Harvey was laughing with the girls.. and remembered their flying lessons... "Me? Try out? I am not sure.. OK now I aint joining.. I dont know what you girls will do to me out on that pitch.. oh that is scary.. two Puff girls coming at me with bats!! Oh boy!" he said chuckling... this was fun!! then Minnie mentioned playing against them "Oh I see how it is Mins.. you would let them and yourself kick my butt.. really?! I dont think you could do that.. afterall it is me... Harvs" he said to her cheekily..

Prue laughed at their joking "I'll make sure to be rooting for you two during the matches then" she said with a wink. "I never played any of those games... at home we mainly played Quidditch or a muggle game with our mother... and don't be so sure about that Harvey, I think she might be able to!" Prue's Uncle played Quidditch with them, an old coach for a team, and her mother being a muggle didn't exactly understand or like it but when they were younger their father always approved.

"No magic, unless it's to make the fire bigger or something. The performance is that he does it without magic." Laci beamed with pride at her father's performance. The girl didn't know what a trapeze was? "It's like a swing on roped that you toss in the air to and from with others." Well... Basically. Now the girl was interested in Laci's story.. HOW TERRIFIC! "You know, the normal animals, monkeys, seals, abraxans, elephants, hippogriffs, clabberts and the occasional cockatrice." You know, simple stuff.

"Woah, a castle and teachers and actual HOMEWORK! And exams, I've never had one of THOSE before. It sounds WONDERFUL."

Alyssa burst out laughing. "I can so see the both of us, forgetting about everything including the Snitch and Quaffle, and just concentrating on chasing Harvey around the Quidditch field," Alyssa laughed imagining that scenario until tears started rolling from her eyes.

Alyssa winked at Minnie. "Oh come on Harvey. You're a guy. We're just sweet little ladies. You wouldn't mind a little rivalry, and if you happen to be the Keeper, and Minnie, a Chaser, I'm sure you will occasionally turn the other way once in awhile and let her score won't you? After all it's just Minnie." Alyssa teased back.

Minerva was laughing harder now the thought of Alyssa and her chasing Harvey around the pitch. "You know Alyssa I think I might try out just to see this image come to reality." she laughed harder "Prudence gobbstone is pretty hard, but fun you should try out for your house. I can't say how quidditch is since I have never played it."

Ellie tilted her head. "That sounds awfully painful. And dangerous." She would have never guessed it was even possible to swallow fire. In fact, "How did he start doing this...performance?" That was what the girl had called it.

Her head tilted more drastically during the trapeze explanation. That...sounded fun, though, unlike swallowing fire. It sounded like an exciting adrenaline rush. Ellie was a big adrenaline junkie. "Wow," she said in awe.

Nods followed the girl's list. "What do you train them to do?" Yes, she was interested. So sue her.

"Well," the Captain heaved a sigh, "It's not quite homework. Because we're still at school, see? It's more like work after your work." Very annoying. It got in the way of better stuff. Like Quidditch. And exams? "They're horrid, actually." The complete opposite of wonderful, if her opinion counted at all.

"The best part of Hogwarts is the Quidditch, though." That was not her opinion. That was FACT.

Harvey just listened to the girls getting together and turning on him.. "Hey... what... you 3... me." he was speechless but he had to say something "Prudence.. yeah you are right she can kick my butt" he said to her "Alyssa.. so I see that both you and Minnie wont play the game instead use the time to chase me around the pitch?... and as for scoring.. .. darn!! I think I was right the first time.. I wont be joining my team.. or who knows what will happen with Minnie on the pitch... I might just hand her the quaffle to score with.." he said.. he could see it now.. he catches the quaffle.. Minnie bats her eyes... he gives her the quaffle and she scores.... he then heard Minnie laughing and talking about turning the chasing image into a reality.."Yeah thanks Mins.. well it is understandable for you to take the girls' side as you are a girl.. but then I AM your boyfriend... now you wouldnt chase little me around the pitch with your friends now would you?" he asked as cutely as he could... hoping that Minnie would fall for his charms.. he had the upper hand being her boyfriend.. so he hoped it would work..

Minerva laughed and played with his hair. "But it would be fun to chase you around the pitch.. I wouldn't hurt you I promise." she said teasingly hoping he would know she was kidding not being serious that she would really try to hurt him. "Alyssa maybe I will try out for the team, but you and Harvey will have to help me with my confidence on a broom."

Ellie was pleasantly surprised when Dallin seemed rather cheerful about meeting Carter. Usually he wasn't this giddy about meeting boys Ellie was talking to. Of course... In the past, most of the boys that talked to her were kind of trying to 'steal her' from Dallin. Or in other words, flirting. Or in Ellie's oblivious mind, 'just being nice'. Anyways. Dallin seemed fine with it and that made Ellie happy.

They even shook hands. How official and manly of them.

Internally squeeing when Puddlemere was brought up, Ellie did her very best to contain her excitement. She loved Quidditch, she loved Puddlemere United, and she liked Carter. It was all just perfect and rainbows and butterflies in Ellie's head. And if Dallin wanted, he could tag along with Ellie while she bossed Carter around reminded Carter of all his appointments and made sure he woke up on time.

Ellie's attention turned back to Anya as she called her boyfriend cute. Heh. "Thanks. I think he's pretty cute too." Normally, Ellie would attack anyone who was preying on her boyfriend. But this girl was 11 or 12. She wasn't too worried.

And then the girl turned to Dallin and was rambling out questions like the world was ending. All about boyfriends and boys and stuff. It took Ellie a minute to register all of what she had said. "I-" She began, but Carter had clamped a hand around his sister's mouth and told them not to answer the questions.

Grinning, Ellie looked at Anya and bent over a little to the girl's height. Which really wasn't all that low because Ellie was so dang short. "If you ask me at Hogwarts when Carter's not around, I'll tell you." She said in a whisper loud enough for the others to hear. Ellie winked at Anya and stood back up. Heh.

Laci turned her head at the girl.... Surely she must know how people get into the circus yes? "Most have families from the circus, very seldom is it that people with no family members in the circus join on their own. But it is possible."

What does she train them to do? "It mainly depends on the animal. Like Peanut, my Elephant, can do a bunch of things, I taught him to paint, to dance, and to balance on a bowling ball!"

"Well I am delighted to try. OOOOH QUIDDITCH! I've never played! Can you teach me? What's your name? I'm Laci. Laci Neil."

Prue joined in the laughter. She could strangely imaging Alyssa and Minnie chasing him around a Quidditch pitch, forgetting all about the game. The commentary during that game would certainly be amusing. Listening to Minnie talk about Gobstones she paused, considering it. "Let's see how it goes then... I've never played so it could turn out... interesting... and you should try out for Quidditch Minnie... you'd probably be quite good once you got the confidence on a broom!"

"So your dad's parents are in the circus?" That made more sense. Ellie could see no other logical explanation as to why someone would willingly swallow fire without the aid of a charm or spell.

If one called a circus logical.

Paint? Dance? "Really? ....How?" She simply didn't believe it. Any of it. Especially the bowling ball part. Elephants were just too big.

Delighted to try exams? This one was a Ravenclaw, right? One of the studious Ravenclaws that Ellie tended to avoid, particularly around finals time.

Quidditch, however. THAT was something she would talk about. Yup yup. "You haven't?!!" Ellie asked in a voice that suggested that that was a very ludicrous statement. "Of COURSE I'll teach you! ...Er...You've at least flown, right?" If not, she would TOTALLY teach....Laci how to fly. "I'm Ellie. Nice to meet you, Laci." And she meant it.

Mina smiled. "I have no doubt that you can be nice, sweetheart. You are one of the nicest people I know already." Yes, she remember when she was nice like that but sadly, she had to harden herself to people after a while. She just hoped that Anya wouldn't have to do that herself. Not everyone was as nice as they seemed and she didn't want her friend to have to find out the hard way about things.

Shaking her head, she couldn't help but giggled. "Well, maybe there is some hope for your brother after all." She still wondered what she was going to do with him, but for the mean time she would just leave him in the hands of someone else. "At least you are prepared to write us a lot." She could see that Carter was just trying to make sure that Anya didn't have an excuse for not writing, but it was still a bit cute to here.

Smirking at her friend, she shook her head. "No detentions at least the first year and if you do have a bit of fun, just don't get caught." She knew she wasn't innocent by any means herself, but a little trouble was fun from time to time. "Just a little bit and if you are caught, always blame it on the boys. That's what they are there for." Of course she didn't really believe that, but it was fun to think it from time to time.

For the second time in 2 years Professor Edvard Roslund entered through the wall to get to the Hogwarts platform. He was dragging a double sized trunk with one hand and holding a kneazle carrier in the other. The Swedish astronomy professor was dressed comfortably in a pair of jeans, a shirt and a jumper under his dark coat. On his head he had added a bit of colour to his hat. To onlookers it looked like a right big jumble of colours but if you knew Edvard that was to be expected.

Coming out onto the south end of the platform Edvard wasn’t exactly watching where his feet was going and therefore smacked right into a bench where a couple of senior ladies was sitting. Not being able to control his body he soon landed with a smack on the pavement right in front of the ladies. Losing the grip on his trunk he watched it trolley itself away from him and his cat carrier tumbled in another direction while his hat landed in the nearby dust bin.

Purrrfect!

Aurora, halfway through a conversation, noticed the commotion and rushed over to help. "Are you alright, Professor?" she asked as she chased after the cat carrier and retrieved it. She wasn't sure what was in it but she hoped it was okay, it probably was. "Here." she handed it to the astronomy teacher feeling rather sheepish; she didn't actually know Professor Roslund very well... she didn't like Astronomy much and she had no idea what he was like. But surely someone with a pet cat? Kneazle? Thing... couldn't be too bad, right?

Falling to the pavement Eddie had unluckily managed to hit his head and slightly scrape his face. Trying to focus he sat up just as a girl rushed over to aid him in his predicament. Focusing on her Edvard replied wearily "I think so if the world stops spinning." Touching his face he blurted out, "Ouch!" before looking up at the girl again. "You're Miss Stewart-Quinn riiiiiiight, slytherin student?" he asked positive that he was wrong.

Seeing the girl hold out his cat carrier to him he heard Luna hiss from inside it. Edvard stretched out a hand to take it, but stopped himself as the world took another spin. "Erm, could you be a dearie and hold on to my kneazle, Luna for a bit longer?" he asked as he searched his coat for his wand.

Aurora nodded, "Yeah, that's me." she said, looking worriedly at the poor man - if only she was allowed to use magic here... she would... what? Did episkey work on scrapes? Maybe... otherwise her healing spells were pretty useless. Anyway, she was sure he could sort himself out - he was a professor after all.

"Of course." she said, shifting the carrier to a more comfortable position, she glanced inside at the kneazle... the poor thing, it was probably frightened. Luna... cute name for what was probably a very cute pet when it wasn't scared and hissing...

There was always all sorts of chatter, clutter and chaos on the platform and it had always been that way, even back when Thea had been a student herself. It didn't take her long to spot the ruckus which Eddie was the centre of. What had he gotten himself into now?

She approached and nodded politely at young Aurora.

"What on earth have you done to yourself, Eddie?"

One point to the Swede!

Edvard was pleased. He had managed to remember a student's name correctly. Something which he dreamt nightmares about all through term. What if he got a student's name wrong at an important time like in class? It would've been terrible. "So what year are you going into Miss Stewart-Quinn?" he enquired as he tried to make everything stop moving. It was proving difficult.

Eddi found his wand just as he heard the beatiful voice of Althea his colleague. She looked concerned and wondered what he had done. Scratching his head he supplied her a weak smile "Erm nothing....OuCH!" Embarrassed, he explained."I was just waiting for you..I er didn't see the bench." Looking around frantically he asked "Have either of you seen my trunk?"Please don't let it have rolled down on the rails.

Hades was going to throw the bloody tissue when he saw a hat in the dust bin. It looked clean and well. Why would anyone wanted to get rid of it? Picking up the hat, he dusted it off with his jacket sleeve before he went to look for the rightful owner, leaving his trolley at the corner. Serve that owl right! Pecking him for no reason...

The boy made his way to a group of few people, a girl around his age and a couple of adults looking like there was something wrong. It was rude to interfere when someone was talking, but what choice did he has? "Excuse me," said Hades in a slightly louder voice as he cleared his throat. "Does this hat belong to any of you?"

"Fourth year." Aurora replied. "Do you want to sit down, Professor?" Like... on a bench, not the floor... There was still a space free on the bench he had walked into and he looked a little dazed. Now Aurora didn't know much about healing but she knew - from extensive experience - that you should probably sit down and try and relax if you've hit your head.

Oh thank Merlin! Aurora smiled at the charms professor... well, this was weird, she was terrible at charms as well... if the flying professor turned up next she might have to run away... "Morning Professor Schirmer." she greeted.

As for the trunk... She hadn't seen it... she'd been more worried about the two living things that had fallen rather than the stuff that went with them...

Sigh. He hadn't seen the bench. She didn't question that, even if it seemed an impossibility to her.

And he was still sitting on the ground. Had he a head injury? Was that why he was looking so unusually dazed?

"No I haven't seen your trunk but I suspect we'll find it. After we're sure that you're not going to pass out or something right here on the platform, Eddie." She offered her hand too.

Professor Schirmer looked up at the polite interruption and her eyes went to the hat in question.

And then she looked towards the Astronomy professor. Best guess? Had to be his. The man might have been endearing and pleasant company but he was a bit of a hopeless case when it came to fashion.

She smiled politely at the young boy. A Hogwarts student? She didn't recognise him.

"Good morning Miss Stewart-Quinn." Althea answered politely, even smiling again at the young Slytherin. Sigh. Hyphenated names were so awkward "Lets see about getting Professor Roslund off the ground and healed up shall we? Did you see him fall?" She figured Aurora would be able to give a better overview of what he'd done to himself than Eddie could.

Aurora nodded, "Yeah, he um... he walked into the bench and fell and I think he hit his head." she said. And it looked like it hurt! Sure, not the most descriptive account of events - she had been in the middle of a conversation when it happened. And her eye had been caught by the kneazle carrier before she saw Professor Roslund.

Harvey smiled as Minnie laughed and played with his hair.. god how he enjoyed it when she played with his hair.. "Yeah? fun? well you wouldnt be able to hurt me anyways you love me too much.." he said smiling to her "Oh Mins.. me and Alyssa will help you with your confidence on the broom." he then turned to Alyssa "Hey maybe we could do something like the gumdrop lesson to get her confident on a broom.. you know fight or flight type thing." he said to Alyssa smiling.. he then listened to Prudence talk about gobstones..

Isabelle began to realize that those three coffees she drank this morning might finally be getting to her head. Yes, she did decide that she wanted to wear all her sparkles and tall heels this morning last night, but she had no idea where this one thought was coming to her head. She wanted to scream it out though. She had to scream it out. This was horrible.

"Hufflepuff rules!" Isabelle yelled. Now that felt better to her. But....why was she yelling that. Isabelle quickly sat on a bench. What was wrong with her?