"I'm normal height too. Well actually most people would consider me short. So no. No giant convention, although a lot of these people ARE a lot taller. But you'll find most of them are what could be considered a normal height too," Amelia replied solemnly, even nodding to emphasize her point.

This girl was strange. Very strange.

"Err no. Isaac Newton is like ancient. My Isaac is only 16 and not at all crazy. Or from the times I've met him he hasn't seemed crazy..." Because Amelia was able to say Isaac was her's in this situation. Besides it was unlikely that Isaac and Laura would meet, therefore he probably wouldn't find out she'd been using possessive words when talking about him. And if he did hopefully he wouldn't care.

"I am, and I dunno. I used to go to a school in Wales, this will be my first year at Hogwarts. I'm a bit anxious about that actually," Amelia admitted to Laura in a soft voice. She also gave a gentle smile for added affect, hoping that she wasn't scaring the other girl off.

Seji grinned even more than before, if that was possible. "Okay, i don't have any siblings, i have a cousin though but he's at Durmstrang"

"That's pretty cool" she said, smiling at him. "Abby and I don't have any cousins, our Uncle never really... wanted to have kids, he also hasn't got a wife or a girlfriend, and mum doesn't have siblings so we probably won't get any but we've got each other... and I'd say that's more than enough at times!" Having someone who could tell what exactly you were feeling, or almost exactly what had happened to you was often overwhelming... if not nerve-wracking!

"Yeah, i always wanted a sister, so i has someone to talk to other than my parents, but i reckon i'll like this, a whole school year without them. Except probably the holidays of course!" Seji said, thinking of how great the year was going to be. He blushed slightly. "Well, i guess it's also good that i have a friend now"

"Sister's aren't what they're made out to be" Prue laughed, smiling at him. "I love Abby, I truly do and I'd do anything for her because she is my older sister, but often enough I'd just love to disown her, or she tries to kick me out a lot of drama happens" it was true, Abby had kicked Prue out before, thankfully that was while her Dad was there... he let her back in... thankfully. But still, she couldn't imagine life without Abby, after all Abby had been there through everything!

'Oh ,Alaska?' Thea was mortified. She wouldn't be able to stand the horrible flight journeys too and from her home. Eurgh. She mentally shuddered...
'I wouldn't mind travelling on my own.. I just don't like sitting still for so long..' Thea frowned. She hated it!! Her and her brothers constantly argued as they always ended up in mega hideous moods and if they ended up playing a game of some sort, it usually ended in injuries and tears.

"I’m sure you’ll do fine dear. Just don’t overwork yourself and remember to take time to be with your friends and enjoy the other perks of school life like quidditch, duelling or gobstones." Edvard reassured and adviced the young snake. Hopefully Aurora was sensible about her studies and not scared. He remembered taking owls and newt’s way back when and he hadn’t been scared just over anxious and worried about failing them. Edvard had though in the end gotten some pretty nice scores.

Taking his hat from the boy he said "Thank you for retrieving it for me, Mister?"

When Edvard heard where his hat had been found he winced noticeably since a hat had no place in a dust bin. His brand new hat was now filthy. Eyeing it he sighed and placed it on the bench beside him. He wasn’t in the mood to clean it up just now. One thing was certain his day couldn’t get much worse.

Edvards eyes brightened just a bit at the sight of the headache potion which Althea seemed to have been carrying in her handbag. Taking it he pulled out the cork and drank the potion in small gulps to not upset his stomach.

Finishing the whole potion he sat in silence for a few minutes. As the potion started to work he beamed at Althea. "Thank you Althea. That potion saved my head and stopped the vertigo I think. I’m glad you carry such potions around with you." Maybe it was something he should take after but no man carried a handbag around, right? So um yes just maybe keep himself near Althea when he had his little clumsy accidents should be good?

Sighing he nodded "I was planning to clean my hat when I’m less dazed Althea. A perfectly good hat can’t be ridden with filth." It was common knowledge. He might be daft in some ways but when it came to wearing clean clothes he was a big pedant.

Edvard started to feel better and as he did so he scanned the platform for his trunk. Seeing it he watched as a girl slapped a boy in the face for some ubnexplained reason and then let the platform. Kids these days he muttered to himself. Staggering slowly to his feet Edvard waited a second to see if the vertigo would kick in once more. Thankfully Althea's potion had done the trick. He went over and retrieved his trunk. Getting back to Althea, Aurora and the still unnamned boy he asked "Should we get on the train? It can't be long before its leave time." Taking his kneazle carrier from Aurora he said "Thanks for resucing Luna. She seems to have calmed down in your steady hand." Fishing up his hat he waited for Althea to board to the train.

Bells didn't expect her family to have stayed for very much longer, infact she was waiting for her mother and sister to just disappear because Ava had to get off to school too. Of course, a goodbye would have been pleasant, but it wasn't necessary. It wasn't like she wouldn't see them ever again. Merely a few months. It was a holiday, was it not? She'd rather of had her father here though. But he had flown off once more the previous night. And how Arabella would miss him, her favourite person in the entire world.

The blonde glanced downward at the bag she was carrying, and frowned slightly as her kitten Princess Diana looked up at her. "Di! Don't look at me like that! I can't carry you, aswell as Roma, aswell as trying to get my trunk about! You try being a human one day, and then you can tell me that you wouldn't have to stick your cat SAFELY into your bag. It's not like there's even anything dangerous in the bag, thank you very much!" The feline had rested her head back along the edge of the bag, and went back to watching other students hustle and bustle about.

Now, to get somewhere that possibly wasn't as crowded?

Harvey listened to Minnie and the boy Logan talk... when Minnie kissed him.. and he noticed Logan's reaction when he suddenly heard Ronnie's name crop up.. he looked at Logan when he explained that he had met her at the Leaky Cauldron.. then Prudence told Logan that Mins and Harvs were a couple hence the kiss that he had just seen.. Harvey looked at Minnie.. and he was SO glad that they were.. he then turned his attention back to Logan and Prudence..

Maxwell said goodbye to his father and turned to see Nessie waving at him. "Hey, was your summer?" Maxwell asked with a friendly smile. "ohh come here you can finally meet Helios." Maxwell said remembering when they'd first met how interested she'd been in meeting his pet.

Maxwell looked at Ariana and thought about it himself. then sarcastically said. "I don't know, I guess it's just magic." He said with a wink, knowing it would make her angry but also hoping to lighten her mood.

Aaron turned around when he heard some girl talk to him. Ah, good. A Snake. Who was now stating the obvious that there weren't any First year Snakes. 'Yet!' Aaron said wisely.
But he had figured that out himself too. Too late, but STILL.
He frowned, 'oh, just... You knoooow, wondering if your fearless Slytherin lot were scared when you went to Hogwarts the first time.' He nodded, surely there were some scared ones, you know, with older brothers and sisters scaring them.. 'Just curious.' He added in a chirpy voice.


Out of nowhere, Alyssa flew right into Aaron, causing him to almost fall over. This was bound to be weird, they hadn't really talked that much since they broke up. But they could still be friends, right? He only barely managed to stay up and keep Alyssa from making a faceplant, after which he gave her an awkward smile.
'Heeeeey, Lyssie..' He grinned, but saw her looking at. Oh dear. 'So... how's your summer been?' He attempted to distract her and step on the photo, but it was too late.

He stared as Lyssie yelled at him, he deserved this, but that didn't mean he enjoyed being yelled at in front of loads of people.
It was all his fault, it really was. But... Relationships were weeeeird. And stuff. 'She's not my- She's just.. a friend! Really.' Aaron tried, it sort of was true. Except most friends didn't... you know, kiss. 'I thought I'd thrown the photos awaaaay!' That was hardly an excuse, was it? It'd probably only make it worse. He tried flashing her a grin, that worked sometimes.

'Ouch woman!' That hurt. He laid a hand on his cheek and frowned. That wasn't necessary! >____<
'I'M SORRY LYSSIEEE!' He yelled after her, knowing that wouldn't help.

Still covering his cheek he turned to the Slytherin girl, flashing her an awkward grin.
'... Wellll... This is awkward.' He said and let out a weird chuckle.

Lewis was pretty proud of himself that he hadn't closed his eyes. He had had them open all through the brief moment of panic when he was absolutely sure they were going to run into the wall. All his senses told him to stop because otherwise he was going to seriously get hurt...along with Kurumi and Vanilla. But they had been too fast and so he didn't even have time to do anything, not even close his eyes.

And then they just went through.

Happily smiling back at Kurumi, Lewis let his green eyes wander around the platform, staring at everything in wonder. They'd actually done it. "And we didn't even run into anybody." He commented with a small smirk at the Prefect next to him, obviously referring to the story she had just told him.

Upon looking back at her, his eyes fell on her Prefect badge again - what was red again? Gryffindor? - and he bit his lip. She probably had some place to be. Was he taking up her time? "Well...uhm...thank you." Lewis said quietly, not really looking at her. "Without you I'd probably still be standing out there, staring at the wall." He chuckled softly before glancing back up at her with a smile.

He was giving her the chance to leave if she wanted or had to. He'd be fine. Or something.

Mina smiled letting out a tiny giggle. "Well if you insist, I guess it wouldn't hurt to keep him just for a bit longer." She glanced back at her bestie for a moment and then back to Anya. "We never know when he might come in handy down the road." She did adore him, but she thought back at just how much trouble he was really worth at times as well.

Returning the hug, she put on a happy smile. "You are very welcome sweetie. I'm always here for you, no matter what." She knew this was a promise that she would NEVER break to the young witch. "Of course, wild hippogriffs couldn't keep me away." Seriously, if she had to apparate from the other side of the world to be there, she would. "Pinky swear on it," she nodded as she offered her pinky to her. "Kites, picnics, parks and ice cream. Maybe we can even have a sleep over at my flat?" It had been some time since their last sleepover and she felt they would definitely need to catch up.

Giving her again tight hug, she sighed softly. "I really should let you go and see your friends. I'm sure Evan is wondering just where I am and the train should be leaving soon. I'll miss you but maybe I'll see you over winter break?" She wasn't even sure if she would be around then, but there was always a chance.

"Behave and have fun for me. Do me proud," she smiled as she blow Anya a kiss bye before she turned to make her way through the crowd.

Paulie's thoughts were quickly returning to sad things, when all of a sudden.... DISTRACTION.

Someone was talking to him. Oh, thank Merlin. Girls were much more distracting than boys, too. Although, when she spoke, itt was kiiind of freaky.. like, this girl totally read his mind. But he rolled his shoulders and gave a guilty smile, thankful that she had chimed in. "Uh, yeah.. I guess I am." Definitely. "Cool accent, by the way," he added. Sure, he had no idea where she was from, but the accent was cooool.

"You excited to go back to Hogwarts, then?" If only this darn train would hurry up..

Kurumi threw some of her black hair over her shoulders and shot him a confident look with her violet eyes. "See, you are already better off than I was my first year," she laughed. He also didn't seem to be as freaked out about all the magical elements around him as she had been. Perhaps that meant that he came from a pureblood background, they seemed to be the ones most confident in these surroundings. Then again, Lewis looked anything but confident.

Removing her gaze from him, Kurumi surveyed the platform and checked the time. Not too much longer until it was time to board the train, right? The platform was getting more and more crowded by the minute, another indication that it was almost time to board the train and that summer had officially ended. "It was no problem at all," she smiled, not noticing his glance towards her badge. "Well, that certainly would have been a terrible waste, you just standing there looking at the wall. I would have missed getting to know Vanilla too." Yep, kitty earned itself another few scratches behind the ears.

"So, Lewis...what year are you?" Blunt and without any sort of filtering system or smooth transition between conversations, typical Kurumi.

When Jessie made it through to Platform 9 3/4, she gasped. The red steam engine was beautiful! And there were so many people! She started looking around for others dressed in yellow and black, fellow Hufflepuffs. She grabbed her trunk and followed the crowd that headed towards the door to the train. Her trunk, now full of everything she needed for the school term, was quite heavy, but she managed to push, pull, and shove it onto the train.

The woman had it right about the cleaning part. Hades nodded, making a mental note to find a sink or... Hang on! Didn't his mother packed him a bottle of sanitiser? Come to think of it, his backpack was like a first aid kit; Essence of Dittany, sanitiser and even some bezoars which his brother brought back from who knew where. Slipping one strap off his shoulder, Hades began to mini-ransack his bag before he pulled out a bottle of translucent liquid. He opened the cap and squeeze the bottle as the lid was directed onto his other palm before he rubbed both palms together. Then, he kept the bottle back into his bag when he noticed the woman eyeing him.

The look made Hades curious, but ended after she asked for his introduction and also the clumsy man thanking him, but didn't know his name. "Hades Vaughn. Yes, I just transferred to Hogwarts," smiled the boy as he looked at the complicated looking couple. His eyes fell on the man who looked like he had one heck of a lousy day.

Lewis grinned at her when she laughed at his joke - he had actually made a joke! - before looking back over his shoulder at the wall they had just run through. So this was it. There was really no turning back anymore, was there? He was actually going to go to Hogwarts this year. Sigh.

Oh, so she didn't seem too keen on leaving after all. At least not right now. That was nice. Right now he didn't even care too much if she just stayed with him because it was her duty as a Prefect or because she actually wanted to. When he heard Vanilla purr loudly again, Lewis glanced back down and saw that Kurumi was scratching her behind the ears. "I'm pretty sure she's quite happy that she got to meet you too." He replied with a smile and a nod at the cat on his trolley, which was now somehow trying to roll onto her back without falling off.

Quite surprised by the sudden rather out-of-the blue question Lewis looked back up at Kurumi, meeting her gaze. "Fifth. What about you?" He replied, cocking his head slightly to the side. It was only now that he noticed her eyes were of quite a unique color. Hmm. That was definitely interesting.

Alyssa stopped running and slowed down to a halt. She was now not only upset but also embarrrassed because she did exactly the one thing she hadn't intended to do. One. Cause a scene. She did it in front of two of her class Professors!! Two, lose her temper, and Three, say that she never wanted to talk with Aaron again. Because SHE DID!! It didn't matter that they were no longer dating. Yeah it would have been nice if he had told her the truth back then in the summer. She still would have gotten mad, but she would have come around and they would still be friends. Now she had just made it worse by saying that she never wanted to talk with him again. How could she not do that? They were in the same House and she was bound to see him in classes and at the Quidditch games. Alyssa sighed and sat down on the nearest empty bench she could find. She bent down and put her head in her hands. What was she to do?

After a while she looked up and turned to where Aaron was still standing talking to an older girl. 'Should I go up and apologize for slapping him? What will he say to me?'Alyssa thought to herself. After a couple moments of thought, she got up from the bench and walked back over to him.

"Erm...Aaron. I'm sorry I slapped you. I overeacted. I know I said that I didn't want to talk with you again but I still do. I still consider you my friend, even though you may not want to be, after what I just did to you. Anyway, I hope that the girl makes you happy. Can we still be friends?" Alyssa said to Aaron, sticking out her hand.

Well, at least he'd admit it and was honest. Honesty was a good quality, right? Meaning she'd keep talking to this boy.

Th brunette shrugged her dainty shoulders, smile still etched on her face. "It happens especially when you have nothing to do..."Val eyed him and the space around him for a bit, seeing no sign of anyone talking to him or anything else to really do."And it seems you have nothing to do!"But that was changing because she was here and going to make his time at the platform MUCH more entertaining. He better return it. Cool accent? Her smile grew a bit more, a hand covering over her mouth."Why thank you, born in New York and raised in Italy. Mama's italian, father's Irish-American though I tend to exclude my father's genes out and consider myself just Italian."Italian sounded better than a long explanation, didn't it? Valentina thought so.

"Back to Hogwarts? Oh no, no."She shook her head and chuckled softly. It was a bit embarrassing to say it was her first year here even if she was 15 years old. "I'm actually just starting this year, I was home schooled. I'm guessing you're returning though?" It seemed it by the way he talked. She was in fact sure he was a returning student like most people were at the platform. Most people unlike her. Hmmmph."Oh, I'm too rude!"She had not introduced herself to this new boy who had not introduced himself! Her hand stuck out and the smile turned into a large grin."Valentina Kelly, Val. Your name?"

Did Lewis just...sigh? Kurumi had been to focused on the kitty to have really noticed, but she assumed it had been a sigh of relief for having made it. It was a scary experience, going through the wall for the first time.

Kurumi giggled as Vanilla attempted to roll onto her side, but her width and the width of the trunk she was resting on were not matching up very well. It really would only be a matter of time before the feline went tumbling off the trunk and landing on the ground. She couldn't help but blush just a bit at his comment, however. "Such a well behave kitty," she cooed. "My Walnut managed to get himself shaved last term. The cat is a menace to himself."

Kurumi tried to muffle her laughter at the look on his face. It had been her fault after all. "I'm a fifth year as well," she nodded. "Although...I can hardly believe it sometimes."

Hah! Well, she was a rather blunt one, wasn't she? Paulie liked that, though. It was refreshing and he also didn't have to worry about deciphering girl semantics. "True, I was pretty bored.. but that's not the case now, thanks to you!" He smiled again. Whoa, it sounded like she had a lot of nationalities or something. He nodded in understanding. "Well, ya definitely look Italian, so I could see most people thinkin' you're all Italian anyhow." And that's what she wanted... right?

That would explain why he hadn't recognized her: because she was NEW! "Oh, right! Well, that's still cool. I was new last year, 'cause I transferred, but yep.. now I'm a returner." A proud Hogwarts returner he was. Wait.. then she was saying that she was rude? Huh, how..? Oh! Introductions, yes. It'd already slipped his mind, too. Perhaps she was a little TOO distracting! "Valentina," Paulie repeated, impressed. "That totally sounds like a Bond girl name." That was a compliment, of course. "I would be Paul Foster, but everyone calls me Paul-ie."

It was crazy. If Freddie hadn't been magical, he would have just thought it was a load of old codswallop. When the owl came with his Hogwarts letter he would have thought he'd lost his mind. Tom sometimes wondered whether Freddie, their ma's golden child, resented it when Kat and Tom both discovered their abilities. He didn't show it if he did. Bradley had been the only lucky one in his family. “Tha's cool.” He nodded. “Makes you more, liaye, special dunnit?” His sister? “Ow old's yer sistah now?” It had been far too long since Tom had seen Brad.

Thomas chuckled as Bradley laughed. He shook his head. “Nahh.. Me ma an' da' got a much bettah one froo the 'ouse insurance. I fink they woz pleased it got broken in the end.” Things were such a struggle for the Broadmoors that they wouldn't have been able to afford one otherwise. “Me da' gave me a rollicking.” He nodded. Man could be scary when he got angry. He was tall, silent.. a bit like Freddie, but when he lost his temper, it was best to be far far away.

He grinned as Bradley talked about flying footballs. “So, liaye, is this somefin' you can control, or was it jus' raandom floating 'raun' the room?”

Bradley hadn't heard of NEWTs of course. Tom smiled. “I fought the same when I first 'eard 'bou' them. They're exams an' tha'. Like maggle A-Levels. Stands for Nastily Exhaustin' Wizardin' Test.” Tom informed him. It was nice not to be the ignorant new kid for once, but he could sympathise with Bradley's cause. And Tom didn't even know a fraction of what there was to learn about the magical world yet.

A cat goddess? That was pretty cool. Imaginative. He looked down at the cat as she looked up, reaching out a hand to pet her head gently. Tom loved animals, and they usually seemed to like him. He laughed a little. “She feels really blaady weird.”

Logan laughed at what Prudence said and when she winked at him. Then he nodded. "Ohh okay! I see." he said. Wow, he didn't really imagine such young people to be in love like that.

Keefer made his way through the crowd, still looking for people he knew through the steam. He spotted Kurumi with a student he didn't recognize. Seeing the shiny badge on her chest, Keefer hailed her.

"Kurumi, I never mentioned it last year, so congrats on the badge!"