Yeah. Sure. Asher Romalotti had to come up with the snarky comment. Just because he didn't know a thing about Hogwarts. There were bound to be others who didn't know a thing about Hogwarts as well. "I just didn't expect there to be feasts as such," Just normal dinners. Unless Romalotti was too used to feasts to know about normal dinners. And then Romalotti talked about chocolate cake. Girls... ate a whole chocolate cake together? Didn't they usually care about their weight and everything?

Oh! So Romalotti didn't know about the squid. Figures. Alec turned to look at Anya who... was talking about a squid sunning itself? "Did Carter say anything about the squid being nice?" If so... he would have to make a note to visit the squid sometime.

Alec grinned. Quidditch. It couldn't be hard could it? And Asher was saying how much they'll love it. Maybe this guy wasn't too bad after all. But... "You're not going to try out, Anya?" he asked, "Come on, it'll be fun!" Especially if they were all on the same team. "And that's what i mean. Defence Against the Dark Arts," he said, nodding at Asher. He was definitely going to have to remember that one.

So Asher was excited about Potions. And Anya about Care of Magical Creatures. That was interesting. "It'll be a lot different to primary school," he said, "And we have seven years of this!" They could have a lot of fun in that time. A lot of kite flying and Quidditch.

And then Asher asked something about houses. Alec remembered Adeline asking him the exact same thing in the ice cream store and so he was going to give the two the same answer he had given to Adeline. "I don't know about my house as well," he said, "I just want to get into one. What about you Asher?" See? He was being nice! And... clothing? He was NOT going to put underwear on his head and have it tell him which house he got into. "What piece of clothing is this?" It was safe to ask. Really. He needed to know.

...

Alec bit his lip as a new girl entered the compartment. One who seemed to be so attached to Asher, she practically jumped at the sight of him and gave him a weird nickname. And then Anya asked something that made him chuckle. "I'll stick to calling you Asher," You know, for the boy's sanity.

As for the girl. "Erm, hi!" he said, giving her a single wave. She seemed nice so he wasn't going to say anything. And she seemed to be around about their age. They could have a lot in common already.

Taylor was looking for her cousin's cat and knocked on the door of a compartment with one person in it, sticking her head in, "Hey have you seen a cat around here?" She smiled sweetly, "Hey I'm Taylor, are you waiting on some people or are you alone? If you want you can come sit with my cousin, a friend and me?"

Grayson laughed."Yes you would like me but you seem to resist me so much, for what reason I could not fathom. The quicker you accept this is exactly who I am, with my off beat humour and comments, the better." he said with a serious face.

He nodded and said,"It is, isn't it. Yet it is big enough to explore." He was quite an intuitive boy. He always knew how to turn a phrase to make it his own. "My father always taught me to be open to all possibilities in life. He said you can find your true calling that way. And that I intend to pass on to you and any other person I meet. That is if you allow me to but either way the more we hang out the more you see things that way." He said with a smile.

Adeline nodded and let a smile out. "I'm not." she told the new girl. "That is Michael and that is Maddy." she told Alyssa. She understood why the girl thought she was alone because the two older students seemed to be very quiet. she thought for a moment that she was alone too.

"I'm very excited to go to Hogwarts. Yes, I am a first year. I love school."

He was wildly insufferable. She swore that he thought he was imparting to her some great nugget of wisdom, when in reality he was merely being annoying. There were flashes, moments, were she thought truly that she and Grayson could be friends, but then he was off again trying to explain to her that he would see things her way. He had no claims to support his cause and honestly without any claims she was not ever going to believe that she would see things his way. Now could she accept the fact that he was quirky? Yes. So she would at least give him that, "I completely accept the fact that you are who you are. I am not the kind of person who would ask someone she just met or anyone for that matter to change, but, no offense Grayson, I am not going to like you if you keep sitting there smug and preachy. Especially because of the fact we just met." Besides, she did not know what kind of like he was inferring but if it was anything besides friendly he was quite off base.

There he went again, being philosophical or at least sort of philosophical. "Yeah I suppose so. I mean, I really like the fact that I can eventually apparate. It means that I have the world at my fingertips." The world was her oyster as muggles would say.

He intended to pass that onto her? She was not some unintelligent oaf who needed to be educated. Did he realize that every time he spoke he said something that set her off slightly? It was mostly because he thought she was "uneducated" and if he didn't he sure was giving off the impression that he felt that way. This was not a lucrative way to make friends at least with Selina, "Pardon me Grayson... but you do not need to educate me on the manner in which to live my life. Thank you." She was not looking for a fight, but this boy kept just making things worse and worse.

Melanie got up to grab a different candy from the pile, some sort of jelly beans, and then settled back into her seat.

"Yea, I'm excited for classes too," Melanie replied. "I'm really looking forward to Defense Against the Dark Arts, but Charms and Transfiguration sound really cool too. Herbology will probably be interesting as well though, learning about all those new plants." Melanie laughed at herself, "I suppose I'm excited for just about everything!"

She popped a jelly bean into her mouth and, upon biting into it, choked loudly. "This tastes like...dirt!" she exclaimed, turning over the package in hopes that the back offered some sort of explanation.

Laughter was better than fighting, wasn't it? It was. Well, she and Corny were still arguing which she supposed could count as fighting. It wasn't serious fighting though, just playful fighting! Friendly arguing and stuff! Well, Valentina wasn't too annoyed and he didn't seem to be either so there was no real problem, right? Right. She watched the boy wipe tears away from his own eyes before beaming knowing that she had been responsible for the tears of laughter from he. She did a job well done!

He said she won. Heh. He said she had won.

The girl beamed a second time even though she detected a mocking sort of tone in his voice. Valentina had just choose to simply ignore it. "I DID win! I did, I did! I beat YOU, Corny!"And with that she stuck her tongue out at him in a childish manner before covering up her mouth with her hand and giggling some more. She was practically amusing herself with her childish behavior! She wasn't used to herself like this, all giggly and actually acting her age. She never had people her age to really be around so she practically had to act like an adult. Now she had a choice though and it seemed as of now, with Corny anyway, she was choosing to actually act her age. or possibly younger

He was half muggle? "Look! Another thing we share in common!"Her father being of muggle blood and her mother being a pureblood witch. "You make it seem like you're some sort of creative genius."She stated before making a face, her nose scrunching up again. Then again, maybe it was just his ego self confidence speaking. No offense? She pouted now, her eyebrows knitting together. Her eyes were now shot at the ground, "No offense is my thing to say."She muttered. She heard a loud thud though, which happened to be the apple landing in the trash bin and she looked up. "Of course it is."Sarcasm, once again.

She watched him now, in a bit of amazement as he tried to think of a nick name on the spot for her. She picked her arm up and rested it on her thigh, making a fist and resting her chin on her knuckles. She was waiting for, waiting a curious for the wonderful nick name she was apparently going to receive. She watched him say her name over and over again and waited until he came up with one.

The brunette just stared, unimpressed. She was completely unimpressed.

"Lenny? You're joking! That's a male's name! Are you implying that I'm a male now then? Or have guy traits?"She scowled as she spoke. See Corny? Two could play that game.

The blonde giggled slightly as he hugged her back. Had he grown taller? Would she be looking up at him? WHAT WAS THIS MADNESS? "Always ready? That's brilliant," she admitted, winking back at him.

Taking a seat opposite from him, she rested her arms on her knees, leaning forward with excitement. "Went to Scotland? Awesome. Well this summer, I stayed around London. I hung out with Selena a lot and a lot of my friends who had just graduated, especially my boyfriend, Braeden. And yes, so I've really just been with him for most of my summer," she explained, blushing a little. And then she pouted. He hadn't received any of her OWLS? "Merlin. None of them went through.. I wonder why. But anyway, are you ready for this year?" she said, changing the subject briefly.

Logan wandered down the front of the train and saw an empty compartment and sat in it. He kept looking out his door for any familiar faces.

Taylor walked down the train trying to find her cousin's cat she popped in her head in a compartment that she thought was empty and muttered, "Where is that cat?" She frowned and looked up and saw Logan, she blushed, "Oh so sorry...." She shifted, "I didn't reliaze this compartment wasn't empty." She reliazed that it was Logan. "Oh Logan.... Hey!" She smiled.

"Oh, yeah of course," Conrad said with a hint of embarrassment. "That's what I meant. I'm a first year too. But I'm almost sure I'll be Slytherin because that's what everyone in my family has always been."

Too bad they're not Slytherin, he thought to himself. But Alex, Melanie and Silvia seemed nice enough at any rate- maybe there were people worth being friends with in other houses too. And Melanie was right, nothing was set in stone yet. Maybe they'd get lucky.

"Sure, I'll have some candy!" he said enthusiastically.

Logan heard a familiar voice and looked up to see Taylor, muttering something about a cat. "Hey, Taylor!" he said. "You missing a pet?" he asked.

"I'm not but my cousin is." She laughed a little, "His cat is no where to be seen." She sighed a little, "My pet is in her cage back at our compartment." She frowned slightly, "Still havent came up with a name for my owl yet." She chuckled and smiled a little, "If you want you can join us in the compartment."

Asher smirked that was a good come back on Alec's account. Maybe him and Alec would get along great. Maybe. Okay yeah the talk of food was going to have to stop or he'd need to find the food trolley soon.

He was so writing to Caroline tonight and that girl was getting a ear full. No nevermind she was getting a Howler. Yes a Howler. "Because even a squid deserves a nice tan?" Asher Chuckled. He didn't know either. But he thought the sight of seeing squid sun bathing would be fun.

He turned his head when Alec asked Anya if she was going to try out for quidditch. "Yeah Anya are you going to try out?" He grinned.

Really? Summers didn't think it was important enought to read the book about the school he was going to be attending for the next seven years. "It's called the..... Ariel?"

"Ariel? Is that really you?" He jumped up and hugged his twin sister. It had been years since the last time the spoke. Then he turned to Anya when she asked if she could call him Ashy too. He eyed her for a second, before grinning at her again. "If you want to, sugarplum." Yes if he was being called Ashy by Anya then he was going to call her sugarplum all the time.

Then he realized that he hadn't introduced Ariel to the others yet. "Oh Sorry, Alec, Anya. This .... this is my twin sister, Ariel." He said looking to all three of his fellow first years.

"Oh, really? I'll keep my eyes peeled..." he said smiling. "You haven't, yet?" he asked. "I'm sure you'll think of something." he said nodding. "Oh really? Okay, yeah I'll join you." he said.

Finding this highly amusing, the third year was completely oblivious to what was going on in Jonathans head. In his own mind, he thought what an awesome job he was doing to let him believe he was someone else.

He almost laughed when he mentioned he was a slytherin, like he didn't know that. He had seen Jonathan for almost two years now. But he faltered when the questions came.

Okay , so on the record, Daichi had not planned to pretend ...it just happened and he hadn't practised in front of a mirror or such. He shrugged his shoulders and muttered a "Good guess" while thinking what a lame answer it was.

"And i'm ...i'm uh.." He looked around for a second, maybe he would find something that would give him a name. "Aedan" he decided on his older brothers name and he prayed that he had never mentioned his brothers name to Jonathan before... He looked carefully at the older guy and when finding no smirk or what so ever he grinned stupidly for a moment.

He was buying this~! oooh he could be spy ! Hogwarts really should be giving classes about spies cause Daichi would be the top, hehehe.

Clearing his throat, the Slytherin knew that when he was done answering the questions he was back on in his game. But as he leaned back against the couch, he found himself not knowing what to say.... so he just checked his watch again.. Five minutes had passed.

"Thanks." She nodded, "and yeah sadly i haven't, but hopefully soon." She smiled, "Yeah, and great." She hugged him then realized what she did and laughed, "Sorry i got in the habit of hugging friends when i lived in France." She shrugged and blushed slightly.

Anya nodded. "He said sometimes it allows people to tickle it's er... tentacles. I'm not sure how true that is though. It sounds a bit bizarre... And if Caroline didn't tell Asher about it..." Then maybe it didn't exist. But she had a hard time believing that too. Carter wouldn't just lie.

She frowned. "Probably not. They do get pretty high up... It looks... a bit scary." she replied. "But I'll support you guys. Number one fan right here!" she added with a little giggle. She might even get a little cheerleader skirt.

She smiled. "Some things will be different." she said to Alec before leaning her against him and giving his hand a little squeeze. "Except us. Best friends forever, right?" The fact that they were both going to Hogwarts was proof of that. And... she'd forgive him for making her kiss him. Eventually.

"It's a hat." she said with a giggle. "What did you think it was?" What other things did he put on his head?

She blinked at the scene unfolding in front of her. "Twin? You have a twin?" she asked. Why didn't she know that? Hmmm? "Oh. Sorry, that was rude, huh? Hello Ariel." she said with a little wave. Asher already beat her to introducing herself.

She then giggled at Asher's comment. "Hey. You can't blame me for that. I thought it was a nickname. Who names a store Sugarplum anyway?" She then giggled once more. "I'll come up with something better." Ashy was not as good a nickname as Sugarplum.

Logan smiled. "Your welcome." he said. "I'm sure you w-" he began but she had hugged him. He smiled and hugged her back. "Don't worry about it! I do it all the time." he said laughing a bit.

"I heard my name."

Taylor laughed and went back to normal color, "K, thats good." She smiled, "So how have you been, monkey?"

"For the last time I am not a monkey." Nate says in a very loud a deep voice. "How many times do I have to tell you that. Be careful with her Logan you don't know what you're dealing with. She gets very annoying at times."

Cornelius couldn’t help but grin once more as Valentina pointed out that they had another thing in common, his eyebrows raising in slight surprise. “You’re half muggle too?” he repeated with slight awe in his features. Again, what were the odds? It was nice to have things in common though, it made him look forward to this new school even more. And here before him was Val, giggling and suddenly seeming much more her age of fifteen, in comparison to the prim and proper 30+ she had looked before. He grinned at this new version of the girl across from him, and watched as she took in the idea of the new nickname he had just given her.

And of course, as he could've predicted just from his twenty minutes of knowing the girl, she seemed offended by the idea of it, calling it a 'male's name' and asking if he was implying that she was male and had guy traits. Cornelius let out a laugh at the questions that followed and the scowl that was now on Valentina's face. "No, I'm not implying that you are a guy!" he responded with an amused shake of his head.

"I couldn't call you a guy, even if I wanted to," he defended honestly, gesturing to her with his next comment, "Just look at you!" And it was true, she looked like the direct opposite of a guy, sitting there in a dress, with a braid in her hair.

"I think you're not giving Lenny enough credit," Cornelius decided, leaning back into his seat with a friendly grin and crossing his arms over his chest. "It has a nice ring to it, and it doesn't necessarily imply male qualities!"

Taylor turned around, and saw her cousin, "Nate i wasn't calling you a monkey, i was calling Logan a monkey." She laughed, "You don't remind me of a monkey but more like a rat." She smirked.

"Oh then I am not a rat. Logan trust me she is a pain."