Vlimia smiled widely. Ravenclaws were so nice! "Hi Elise, I'm Vlimia. I'm so glad to be in Ravenclaw!" She exclaimed sincerely, hoping she and Elise could be friends. "So are you a first-year as well, or in your second?" Vlim asked. Her first guess was first-year, but after Elise welcoming them, she had thought that she was just a short second or third year. She didn't want to be rude, after all.

Vlimia giggled a little. Autumn sure was shy! "I will get you to sing by the end of this year, I promise you." She said teasingly. But Vlim knew that she could get Autumn to overcome her shyness, and she would. "My brother told me that the food just appears on the plates. And when we go upstairs, all our stuff is waiting in our dorms." She said. Autumn either didn't have older siblings, or was Muggleborn. Oh well, magic was great either way.

Cael laughed at the other's blasé attitude. Apparently it took a lot more than a random fainting spell to ruffle Nate's feathers. "Oh, you know," he smirked behind the rim of his goblet, "a few firework fights here and there, nothing out of the ordinary-- right, Mr. Firestarter?" he chuckled serenely.

"And it certainly has, been a while, that is. Though I guess times flies... and all that nonsense," he set his now-empty goblet down waiting for it to refill, eyeing the boy speculatively in the meantime. "Soooo. What about you? Other than apparently common fainting spells, anything interesting going on in your life?"



"It's fine, of course," he blinked at her in shock, "but I must be missing something here. Aren't the two of you close? I had no idea you were having to 'deal with her', as you say, I thought you were friends," he gestured vaguely with one hand to make his point all while staring at his girlfriend incredulously. Had he really been so insensitively blind last year that he'd been able to miss... this, entirely?

"I- It just takes a special breed of person to appreciate her is all. She comes from one of the old pureblood families. That's what we're like, stoic, emotionless. We can tear down mountains with a single look or gesture. My parents were the same; I get her. Heck, I was the same when you met me, arrogant shell, remember?"

He rubbed the back of his neck furtively. This wasn't coming out right at all! He needed to make her see that he supported her. Merlin, he loved the girl for magic's sake. "Look, that's just how I feel. I'm not going to begrudge you for not liking my friends. Merlin knows, we're entitled to have different opinions," he took her hand, rubbing his thumb over her soft skin to reassure her, "I just want you to know, that whatever happens, I'll always have your back. I'm with you, remember? You're the most important person to me and I won't do anything to jeopardize that."



"Oh, you know," Cael sighed heavily, releasing Jay's hand so that he could face the metamorphmagus, "Typical day in Ravenclaw: a fainting spell, some shouting, a couple arguments, nothing unusual," he shrugged his shoulders wearily. Would he ever escape the drama? Perhaps they were cursed.



Cael sighed wearily, rubbing his forehead with his thumb and index finger. The look. She'd given him the look and now she wasn't speaking to him. Dear Merlin, what a mess.

"I thought Morganzo's were smart, yet somehow I seem to be made out to be the bad guy here," he shook his head slowly, rising from his seat to go talk to the others. "When you'd like to live up to your blood and namesake, I'll be waiting."

"haha no! I dont do singing infront of people i know" Autumn knew she could sing to random people she'd never have to see again but to people she spent years with? no
"Oh my God that sounds so cool! how does it do that?" autumn thought "oh yh magic :L Im still not use to the idea im magic" autumn looked down at the table looking sad.

Vlimia laughed at the sad expression on Autumn's face. "Don't worry so much! There are dozens of other Muggleborns here getting used to the idea just like you!" She consoled, still giggling a little bit. "I'm sorry for laughing, I'm just surprised that you're so sad about it." Vlim said, calming down a little.

"Nice to meet you, Morgan," Melanie answered, smiling at her. The girl seemed nervous, but Melanie understood. If she hadn't met Silvia and Alex on the train, she probably would've been sitting there willing herself to disappear into the floor.

"I liked the train ride well enough," Melanie said, responding to her question. "I met some new people, one of whom is in Ravenclaw," she gestured to Silvia, who was sitting across from her, "and now we're just waiting to see where our other friend ends up!" She smiled at Morgan, hoping to imply that she was welcome to join their little girl-power group. Us first-year Ravenclaw girls had to stick together, after all!

"We ate a lot of candy on the train though," she added with a laugh. "All of this magic stuff is new to the three of us, so we kind of overdid it with the magic candy," she said regretfully, putting a hand on her stomach.

After the sorting ceremony, Alex finally made her way to the Ravenclaw table. She spotted Melanie and Silvia with another girl she did not know. "Hi you guys", she said. "I'm so glad we're all in Ravenclaw together!" Seeing a new face at the table she introduced herself. "Hi I'm Alex."

Elise grinned at the two of them. They were really quite nice, and not traumatized like El was in her own first year.

"Hi, Autumn. Nice to meet you," she grinned before turning to Vlimia.

"Nice to meet you, Vlimia. And you should be," she smiled at Vlimia. "We're the best." They would probably make great friends!

"I look like a first year, don't I?" she blushed, her blonde bangs falling into her eyes. "I'm starting my second year. I'm a little on the shorter side, though." she laughed softly.

"Do you have any siblings?" she asked, smiling. El had one sister, but she went to Durmstrang.

Autumn looked up "Oh no I'm not worried about being muggleborn... its nothing dont worry" Autumn smiled upa t Vlimia, she didnt wanna be this girl that was a attentionseeker.

"Looking for someone?" James asked the pretty girl, almost laughing as she looked around. Hmmm...He had met her before hadn't he? Oh yes, Enya. Well, she was even prettier again. He smiled his winning smile. He looked away, filling his plate with food. God he was hungry. Stupid as he was, he hadn't brought any money with him so he couldn't buy any food on the train. He tapped his (charmed) iPod to pause and smiled at her again.

Vashti had barely taken two steps towards the Staff Table when the Healer suddenly showed up. Well, that made her job easier. Did the new Healer have some sort of secret power that instantly knew when a student was sick? That would certainly be handy.

She stood back a little as the Healer tended to the boy, who seemed to be instantly fine the moment that vial thing was stuck under his nose. Huh. Weird. But then he was chatting away with his friends, and the Healer was giving some last instructions before walking away, so Vashti figured the craziness was over. For now.

Vashti very much doubted everything was fine. People didn't shriek and shout like that just for the heck of it. Eino seemed to be buying it though? Sort of. Because then he was going on about pogrebins? But perhaps she could go along with this. "Right. If the pogrebins come back, we'll help fend them off. But remember, there's no need to start yelling at or insulting your fellow students. Okay?"

And then...she heard someone mention a rat? Turning, she noticed one of the students sitting at the table and holding a rat. Oh Merlin, someone actually brought their pet to the feast?

Walking over to the young girl, Vashti smiled and asked, "Is that your-" But then suddenly, the rat squirmed out of the girl's hand, jumped off the table, and scurried away. "Oh Merlin..." What should she do?! Should she...Summon the rat back? It wouldn't do for it to crawl around the Great Hall and likely freak out other students....

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Good, now that names were settled... How did it feel being in her last year? "A bit weird, I guess," Vashti replied. "It's strange to think I've been at Hogwarts for seven years, and even stranger to think that I won't be here this time next year." But it was best not to think about it if she could help it.

Ah, good, so Vashti hadn't simply been unobservant - Taylor was a new student. "Oh? Why'd you go there if your sister went here?" Seemed odd to split children up like that. But then, Vashti wasn't a parent so she was probably unaware of their reason for doing it.

"Just as I had expected," Jordan smirked. "I swear this much drama could only happen to you Ravenclaws..." he was slightly envious however. He would've been an awesome Ravenclaw...
He looked at Cael curiously, "Whats a Morganzo?" he asked, "Is it a type of animal?" he then realised that Cael was talking to that Elliot girl, Stupid Jordan! he cussed himself. That must be her last name, he laughed edgily.

Autumn smiled " umm you do a bit" autumn chortled hoping she didnt sound to rude. " yeah I have a twin sister but she's a muggle, and the favoroute!"
she shut up quickly "you?"

"Hey, Alex!" Melanie said excitedly, turning to face her friend. "Yea, that's awesome that we're all in Ravenclaw! Kind of a weird coincidence that we'd end up in the same compartment and then the same house. Maybe we'll have some of the same classes too!" she said hopefully, happy to have found some new friends. It definitely made this transition from muggle student to magic student a little less daunting.

Stumbling toward the a seat blue-clad table, Darwin wished he was older. He wanted to be bigger and more confident and he wanted to know people.

But those thoughts were shoved to the back of his mind as he realised what had just happened: he'd been Sorted. Actually Sorted! There had been somewhere for him to go, he had a house, and he hadn't been sent home. He was really a wizard at Hogwarts, and it was the best feeling in the WORLD.

Okay, so having friends and people to talk to would have been a bonus, but he could only see older people, and no one he recognised from Diagon Alley. Admittedly, he hadn't met many people there, but seeing Laura or Pam or the older guy would have been better than sitting on his own. Darwin turned to finish watching the Sorting as it neared it's end, glad to have something to at least do, if no company.

Ooc: can't use quotes at the moment, apologies

This is in response to alwayssnapesgirls

Suddenly, an older girl walked over to Kendra, she swallowed. This girl had authority, she could see the badge pinned on her cloak. Oh goodness, she was going to get her first detention before she had even started. She hadn't thought to remove her rat from her pocket, she thought there would be no trouble, that he would fall sleep in her pocket, obviously this hadnt been the case, and the consequences o this would soon be evident. "I'm so sorry!" Kendra exclaimed as the girl neared, slightly bewildered. " I don't think he'll cause any trouble, it was just getting a bit loud... Please.." Kendra spoke quickly getting out her apologies

Autumn had settled down to grab some food after it had appeared when she saw a boy walking towards the table, she smiled at him, hoping he would see her and come sit with her.

Nate looked around shiftily when Pam's hair started to go gray. "Pam? You've got a little discoloration going on," he hinted, gesturing to his own hair. No need to draw too much attention to Pam. At least it wasn't fluorescent yellow...

As Cael oh so eloquently responded to him, Nate's attention was drawn back over his blonde-haired peer. "Me? Oh, well, nothing really interesting that I can tell you. It's what I can't tell you that's interesting," he said casually, gaining a slightly more serious look and tone to add, "And don't ask. It isn't really my story to tell."

Ah, yes, finally Jordan was here too! "Hello Jordan, how was your summer? Never mind, it was probably better than ours and that's what counts. Back to the issue of Jez..." he shot out, again looking around the room. Where had she gone? Even if Team Wolf had managed to poison Nate, that must have been before the train ride, which meant that since Jez had obviously survived the train and carriage rides she had to be somewhere at Hogwarts, alive. But where could she have gotten off to? Nate bit the tip of his wand in thought, glancing around the room again and again.

Pam's smile grew as a familiar face came to the table. "Damon! How are you? I told you you'd get sorted!" Pam clapped for boy. She knew he must be freaked. "You must have been nervous. I know I was. But it's all good! You're in a house! I told you you would." Pam giggled. "Evreyone here's really nice. And the dorms are really cool." Pam hoped he wouldn't gettoo freaked out by her. She was just excited that a friend of hers was able to be in the same house as her.

Pam looked at her hair in shock. Dang hair. She sighed. "This stupid hair. I can never control it." she closed her eyes and concentrated. Her hair turned a dark brown, but it didn't stay brown. She looked at a lock of her and sighed again. "Ehy won't it stay brown?" she asked Nate. He was the smart one. He'd probably be able to help.

Melanie looked away from her conversation with Alex, Silvia, Morgan, and Conrad to see a boy wandering around the Ravenclaw table. He was new, she could tell by his plain robes. He looked a little lost too, that was a giveaway. He seemed to be looking for someone, and then got a sort of disappointed look on his face.

"I'll be right back," she said to the group, and wandered over to the boy. Hogwarts was making her uncharacteristically bold, it seemed.

"Hi," she said, extending a hand to him. "I'm Melanie. Are you a first-year too?"

"Ummmm..." Nate stalled, coming up with some silly answer to Pam's question because he didn't know how Metamorphmagus abilities actually worked. "It won't stay brown because you have used up all of your Youth Points. Drink a Mana Potion to get more." Nate smiled at his friend, hoping she would realize that he had literally no clue why her hair was so stubbornly gray.

Nate was about to refill his goblet again when Pam spoke, and not to him. What was this? A new first year? And Pam knew him? How, Nate didn't even really care. All this meant was that he could make a new friend, have someone to help out, and maybe fulfill one of his deeper wants to be looked up to...

"Hey there," he greeted, "I'm Nate. This is Pam, she isn't as old as she looks right now. Welcome to Ravenclaw! What's your name?" Get all the important things out of the way first. Then he could move on to the more fun parts of life at Hogwarts.

Eino stared wide eyed at the boy as he attempted to clarify himself, but eventually he just gave up. It didn't really matter because by the end of everything the boy was still smiling, so it couldn't have been that bad, or bad at all. In any way, Eino would be glad to help Cornelius around.

Looking back at his first time experiencing Hogwarts, he really could have used someone's help. He had no idea what the houses were or what the sorting was, really. In fact, he believed that the sorting hat was a souvenir. He had jumped off to the stool and made his way to the wrong house table with it still on, followed by the gasps of students and the shouts of the Deputy Headmaster, Professor Vindictus. In the end, everything was sorted out, and Eino was taken from the Hufflepuff table and correctly placed in the Ravenclaw table, where he sat next to a first year boy who would eventually become one of his best friends. Eino blinked a few times and shook his head as he turned his attention to Cornelius. "Anytime you wish to take up on the offer, I will be delighted to help you." He finally said, after keeping the boy waiting for far too long.

He listened attentively to the boy's very short traveling history, but it didn't seem like they had ever crossed paths, or even come close to it. "I was born in England, but when I was still little, my mother and I relocated in Finland and spent several years living there before returning to England." There might have been a bit more to it, but Eino didn't want to exhaust the boy with his family history, so it was best to keep it short and simple. "Did you attend a different school before coming to Hogwarts?" It was rather odd that someone would not have any sort of magical education until the age of fifteen, unless there was another school in the area Eino did not know about. Plus, there's always the chance that Cornelius was home schooled.

Then, Cornelius offered some smiling help to Eino, suggesting he should show his teeth a little more. Sadly, though, Eino did have a terrible habit of awkwardly showing his when smiling. Well, it couldn't really be called smiling, but more like a teeth exhibition. He would try to smile wider enough to show his teeth next time, and not just show his teeth. This was a little silly, practicing smiling, which interrupted his thinking and caused him to chuckle as Cornelius smiled for the millionth time. He wasn't sure he knew what Cornelius' face looked like without a smile on it. "I will be sure to practice." He assured him.



"That would be lovely." Eino said in response. He really should become acquainted with as many people from his house as possible, especially since beginning his new prefectship. It would be important for others to know him, too, he thought, in case they ever needed help with something.



It wasn't long until the girl they had been talking about made her debut. Eino's head turned and he came face to face with Erin. Unfortunately, he had been mistaken in thinking he knew her, or at least he had never seen her. "Hello." He said with a short wave. "I'm Eino-- Oh, dear me! Our names both begin with an 'E' and they both have four letters. What a peculiar coincidence." Though nothing special.

"I tried to make friends with her Cael, I really did! But how can you be friends with someone when they are so mean to you all the time and constantly judging you?" She asked, her blue eyes changing from an angry gray back to a softer shade of blue. "I come from an older pureblood family as well.... but I was raised to have feelings and treat people with respect." She replied softly as she fidgeted nervously with her robes. "I know you were in a shell last year, and you've lightened up quite a bit. I like it." She added, kissing him briefly on the cheek. "Thanks for being here Cael, I'll try to keep my attitude in check this year now that I've made a mess of things." She promised, looking up at him sadly. She hated being so dramatic, but she was a girl... a very emotional one at that.

And then something happened that made her jaw drop. He turned to Elliot and defended her. What a sight to see! "Thanks." She mumbled softly, looking down at her empty plate. With all the excitement, yelling, and drama going on her stomach began to turn. "I don't think I'll be eating anything tonight. My stomach hurts."

"My summer was quite good really," Jordan grinned back at Nate, he had spent most of it with his friends and Fai. It had been great, smiling he said "How do you mean better than yours?" he asked, confused. "Don't bite your wand Nate, not if you want to keep your teeth..." he smirked.

"Pam, if it makes you feel better, I will make my hair even more outrageous so that no one will bat an eyelid at your prematurely grey hair." he smiled at Pam.

Taylor nodded, so she was a third year. She shrugged and was relieved when LuLu ended the conversation. Now she didn't have to think of anything to say! She smiled about that fact.



"Nice." Taylor smiled, "I so should try going there this summer or over winter vacation. If we don't get held back again." She laughed.


"Cool classes." She nodded, "I know a few." She laughed, "Though i think i made enemies already with a few." She smiled.



"We had a choice of where to go and Trinity picked here while i picked Beauxbaton." She laughed, "We missed each other so i decided to transfer since all of our family are here or graduated from here." She smiled.

Pam giggled. "if you'd like." she smiled. Glad to have a meta friend. Some one actually understood. "I'm just glad you can. "can you do a purple? I've never been able to do purple. It's my favorite color." she smiled. "How is Fai by the way?" She hadnt spoken to Fai in... Well, ever. She just wanted to make sure Fai had gotten brought Nate better than she did.