The taffy was good but it was gumming up his mouth. Not that Corey needed speech to communicate. He banged on the table with his fist, waved at the badge girl, winked, and then used every possible gesture he could to say both thank you and 'hey if you do have more, forget that guy.' Corey did puppy eyes better for one thing.

Then he worked on asking the other guy his name.

All in expressions and gestures. Loud, physical gestures, not much caring about flailing arms getting in the way of people sitting with him.

'Yeah, I guess. Too bad they didn't clean up the dishes!' Rose chuckled as she took a bite out of her burger.

Blink.

Blink.

Salariel wasn't sure what was going on anymore. Green House Hottie Hot Hottie didn't have any more taffy, the boy seemed to be somewhere between charades and choking... Salariel sank back into his seat, staring and trying to decode the grandiose gestures.

Maybe he was trying to signal that it was lucky there was no more taffy for Salariel, because the Hottie Hot Hottie had hexed it, and now the boy would never be able to speak again.

Hmm.

Staaaaaaaaare.

"Mum always did say don't take candy from strangers, and now I know why," he murmured. He looked at the girl and was about to ask her what she'd done to the poor kid when he noticed a bit of shiny on her.

Well hello Miss Green Badge.

Miss HEAD GIRL Green Badge.

Clearly Salariel was in the right house, if all the important people were here.

"You didn't happen to toss him some hexed taffy, did ya, Ms. Head Girl?" He called to the hottie with the badge. "He's flailing about something awful."

He directed his attention back to the boy. "I'm Salariel Caine, by the by. Not that that'll do you much good if you're dying from cursed taffy." Pause. "Are you dying from cursed taffy, or is this just what you're regularly like?"

The second Affinity stepped on the grounds of Hogwarts, she felt nervous. The Hogwarts Express ride didn't go as she had planned and she just decided to keep to herself. When she entered the Great Hall, she took a quick glance at the Slytherin house table and made her way over. As she made her way over to the Slytherin house table, she took a seat at the back as it seemed to be empty.

She sat there staring at her fellow house mates getting along, chatting and what-not. This made her feel really lonely. However, she wasn't going to ponder on it, and just start fidgeting with the silver, yet tarnished, fork.

Lorelai looked up when she saw someone sit by herself, no one talking to her. Hmmm. A lonesome person. Maybe someone else Lorelai could be friends with. The third year bit the inside of her lip and walked toward her. Be nice, Miss Vanderwalker she thought silently as she got closer to the girl. She smiled slightly at her. "Hey" she said rather yet slightly oddly politely. So far so good. She was resisting temptation to say anything bad. "Lorelai Vanderwalker" she said not so politely. Well it was better than how she'd spoke to Maria by far.

Raising her eyebrows a little, Mia felt a small smirk of her own. "Well your the Head Girl..." She didn't bother to respond about taking points from other houses, because no she couldn't do that.

"So how are things? I guess I better get in now because you're probably going to be so busy as soon as school officially starts." She looked up and down the Slythie table. "Look at all those first years." They were so small and fragile looking, they were going to need lots of help. "Oh and how's that problem of yours going?"

The fire one?

Rolling her eyes at her friend, Mia patted Destiny on the shoulder. "Yes, yes congratulations on making..." she peered closer at the badge..."Gryffindor Quidditch Captain? I didn't know you played Quidditch?" And for Gryffindor? "Maybe you could join the Hufflepuff Gobstones team." Of course she wouldn't be as good as her.

Mia knew those looks well. Destiny had constantly given her looks when they were on safari together. And quite frankly the girl should be grateful that she was actually sitting here in the Great Hall. If it hadn't been for Mia stopping her from stealing all those animals, she would probably be in jail right now.

"As a matter of fact I have been poked with a fork." Those kids in the commune could get a little ferocious when they were hungry. "What does that have to do with anything anyway?"

The elves worked in the kitchen. And forks came from the kitchen.

Yep. Definitely the second Lola! Wonder what Lafay will react when she finds out another looney got sorted into her house. Boon seems to be an innocent girl. But you can't judge a book by its cover, according to muggle sayings.

Aiden nearly choked her drink when Boon explained her idea of sleeping with an eye opened. "I don't think that's necessary," she wipes her mouth with her sleeve. "You see, Hogwarts have various charms, and enchantments casted to protect it. So you don't have to sleep with your eyes opened," is that even possible?

Well, she had seen worse ways of communication in this school before...

But this, this was up in the top five of the most...unique ways. She saw the wink, which made her narrow her eyes somewhat, and then the...stuff. Whatever he was doing there. Oh jeez, the taffy was poisoned, wasn't it? Or he was just one of those kids that get all sugar high from eating sweets. Like Destiny. She would have liked to have learned that without the presence of Lafay around though.

Taking a deep breath, she shook her head lightly, having no clue what Beast kid was saying and was going to turn her attention back to Destiny, but then Puddle kid was talking. Finally.

...

"Hex a piece of taffy?" she asked, leaning forward to get a better look at the Puddle kid. Ehhhhhhhhhh... "Well that certainly would have been a sneaky and smart sly thing to do, but no. I didn't."

Mostly because she already thought it was poisoned.

She was Head Girl- Well yes! She knew that already, but Mia didn't give her an answer on her second question. Unless, that was the answer to her second and most important question.

o___O!!

She'd have to ask Lafay about it later.

Wait, was she going to be busy? Well, considering NEWTs were coming up, she supposed so. "Yea, I guess." she said, looking at all the first years. Why was she looking at the first years? She didn't like first years. Blink. Erm...

"What problem?"

Jade knew that he was joking around for he was alone before she even came to sit with him. Although it still kind of hurt, but she wouldn't even admit that to him. "Well if your popularity is so high, then stop ignoring your "friends" and sit with them, instead of being alone." She smirked. Which he had no "friends" except for her and probably the occasional first year that everybody made friends with. Unless there was another girl, okay now she had to know. Then again...like Nikolas would actually tell her. Who actually knew, though?

She waited for his expression when she gave him the guy's numbers and it was a weird expression. One that she didn't even know existed really, but he congratulated her; then she knew something was up. "You can't do that, I'm free to decide on whoever I would like to date." She said taking the papers back and stuffing them inside her bag. "Maybe I should just leave, seeming as you're just a dummy to even recognize how amazing I am without you."

Affinity shot her head up when she heard a voice. It was a fellow Slytherin she had seen before but never talked to, as she seemed a bit intimidating. Remember Affy, THINK before you speak, she thought, as she always came out with the wrong things. "Hey there!" she blurted, rather desperate. "I'm Affinity J. Allen, you can call me Affy if you want." she said with a smile, before adding, "It's nice to meet you Lorelai!"

Was it her or did this girl seem a little nervous around Miss Lorelai? O well. She wasn't that intimidating was she? Not even Maria seemed intimidated but then that was someone else who probably had a slightly severe attitude. But hey, that only made them more likely to be friends, right? O wells. Lorelai sat down beside the girl, her back toward the table and her legs crossed. "Nice to meet you too, Affy" she replied. There's a good little Miss Attitude. Lorelai was actually being polite. She didn't feel sorry for her, did she? No. She couldn't. Just because no one was talking to her before she was approached, didn't mean she was completely lonesome. Her friends probably hadn't got in the Great Hall yet. Yeah. That sounded like a believable theory.

"So what year are you in?" she asked. Affy did look slightly younger than Lorelai but that didn't mean a thing. Just because she looked younger, didn't mean she was younger. Though if she was younger, it'd probably make it a little easier to make friends with her. Providing she wasn't too intimidating that was.

"Nahhhhhhhh, its fine. Or it was." Corentin answered cheerfully, finishing the taffy and swallowing it. "Salariel you said? I'm Corentin. But call me Corey, yeh?"

He went quiet for a second and then, "I'm still hungry." He looked at the badge girl. "But thanks." He grinned.

"Corentin?" This guy was almost as oddly named as Salariel. The boy nodded, storing that name away for later recollection, though he figured Corey would be a lot easier to remember. "Aye, it's Salariel. You can call me Sal, or Caine if you like." He jerked his head toward Mr. Green Badge. "He's a Sal too, apparently."

Which probably meant Salariel would either be going by his full first name, or his last name. After all, he was awesome and amazing enough to be confused for the seventh year head boy, wasn't he?

...wasn't he?

Yes, the voices in his head assured him.

Green Badge Hottie Hot Hottie was looking his way, and in a rather odd fashion, too. The corner of Sal's mouth lifted into a grin and he shrugged.

"Never can tell with some people, yanno. But wouldn't it be fun for him to be taffy hexed by a pretty Head Girl?"

He'd have to remember to try out taffy hexing during his free time. Maybe he could test it on Corentin, since it seemed his stomach was one that could never be appeased. Sal looked down at him out and his bottom lip jutted out; it was pitifully empty, he could just tell.

"You pass out hunger like it's a cold, Corey," he grumbled, rubbing his stomach and looking around the table as if food would magically appear in front of him if he just kept wishing for it. "You'd think they'd put bread or somethin' on the table for us to keep busy with while they do... er... the hat thing."

Sorting.

Yeah.

It was taking forever. Maybe he'd try to sneak out and into the kitchens or something. Those had to be around here somewhere, right? It wasn't like they could carry the food down the zillion flights of steps from the highest tower to the dining hall.

She was being congratulated.

*BEAM*

And, even though, somewhere in the back of her wonky brain, Destiny knew that she wasn't really Gryffindor Quidditch Captain, she still felt that she deserved all the congratulations she could get. No one, no one but her and Carter knew what she had to do to get the badge. It was like she had to wrestle the badge out of Carter's yeti-like grip. And she knew how strong a yeti's grip was; her brother worked with them after all.

"Why, thank you, Mia." She went back to fiddling with the badge on her robes. "I don't play Quidditch, that's what makes this badge extra special. They knew I'd be a good Captain." And Carter didn't know but, she was going to be at all his practices. "Do the Hufflepuff Gobstone players wear shiny badges?" The Slytherin's never did.. and she played for them sometimes.

Destiny cringed. She didn't know what it felt like to be poked with a fork, but she had been hit over the head with a spatula once. And that hurt. "Do you have scars?" Fork scars. Scoffing, as if the answer to Mia's question was the most obvious thing in the world, she picked up a fork, and began making jabbing motions towards her friend with it. "Imagine I am a house elf, and you are me."

Jab, jab, jab.

Overly tired from the long journey, Kelsey stumbled over to the table and sat down.She fell asleep.

Michelle beamed when Katrina saw her and proceeded to move up the table (the din was deafening what with all the excitement about the house elf). "Hey, Katrina! I'm STARVED," she said as she found a seat closer to chat. "Hows the food?" and did you see that elf? I thought it was going to poke its own eyes out" "..but absolutely not making fun of them or anything," she quickly added.

Looking down the table again, Mia chuckled softly. She had never seen so many first years before. "You guess? Evelyn, those little kids are going to be looking to you to help them out. Hogwarts can be a little scary when you first get here." Heck, she had been nervous when she first got here and she'd come in as a fourth year. She was going to be nice to them, right?

Oh what problem she asks?

"Ahhh...so you reniged on our deal then?" Mia had a feeling she would. Wonder what the groundskeeper would think of the Head Girl if he found out that it was she who burnt down his treehouse?

"Does the treehouse ring any bells?"


Did Destiny even know the rules to Quidditch? She felt sorry for the person who had just had their badge stolen from them. What was with these Slytherins anyway? Evelyn was a pyromaniac. Destiny was showing signs of being a Klepto. And Marie was...well actually Marie had settled down quite a bit since she had first met her. "Looks like you're going to be mighty busy this year too. All those Quidditch practices and then the actual games." Personally she planned to coast through her last year. "No we don't have badges. We don't need them. We're awesome already."

Oookay!

Her friend was officially mental. Mia reached up and grabbed Destiny by the wrist. "Okay first off, a house elf would not try and stab someone with a fork. Secondly, no I don't have any scars and thirdly if you don't stop that I will summon every piece of chocolate you have hidden in this castle."

And then give it to the two guys whining about how hungry they were.

Fueled by the confusion left behind by the house elf, Michelle was ecstatic to be at the Slytherin table..but then she noticed a girl plopping down onto the table, and fell asleep (fell asleep!). She wondered if the girl would jump if she poked her with one of the cutlery..

Did Beast boy think that taffy was going to fill him up? Merlin if only she knew of a food that small that could fill someone up. That give her a lot of extra time throughout the year to be studying instead of wasting time eating.

"Yea, sure."

Glancing back to Puddle Boy, she was going to say something about not being stupid and doing something like that in front of professors but he...he called her...pretty. Hehe, he thought so? Well obviously she knew she was, but one doesn't hear that often from anyone.

Except Josh. And his opinion was the only one that mattered! Just his...and everyone else's. "Well I don't know. Why don't you ask him?" Evelyn would find it quite fun.

Ehhhhhhh....

"I didn't find it scary at all when I was a first year." Well, maybe she did, but she was pretty sure the first years here wouldn't be scared in finding out just exactly what they'd be eating for the rest of the year.

Deal...? Treehouse? Bells? OH! Oh, THAT deal. That...right. That one. "Oh, umm...no. I mean yes. I mean...of course I got help with that problem. A deal is a deal, isn't it?"

Oh look! Kiddy who fell asleep. /distraction

Oi...

Was this one of the first years Mia was talking about?

Well then FINE. She'd start to be all Head Girl and welcome them and whatnot. Eying the young kid, Evelyn scoffed quietly before leaning over and...poked them.

Poke. Poke. Pokepoke.

Didn't they know house elf feet were on the table not minutes before!? It was unsanitary.

Aurora chuckled, "I guess it's only one flight of stairs to get to the kitchen whn you do get hungry." she said, chuckling. Yep, she loved being so close to the kitchen!

"I think there was an article in the daily prophet to do with the school..." she pondered... "I don't read the paper. But I'm guessing that's why he's stressed..." she said as she looked up to the staff table. Tate did look a bit... drawn out.


Aurora shook her head, "No, I hardly know her. I had a class with her once... Muggle studies I think." She shrugged, they'd only had one conversation really...

"Three months? Why, what happened three months ago?" she asked, looking at him. Though to be honest she was curious as to why he hadn't been to Hogwarts before... "Well yeah, he runs the school and the elves sort of belong to the school so I guess he's their master..." That was how it worked right..?

Aurora shook her head, "You can't be rubbish at herbology! Professor Bentley's too good, she explains it all really simply. Anyway," she added, "I'll help you." She grinned at him. Potions. Herbology. DADA. The three subjects she was confident enough in to help out. "I wish we could have music lessons..." she said. Yeah, she'd probably be pretty good at them...

She watched the elf with amusement, only a little curious as to why it was only cleaning now... When Kennedy sat back down she said, "It was only doing it's job. Kittsa does that all the time..." Though, to be fair, Kittsa had never tried to blind herself with a fork.

Beezus was standing up when her Remembrall fell off, (why did she even had a Remembrall ?) and rolled over to the Slytherin table. Uh-oh.
She immediately made her way there, Where is it ? She kept glancing under the table and found it beside the foot of a girl, she approached her and said, Excuses .." Beatrice bent and grabbed her Remebrall.

Hmm. A rolling sound? In the middle of the Great Hall? Lorelai looked down at the thing by her foot. She raised her eyebrows and shrugged it off. But then it's owner came and got it. She looked round at the girl and smiled slightly moving her foot so she could get to it better.

Woah.

Salem was a high tech school, with a cafeteria (albeit magiked) and regular dry walled classrooms and the sort. Hogwarts, however, was something out of a fairytale.

As I wondered somewhat bewildered in towards the Slytherin table, I notice...well...no one. Crap. Sigh. I dunno. I'm not even sure why I'm even here. England? Slitherin? This all was seeming mighty suspicious.

Well.

This was awkward.

Step One, find a seat.

"Huh?" Sarah asked, turning around, "Oh, hullo" she tried to remember what the boy had asked her, then noticed that he had clean silverware, "What?! How'd you get those?" Sarah complained, then she sighed, "Well, do you want to sit with me? You're welcome to."

"Wow." Sarah said in awe. "I guess you're right, the best part'll definitely be learning magic. But um... pots and pans? Why them?"

Sarah turned to look at the staff table, "Why's Professor Droo so nasty, then?" she asked, scanning the table.

When Zhenya joined the rest of the Slytherin table she noticed a girl who was asleep. Next to her sat another girl who was staring at the other girl. Yes, Zhenya too thought it was a bit odd that someone could actually fall asleep among all this chatter and food.

"Excuse me," said Zhenya to the girl next to her, "I'm Zhenya. I don't know anyone in Slytherin yet, it would be great to talk to someone." She hoped she could chat with more people in her house.