Megan looked up, suprised. "Hello William." she replied. "Yea, I'm a first year. My name's Megan, this is Snowcap", Megan gestured to her owl.

"I have a few ideas, after hearing stories from my sister... I think it will be both creepy, and beautiful at the same time." Jayden said dreamily.

Ariella smiled and laughed at her friend. It was the same old Rose all right. "That's alright.....you can hug me later when you're all cleaned up!" She giggled. "So how was your summer?"

Valeria gasped a little as she heard Jayden talked about Hogwarts.

"Creepy huh?" She shrugged. "How creepy can Hogwarts be? Is it not just a school?"

She sounded excited too. "I hope this journey doesn't end. I'm not ready yet. Do you think we're getting near? And you know, I've heard about the Welcome Feast at the corridor. Some said, a lot of food is served. Do you think there's some kind of like Bertie Bott's there. I don't really like it much," she said laughing her heart out.

He was right. It'd been two weeks. She didn't feel the urge of exploding at someone whenever his words came back to her. She didn't have dreams about them surfing together anymore. It was comforting. "You're right. I can just ignore them." Vashti was in the dormitory with her. That should be distracting a little. Besides Louisa didn't have to study all the time in the common room where couples 'shared affection' there, she always had the library.

Thinking of that Louisa found herself smiling, she was really missing the castle more than she'd imagined, "We're going to wander around the castle for the first week. You don't have much study to do then." She smiled at Adam encouragingly, "One of your new friends can join us too." In case he felt like it. Louisa didn't mind new people... as long as they were nice and not too happy- it just bugged her to meet a hyperly happy stranger. Go figure.

Looking down at JB Louisa gave the dog a pat as well, "We can sneak some food from the kitchen for our little ba-" EEK! Louisa stumbled on her words before correcting the word, "-pet. Baby pet." Because baby alone was too awkward. She really should stop talking when her head was a bit dizzy. She'd put herself in enough awkward situations for the rest of her life already. Leaning her back against the seat again she started, "You read the Daily Prophet?" Because their dear headmaster was apparently being attacked! And even if she didn't understand the whole thing, Louisa would not tolerate it! She liked the man.

"I'm not sure how close we are...to be honest." Jayden answered. "And Valeria, yes, it is a school, but it is an older castle and battles have taken place there, years ago. "As far as the food goes, I'm not sure what kind of food they serve, but my sister says it's all really amazing."

Lily overheard the conversation about the feast, her stomach rumbling. She fished out a pumpkin pasty from her back and started nibbling on it.

"I don't think they serve Bertie Botts at Hogwarts," she said assuredly, "That's a luxury only available here or at Hogsmeade.."

Erin jumped a little when Valeria talked. She thought she's fast asleep. "Oh Valeria, you're awake. I haven't noticed. You think Hogwart's not creepy with all those ghosts and magic going on?" she asked.

"That's awesome! I, personally, support all the teams, but I always lean towards the Tutshill Tornados more often then none," Sage said, she could never choose one team to support, since they all (well, most of them) were fantastic! "Have you ever gone to a Quidditch World Cup before?"

"Yeah, that was a good idea!" Sage giggled, she should have at least looked at the book,So how long do you think this trian ride supposed to be?"

he looked at her and then at the cat. COOKIES? mmmmmhmm. cookies. "it's a good thing that i love cats." he teased her. "but don't worry it wasn't a problem. it was fine. i didn't mine." Robby told her. "i'm Robby Accola." he greeted her.

"True, we might only be able to get them from Hogsmeade or on here... or during holidays..." Jayden responded to the person that just entered her compartment. "I didn't catch your name, mine's Jayden" She said to the newcomer. "Ah yes, Erin! The ghosts! Those might be a bit creepy."

Valeria seems to know her thing about the battles in Hogwarts. Just one thing made Erin's stomach rumble, "A castle? So you mean Hogwarts' not just like a school?" she said, her eyes rounded. The sound of good food made her stomach willing to accpet anything that's put in her mouth.

Oh! She was sure the she hadn't met this girl. "Oh, I still haven't met you. I'm Erin by the way. And you?" she said with a big smile on her face then added, "And by the way, I hate Bertie Bott's"

"Well I think he's cute!" Faina grinned at the little ferret. "But do you think he would eat poor little ChooChoo?"

"I'm Lily," she replied, holding out her hand, "and don't worry about the ghosts. I've heard that they're the un-scariest things you've ever seen. In fact, I've been told that they're even quite annoying.."

"Hello Erin, it's really nice to meet you. I'm Lily Moss," she replied, shocked at her own confidence.

"I hate those beans too. I've only ever had three, and as luck would have it, they were broccoli, snot and old socks."

Adam gave Louisa an encouraging nod. "You are completely in control of how you want the situation to be." Whether that was trying to reconcile things or if it was completely getting rid of her friendship with Dallin. Either way Adam would support Louisa one hundred percent in her decision...that was what friends did right?

"It would be nice to go exploring with someone that knows what they're going," Adam said with a little chuckle. He planned to do some exploring himself, but with Louisa along he imagined it would go much smoother. If Hogwarts was as big as everyone said that it was, then a guide would definitely be a good thing. "I'm really very excited to see the place...I doubt pictures do it justice."

Adam was looking down at Louisa as she was speaking to JB when he heard her start to say the word baby. Normally Adam wouldn't have been that concerned about the word, but with the way that Louisa quickly fumbled to correct herself made Adam feel like maybe he should be feeling a bit uncomfortable about her almost choice of words. Adam kept his eyes on JB, figuring that maybe Louisa wouldn't feel so concerned if he acted like it wasn't a big deal.

He returned his gaze to her when she mentioned the article about the Headmaster. "I feel bad for the guy...they really attacked him and made him seem like he's incompetent and easily tempered." Adam didn't know Headmaster Tate, but even he had to admit the article seemed a little...well...suspicious to him. They made so many accusations against him, but there was really nothing he could tell to back it up. "Honestly, I prefer to make my own judgements of people, but from everyone I know, they say he's nice."

"Probably another few hours..." Chelsea said. It was hours ago that a prefect came through the train telling students to get their robes on because they were almost there. "I don't know but I really hope we're almost there. The suspense is killing me"

I know! I thought when she came and told us to put on our robes I thought it wouldn't be much longer, but this wait is becoming longer and longer," Sage saiid looking throught the window. What if we never make it to Hogwarts! Sage though to herself. She didn't want to stay on this train for ever! "I hear the Great Hall looks magnificent during the Opening Feast..."

"I'm sure he appreciates the sentiment," Cael quipped back glibly. Cael shrugged, "I doubt it. He seemed fine around other animals at the store, it was the people that set him off. He even bit me and I'm the only one who has ever been able to keep him in line. Well, most of the time at least."

"For your sake, I am glad you like cats," Kurumi said in a rather deadpan tone. Really, offend the cat and he would be walking away with wet and smelly shoes.

She felt a little relieved when he explained that he didn't mind. Kurumi was the queen of making horrible first impressions it seemed. At least, she thought that she was.

"It's nice to meet you Robby," she smiled with a slight bow again. She eyed his Gryffindor robes again. Had he just been shy the entire time like Gideon? Hanging back in the shadows as it were? "A fellow Gryffindor I see."

"Eeeew! Mine's tastes like a rat. Not that I've tasted a rat before but it smells like one," she said as she looked at her eyes. Those are beautiful ones. And now, here she is again, conscious on how she looks in front of other people. Without intending to, she looked away and saw the sleeping Alex move. For a moment she thought she's going to wake up but did not. She just paced from her right to her left. She missed her already. After all, she's the first one she had ever talked to in this compartment.

"You seem like you know a lot about Hogwarts. So, you're a Pureblood I assume?"

"No, my mum doesn't like Quidditch too much and my dad wouldn't want to go without her, but when I get enough gold I'm going to go with some, hopefully some I meet here!" she said pulling out fizzing wizbees, 2 chocolate frogs, bertie botts every flavour beans and 2 bottles of pumpkin juice from her gold satchel. "Here have some pumpkin juice and pick something sweet! I love wizard candy, I don't know how muggles can eat their candy so boring!"

"Pictures aren't even close. I love touching the old walls and staring at the decorative drawings on them. The Great Hall itself is fantastic with its changing ceiling." Someone was talking like an old lady reminiscing and it certainly wasn't Adam! Louisa stopped her rambling and nodded at him. "Yes. Professor Tate is good. He's not too nice nor too cruel. He's not so old nor so young. He's not so strict nor so easy." Well, what was he like then? Louisa found herself staring blankly at Adam, "I guess he's just... average." If that made sense to him.

Was she scaring instead of reassuring him? "All I know is he gives very god speeches at the beginning and the end of each term. He used to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts subject and older students told me he was really good." And it was enough. "I don't know why so many staff left us, though." She frowned thoughtfully. The Pirates thing might be something but Professor Vee didn't resign nor did Madam Donovan....

...right?

She didn't know yet. "When we see the new staff we can make our guesses." The girl concluded loudly.

"I know if this wasn't a train I'd say we're lost" Chelsea noticed the sweets cart stop by the compartment "I'm starving I think I'll buy some candy do you want anything?"