Damien watched Isobel intently as she proceded to explain how she thought her friend was a zombie, and then found out how she wasn't a zombie. He felt the corners of his mouth slowly turn upwards.

"Well I'm glad to hear that your friend isn't a zombie. Probably wouldn't be much fun, not to mention difficult to carry on a conversation with her." He chuckled to himself as he stood from his bench, tucking his book under his arm.

This was nice. Having someone to talk to. He was just as surpirsed when Isobel agreed to going on a walk with him. He inhaled deeply and looked toward the sky before turning back to her. "I haven't been to the lake in a while. How about a stroll around the shore?"

Oooh look, she had made him smile. Isobel grinned. "That's true," she said. " Can zombies talk?" she didn't think they could but, then again, she had never net a zombie do you never know.

"Sounds fun," Isobel said. She liked the lake, it was fun. Of course, you couldn't go swimming then because it was too cold.

"I heard it's in there, but no, never met him or her before", Roxana laughed. "Did you?" She could hardly imagine someone meeting this squid.

ooc: I have received permission from both participants.

Hecate smirked and drew her wand, she tapped their hands with him and silently cast a charm. The air between their hands was sucked out like a vacuum. Their hands were now locked on one another.

"You are now locked together. Neither of you have done the potions homework yet. You are to go on the grounds and find 5 items that can be used as potions ingredients, and bring them to the potions storeroom. If you can do this, and not kill each other, the charm will undo itself and you will free from one another." And who knows... they might become friends. "If either of you casts on the other, your sides will bind themselves together, and you will look like Siamese twins..."

Now to scare them...

"Oh... I should say, this is a new charm I've learned... and I've heard if it isn't undone by the end of the day, nightfall will make it permanent, and not even muggle surgery will help..." She lied. "Don't think you can come to me and have it undone... I don't know the counter-spell..." she said innocently.

Oh Yeah... Hecate Lafay could be innocent... but it was more frightening than cute. The charm was neither permanent nor undoable. Hecate knew how to reverse it... but this was much more fun.

"Have a good day..." she said and began walking back towards the castle.

" The Giant Squid is friendly' Willaim told Roxane. " My cousin had been at HogWarts and he get to know
The Giant Squid' well" William said to Roxane. " I met him and he is friendly" William explained to Roxane.

"Oh, what a coincidence. I never met anybody who met the Squid. When did you met him?" Roxana asked. Interesting that somebody really met the 'unknown squid.

Ness was pretty stressed out from homework and from everything else that was happening and she deffinately needed some fresh air. So shecame to the court yard with puffles on her shoulder and with some snacks in her hand. She took a seat on a bench and started nibling on some crisps. It was pretty cold outside but the air was nice and fresh, so Nessie just ignored the cold as she was dressed pretty warmly.

Strolling slowly down the corridor to the courtyard, Mikey was busy thinking about Maria amongst other things. A lot to take in for an eleven year old. The feeling of love and much much more. To him it was all just a little too intense. He wandered into the courtyard and sat down on an empty bench beside a girl whom he didn't recognise. Now he could meet more people. He only knew three people, all of which being his age. Made a change. Most of the people he met prior to Hogwarts were much older than him. Old enough to be his older siblings even.

"That would be awesome!" Lucas said. He smiled at Cove. She was really nice. Another friend! Awesome!

Ness watches as as a boy took a seat next to her. He seemed to be thinking about something, or maybe thats what Ness though he looked like he was doing.She had already taken Puffles of her shouldeer and put him on her lap then put the snacks on the bench so he couldn't reach the, though she kept on feeding Puffles a few crisps now and then. Her and Puffles had finished almost half the packet when Ness realised how rude she was being. "Want some?" she asked smiling at the stranger.

Nika looked around the courtyard and found a nice place to sit. She read over the potions homework to make sure that she was still on the right track and smiled to herself seeing that she already had two out of the five ingredients. She jumped up quickly and let out a small squeal as she saw a cockroach run across her feet. "EEEEP!" Wait!

Cockroaches are on the list! She quickly ran after it, which actually wasn't hard because it was going very slowly, and picked it up. She put it into her third jar and smiled. Done with that one.

Mikey crossed his legs on the bench and looked at the girl beside him, smiling. "He's so cute" he said. Then he looked down at the snacks. "No thank you. I'm not hungry" he replied politely. Then it occured to him that he was talking to her and he'd not even introduced himself to her. "I'm Mikey" he said, holding his hand out for her to shake.

"Well, now you met one" William laughed. " I met him earleir this term" William said to Roxane. "Would you like to meet "The Giant Squid?" Willaim asked Roxane.

" Just wanted to say hello to you" Willaim told Nika. "We have not spoke in a real long time" Willaim said to Nika.

Nika looked over and saw Willie and waved happily as he walked over. "Hiya Willie! Jeez your right! It's been too long!" She smiled at him happily. "What's going on?!"

PFFT!!

What was Josh so worried about her squeezing his hand for? He was, as he liked to call himself, the Master of Everything. A little squeeze shouldn't hurt him much, and Destiny had decided, if he ever did grab her hand, she was going to do just that. She really wanted to see him make her pay..because she didn't have any money.

But all thoughts of squeezing the boy's hand disappeared from her mind once he grabbed hers, and by the time she was done cringing and making gagging noises from how disgusting it felt, she had no time to rethink about it. Destiny watched in HORROR as Lafay drew her wand and she wanted to RUN away. But despite the Professor not looking like she was fast, she probably was, and if she was caught, the punishment would just be about ten times worse then whatever she had planned.

Or not.

There was NOTHING worse than having your hand attached to Josh's. It was worse than the time Lawson had attached that rope to her and Marie's wrist for MONTHS. This was JOSH and..it was all his fault! If he hadn't put that rat spleen down her back in Potion's, she wouldn't have wanted to get him into trouble. Shaking her hand and Josh's as well, she tried desperately to get them to un-stick. "Professor Lafay! This is INHUMANE!" She had no idea what that word meant, but it seemed appropriate to say at the time. Her eyes grew wider as the woman spoke and she wanted to tell her that she had no intentions of ever doing the homework. She didn't want to go collect ingredients for her, but if she didn't..WHERE WOULD SHE SLEEP!? She couldn't be stuck to Josh forever!

Turning to face Josh as Lafay started to walk away, walk away like she HADN'T just RUINED someone's life, Destiny narrowed her eyes at the boy before beginning to poke him in the chest with their attached hands. "This. Is. All. Your. Fault!"

Lafay said nothing about poking not being allowed..

" It is nice to see a freindly face" William told Nika. " I am just doing homework" William said to Nika. " Lately a lot of boys and girls have been ignoring me, so I just delved into homework" Willaim expalined ti Nika. " Thanks for not ignoring me and talking to me" Willaim smiled.

Nika's card collection seemed approximately as large as Ari's, but probably contained more Gryffindor figures. 'Do you need Rowena Ravenclaw? I've got lots of her, we could exchange, maybe you have more of the same Gryffindors?' Ariadne suggested.

Ari had a feeling that her explaination wasn't very informative or convincing, but since Nika didn't say anything, the firstie kept quiet too. 'I just know these things because History of Magic is my absolute favourite and I read a lot. I think I'm spending too much time in the library.' the tiny Gryffindor chuckled.

'That sounds fantastic, I bet that Professor was great.' Unlike Shaw. Siiigh. 'I don't know, it's pointless really. Cats are lovely animals, I could get a hat from Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley anytime, no need to use a lovely cat for that.' Ariadne shook her head.

'Yes, the magical camera is somewhat different from the Muggle one. My uncle owns one, it's really great. I should borrow it next year.' the girl decided. 'It's getting dark, I reckon we should get back to our Common Room.' Ari pointed out. 'I'm proud of our snowman! We should meet again, for a snowball fight this time!' True, it was already mid-February, but Scottish winters lasted forever.

Ari couldn't help but smile proudly when she noticed her friend was genuinely impressed by her career choice. 'Really? It's not something you hear every day, but I can't think of anything I'd like more than that. Except possibly being a magical historian.' she pondered.

Why did Gwen say that just her mum was proud? It was probably a stupid question to ask, so Ari refrained herself from doing that. 'Wow, it really does look like me. You're very talented.' Ari commented on the drawing. 'It's amazing.' she smiled.

'I need to go back to my dormitory to start on some homework. I hope to see you again soon.' she told Gwen, hugging her.

"Thanks!" said Ness looking at Puffles then back at the boy."His name is Puffles, wanna hold him?" she asked picking up her little indigo ball of fluff.Ness waited for the boy to answer, and apparently he wasn't hungry, Ness wasn't going to take that, he was probably to shy to take a chip."Are you sure? I have plent more!" said Ness showing him her snacks.

The boy seemed really nice, he then introduced himself, which she only realised now they hadn't introduced eachother yet."Cool name!" she said, Mikey, pretty Awsome she thought."Well Im Renesmee Talya Dixon, but everyone calls me Ness or Nessie for short"

"Yes, I actually would like to meet him", Roxana admitted a bit shy. "So, is there a special time to meet him?", Roxana laughed.

Gwen listened to Ari carefully. ‘How do you came up with all these amazing jobs?’, she said, actually thinking it was only in her head. Realizing how stupid she had been, she started grinning. Ah,fine- go on and laugh…

‘Well, I’m glad you like it’, Gwen said. Honestly!
‘Sure- bye, then. I’ll see you around?’, she said, ready to leave too.

Some boy was approaching them. Another Gryffindor. Well...he had better not be coming towards them to tease the older lion for holding the crazy she-snake's hand otherwise it would be no good for him. Not good at all. ''Well...yes. That would only be me.'' he said eyeing the housemate mate some. Eh, it appeared that he had not come to tease. Yet, what he had said was kinda...odd as well. Evelyn? At the Gryffindor table? ''Well...thank you for letting me know.'' and since when she was using first years to send messages around?



No matter how much that previous topic was important to think about and figure out, Josh's attention was drawn away from it when Professor Lafay pointed her wand at his and Destiny's hands. He had to pay attention to someone who was pointing their wand towards him, right? So that was what he was doing know. And the woman tapped on his hand, to be honest, he was expecting some kind of pain to penetrate it. He didn't know why Lafay would have the idea of hurting him because he had not done anything but this was Lafay, she was unpredictable. Yet...he felt no pain and the boy immediately stared at the she-snake to see her reaction. Well...she looked like she was utterly horrified but there was no sign suggesting that she was in pain.

On the other hand, as the Potions Mistress began explaining what she had done to their hands, Josh could see that this was...really painful in actual. Painful to his soul. He did NOT want to spend the rest of his life with her. She was going to slow him down when he needed to be fast. She was going to make him lose when he needed to fight. She was going to mess with all the things he was going to need to be doing because they couldn't be done with a single hand. Not to mention she could be in danger, if she was forced to go wherever he went.

Plus now how was he going to go the loo if he ever happened to feel the need to do so? And how was he going to wear his shirt back? He did not want to wander around the grounds, looking for potions stuff half-naked. Yet, upon hearing Lafay's further explanations about the spell she had just cursed them with casted on them, the Gryffindor had completely figured that going to the loo or walking around shirtless was nothing to be worrying about compared to them.

As the boy was unable to utter a word with the shocking effect of Lafay's explanation of the evil spell, he was unable to speak when she started to walk away as well. So, he just stared at her back and then...just stared at her back. Yes, even Destiny had yelled after her but Josh just stared.

And that was until he felt the crazy she-snake's eyes on him. So, looking back at her, he moved his gaze to their locked hands for a moment or so before staring back at her...with the same narrowed eyes. ''Destiny...'' he began yet the girl simply started to poke attack him with his OWN hand.

''My fault!'' he protested stopping the poking attack of her by simply using his strenght to make his arm immovable. At least he knew he was physically way stronger than her so he might be able to stop most of her attempts of crazy stuff. ''None of this would have happened if you had not decided to run to HER like a chicken being chased by a fox!!!!''

Letting out an angry breath, Josh opened his mouth to went on blaming her for everything yet when some thought, an unrelated to the situation but important one, hit him no words made their way out his mouth. And yes, it was related to what the first year lion had previously told him. Evelyn being at the Gryffindor table...

EVERY SINGLE individual in this school could tell there was no way Evelyn Flores would just spend her time at the Gryffindor table so randomly. There must have been A GOOD ENOUGH reason to make her be there and if her boyfriend, who would be him; Josh Carter, was no there why had she been there? If that important reason to make her sit at the lion's table was NOT him, just WHAT was it? Taking his gaze away from Destiny, staring at the ground instead and swallowing a few times, the boy tried to convince himself that he had NO IDEA about what that reason would be. Yet, he HAD and it was making his eyes widen with huge disappointment. For the reason could be no one but...Riley Sinclair...

He could still remember how she had protected Riley against him. He could remember how she had refused to keep him away from herself and did not let him to do job instead. So, he had faith in his girlfriend and tried not to kill the boy though he had to sleep in the same room with him but now...she was doing that? Still spending time with THAT COWARD when he was not around?

Slightly trembling over this possibility of a second betrayal, Josh looked up at the sky instead, to avoid Destiny's attempts of having a peek of his expression full of sadness and agony. Then he simply fell on his knees and covered his face with his free, Destiny-less arm.

Kita's eyes wandered to the strands of purple extensions in Samira's hair. It had quite a nice effect: not too bright but still bright enough to stand out slightly. And Samira can actually pull it off! Whereas if Kita got extensions, no matter what the colour, it would look awful on her. Some people just have it all. "So what made you get purple extensions in your hair?" After all, it's not like Samira spontaneously got it done. That sounded like something Kita does would do.

Was it just her or did it seem like Samira had forgotten that she was on the team? Ok, they hadn't seen each other in what seems like YEARS so maybe Samira couldn't be blamed. Plus, it's not like Kita's memory was perfect. "You did?" So she did notice her! And to think the girl thought no one would recognise her because her hair had been tied up... for once! Wait... what? "No i wasn't," she said, almost automatically, "I mean... thanks! But i wasn't." And she definitely knew that!

Wait... Old Kita? o_O Kita wasn't that old was she? Oh right! It was a joke on the way she said 'Young Samira'. A laugh escaped the old young girl. Seriously, what she would do without someone like Samira, she did not know. "At least life is treating you nicely," she said, nodding and smiling, "Oh! Yes, it is quite chilly this year isn't it? I don't ever remember it being this cold at this time of the year before." But then again she couldn't remember a lot of things so that last comment was rendered invalid.

"Thanks," Septimus said. "So, what house are you in? I'm in Gryffindor."

" I am glad you would like to meet "The Giant Squid" William told Roxane. " Oh sure, he has a secretary to make his appointments, I think it is Crab" William laughed. " We can meet him anytime yo uare ready to meet him" William explained to Roxane.

" You are welcome" William told Joshua. "What did you ever do to make Profeesor Lafay mad at you?" Wiliam asked Joshua.

Cove smiled at Lucas. "So what's your favorite thing to do?"