Valeria glanced at the Slytherin table. Most of the students were chatting and laughing to each other.

"Huh, the Slytherins?" She raised her eyebrow. "Why ever not? I do think that not everyone in Slytherins are evil" She frowned a little at the sudden thought. "Besides, my father is a Slytherin..." She trailed off.

But then again as Valeria thought deeply, she'll never know until she actually ecounters them. And the other houses for that matter. There bound to be people who aren't the nicest people on earth and she was aware of that...

"Well I better get back to my table. You two have a great dinner, when it comes. I hope to see you both very soon." Minerva looks at her two new friends and gives them a final smile for the night and then turns back to her table.

Eino was examining the room when his eyes landed on a familiar face. It was Vashti, the same Ravenclaw girl he had done his Herbology homework with last year. There was also another girl who joined them, but he didn't see her around at the moment. He did recall that her name was Louisa. Not all of the students had assembled in the great hall so that meant there was still some time before the feast began.

Eino scooted over towards her quickly before more students took the seats. "Hello, Vashti!" He greeted her. Hoping she would recognize him, he continued. "How was your summer?"

Gaby smiled. 'Are you excited?' she asked, looking up at the ceiling again. It was just too cool - she couldn't tear her eyes away! She was going to have a really sore neck tomorrow from looking up so much... oh well. Surely there was a spell to get rid of that kind of stuff. She could just look for it in the Library.

'Have a chocolate frog,' Gaby offered, gesturing to the remaining two, next to her filthy plate. Honestly, she had thought that Hogwarts had over a hundred House Elves! No, of course she hadn't read Hogwarts; A History yet.... 'I'm not too sure. A but of everything, I suppose... Either way, I hope that they've got something else to serve the food on,' she said, frowning slightly.

Gaby laughed and bit the head off her frog, slipping the card into her pocket. Snape... she had about twenty of him, so it wasn't all that useful. Oh well, better luck next time. 'No problem,' she said, smiling at Erin. She seemed nice - Gaby was glad that there were nice people in her house. 'Yeah, me too, I'm starving,' she said, glancing once again at the plates. Ew. 'Actually, there aren't any servers. The food just... appears,' she explained. 'Well, that's what my Aunt said. It might have changed since she came here, though,'

'Nice to meet you too, Caelius,' Gaby said, and looked disdainfully back down at the plates. 'Horrible, isn't it? I was hoping my spell would have more effect... it is the first time I've tried it, though,' she said with a shrug. 'Hopefully the staff will notice before we eat and do something about it,' she mused, looking up at the staff table. They simply couldn't eat from those plates!

Ooh, yay. Another potential friend! Gaby wanted to meet as many people as she could at the Feast, so that she'd have people to talk to in the Common Room. She didn't want to be lonely. 'I'm a First Year too,' she said, grinning back at him.


LeGASP. Elliot was in Ravenclaw too! Gaby stood up and waved her friend over, a huge grin on her face. 'Yoo-hoo!' she called. 'Elliot! You're a Ravenclaw!' she cried happily as she sat back down, intending for the other girl to follow suit. She refrained from hugging her, because she remembered vaguely that Elliot didn't like to be touched. Or was that Arriana? Eh. Confusing... anyway. This was totally awesome - the two friends were in the same house. Now all she needed was for Cora and Abbie to be Sorted into Ravenclaw too, and their Diagon Alley group would be complete again!

'Well. A little different from Slytherin, isn't it?' she said, sounding only a little disappointed. She had wanted Ravenclaw too, after all. She had been having a hard time choosing between them. 'And look at the plates!' she added, disgusted. She wondered if they were like that on every table; and how the staff could expect them to eat from the filthy things. It was really gross.

"Oh yes, intelligence is only the start of many great things that run in my family.." Jayden replied to Cael. "If you're careful, you might not ever have to experience the dark side of me.." Jayden responded with a laugh, flashing the boy a playful smile.

Selena looked at him surprised. "Nutritional is boring, maybe that's why your lion isn't happy," she sighed. That had to be it, she refused to believe that there was not a lion in his stomach. She opened her bag and pulled out a lollipop. "Here, the lion will be happier if you have sugar," she said, beaming. Sugar was the solution to everything. Her smile turned into a look of realization as he explained everything. "OOOh. I'm not really related to him by blood, my mother and father divorced, my father was a Zabini and the when my mother remarried, she married a Riddle so she just stuck that name onto mine," Selena explained quickly. Wow, it sounded so much more complicated than it had in her first year.

Scottish... Icelandic? Was he testing her brain?! She knew she was at the Ravenclaw table but that never meant she had to know the map. Instead, she just smiled and nodded, because whatever it was, it sounded somewhat cool. "That's awesome! My last name is my last name!" she said. Not like she knew what part it was. Maybe Italian? Her father was Italian... maybe.. ehhh.

Harvey looked over to Erin and saw her mouth the words "I'm sorry", he mouthed back "it's ok" It really was because lets face it she had other friends too and soon he may make some new friends too, what then?




"Yeah you too" says Harvey "I hope the dinner comes quick I am really hungry now" After Minerva has turned back to her table, Harvey looks around at her and watches her for a few minutes chatting away with the people at her table, and he sees her enjoying herself. He is happy that she has cheered up a little and is getting along with the people on her table.

"Ghastly," Cael agreed with a small smile, nearly certain that this girl was a Pureblood as well. Only they would be disgusted by such a lack of hospitality as this. "I wouldn't worry, after all, it's not like we've had an opportunity to practice yet. Perhaps our magic just isn't used to being funneled through such a tiny medium. We'll get better, we're Ravenclaws, we're destined to be the best," he affirmed a bit smugly.

"So tell me about yourself, Gaby," Cael ordered with a lazy grin. The bubbly, effervescent girl was quite adorable with the way her emotions played so easily across her face. It was fascinating.

Smiling contentedly, Dallin walked beside Ivory to the Great Hall. Walking through those big front doors of the school had done something to make him feel big and important. A sixth year. He was one of the older kids in the school now, and that was odd for him to think about. Because he should now be considering acting like a good example for the younger kids.

He thought about this as he and Ivory walked to the table. His hands were inside the front pockets of his pants, his school robe was unfastened, the top two buttons of his dress shirt were undone and his tie was loose. Who could blame him for that, though; how could he be expected to get re-used to a uniform after a summer? It took time.

It was a few seconds after he stopped in front of the Ravvie table before he realized that there was something wrong with it. It didn't look as... tidy as usual. Frowning, he looked at Ivory with his eyebrows raised. "Looks like the house elves were rushed." Or something. Dallin scanned the table, searching for a place that looked remotely put-together. When he found one, he gestured to it. "Shall we?" Yes, they shall.

"I'm terrified. Truly," Cael laughed as he held his plate up for defense. "Remind me to carry your books for you on the first day of classes so I can hopefully avoid this 'mighty wrath' of yours," he winked. Never let it be said Caelius Ashdown wasn't a shameless flirt...

[QUOTE] "Of course!" Valeria smiled happily. She gasped as Gaby offered her some chocolate frogs.

"Oh, Thank you" She nodded and grabbed one. Slowly she opened the wrapper, and ate it. The chocolate tasted nice, especially since she was so..hungry.

Valeria chuckled as she glanced at her dirty plate as well. "Oh, I agree" She sighed. The plates were absolutely disgusting. She wondered if the House Elves are sick or something. And why aren't the teachers doing anything about it anyway?

OOC: Need to go now....I probably won't be able to Rp for a few days. See you in classes~

"Sorry about asking that question" said Damon 'its just the name that made me wonder. I have no Lion and if i did i would probably make a small zoo next to my house and put the Lion in it for all to see." Damon said.

Elliot looked up rather suddenly, and a smirk kind of played across her face...Gaby! YAY! She quickly got up and went to sit next to her friend. She then made a disgusted face at her statement...different? Merlin, it was VERY different..

"A bit," she replied, sarcasm etched into those two short words. Oh, the little happy firstie. She then, for the first time, looked at the plates...what in Merlin's non-existent pants WERE THESE? Elliot actually jumped back...goodness!

"How can the serve us on these?" she asked, her eyebrow raised incredulously. She just...she was just..SHOCKED. Her father would have died. And she would kill her house elf if she ever served them on plates as dirty and disgusting as these. Call Elliot high maintenance, but she liked her plates clean. And shiny.

She then noticed a boy talking to Gaby. Oops...interruption.

"Oh, so sorry for interrupting..gosh, manners..." she mumbled an apology to the boy and to Gaby, her cold eyes searching the boy for anything she might find weird or odd. Hopefully Gaby didn't make friends with weirdos...gah. After "deeming him worthy" of her attention, she shot him a quick Elliot smirk. Oh, the smirk.

Selena shrugged. "It's fine, I don't mind," she said, steadying the purple fluff that was scampering away from the plate in front of her. "Really? I would just sit on it and make it eat people I don't like," Selena admitted. Because then the world would be a happier place... for her at least. Hmmm... maybe that wasn't such a great plan.

"Ha. So he is the flirty type, two can play that game" Jayden thought to herself... "So Caelius, mind if I call you Cael? I just might have to take you up on that offer..unless some handsome third year catches my eye of course..." She playfully placed her hand on his shoulder, laughing to herself..her light blue eyes flashing mischievously, this was going to be an interesting year..

Hmm. Gaby was pretty sure that Caelius was a Pureblood. Not only did it show in the way the he carried himself, but she was pretty sure that it was only the Purebloods who were reacting to the state of the silverware. 'Yes, that's true... I really can't wait until classes start,' she said happily. She wanted to learn all the magic that she could! 'Of course we're destined to be the best - we're not just Ravenclaws, we're us,' she said with a grin, assuming that if Caelius was a Pureblood, he would be used to being the best at things.

'There's not all that much to tell,' Gaby said, laughing. She was kind of thirsty, but she didn't want to risk actually drinking from the cup, so she left it for now. 'I come from a tiny town called Bowling Green in Virginia, and my parents decided to send me here for school, because they both came here years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth,' she told him, giggling. 'What about you? Tell me about yourself, Caelius,'

Gaby grinned. 'Me too,' she said happily, and looked up at the Staff table again. She wondered if the Headmaster would give a speech or something. She vaguely remembered reading something about the food coming after his speech... well, in that case, he'd better hurry up. 'I can't wait to get started with everything,' she added, turning back to Valeria. 'Are there any subjects you're particularly looking forward to? I personally can't wait until flying, and DADA. And maybe Charms. And... oh, all of it, really,'

'No problem,' Gaby said, biting the leg off of her own frog. She liked to eat them slowly, because then she savoured every last bite of chocolate, but she always felt a little bad. Like she was torturing the poor frog. They weren't exactly filling, though. She hoped that someone would fix the silverware and serve the food, because she wasn't going to last very long. One chocolate frog wasn't all that much of a help.

Hmm. 'Perhaps the House Elves are on strike or something. Or they were too busy,' she mused, looking back at the gross silverware. She would definitely be telling Daddy about this in her next letter. If it didn't get better by the next meal, there would be some serious complaining.

Erin saw Valeria's frowning. Definitely, she was not quite happy on what she heard from Erin. So, Erin dropped the conversation at the moment. She doesn't know but it's really hard for her to be at ease with Valeria.

"Oh, I'm sorry for that. It's just that, from back the train, a lot are talking about Slytherins being rude. But that's maybe just a legend. Look!" she saw a Gryffindor 6th year she guess making the fork levitate. "That was cool!" she muttered.

Well, Gaby seemed nice at all and quite easy-going. She's not someone you could talked to about problems, she's someone who's cool. That's the right word. COOL.

The moment Gaby opened her Chocolate Frogs, she opened hers too. And there was a girl with a rather bushy hair. She's not beautiful, a little ugly even, she thought. She read the name, "Hermione Jane Granger?"

Then she heard her talk again, "What?" she seemed to say it in a high voice which made Gaby jumped and frown a little. "Oh no! It's just that," she said in a whisper, "The food just appears, here? How? I need to braced myself."


She felt happy to see Harvey and not hold grudge on her for leaving him there. After all, Minerva comes there once and a while.

"Mm, not at all," Cael smiled, more than willing to divide his attention. Raising his empty class in a small salute he considered the girl before him. Where others might see 'cold', Cael saw the unmistakable signs of a Pureblood upbringing, it was a relief to see so many Purebloods in his house. When the hat had denied him Slytherin, he was sure it had doomed him to a life of isolation. It was pleasant to be proven otherwise.

His smile grew when he noticed her studying him fastidiously as if searching for flaws. Cael smugly doubted she'd find any. "Anything to report, my dear?" Cael grinned with a single raised brow as if daring her to pick up the verbal gauntlet. He did so love a challenge...

"I believe I've yet to catch your name, Caelius Ashdown, by the way," he extended a hand toward her.

As Kana approached the table, she furrowed her eyebrows as she saw the way the silverware had been... "placed" on the table... O... kay...

The girl was wearing her signature black hoodie, dark skinny jeans, and black tennis shoes, but she had pinned her Ravenclaw badge to the front of the hoodie for security.
Some people thought her neon red hair meant Gryffindor, but she merely liked the color. In fact, her hair was the only thing about this girl that had any color. Besides her personality, that is.

"Hey, 'Claws!", she said enthusiaticly, yet softly, as she sat at the table, collecting a spoon, knife, and fork, and using her napkin to be certain they were clean.

Vashti had only begun trying to figure out why the silverware was all weird when her thoughts were interrupted by a voice saying her name. She didn't recognise the voice immediately, but when she turned and saw who it was sitting beside her, she grinned. "Hey Eino! My summer was pretty alright. I'm glad to be back at Hogwarts though." She nodded. Home was nice, but sometimes Hogwarts was nicer, for many reasons. "How was yours?"

She overheard Jayden and her guy friend's conversation. She was happy to see them getting along well. "Well, she's so much on the dark side. I assure you. I'm at the compartment with her so I can say," Erin said looking at the guy smiling. "What's your name you say?"

Elliot tapped her fingers on the table, noticing his mannerism. She raised her eyebrows at him, and gave him a real smile. Ha. He was so pureblood...at last! Elliot chuckled and raised her glass as well in reply.

At his remark, she gave him one last looong stare. "Erm, yes. Don't call me 'dear,'" she replied, being very serious. "My name is Elliot, and will be referred to as such," she added, trying her best not to sound too...ewwy. Or mean. Caulius? Interesting. "Yes, it's a boy's name...but I like it!" she said defensively. "The last name's Morganzo," putting emphasis on her surname, which she happened to be very proud of. Ashdown...sounded pureblood? Maybe. She'd have to ask her dad.

Jayden smiled as her friend joined in the conversation.. "See Cael? I am fearless.... you better watch out." She turned to Erin.."So, what classes are you most excited for tomorrow?"

"Not at all, mind if I call you Jay?" he teased, "It's only fair, after all."

Throwing a hand over his heart in mock-hurt, Cael swooned in his seat. "You wound me, my dear, to imply any third year could ever hold a candle to moi," he laughed letting a little French seep into their conversation. It was the language of 'love', or in this case, 'extremely humorous and rather overt flirting'.

"Let me know when you find this third year, for I demand to inspect him and judge for myself." Ah, perhaps with Jayden around this year would be far less dull than he'd originally thought.

"To us then," Cael toasted, immediately catching wind of what she was implying. Purebloods really did have the best of everything in their world, including pleasant company it seemed!

"A good choice, it seems," Cael laughed about her dinosaur comment, "Otherwise I would have never met the delightful Miss Bowling Green," he smiled.

"Myself? Ah, not much to tell I suppose. My guardians live in an unplottable manor near the outskirts of Wales and I am the sole heir to the Ashdown line. Unfortunately, it will remain that way," Cael smiled sadly.

India walked over to the ravenclaw table and sat down (quite softly for the force she put into it) on the bench. Running a hand through her thick brown hair she sighed. She was hungry. She was in the smart 'house' and that meant she'd have to keep up her grades and her brians.

Do homework. Do homework...that'd be the task of the century. Geesh all she wanted to do was joke around with people, flirt, make silly comments, call someone Shelly until they realize it means girl...maybe even scrape by with a passing grade. But knowing her mum and what she'd do to her. She'd have to get at least O level grades in her exams.

Looking around she smiled. This wasn't such a bad place...maybe she could hone in on the inner art of mischief.