'Nice to meet you, Arianna. Are you going to be a first year too?,' she asked, smiling. Apparently, she had just made a new friend! Yay! It seemed that she would be arriving at Hogwarts with a friendship group already established. How awesome was that?! 'Thank you! It's one of my favourite hobbies, apart from reading,' she said happily, completing one sleeve and snapping the thread with her teeth. She quickly tried the robe on and checked the length - it was perfect. Smiling, she pulled it off again and began to take up the other sleeve. 'Aw, I'm sure you weren't that bad. But I could teach you, if you like?' she offered kindly. She had taught a couple of her old friends in Virginia already.

Oh, yay. He was going to come and join them! She had a chance to make a new friend. Yay! Smiling, she led him back to the other compartment and sat back down, gesturing for the boy to do the same. 'Well, maybe not lonely, exactly,' she said, blushing a little. 'I'm not always the best at choosing my words,' she added nervously. She hoped he wouldn't take offence. She just wanted to be nice!

'I'm Gaby, by the way,' she told him cheerily. 'Gaby Parker. I'm starting my first year this year, what about you?' she asked curiously. He did look about the same age as her, but she was awful at judging these types of things. For all she knew, he could be a fourth year or something and just look younger than he actually was.

Oh. His parents lived with him still. She nodded, "It's great that he didn't try to disapparate out of it like he did with the cage." Or maybe the cage itself was magical and they just didn't know? Anyways, Louisa went back to scratching the dog's back absently as they talked.

"I don't think I know either one of them. The girl from Ravenclaw should be recognizable if I see her, though. Probably." She nodded slightly. "It's great that you're mingling in already. I don't think you need me to stick around as much as I thought I would." Laughing after that so he would know it was only a joke... kind of.

JB had started suddenly woofing at his shorts, his paws pressed against her bare thighs. Louisa stared puzzled at him until she figured it out, "Oh. You want a treat?" Chuckling at the dog's exceptional sniffing skills, she got a bunch of Chocolate Frogs out of her pocket and before she could lay them down and open only once a time, JB was all over the job scratching and tearing the paper away so the frogs started to bounce all over the compartment. The girl bundled into a ball on the seat next to Adam, hiding her head with her hands, her laugh was muffled by the back of the seat. Frogs kept bouncing around and sometimes she felt something touching her bare legs and felt the chocolate staining her. "Merline! How are we going to stop them!?" Her laughs weren't contained yet as she addressed Adam. JB was jumping around trying to catch some with his mouth.

Ronnie sighed. "I hope I don't smell that bad...." she said sadly. "Blimey! We're almost there, I gotta change into my robes!" she then quickly went and changed and came back. "I put some perfume on." she said. "Just in case I smell like vomit." she said laughing. "Wanna trick William with one? I have an extra Puking Pastille...." she whispered in Rose's ear, showing Rose the Puking Pastile.

Mikey rested his head against Maria's gently. "Think positive" he told her.

It wasn't exactly that he was offended. Ash just couldn't help but become a litttle concerned as he followed that he was giving off a bad impression. Well, an embarrassing one, anyway. But it wasn't that big a deal, and he just shrugged it off, taking a seat.
"I was just reading," he said, because what else was there for him to say about any of that. It wasn't a big deal. He sort of smiled, glancing over at the other person in the compartment and giving her a nod of acknowledgement, because it was probably rude not to. "Anyway, I'm Ashley. Ashley Moon. First year," he replied, though he was sort of speaking to both, since they were both there and able to hear him. And that was where his failure at conversation kicked in, and he decided to just quiet there and find out if anything interesting had been going on before he showed up. Or maybe he'd even come up with something else to say. That would be nice and not awkward at all.

"He's actually very efficient with the whole apparating thing," Adam said with a little smirk. "If I'm asleep he'll apparate into my backyard so he can go to the bathroom, then he apparates right back in." Adam couldn't believe it the first time it had happened, but after a while he appreciated the dog's skill. It saved him from having to climb out his window, and crawl down the side of the house, all while holding JB in his arms.

He gave Louisa a smile. He knew she was kidding, but a part of him was glad that Louisa could see he was doing alright. Of course that didn't mean he didn't want her around, because of course he did, he was just had other people to go to so Louisa could go and do her own thing. "They're all really nice," Adam said with a smile.

Adam looked at JB as he started to bark happily at Louisa. While Louisa was reaching into her pocket to grab out a treat for him Adam had bent over to find his robes. They were supposed to be changing into them soon, right? Adam leaned back up, about to ask Louisa when suddenly a chocolate frog came right at him, landing square on his nose before jumping off. Feeling the chocolate Adam reached up with his newly healed hand and wiped it off. He couldn't stop himself from laughing as he saw Louisa huddled against the chair, chocolate stains all over her clothes from the chocolate.

"I guess we'll just have to try and grab them," Adam said, trying to keep down his own laughs. Adam was about to try and reach one that had landed on top of his back pack when he spotted one that was airborne, going straight towards Louisa's head. Scrambling out of his seat Adam reached out and grabbed it, losing his balance slightly due to the unexpected force that the frog had hitting his hand. He fell back slightly, placing his hand on the back of the seat, right near Louisa's shoulder.

He was about to apologize for nearing falling on top of her when a frog slammed right into his cheek. "What the...." Adam said with a laugh.

Cael gave Faina a flat stare. "..."


"Maybe..." Cael replied doubtfully. "Mickey?" Cael asked only to notice a rather average-looking girl with mousy-brown hair give him a small salute.


"Nice to meet you as well, Mickey. I'm Caelius Ashdown," Cael nodded slightly, noting her accent. "Really?" Cael asked, shocked that anyone would be denied access to a rather rudimentary class such as DADA.

"Merlin forbid they attempt to provide us with any sort of lesser education," Cael hissed, furious at the very thought. If nothing else he supposed he could supplement with books from Hogwart's library... his Ravenclaw sensibility was screeching at the very thought.

Maria sniffled as a tear ran down her face. Her ear-length hair couldn't hide it this time. "I try but its hard" she said softly.

"Oh, that'd be really kind of you. I mean to teach me. Although warning i'm not so good when it comes to needles and thread." Arianna was happy that she had asked, but felt she would only be made a burden as she was sure she would do horribly. Arianna smiled. How much smiling does one do? She thought to herself. Well not this much. She looked down at her hands. " Yes." Yes? "I mean... Sorry, yes this is my first year. I'm sorry i'm not normally good at making, you know, friends." Arianna looked down playing with her thumbs.



Arianna smiled and nodded back at the boy. She was excited to know that she would not have to enter hogwarts alone. Arianna got up and leaned against the compartment door. "Hi there. Coming to join us are you?" Arianna said lively.

Ronnie smiled. Finally she was clean. And she smelt good. She normally didn't put on perfume, but since she smelt like vomit before, she didn't want to smell like that the whole time! "You excited for Hogwarts, mate?" she asked Jordan, then handing him a choclate frog. "Care for one?" she asked. Then she handed one to Rose. "These won't make ya puke, trust me!" she said laughing. She got herself one and opened it. "Hey Plumeria! Check this out, I got grandpa Ron for the fifth time!" she said showing Plumeria her card.

"It's a really old song," Faina explained. "I really like old muggle music..." Faina grinned sheepishly, hoping he didn't think she was weird.

Mikey took hold of Maria's hand. "I'm sure Ad will want you to" he replied.

"Apparently," Ash said plainly. He'd figured that much was obvious, since he was there and all. But at the last minute he realized it was probably just something to say, and she hadn't meant it as if she really didn't know. So he offered a small smile, in an attempt to soften the comment.
"Who are you?" he asked, not bothering to introduce himself again, since it wouldn't have made sense to do so.

Maria nodded. She sat up straight and ran her hands through her short hair, messing it up.

"I see," Cael nodded with a serious expression, barely able to hide the smile that was threatening to emerge.

Arianna was a bit taken back by his comments, but seemings she didn't want to stir any trouble she accepted his smile, nodding back politely. Arianna took her seat again. Looking back over at Ash she replied, "I'm Arianna, Arianna Upward. First Year." Arianna was going to ask the same question as she had been asked back, but knew that that would be silly seeings as she already knew, even if he hadn't told her directly. "Do you know what house your going to be in? (Or want to be in?)" She said, trying to make conversation. She really didn't know what to say or how to start a converstaion, so she thought well hogwarts seems a good subject.

Faina smirked, "Like you don't have any weird habits," Faina teased, poking his shoulder.

Louisa saw that Adam was on his feet now struggling to stop the frogs from co- BAM! A frog had hit him in the cheek sending another fit of laughter through Louisa. She hadn't laughed like this since... last year at Hogwarts. For real. JB was still jumping in the crowded compartment, and the girl scooted on the seat to hide her body behind Adam who was a good human shield.

Only the frogs didn't seem to mind the shield, one of the had hopped on Adam's shoulder and directly sank on Louisa's head. Quickly she smacked both hands on her head forgetting all about the chocolate and her head was now a cutie chocolate cake. She was about to groan but the laugh prevented any bad feelings, another frog had jumped on the window and was making its way toward Adam but she saw it. With an ungraceful move, Louisa straightened up on her knees and launched herself at the hopping chocolate and succeeded to grab it and shoving it into her mouth as it was forced to stay close and chew on the candy.

Realizing that she was actually over Adam's shoulder, resting herself on him because of that lousy jerk of her body, she slumped back onto the seat, "Sowy," she mumbled still munching on the chocolate. Aaaah. It was a bit quieter suddenly, maybe Adam and JB had caught the rest?

Mikey leaned forward and looked Maria square in the eyes. "Your hair looks really nice like that" he replied.

Jordan felt self conscious as he walked down the corridor, knowing that his hair colour was changing with every step he made and that he couldnt control it. He felt better when he stopped at the compartment with his friends Faina, Mickey and Cael inside. He poked his head around the door and said "hey guys!" whilst hoping his hair had settled on a normal looking colour.

"Of course I don't know that. Why would I know that?" What could have sounded harsh really just came out in a confused manner, which was good, because that was how Ash'd felt about the question. Of course he had ideas, based on the rest of his family, but he was trying not to think about it too much. It was just stressful, and he honestly didn't care nearly as much as people seemed to think he should.
"I'm pretty sure my mother will have a heart attack if I'm not put in Slytherin, though," he answered, briefly entertaining the idea of writing home to inform his mother that he was a shiny new Hufflepuff. That brought another small smile to his face, before he snapped out of it. "What about you? Have you given it any thought?"

Maria stopped mussing her hair up. She smoothed it all back into place. "Thanks. This is shorter than I usually get it but its more fun to mess with, as you can tell" she smiled.

"I don't have anything of the sort," Cael sniffed haughtily, putting his nose in the air and folding his arms decisively. If he had looked, Cael would have seen Jupiter copy his exact motions behind him on the bench.

THE SUN GOES DOWN THE STARS COME OUT-

Eh?

Amy was violently bobbing her head to the retro sounds of the Wanted and feeling totally funky and cool and warm in her nice thick jumper that was all snuggly and warm and sleepable in, when she opened her eyes and was face to face with a short ginge. Though Amy couldn't talk. She was a short brunette. And considering she was nearly 16, she was a SHAWT kid.

And Nessie was saying something...eh? Amy pulled her headphones out, to hear words "I sit" and it took her a few seconds to piece it together, oh right, no totally, park your bum straight away she said with a grin, pulling out her headphones and shoving them in her bag

"Hey!" Faina said, grinning widely. "How's it going?"

"Whatever, pretty boy," She said with a roll of her eyes. Faina giggled at Caelius's ferret. "Quite the character you got there." Faina bent down and held her hand out to the ferret. "Hello there," She cooed, "What's your name?"