"I am Ella. Have you tried these scones, they are amazing!"Ella exclaimed pointing at the scones.

"You were quite right Tiffany these scones are amazing! Do you mind if I call you Tiff?" Ella asked. "I am not too sure really, it all sounds really fun."

"Hey, I am Ella, first year. Yourself?" Ella said trying to make the girl feel a bit more at home.

Selina was munching on another cookie when she saw another figure in red start to walk along the Gryffindor table. When he finally sat down Selina pulled herself out of her chair and walked over to Gideon. Once she arrived she plopped herself down and stuck out an extra cookie that she had taken for later, "Cookie?"



Selina was beat red with anger. Of all of the things in the world Adam Burn had to show up and ruin what was seemingly starting out to be a good year. Besides the one small hitch on the Platform, which had been amended during the opening feast a few moments ago, Selina was feeling good about the upcoming year. She was a third year, she had her friends, a new outlook on life and, finally, a way to at least start to control her visions. BUT now Adam Burn had snaked his way back into their life and was already proving himself to be a major prat.

Did he hear Kurumi's cries in the broom cupboard? Did he see the color of her hair when she missed him? Did he see how badly she had been affected when she tried to find a new person to mend her heart? Did he see the utter wreckage and turmoil he left on his way out? No, he had been too busy fighting with Selina as he stormed out of Hogwarts to even take notice to the shattered second year who was now a strong and confident fourth year Prefect.

Kurumi had done so much without him. She had made the team, she had grown a backbone, she had been nominated Prefect and had slowly started to build her life again without him. Now that he was here again Selina felt a growing fear that she would just crumble.

However, after Selina punched him she felt Kurumi attempt to pull her away from Adam. She soothed the third year Gryffindor by reminding her about the Quidditch try outs. Kurumi was right, she needed to stay out of trouble for the try outs. There were priorities in life for Selina Skylar and it always went Quidditch, friends, food, "Yeah you're right. I just need to calm down and resist the urge to sever his head from his body." Too harsh?

Then she watched in shock as Adam bantered back and forth about growing up and waiting for one another. Finally Selina was not surprised when Kurumi shot her prefect position and Quidditch position in his face and stormed off. Selina then rose her hand to him as if to say don't, "You know, if I didn't have Quidditch try outs coming up I would seriously pummel you. You have NO idea what you did to that girl over there. And you know what else, you did something to me too. You told me that I was your sister. You told me that you would write. You told me all of these things. And you lied about all of them. I'm not your sister. Don't ever call me that, because I have a brother now and a sister to boot. And Christopher and Elyon treat me the way I deserve to be treated. You were always a prat, Adam Burn. But you wanna know why I dealt with it? Because I was eleven and stupid. I wanted to so desperately be liked by everyone and now I don't care. I'm happy in my own skin and I won't be made to be a fool by you anymore."

As Ness neared the Griffindor table she saw that there was no food there too nor any clean clutlery. She had already been to the other tables and they had nothing either. What was up with this place today? The feasts were usually huge and had plenty of food on each table with clean and shiney utensils.

She continued looking up the Griffindor table when she spotted a rather good looking boy. The boy switched his fork and spoon, She didn't blame him. His set did seem to be one of the dirtiest. She sat down next to him giving up on her search. "I Have no idea..but it deffinitely wasn't the elves they usually do an amazing job with the feast." said Ness answering the boys question. She would have to got to the Kitchens later, luckily for her the kitchens were right by her common room.

"I'm Nessie by the way." she didn't recognise the boy and she guessed he was new.

"Hello, I'm Sage!" Sage said holding out her hand to the Gryffindor...

"Yes same with me! Its all new too me you see, Im a only child, and I was muggle-born! It was a massive shock to me!" Hayley said, this girl was so nice, and she seemed a bit shy, just like her!

"Hi Ella! Im Hayley! Im a first year as well!" Hayley said with a smile.

"Hi. I a-m E-lla, but I t-hink yo-u allr-eady know t-hat." Ella said through hiccups obviously from eating too many scones in such a short time, but hey they are nice. Then realising that Sage was holding out his hand she took it and shook it a bit too vigorously.

"I have hic-cups!" Ella said giggling and hiccuping at the same time.

Megan took and empty seat and looked at the food. There was so much she wasn't really sure what to do. She tried to take a little of everything and began to eat in silence.

"Uh hi, I'm Nathan, I just got sorted and I think I saw you amongst the bunch there".

"Yeah I know what you mean. It seems like the house elves must be away on vacation, hee hee. But the welcome cookies are still good as long as you don't put them on a plate. Anyway, "I'm Nathan Rubel, Gryffindor 1st year".

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Nathan then quickly noticed a girl silently eating next to him. She looked about his age. He turned to her and said, "Hi, I'm Nathan, Gryffindor 1st year, here , have a cookie", he handed her a cookie from the too many he had grabbed in excitement of the sorting.

"That's very coo! I havn't met many muggleborns! I'm a half blood, my mum was a pureblood, but my dad was a muggleborn! Does that mean you went to one of those Muggle schools before Hogwarts?" Sage's father never talked much of the Muggle world, but it ws very interesting to Sage who had hardly visited the Muggle world. Maybe once or twice to visit her grandparent, but that was all.

Sage giggled as Ella hiccuped while she introduced herself.

"Yeah! Are you a first year?" Asked Sage, slightly unsure of herself...

"Hello! I'm Sage! Are you a first year too?" Saged asked the young girl...

Not really expecting an answer, since he tended to speak out loud to himself from time to time, August was a bit suprised when a girl sat down next to him at the table and spoke about House Elves and their usual cleanliness of the cutlery. "Oh House Elves DO work here right? I remember reading something about them in 'Hogwarts, A History'!" he said excited he actually rememered something from that book and was able to sound at least a tad in the know of wizarding things.

"Nice to meet you Nesse." he said shaking her hand. "I'm August, a new third year. I went to Muggle school before coming here." Yep, that's how he was going to be introducing himself for probably the next week or so.

Sage! I met you on the train didn't I?

"Hello! What's your name? Im Hayley!" Hayley said with a wave.

Heyya, I am Ella, first year! You?" Ella managed to say without hiccuping.

"Awh yes I did too! Hello Nathan! I'm Hayley!" Hayley said.


"Yes I did for a couple of years but everyone thought I was a bit weird and was freaked out, so I didnt have many friends... After that my parents took me out of school and homeschooled me." Hayley said...Saying this brought it all back, it wasnt a very nice experience at all. All the jeering and laughing at me..

"Yeah I am! The ceiling is really cool isn't it?" Ella said glad that the hiccups had finally gone.

"haha I hate it when that happens!" Hayley laughed.

"I know! They have gone now!" Said Ella who was looking down at the food but then deciding that she had eaten enough.

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"It's nice to meet you Haley, you have an awesome sporty name.". Did I really just say that :thumps head: Anyway, isn't everything just so amazing here, I have never seen anything like this hall and the ceiling is just amazing, though we would see the same thing if we just stepped outside, hee hee".

Joaquin busy eating his chicken overheard someone else saying she was a Muggleborn. Now, he hasn't met much Muggleborns on the train so now he had a chance to meet one. He said "You're a muggleborn too? I haven't met much here. My name is Joaquin , what's yours?"

"aha, thats good then! How did you get them? Too much too eat? Or drink? I must say its so cool all this food!"

"aha, sporty? Thank you?!" Hayley laughed, she wasnt sure if it was meant to be a good thing or not! "The ceiling is pretty amazing, growing up in the muggle world I've never seen anything like it!" Hayley looked up and smiled.

"Yes I am, you are too? Awesome!" Hayley smiled. "Im Alice!"

"Oh! Yes we did meet on the train! You were sorted into Gryffindor too!?" Sage said.

"Oh why did they think you were weird?" Sage asked, Hayley didn't look very weird to her,"Did you do any accidental magic?"

Sage looked up and noticed the ceiling for the second time that evening, it was amazing after all.

"Yes, it looks magnificent! And the candles are floating! It's very cool! How do you think they did that?" Sage asked Ella looking back down.

Nathan chuckled right back and then all of a sudden Haley revealed a rather interesting fact about herself. "Wow, so you are a muggleborn. I am a halfblood myself but my father knew my mother was a witch even when they were dating. He loves the suoer natural, maybe a bit too much at times. But growing up my parents insisted I learn the muggle and magical way of doing things so I know both, hee hee".

Plumeria nervously walked into the great hall, almost immediately forgetting about how she felt like everybody was staring at her when she spotted Ronnie. She power-walked over to her sister and sat next to her.
"Hey Sis!" She exclaimed, beaming at her.

"Once or twice yes! Once, this boy started teasing me, I got annoyed, and by accident I started lifted him up! I was very confused at the time..." Hayley laughed. "But now it all makes sense I guess!"


"Yes, my parents were very suprised, as was I! But they accepted me when they realised, I was brought up in the muggle world though, so I had no idea what this place would be like!" Hayley smiled.

Adrianna slipped into a seat and looked up and down the long table. The table seemed full of students, and all of them looked excited to be back or to be here at all. Adri was the latter, and she hoped that this place would be as wonderful as everyone had said. She briefly wondered where her mom was, but then pushed the thought out of her mind. She would send a letter...

Something caught her eye and she looked up. Her eyes widened as she saw the hundreds of candles floating there, with a night sky painting the ceiling. But it WASN'T a painting. She smiled. This was one fantastic place.