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The official home of the Lions, the Gryffindor common room, is found on the seventh floor of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Because the entrance to the common room is the portrait of the Fat Lady, Lions must know the password and speak it to the Fat Lady in order to get through.
"Carriwitchet!"
Remember that word...and keep it a close secret, for it's the current password you'll need to speak in order for the Fat Lady to swing away from the hole and allow you entrance to Gryffindor Tower. Once you're lucky enough to crawl through, you'll find that the common room is a circular area full of squashy armchairs, tables, and a bulletin board. A window looks out onto the grounds of the school, and a large fireplace takes up one entire wall. It's the perfect place to relax and hang out after a long day of classes.
That is, unless you're in need of a nap or ready for a good night's rest. In that case, there are two doors leading off from the common room that open to spiral staircases. Boys dormitories are upstairs and to the right, while girls dormitories are upstairs and to the left.
For whatever reason you're here, make sure you take good care of your home away from home. There's bound to be a perfect, your Head of House, or maybe even a house elf lurking nearby.
"Yes. Its something that I'm really interested in." exclaimed Plumeria, looking at a group of second years who where entertaining themselves with a game of exploding snap. "I hope to help a lot of people."
"I'm sure that you would be a great healer!" Anna said patting girl on the shoulder. "And most importantly, that you already know what you want. This is a very rare quality, in such a young age to know who you want to be and what to do." Anna smiled. "I think that your parents are very proud of you."
Elsie walked back into the common room, very tried after quidditch tryouts. She collapsed into one of the armchairs. She wasn't to happy with her performance, Elsie had always just been that second to slow to get the quaffle. There were more tryouts later this week which she was determined to do better in. She looked around the common room to see who else was there.
"You look tired" William told the girl. What have you been doing to get so tired?" William asked the girl. " My name is William Starr" he introduced himself to the girl.
"I've defintely lost some steam," Fiona replied, smiling sheepishly at the boy, "Guess I've lost it from exploring this place too much. It's ridiculously huge!! Nice to meet you, William. I'm Fiona Foxley," she replied holding out her hand.
Josephine's face popped out of the ball "GRYFFINDOR FOR THE HOUSE CUP!" she yelled, her hands in the air, she started giggling "I want to beat Ravenclaw! Danielle would be so cocky if she won! I wouldn't stand being with her the whole summer without hitting her whole in the face!"
Sage jumped in surprise as Josephine exploded out of her ball and yelled, but Sage had a smile on her face.
"Who's Danielle," Sage asked, giggling at Josephine.
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Elsie walked back into the common room, very tried after quidditch tryouts. She collapsed into one of the armchairs. She wasn't to happy with her performance, Elsie had always just been that second to slow to get the quaffle. There were more tryouts later this week which she was determined to do better in. She looked around the common room to see who else was there.
Sage looked up as she regonized one of the girls who was at the quidditch tryouts with her. She looked very worn out, as did Sage for that matter. She decided to introduce herself...
"Hello there, you were at the Quidditch tryouts right?" Sage asked.
Sage looked up as she regonized one of the girls who was at the quidditch tryouts with her. She looked very worn out, as did Sage for that matter. She decided to introduce herself...
"Hello there, you were at the Quidditch tryouts right?" Sage asked.
"Yeah I was, we were both in the red team together I think. I'm Elsie." she said holding out her hand. The girl looked tired herself, Elsie was glad she wasn't the only one a bit worn out. "How did you think you went?" Elsie asked.
Fiona looked up at the girl named Josephine. "I'm Fiona Foxley. It's great to meet you!" She replied with a smile
Josephine handed a chocolate frog to Fiona and smiled "Nice to meet you aswell! Do you want one?" she said.
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Sage jumped in surprise as Josephine exploded out of her ball and yelled, but Sage had a smile on her face.
"Who's Danielle," Sage asked, giggling at Josephine.
Josephine smiled "She's my best friend, we met when were young, my dad and her parents knew eachother, so when my mom and dad got married and had me and her mother and father got married and had her they usually threw us together and see what would happen, of course I would usually make her play with me or something like that" she giggled, remembering.
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"Hopefully this year we'll take the Cup! I mean Jack Fitzera would want it that way! I can't believe we haven't won sense him...well unless we won while I was away." He didn't really follow what happened while he was away. He just knew one year they had the cup, so Quidditch was a no go. "Wow, maybe you two will be playing against each other! That would be exciting!"
Rafe took in a deep breath. "I mean, I set out this summer to end any suffering she had and wanted her to be free to choose. She chose you. I've caused her too much pain, despite everything I've done to ensure her safety. I've haven't been completely honest with her and now she hates me for it. You've always been the better man Carter," he gave him a nudge on the shoulder. "I know she can be happy with you." Rafe took a moment and then smiled. Four or five years ago, he'd do everything he could to win her by any means, but now...he couldn't do it.
"I'm glad your family is safe too by the way. There was a close call, but everything worked out. Larentia grew very fond of Anya, that she's starting a Muggle division in our...department. Not that she's a muggle it turns out, but she liked observing your famliy. I'm sure Anya will come around to the idea of being a witch too." Rafe tried to give Carter a reassuring look. "Give her time, and just start being honest with her. It's the best you can do." Rafe didn't know if he should really be giving advice when it came to younger siblings. Yes, he had three younger ones of his own, but had very little contact until recently.
Carter chuckled. "Jack would love that. Although, to him, I'm sure we're still both little first years." That was the Captain that discovered the two of them. He had a feeling that the same would happen if he were to discover a new talent.
"I don't know what to tell you mate..." he said. There were thoughts swimming in his head. All sorts of thoughts. And surprisingly they were completely different than the last time they were in this situation. Of course, last time he'd been on the not chosen side. Was it the maturity kicking in?
Or maybe something else...
"Yeah... it's just... I dunno... I guess everything that's happened over the past term has been a little... overwhelming."
So overwhelming in fact... that he was considering doing something drastic. Like talking about... his feelings.
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Gideon returned to the common room after having replaced the school broom into the broomshed after the tryout. It certainly had been a workout but he felt he did well for his first time trying out. He also felt a little tired but then he also had some free time so he could probably recover enough before dinner. Entering the room he didn't spot any of his friends but he did see a few that he had just been flying with, giving them a friendly smile as he walked further inside.
"Yeah I was, we were both in the red team together I think. I'm Elsie." she said holding out her hand. The girl looked tired herself, Elsie was glad she wasn't the only one a bit worn out. "How did you think you went?" Elsie asked.
Sage nodded.
Sage," She said introducing herself, "Well it sure went fast! I feel so bad for screwing up that one time, but I'm goin to try really hard the next tryouts I make it to!"
Sage was determined to do well the next time! She would practice non-stop. Well she might stop for lessons, or food, and sleep!
Gideon returned to the common room after having replaced the school broom into the broomshed after the tryout. It certainly had been a workout but he felt he did well for his first time trying out. He also felt a little tired but then he also had some free time so he could probably recover enough before dinner. Entering the room he didn't spot any of his friends but he did see a few that he had just been flying with, giving them a friendly smile as he walked further inside.
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Sage nodded.
Sage," She said introducing herself, "Well it sure went fast! I feel so bad for screwing up that one time, but I'm goin to try really hard the next tryouts I make it to!"
Sage was determined to do well the next time! She would practice non-stop. Well she might stop for lessons, or food, and sleep!
"I wasn't that great either today. We will just have to try extra hard next time! I really want to be on the team! Although I am only a first year so even if I don't I'm sure I will eventually!" It really was going to be tough to make it onto the team this year, there seemed to be so many great players. Elsie repositied herself in the chair, she was quite sore, it had been a while since she had gotten on a broomstick.
Elsie noticed the other boy who was chaser on her tryouts team smiling at her when he walked in, so she smiled back and gave him a wave. "Great job at Tryouts! You are so good!" Elsie said as he walked past.
Carter chuckled. "Jack would love that. Although, to him, I'm sure we're still both little first years." That was the Captain that discovered the two of them. He had a feeling that the same would happen if he were to discover a new talent.
"I don't know what to tell you mate..." he said. There were thoughts swimming in his head. All sorts of thoughts. And surprisingly they were completely different than the last time they were in this situation. Of course, last time he'd been on the not chosen side. Was it the maturity kicking in?
Or maybe something else...
"Yeah... it's just... I dunno... I guess everything that's happened over the past term has been a little... overwhelming."
So overwhelming in fact... that he was considering doing something drastic. Like talking about... his feelings.
"Yeah, but you know you're going to have to mention him in your memoirs." Rafe laughed. He could just imagine it now... Carter's dashing smile on the cover of a book, flying on a broom..with Marilyn riding on the back...okay, maybe he didn't want to imagine it. He just shook the his head trying to erase the thought.
"You're happy right? With Marilyn?" Rafe could be happy for both of them, but he wanted it to be going in a happy direction. He almost lost his life for Marilyn to be happy and he would hate that to be blasted into smithereens. "What do you mean by overwhelming? You can finally have the girl of your dreams and you don't have to worry about some hairy git getting in the way."
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"You know... maybe I'll put a note on the board encouraging people to do that." Carter replied. It would be a fun way for house unity.
Carter opened his mouth to ask when Rafe would have heard about that... but thought better of it. Rafe probably knew everything he did that summer. "Thanks mate." he said clapping his friend's shoulder. "You have no idea how nervous I was." With both getting captain and making a professional team.
He let out a relieved sigh. "That's great." he said. Why was Rafe upset by that news? He blinked twice. "What do you mean by that exactly?" Was Rafe seriously over Marilyn? Did that mean he didn't need to feel guilty every time they were together? The guy did propose just last year.
" Thanks, I would appreciate it" William told Carter. " Team unity is a good idea" Willaim said to Carter. " If we could keep the paint on our faces for the school, that would be hosue unity" William laughed.
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Ronnie laughed. "I'm glad they like eachother too." Ronnie said. "And thank you! That's very nice of you to say!" Ronnie said.
" Yes or else you would have real problem on your hands if they did not like each other" William told Ronnie. " I always tell the truth" William said to Ronnie. " J might need you draw something for me later" William explained to Ronnie.
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"I've defintely lost some steam," Fiona replied, smiling sheepishly at the boy, "Guess I've lost it from exploring this place too much. It's ridiculously huge!! Nice to meet you, William. I'm Fiona Foxley," she replied holding out her hand.
" Well, we always get tired" Willaim told Fiona." You are just enjoying HogWarts like the rest of us" William said to Fiona. " Nice to meet you, too" William smiled at Fiona.
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"I wasn't that great either today. We will just have to try extra hard next time! I really want to be on the team! Although I am only a first year so even if I don't I'm sure I will eventually!" It really was going to be tough to make it onto the team this year, there seemed to be so many great players. Elsie repositied herself in the chair, she was quite sore, it had been a while since she had gotten on a broomstick.
Elsie noticed the other boy who was chaser on her tryouts team smiling at her when he walked in, so she smiled back and gave him a wave. "Great job at Tryouts! You are so good!" Elsie said as he walked past.
Gideon caught her wave and hesitantly waved back once. "Thank you...And you as well," he said to her. "Both of you," he added including the other unfamilair girl as well since up closer he registered them as the two who had tried out as chasers on his team. For first years it had to take nerve to give it a shot at least he believed them to be. Come to think of it Josh and Carter the captain were the only ones he had known anything about.
"I wasn't that great either today. We will just have to try extra hard next time! I really want to be on the team! Although I am only a first year so even if I don't I'm sure I will eventually!" It really was going to be tough to make it onto the team this year, there seemed to be so many great players. Elsie repositied herself in the chair, she was quite sore, it had been a while since she had gotten on a broomstick.
Elsie noticed the other boy who was chaser on her tryouts team smiling at her when he walked in, so she smiled back and gave him a wave. "Great job at Tryouts! You are so good!" Elsie said as he walked past.
"Yeah, but on the bright side even if we don't make it we will know what to look foward to next year!" Sage said.
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Gideon caught her wave and hesitantly waved back once. "Thank you...And you as well," he said to her. "Both of you," he added including the other unfamilair girl as well since up closer he registered them as the two who had tried out as chasers on his team. For first years it had to take nerve to give it a shot at least he believed them to be. Come to think of it Josh and Carter the captain were the only ones he had known anything about.
"You were really fantastic!" Sage also commented to the older boy. He was quiet good at quiddtich, especially compared to Elsie and herslef.
Josephine handed a chocolate frog to Fiona and smiled "Nice to meet you aswell! Do you want one?" she said.
"Do I ever!" Fiona cried, grabbing the frog out of Josephine's hand. She was about three seconds away from stuffing the whole thing into her mouth before realizing how ridiculously rude she had just been. "Uh, sorry," Fiona grinned uneasily at Josephine," didn't mean to be rude. Thanks alot for the chocolate. I didn't eat too much today. I've been a bit cautious about the food since the first night," she finished, biting into the frog.
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" Well, we always get tired" Willaim told Fiona." You are just enjoying HogWarts like the rest of us" William said to Fiona. " Nice to meet you, too" William smiled at Fiona.
"Too true," Fiona said, nodding her head in agreement. "This place seems to hold alot of secrets. I wanna discover them all!" she smiled. "So, what do you like most about this place??"
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Prue walked into the common room by herself, worn out and tired from the entire day. Unlike others she hadn't bothered with the Quidditch tryouts, preferring to spend the day with her twin... who happened to be in Ravenclaw common room now. Why did they have to be separated?
"And, and then they would take points away from our house and they would be mad at us..." Sage said alarmed. Her brain was racing with all the bad things that could happen during class!
Sage giggled as Ella tried to pronounce Wizengamot.
"Well, first of all it Wizengamot. Don't worry aabout saying wrong, it's kinda a tounge twister. Second, Wizengamot are wizards or witches who are apart of 'wizarding Britain's high court of law and parliament'," Sage finished lowering her voice so she sounded big and strong, "At least, that's how my brother describes it, that's what he wants to be when he's old enough. Now a Dragonologist is kind of like a magizoologist, 'cept they only study Dragons."
Once Sage was done she popped a few of the Haribos in her mouth.
"Oh right" She said feeling embarresed that she had pronounced it completely wrong. "So Dragons really, I mean do they like really exist then?" Ella said. If they do exist are they dangerous? Ella decided that she would go to the library to find a book about Dragons, as she still had so many questions but it seemed a bit mean to just ask Sage every single one.
Willow walked into the common room and curled up in one of the arm chairs with her book, not that she was really reading it. After a few minutes of reading the same sentence over and over again, she looked around the common room at all the other lions. She saw her good friend, maybe even her best friend, Elsie across the room talking to some girls she must have met a Quidditch try-outs, so she gave her a wave, not wanting to interrupt. Willow wondered if there was anyone she could befriend in Gryffindor. She didn't look that scary did she?
Josephine looked at him "I got Harry Potter! I have about three of Hermione Granger and two of Ron Weasley" she smiled "He's gone!" she said, showing him the card, Harry Potter was missing "I hate it when they do that!"
Josephine's face popped out of the ball "GRYFFINDOR FOR THE HOUSE CUP!" she yelled, her hands in the air, she started giggling "I want to beat Ravenclaw! Danielle would be so cocky if she won! I wouldn't stand being with her the whole summer without hitting her whole in the face!"
Jordan showed Josephine his own card, in which Hermione Granger had gone also. "I find it really annoying too! I've always wondered where they go to, haven't you?" he asked.
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"No, I don't think so either!" Ronnie said laughing. "Yeah, I think the year will be fun too." Ronnie agreed. "So, what are you looking forward to the most?" she asked.
Jordan looked forward, to almost everything that came his way. "Probably, Defense Against The Dark Arts." Replied Jordan. He knew DADA would be a fun, and new class this year, but he knew, the class would be ten times more difficult, now that they have a full-time teacher on the job! "Hopefully get a lot more points for Gryffindor this year."
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Rose walked into the Common Room feeling happy. She didn't know why. She just did. *Sigh* Just like her... She skipped to to an empty chair and sank into it.
Josephine smiled "She's my best friend, we met when were young, my dad and her parents knew eachother, so when my mom and dad got married and had me and her mother and father got married and had her they usually threw us together and see what would happen, of course I would usually make her play with me or something like that" she giggled, remembering.
"Oh I see," Sage said after she had gotten over her fit of giggles,"So do you have any siblings?"
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"Oh right" She said feeling embarresed that she had pronounced it completely wrong. "So Dragons really, I mean do they like really exist then?" Ella said. If they do exist are they dangerous? Ella decided that she would go to the library to find a book about Dragons, as she still had so many questions but it seemed a bit mean to just ask Sage every single one.
Did dragons exist? Well of course they existed!
"Yup, they do exist," Sage said nodding,"but don't worry about them, there aren't eny in britin, most like in other countries like Romania, and most of them hare watched by Dragon Handlers."
Sage was enjoying talking to Ella and ansering her questions. It made Sage feel....smart.
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Willow walked into the common room and curled up in one of the arm chairs with her book, not that she was really reading it. After a few minutes of reading the same sentence over and over again, she looked around the common room at all the other lions. She saw her good friend, maybe even her best friend, Elsie across the room talking to some girls she must have met a Quidditch try-outs, so she gave her a wave, not wanting to interrupt. Willow wondered if there was anyone she could befriend in Gryffindor. She didn't look that scary did she?
While Sage was talking to Elsie and Gideon, she noticed another first year Gryffindor sitting in one of the chairs. Sage caught her glancing over here a couple of times and when she waved in their direction, Sage waved back, not caring if it was directed at her or Elsie.
Josephine blushed and twiddled her fingers "We're best friends" she said smiling and then she realized he wouldn't believe it "I'll give you a full answer when I know it myself" she assured him
Maxwell blushed anxiously, not sure what He wanted to hear yet. At that moment a scarlet feather fell from Helios' tail, Maxwell picked it up and put it in Josephine's hair. "Take Your time, Josie. It's ok." He said with a very happy, but slightly disappointed smile.
Lucy looking at the boy giving her a smile she gave gave him a smile back "Nice meeting you Sep. That's a very unique name Septimus". she said to the boy.
"Yeah, it's kind of a family name," Septimus said. "So, what year are you in?"