Third Floor Corridor
 

On this floor you'll see ways to charm or heal your knee.

Logan walked down the third floor corridor. Hmm...he hadn't been down here before. It was real nice! Well of course it was. All of Hogwarts was nice. He loved it. It was truly amazing!

Sammy was walking back to the common room after a class. He pulled at the tie from his uniform so it was a little loose. He really hated wearing this thing. He never had to wear uniforms at his muggle school. As he walked, he spotted a familiar face down the corridor. "Logan!" Sammy called after him and picked up his pace to catch up. "Hey man. How's it going?"

Sorry it took so long *blushes*
 

Logan heard his name and turned his head to see Sammy. "Hey, Sammy!" he said smiling. "It's going good. And you?" he asked.

Lea Carter *glomp*
 

Laura had decided that she would go for a walk and see if she could find anything that would make the next seven years of her laugh worth it, she had been told that you were at Hogwarts for Seven Years by one of the Hufflepuff Prefects, but she couldn't remember which, so well Laura know she would need somewhere to escape too if things where getting bad but where, she didn't know and so that was what she was doing up here on the third floor.

Sammy shrugged his shoulders as he adjusted his school bag. "All right. Classes kinda seem to drag though." That was the hardcore truth. He wished they could just live in the castle and not go to class. That would be awesome. "Find any friends in your house yet?"

"Yeah, same with me." he said chuckling. "Ohh, only like a couple. I have more friends out of my house than in!" he said laughing. Siriusly, there were like NO boy Gryffindor firsties!...what da heck?
"What about you?" he asked.

Sammy chuckled along with Logan. He understood exactly what he meant about the friends thing. "Me too. I've met a few people that I can talk with and go to class with and such, but not really close friends." Except for maybe Hades. Hades was kinda cool.

Laura walked into the third floor corridor she decided to find something to do before facing Aaron, she was annoyed with him, he had left her alone and now well he wanted to talk to her well Laura didn't want to talk to him, why should she, he had told her he would show her around but he never did.

Aaron made his way down the corridor, he hadn't seen Laura since she'd left for Hogwarts. If everything had been as usual, he could've gone along with her and he wouldn't have to face a now-quite-possibly-angry Laura.
But he didn't mind, he could deal with that, he and Laura had been friends long enough to survive this.
When he finally spotted Laura he quickened his pace and half ran over before hugging his neighbour and now fellow housemate.
'Lauraaaaaa!' He hugged her happily, prepared for a punch to the face. 'I missed you girl-person.'

Laura looked at Aaron and shouted. ""GO AWAY." Laura was really angry with Aaron, he had left her to cope at Hogwarts on her own, without an explaination or anything, she had turned up at the train station waiting for him and he had never turn up, oh she wasn't going to hit him or anything.

Laura as shocked when Aaron hugged her, she pushed him away from her. "YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO HUG ME YOU, YOU, YOU" Laura snapped as she tried to think of something to say. "YOU CRAZY OLD KID." Laura couldn't think of anything to say, so she just said the first thing that came into her head.

Alyssa happened to be walking down the corridor heading down to their common room when she saw Aaron and Laura talking. 'Good they needed to spend some time together,' Alyssa thought to herself. She saw how happy Aaron was to see Laura and had reached out to hug her but Laura's reaction surprised her. She had backed away from Aaron and started yelling at him.

Alyssa quickly ran up to the both of them. "Laura what's going on? Why are you yelling at Aaron? Aren't you glad to see that he's back?" Alyssa asked the younger girl.

'Lauraaaa...' Aaron pouted and held his hands out to Laura, he really was sorry for just bailing out on her without a word or even an owl.
But he couldn't send Oliver out, that owl was like.. his buddy, not his postman.
He'd have some explaining to do. 'I can, sort of, explain it all. Promise.'

Aaron was genuinely offended when Laura pushed him away. She never did that, not to him at least.
He hadn't thought of how it would've been for Laura, not having Aaron at Hogwarts. He'd been too busy thinking of how his new life would be, without his parents together.
'I am sorrrryyyyy. Oh, Shay said hi, by the way.' Not that Laura would care what his brothers had to say to her, but still.. 'I was too caught up.. I- I'm moving away from Silverton.'

Laura looked at Alyssa. "No I am not." She didn't really want to see Aaron now, she had moved to Bedford so that she didn't have to see him again, but well she was glad to see Alyssa. "I'm glad to see you though." Laura smiled at Alyssa but then Aaron spoke again.

Laura looked at Aaron. "YOU CAN SORT OF EXPLAIN?" Laura gave Aaron one of them I don't care look and just stared at him, if looks could kill then Aaron would have fallen there and then. "I don't care what Shay said and I don't believe you." Laura snapped serioulsy there was such a thing as a phone call or just a little letter saying he wasn't coming back but nope he gave her nothing. "Well we've moved to Bedford, not that you would care anyway." Laura turned to walk away before she slapped Aaron because she was getting close to it.

Sophie was skipping around Hogwarts, doing what she had been doing the most: exploring the castle. Suddenly, she heard a very familiar voice yelling on the third floor. "Oh, not again...!" she thought, turning around and running in the direction of Laura's voice. Was she about to get in trouble and hurt herself again??

When she got to the third floor, she looked around and saw Laura, Alyssa and an older boy she didn't know. Sophie ran towards them and stopped by Alyssa to catch her breath. "What's going on??" she asked looking straight to Laura.

Keefer was strolling down the hallways when he turned a corner and saw several Hufflepuffs. There was some kind of commotion, but he wasn't sure why. All he knew was that several of his potential Quidditch players were there, and he didn't want any of them getting in trouble. He rushed over.

"Guys, what's all this yelling about?" Or screaming, really, on the part of Laura. "Whatever's going on, I'm sure we can settle it without raised voices. In fact, that's the best way to avoid fights." Because Laura looked TICKED. "I don't know what happened, but I think everyone would be better off just walking away for awhile and coming back to this discussion later. That will give everyone time to cool off and think about it rationally."

In other words, stop causing a problem or you'll get in trouble and lose Hufflepuff points. And don't invoke a woman's wrath, which would probably be worse.

Alyssa definitely didn't want to serve detention again. "Keefer is right. Laura, maybe we should just go back to the Common Room." 'At least if there's any yelling to do, let it be in the safety of our own Common Room' Alyssa thought to herself. "I'm headed that way. If anyone wants to follow me, you can do so." She looked at Aaron indicating that he should do the same.

Oh, so Alyssa was getting the nice treatment? Aaron rolled his eyes, Laura didn't need to be so dramatic right now. He was just late for school this year, Laura seemed to have been doing just fine, she knew people, didn't she?

Just then Laura started talkingscreaming again, giving him a slightly terrifying glare. He gasped when Laura announced that they had moved away from Silverton.
'But yooou didn't tell me anything either!' Aaron replied coolly, 'so I COULD scream at you too!' He glared back at the first year. 'Well... BYE THEN!' He shouted after her as she left.
So after being neighbours and friends all their lives they were now fighting over... this? He rolled his eyes, she'd cool down soon enough.



'No thanks.' Aaron turned to head outside. 'Laura can go do some more screaming there if she wants. I'm out for a walk.' He nodded and left the others behind in the corridor.

Laura ignored everyone else that had just turned up well except Sophie, she smiled at Sophie. "I'll explain it all later." Laura was angry with Aaron and she wished Sophie hadn't come because well it was going to get messy by the looks of things.

Laura shouted after Aaron as he walked away. "FINE, RUN AWAY SEE IF I CARE." Laura snapped, saying that it was probably a good thing that Aaron was leaving. "Oh though just before you go, I only moved away because you were nowhere around and all the good times we had would remind me too much of you." Laura snapped as she shouted after Aaron tears in her eyes, seriously that guy didn't care about her did he.

Laura then spotted the Quidditch Captain and well maybe he shouldn't have come then. "Have you come to tell me I'm being a crazy idiot." Laura snapped at him through the tears in her eyes. "Or are you here to make fun of me?"

Keefer watched as Aaron walked away, then was slightly taken aback as Laura addressed him personally. Watch it Keef, or you'll get yelled at too! Angry girl = run away. Easiest math equation ever.

"I haven't come to tell you anything. I was just walking down the hall, heard shouting, and wondered what was going on. Captains are kinda like Prefects in that we're supposed to stop trouble if we can." He nodded twice. "I just didn't want anyone to get hurt or wands to come out." The last thing he needed was a puddle of first year all over the ground on his watch.

And as for the crazy... "I don't think you're a crazy idiot. I think you're upset and unsure of yourself in a new environment. That's nothing to make fun of! Fights like this happen every year, you're not alone." He smiled at her encouragingly. He wanted her to feel better.

"So if there's anything I can do to help you settle in, just let me know. As for you and Aaron, I go back to my original suggestion. Take a few days to cool off, then talk about this calmly. It'd be best if a peer or Professor could act as a mediator. Someone that is impartial, maybe a Prefect, like Arya." As in, not your Quidditch Captain. "But screaming matches in the corridors aren't acceptable."

Was her Quidditch Captain lecturing her, if he was it was a big mistake. "I WOULDN'T CARE IF YOU WERE A KING, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LECTURE ME!" Seriously this boy was asking for it, telling her why she was acting like this seriously he was calling her a crazy idiot. "I am not a CRAZY IDIOT." Laura snapped.

Laura looked at him and sighed. "It's just he left without saying goodbye and now he comes back here and expects me to forgive him straight away." Laura didn't know what to do, in the end she looked at everyone before leaving, she went the opposite direction to what Aaron went in, she didn't care were she ended up.

Keefer wordlessly watched her go. He may not have much knowledge when it came to the ladies, but he knew enough that it was pointless to retaliate. I wasn't lecturing her. And I explicitly stated that I don't think she's a crazy idiot. In fact, he thought he had been rather nice, even trying to be a bit consoling.

He sighed. Girls, he thought, shaking his head in a bewildered manner.

Aaron had planned to leave, but then he heard some crazy girl scream like no tomorrow. Aaron chuckled and turned around, 'CALM DOWN ALREADY OOMPALOOMPA!' He rolled his eyes and scratched his head as he listened to her tellshout why they'd moved away.
'WEL IF YOU HAD BOTHERED TO STOP BY WHILE I WAS DYING FROM BOREDOM WHEN I WAS GROUNDED YOU WOULD'VE KNOWN!' He coughed, why was he screaming?
It was sorta fun. But he was thirsty.
'DOES ANYONE OF YOU HAVE A DRINK?!' He shouted over to the group while searching through his pockets. Not even a juicebox?!

He then witnessed Laura yelling at Keefer before running off. 'HEY YOU LAURABOO! DON'T YOU RUN AWAY NOW! I BROUGHT COOKIES!'
Cookies were a solution to some weird fight over not hanging out, right?

Ella was wandering around the castle as she hadn't had too much time to explore. She was skipping along when she heard shouting down the hall a bit. She picked up the pace to see what was going on. Out of breath from walking so quickly, she stopped short in front of a group of students. "E-everything okay? I h-heard shouting!" Catching her breath, Ella looked around wondering what had happened.