said to Joshua. " She is waiting for you at the Gryffindor table" William explained to Joshua.

Kita smiled, secretly glad that she had gotten Samira's name right. How awkward would the situation have been if Kita had got it wrong? But at least she didn't have to think about that seeing as she had gotten it right! Ok, maybe she shouldn't celebrate this too much... after all, it was only just a name! Restraining herself from rolling her eyes, Kita continued to smile.

Er... purple extensions? What the hell were- "Oh, it looks so pretty!" Kita's eyes had widened as they wandered to the strand of hair Samira was twirling in her hand and a squeal had escaped from the older girl. " Really suits you, Samira." And now the real question was... why hadn't Kita got something weird and wonderful put in her hair? ... Definitely one to think about, no?

"Me?" Well, duh! It's not like Samira was talking to anyone else! "Just studies and Quidditch, you know. Both of them have been keeping me really busy," she explained. Did she need to mention the words 'boy hunting'? "What about you, young Samira?" she asked politely.

"Uh no, not really." Viola could feel the colour spreading across her cheeks. "Yeah. I know." There were tons of people who were really bad. But, that didn't make her feel any better. "Anyway, I'm not going to skate anymore. That will probably save me the embarrassment." What was the point, really? Since, she was never going to be good at it. She laughed. "Of course, you are! You manage to stay on your skates for more than a couple of minutes, right? That IS good." Viola smiled. "Yeah. I guess I am."

OH. Lost his father? "Chris, I'm really sorry to hear about your loss." Viola reached forward to hold his hand but that would be a bit..weird. So, she pulled her arm back and continued, "You must be going through hell." She wasn't even sure if she was saying the right things.."Well, you are not bringing down the conversation but I definitely understand you not wanting to talk about it." Viola seriously couldn't even begin to imagine how terrible it must be to lose a parent.

"Thanks," Samira grinned back. She wasn't quite sure if she wanted them at first, actually. She quite liked her dark hair, just the way it was, but change was good, right? Besides, if Nika's running around with a whole head of pink hair then Samira could tough out a few strands.

And suddenly Kita said the word 'Quiddich', and Samira's head snapped up. "Oh...Oh yeah! You're on the team!" Maybe she shouldn't be so excited because Hufflepuff beat Slytherin in the last game and because of how competitive Samira could get, but eh, it's just a game. "I saw you play last match," nodded Samira. Yup. "You were really good." And that was the honest truth. Samira hoped Kita would take this comment seriously, because the Slytherin did not just throw around comments she didn't mean.

Samira let out a chuckle when Kita called her "Young Samira". How...samuri-ish. "Well, Old Kita," she said, taking an exaggerated breath. "Life for me has been..." Boring. "Good. Things are good." And boring. "Really, I'm just trying to not die from the cold." She grimaced at nothing in particular, cursing the weather for being so unpleasant.

Nika shook her head. She wished that she had all four founders. "No, I now have one Slytherin and about one hundred Gryffindors!" She burst out into laughter. All one hundred and one of them were from last term and this term. It was a bit of a guess, but it seemed about right. She did love chocolate frogs after all. Maybe she should convert to eating celery or something... nah... Chocolate is much better!

"Oh." Nika listened to Ari explain and felt a bit embarrassed that she didn't know about the event. Ari said it as if it was the simplest thing. Who was this Harry kid again... The name did sound familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it before. "Thanks for explaining Ari. This is why I need to pay extra attention in History of Magic." It was history right?... They would learn about that stuff right?... Eh. Worse come to worse she'd go to the library and find a book or two about it. It would take a bit of motivation to read it, but she'd eventually get to it in the end.

Nika smiled sheepishly. It had taken her several tries, whilst it took Ari only one try to do her spell on the mouth. "I don't even know how I remembered that!" Hm... maybe her bad memory wasn't so bad after all!? "You can turn the trash into anything! Some people turned them into instruments and started playing music for us in class!" She said chuckling after remembering the newly formed "transfiguration band". "Too bad Shaw only teaches us how to turn cats into hats..." Why would they ever want to do that!?! "Ooh! Is there a special type of camera for that?" Maybe they could use the same spell to transfigure a peice of trash into a camera...

"That would be so cool!" Lucas said with a smile. "Smoldering? I don't know if I can do smoldering!" He made an overexaggerated serious face, much like Blue Steel in the Muggle movie, Zoolander.

'Fine, I won't laugh', Gwen told her and started expected a really stupid and funny and pointless idea.

'Wooooow!'. That was the only thing she could say. 'Wooow, Ari, but...that's FANTASTIC!', she told her friend. Why didn't I think of that first? That could be the greatest job ever, she wanted to add, but couldn't. The young ravvie remained speechless (probably for the first time ever). She nodded and tried to say something. However, it wasn't necessary, Ari continued talking.

'Yeah, sure...my mom is proud of me, I mean, both my parents are.', she said while checking out the portrait. Almost done...



'Ok...It's finished.', she announced,checked it out again and finally gave it to Ari. Hope she likes it...

Cove laughed at the face Lucas made. "That's a good impression of Blue Steel." She said. "once the lake unfreezes and the weather is a little warmer, I'll teach you okay?"

Roxana sat just next to a column and read one of her newest books. Actually, she just pretended to read it. She loved to stare at people and try to find out to who they would talk to and to who the young, giggling girls would go to, to chat with them.
She sighted. She loved to sit around the Courtyard and chill a little bit, before going to the Common room to sit next to the fire.
Breathing in some fresh air, she tried to focus on her book, but could even remember how the first sentence started. What a shame. Roxana seemed really lost in thoughts.
She hoped that anyone she didn't noticed would talk to her, so that she could meet someone new. She loved that. She wanted to meet everybody from Hogwarts. That was her aim, before leaving the school in two years.

Well Eveylyn told William to talk to the older students. Do not be intimitaded by them. " Hello,my name is Willaim Montcenaggio aks William Starr" he introduced himself to the much older girl. " What are you reading?" William asked the girl. " I see you are in Slytherin, how do you like yoru hiuse?" Wiliam asked her.

A new day. A new adventure....

Ara walked out into the school courtyard, brushing her hair behind her as it cascaded down her back. She was in no mood to converse with small children and at this point, she...SHE needed a male companion. A boost of ego is what she truly needed and someone to flirt with. Heavily.

She glided down the walkway, paying no attention to the minions around her. She was first class, Grade A...snot...and no one was going to burst her bubble. No one. Blah!

Yawwnn. Finlay Carmicheal was tired. He really needed to sleepy more. It was weird, he didn't get why he wasn't sleeping. Hopefully it'd get sorted soon. He liked his sleep. But he was thinking that a nice walk outside would wake him up, he had plenty of time too, considering that he had a free period first thing.

He wasn't really paying attention, not till he got out to the courtyard anyway. But then he noticed someone. Someone that he hadn't seen for a very long time. "Ara?" He asked, forgetting about his walk, and instead wandering over to her.

The sound of her name made her whip her hair around, this time allowing it to cascade to one side. Her green eyes were narrowed as if she did not want to be messed with, but she soon realized who was calling her.

"Finn, my joy," she spoke, stretching out her arms to hug him. "I've missed you so." Lie! Or was it? Either way it was a cute boy in her presence and she was not about to pass up this opportunity.

It was weird, because Finlay had thought that at first it was going to be really awkward with Ara. But right now, it seemed fine. Finlay smiled at her, reaching down and hugging her tight. Mmm. He remembered this, it had been nice, really nice. It was in the past now though, and at least they were still friends. Welll they must have been seeing as they were hugging.

"I missed you too..." Finlay mused, as he pulled away from her, and looking down. "Where did you disappear too?" Like after they broke up. It was like she disappeared off the planet. He really had missed her.