He couldn't argue that Ash was a cool nickname. There was a reason that most of the time that was how he introduced himself, after all. It had switched up a lot recently, though. Perhaps it was because he'd realized he didn't really care either way what people called him. Or maybe it was just because his whole name had just been said in front of the entire school, so wouldn't matter now anyway. Of course, the fact that he still had to introduce himself to people did mean that they hadn't heard, or if they had, they didn't think on it long enough to remember that it was him, which meant that he could tell people his name was Bubble Honeypots if he wanted to, and no one would be any wiser. Hm. It was something to think about.
Later, though. Right now he was talking, and not messing it up as badly as he had been doing all day. He decided it was best to focus on keeping that up instead of letting his mind wander off on random subjects.

"You could just make something up if you wanted to," he did mention. "I mean, lots of people have nicknames that don't have anything to do with their names. My mother knows someone called Sugar, but her real name is Chloe." He had always wondered about that, but not quite enough to care to ask. He didn't like Sugar much. She always pinched his cheeks and sent him off to play, like he was five.
"Anyway, you really hid your mother's wand?" There wasn't anything strange that he'd noticed. He'd had friends just because his parents' friends had children they would bring over, but if he'd had any siblings, he could imagine he might have played with them as well. More interesting about this tale was the subject about which he'd asked. That would have been yet another thing to set a heart attack off in his mother. "What did she do? Mine might have tossed me out right away," he said with a small laugh.

"Do you mean she wouldn't even go shopping with you?" Ashley asked, surprised by that. Even his mother had accompanied him everywhere, as unpleasant as she'd made the trip. Hopefully he'd been able to hide the surprise he'd had at the mention that her mother was a muggle. Did he even know any muggles? He was sure he didn't. This was going to be interesting. "You'd think she would be excited to hear something like that. What did she say?"

"Ashwin? Hmmm... I don't know." Audrey's mother and father talked so much about relatives she didn't know or couldn't remember. It was confusing sometimes.

"I'll give it to you later."

Audrey smiled happily. Audrey heard her father talk about muggleborns. He didn't seem to like them but Audrey didn't think anything was wrong with them. Sarah was nice. Well, she didn't know much about her as yet but she seemed nice.

" Hello Fee" William smiled." I am ready this term" William told Fee." I have not seen Witsy sither" William said to Fee." Friends are great to have, aren't they?" Willaim asked Fee. "Did you enjoy the wedding?" William asked Fee.

" Good, I get to see you again" Willaim told Louise. " Now yo utake care of yoru back" Willian said to Louise.

She's right. He does need to eat at least something... whatever it may be. It's just that "I'm not hungry" he said. True, he's just doesn't want to eat. He's not on a special diet or anything, it's just that he just doesn't have that much appetite right now.

Jonathan laughed when she mentioned she couldn't stop. "Growing girls shouldn't stop" he explained. It's nice how some people do admit they could never stop eating. Jonathan loves to eat that weird dessert combination, chocolate cake and pumpkin juice. Not the best combination but then again, he couldn't stop eating them.

But maybe right now, eating his favorite dessert at Hogwarts is not the best idea.

Jonathan nodded at her "Yeah, he seemed......... stressed?" in a way he does. Jonathan didn't hear about the house elves thing but he did read about the headmaster having some trouble in the Daily Prophet.

No one knows what happened to the house elves that made them rebel over Hogwarts. Jonathan has been asking people already and no one really seems to know about it. Maybe he could ask Lafay about it? But then again, it's Lafay. She may answer questions but she doesn't like questions involoving something........... scandalous, perhaps.

Jonathan smiled as she introduced her name. "Jonathan, fifth" he introduced himself as well. Jonathan did saw her at the sorting "Welcome to Slytherin" best house ever, well, he wanted to add that but nevermind. Heehee. "Hope you'll feel comfortable around here." he told her.

It's not that hard too, Lafay usually give out partners to those first years and transferred students to make them more familiarized in school. Well, that's what she did last term.

Yeah, I guess you're right on both parts Lysandra said, smiling. When Lana complemented her on her name, her smile grew more. She hasn't smiled this much since the last school year. She put a forkful of grilled chicken in her mouth. After she swallowed the delicious food, she answered Yes, this would be my second year here and I can't wait for classes to start.


Why thank you for thinking it's a cool name. I kinda like it myself. Someone in my family was named Lysandra and I guess my mom thought it would be a good name for me. The only thing I don't like about it is that it's too long she laughed. Well, hope you have an awesome first year. And you're right. This would be my second year here. My first year was kinda weird, kinda wicked, but I liked it. Can't wait for this year to actually start! Lysandra was starting to feel so much better after getting some food in her stomach.

Sugar? Well that was sure odd...being named after something you pour in vast amounts into a cup of tea, well...maybe it was just her when it came to the vast amounts.

"Chloe is pretty name" Eris mused, "Sugar....hmm...why don't I just call myself Pumpkin Juice then?" she gave a boyish chuckle at the idea, even briefly considering it as she swayed the goblet filled with the same liquid in her hand. Reverting back to the conversation as he brought up her little fun with her mother's wand, Eris raised her eyebrows with interest.

"Ooo she was furious" Eris grinned, this particular dare not as anticlimactic as some have been. And who could resist a happy ending to tell?

"Sadly for my poor mum...she was better at wordless magic that wandless magic." Eris began with a bit of post sympathy for the parental unit. "I got to hear her practically shrieking accio repeatedly....only it wasn't really shrieking, she has this way of shouting in frustration and determination without raising her voice higher than it usually goes..." Eris paused as she realized she was rambling.

"Anywho, I was a bit of a git...at seven mind you...and seemed to be perfectly content watching her destroy the house....I mean really...she was so lit up she didn't even bother to ask the house elves to retrieve it." Eris gave a laugh deciding to cut to the chase.

"But my kid brother...the one who asked me to do it....got lonesome without mummie's attention and ratted me out." Eris stopped and gave a low whistle. "Boy...if I was just a few years older, I sure would have gotten the beating of my life........the look of a grim in her eyes, that woman.......so I had to go retrieve it..." she grinned for a moment in memory, "You know those little cherub rock things that people have near their fountains? Well...lets just say he was holding it....and my mother was more than displeased. Got my toy broom snapped and everything." Eris finished with a nod.

"Is your mum strict too?" she added, wondering if most Wizarding families were alike in habits.

"Yes! Her!" Woo! Thank goodness she knew the name. Kennedy could have made a fool of himself if he had to pronounce it. "Are you guys close friends?" he asked out of curiosity.

Kennedy shrugged. "How am I supposed to know. I just got here three months ago," he slightly grinned. He thought about it though. How can someone, or something in this case, love to clean? He knew how it was to be on that side and he certainly did NOT like it. "Their master?" he said, raising an eyebrow.

He slightly smiled at her enthusiasm while trying to control his cheeks. They never listened. Hmm, he was going to have to look for a potion that repressed blushing. M'hm. "I have a feeling I'm going to be horrible at Herbology," he grumbled. He had no clue about plants.

Alice Walker sat down at her house table. She couldn't wipe that grin off her face. She was a Slytherin.

She glanced around the table. Her eye caught a few cute guys, a couple of girls who seemed interesting. She figured she'd wait for someone to approach her. She didn't feel as though approaching a random Slytherin in hopes of a new friend would end well.

"Thanks" Eris gave a grin before realizing something. It wasn't really important but this girl seemed to know about family relations, so a certain something popped up in her head.

Taking out a jagged dark wooded wand from her cloak, Eris fingered a silver...or was it platinum...ring at the handle.

She showed the ring to Audrey by turning the wand's grip to face her. "Have you seen that coat of arms before?" Eris asked curiously. It was a blue green and grey gem stone, the colors of it seemeing to move like clouds or mist between each other under a symbol of a drop that was ornated by a gleaming and archaic looking "S". "It's supposed to be from my family on my mums side somewhere far up....never really found out who they were though...." The young witch added. She wasn't as curious as her mother about geneology, but why not find out if you can?

((OOC: it's not Salazar or Slytherin...try to keep myself away from sueness))

"Nice to meet ya." Eris grinned. "I sort of do...most people are quite friendly." The others couldn't be blamed for their personality...but luckily the young witch hadn't actually run into any of them.

"Though...since you've been here..." Eris began, addressing something that had been on her mind for a while. "How are the teachers?". Never having the experience of a classroom before, she wondered what they were like with a great amount of curiosity.

Audrey saw the girl and decided to talk to her, even though she was a bit shy. "Hi there!" she said smiling. This is how her mother told her to make friends so...here goes.

"Hullo." Alice smiled, relieved. "I'm Alice Walker. It's my first year. What about you?"

"Hey there!" A boyish-looking first year called from a seat at the table. It seemed like most of the sorting was finishing up. "Your Alice...right?" Eris asked with a hint of question to her tone in case she was wrong, as the hat had just boomed her name across the great hall.

"My mother is a muggle" Maddy was a bit embarressed about that fact, considering many Slytherins came from pure Slytherin Families."She probly would have ended up in Huflepuff if she were a witch!"."Where did your mom come from?" Maddy asked. It must be exciting to have famly from abroadthought Maddy.

Audrey was shocked when she saw it. "Yes! I have. Somewhere on the family tree I believe!" she said trying to contain her eagerness. "It would be so cool if we're actually related!"

"I'm Audrey Parker. Nice to meet you," she said while beaming, "Yup! I'm so nervous yet excited!"

"Pumpkin Juice is a good one," Ashley said, chuckling quietly. It was sort of long, though, and her actual name was much shorter, so people probably wouldn't go for it, he thought. His mind sort of wandered into a land where people started out saying Pumpkin Juice, then went on to just PJ, making it a nickname of a nickname, and just how weird is that? But, right. His mind was in its own little world again, and he needed to stop doing that. He forced himself to focus, just in time to catch the whole story on what had happened with the wand-hiding and everything.
He couldn't help but smile as he imagined all of the shrieking and picturing lots of rushing around, peeking into cabinets and under beds and inside dressers, etc... It's what he might have done, he figured, although he intended to never lose his wand, if he had to sew it to his hand.
"Were you angry with your brother? How could he ask you to do something, then tattle? It's like he set you up!" His eyebrows raised as he realized that, suddenly feeling like perhaps he'd gotten out of a lifetime of trouble by being an only child.

"My mother..." A pause found itself hanging out there, as he tried to think of how he would describe her. Not exactly strict, but not too loose with the rules, either. Basically, if he stayed out of her way and out of trouble, she didn't care what he did. When he did get into trouble. she always called on his father to deal with it while she stood by and looked disappointed. "She's too busy to be too strict, I think. She's got lots of clubs and parties to deal with. Besides, I'm a perfect child. Never got into any trouble," he said with a grin, even though it was a huge lie.

Muggle? "My dad sometimes works with muggles," Eris beamed as if this fact was quite extraordinary. "Though...I've never met one personally...." she added a bit bashfully.

"My mum is from Romania" Eris replied with a small smile. "I've been there a couple of times to visit my mom's parents.....but they arn't exactly the nicest of people." Eris raised her eyebrows and lowered her voice even though it wasn't like they could hear her talking about them. Re-remembering why she kept her visits to the nice country short.

She saw Rose look at the Quorn Burger.
"Well, I guess so," she replied. "It's Hogwarts; I don't think they make any bad tasting food here."

Katrina instantly agreed with what she said. The chicken in here didn't taste bad. And their rice. Merlin did they cook them so beautifully.

"Me too. I'm just glad I'm a Slytherin. I'm a Half-Blood. My mum is a muggleborn and my dad is a Pureblood."

"In the flesh." Alice grinned. "What's your name?"

"Thats cause she doesn't live with us, my parents divorced when my mom found out my dad was a wizard" Maddy said "so she kinda figured I'd be a witch". Her mother had never thought Maddy was quite normal ever since the time she made her bike fly. "Plus if muggles went into Diagon Ally would they even be able to see anything? Cause when they go by the leaky cauldren, they don't even see it!"

Something distracted Katrina while she was eating. Someone was waving at her. Katrina turned her back and it was Michelle. But then she started to look, well, hungry.
Katrina thought it was funny to try to wave at someone then ending up eating instead.

"You really should eat now, Michelle," Katrina said loudly so her friend could hear through the loud talking. "You look hungry."

Katrina saw another first year taking her seat. She looked much more excited than she was so she decided to approach her.

"Hello." Katrina said. "I'm Katrina Hudson. What's your name?"

Right. He hadn't thought of that. Mostly because Ash still wasn't really processing the whole idea yet. That, and he just didn't think about muggles that much. He'd never had to, so he'd really never had the concern about what they could or couldn't see. Maybe one day he would have questioned it, but until now, the notion had never entered his mind.
So he shrugged, sitting back a little so that he could rest his elbow on the table in order to prop up his head on his hand.
"I don't know. I guess that's a good point. I've never thought about it. I don't know that much about muggles," he admitted, rather than keeping the thoughts all to himself. He didn't see a problem with admitting something like that. It wouldn't make him seem stupid, would it? Why would it?
"So why would you write to her about your owl? If you know she won't like it?" he asked. It seemed like a different kind of situation from the one that would happen if he told his mother he was in another house. That would be a funny prank. This girl sounded like her mother would actually be upset. Then he remembered something, very random, in the middle of a conversation. "Oh, what's your name, by the way? I'm Ashley."

"Theyre really not that much different from us, besides the fact that they cant do magic and they never put down their cell phones! My brother's one two". Since Maddy visited her mom's house every other weekend, she knew quite a bit about the muggle world, although prefering the advantages of magic. " Why aren't your grandparents the nicest of people?" Maddy asked, she loved to gossip.

As she was talking, Maddy finally found a cleanish set of cutlery. "I think they need new house elves" She stated after examining a grimy looking knife.

"Ehhhh...." Eris let out in a bit of thought forgetting her manners in polite speech. "He was only three...and my only playmate at the time...I guess that's why I let him get away with it so easily."

Eris had never really though about that, looking back, she couldn't remember being actually angry at her little brother...just a small shake of a head silly you kind of reaction.

"I got to be the big sister of the house" Eris beamed as though this was honorable beyond words, though she was incredibly tiny herself to be speaking such things.

Eris listened to him talk about his own mother, "Never got into trouble, aye?" She found this a bit hard to believe, but hey, she had nothing support doubt.

"If your mom was always busy, then did your dad school you?" She added curiously...hoping she wasn't asking to much about his family. Her dad was really nice and all, but usually he was the busy one in the family that was always gone.
Eris gave a small chuckle, politely covering her mouth with the back of her hand. "Agreed" she beamed, making a mental note to put this in her letter tonight when she owled her mother.

"So...are we just gonna go to bed hungry?" Eris brought up poking at the moldy bread.

She could technically eat it, but was it really worth it? Then again...what if the food would always be like that.

New mental note: ask mum for food and dishes

Maddy realised how stupid she was sounding "Cause I want to write to my mom" Maddy replied bluntly. "I'm Maddy"

Eris blinked for a moment at the word cell phone.

She almost raised her hand for a moment like a young school-child, "Erm.....what is a 'Selfone'?" the young witch asked rather curiously, also wondering why an object was so important to keep consistently elevated.

Eris gave a laugh when the mentioning of her grandparents was brought up. "Well...I really shouldn't be saying this...." Eris giggled childishly and talking about her family behind their back. "My grandmother is the most cynical lady one the planet...walking and talking like there is a stick shoved up her but all the time...for good reason too...she married a guy who was practically twice her age." Eris had nothing against her grandpa really, but it didn't take more than a second of speculation to know they were not married for love. "My Grandpa is lazy and doesn't care much about anything in old age....I don't think he can even use magic anymore...." the man was rolling in Galleons, yet she had never seen him pick up a wand.

"Yeah..." Eris conceded. "I'm going to ask my mum for some silverware....not sure how she'll react to that request though" the witch added with a chuckle.