Damon shrugged, "Maybe..." His discomfort still grew, the curse of being antisocial... He was trying to be polite... But the empty spot at the end of the his house's table started to look more welcoming, "But I'll be sticking to Scotland most of the summer."

Elise made her way downstairs a little later than she had anticipated. Her eyes were red and a little swollen, her cheeks puffy. Looking at the ground, she flashed a small smile at her housemates before sliding into the seat next to Erin.

"Packed yet?" she asked, trying to hide the obvious evidence of the cause of her lateness. Erin didn't have to suffer because she did.

Beezus was now going away with a guy, the new Slytherin Captain. Where is Kimalia anyways? She wanted to say her goodbyes and an explanation why she didn't captained her team. She's kind of worried about her. Whilst still following Beezus movements, Erin was startled by a sudden sound directed towards her.

The girl took the empty seat beside Erin. "Yeah. 'Cause I'm so excited," Erin uttered unbelievably for it sounded off-tuned, still couldn't get her eyes off Beezus and that guy. Turning her eyes to look at Elise, "Hey," she said concerned, "Are you crying again?"

Yeah...too bad. "I know I could probably get away with it, too" she said, referring to using magic outside of school, "...but I don't know, it's just one of those rules that everyone pretty much follows...especially the ones that live around muggles." Which elliot would never do. Sounded....weird. And miserable.

Elliot glanced around, saw that food had appeared, and immediately grabbed a plate nearest her with some salad. That's all she was really in the mood for, actually.

France! "I've been there...but just as a passing through sort of thing. And I visited Beauxbatons...the people are quite nice...somewhat. It's pretty," she replied with a shrug. "Only I don't know French...I wish I did, though. Most French people speak English as well, though, thank Merlin. What are you going to do there?" she asked curiously. France just sounded like such a fancy, pretty place. Elliot would go back one day, for sure.

Taylor smiled, "Okay, sounds good!" Her smile brighten as she said that she would love to go to France with her, "Great!"


"I agree it is the best." She chuckled and smiled at Elliot." Tay nodded, "Yeah, the bigger the better." Taylor would of mentally counted how many books she had read this term but she would of lost count after so many. "Oh besides dancing... and falling" She had a light smile at the joke, "I read, of course, and go horse- back riding, practice music, archery, hang with my family, go swimming and do yoga." Taylor shrugged.


Taylor noticed the abrupt subject change and couldnt blame the girl. She wouldnt want to talk about OWLs next term either. Tay shrugged, "Eh, I am probably going to try out on the quidditch team again since I played on the team the two terms I have been here." Tay smiled, "But it depends on how tough my studies are." Taylor bit her lip and sighed a little bit. "Any plans for the summer?" She glanced at Gwen.

Taylor looked at Damon and then glanced at the hufflepuff table, "Would you rather go to your own house table, Damon?" She, obviously, would stay at the Ravenclaw table since she was being talked to from all directions... not that she mind though. Taylor loved being busy and surrounded by people.

"Not that I want to so much as I see a quiet spot that looks extremely more like an area I would be in." Damon looked at her, "But I don't want to leave you either."

Taylor glanced back at him, "You always were the quiet type." She gave him a sweet smile then stroked his cheek at what he said next. Tay mouthed, 'I love you.' "How about this, if you prefer a quiet area, go and sit there and I will see you on the train ride home.

Damon smiled and mouthed it back to her, "Are you sure you don't mind? I don't want to leave the birthday girl if she doesn't want me to." He nodded.

Taylor smiled at him, "I dont mind. I just want you comfortable." She gave his hand a light squeeze, "I would go with you but..." Tay gestured to all the people around her that was in a conversation with her.

Ellie blinked at Max for a moment. He was awfully quick to dig into the food tonight. She hadn't even registered the food on the table yet. But...now that she had...she reached for a dinner roll. Just a dinner roll because she was too excited to be really hungry for real food.

Though those potatoes looked good...

She stiffened at his response, fully aware of his tone. And she was sure the 'I'm sure he'll go on to do good things' would be much more reassuring than it was coming across if Max wasn't so...bothered by whatever tonight.

"That's disappointing," she commented quietly, "Can't imagine Hogwarts without Tate." He was one of the few staff members that hadn't changed since she started as a first year. And now Aidan would be coming with Merlin-knows-who for a Headmaster. What if they're awful? And more importantly, "Who's going to remind us all not to die?"

Then Max mumbled something that if Ellie didn't have years of tuning into Max's speech, she wouldn't understand. But she did understand, and she did hear. And her heart sunk. "Don't say that..." Deep down she knew what he was really thinking, but she didn't want to think like that. So she was going to pretend this was all about Tate. For now...

Yes, one of the best days of her life would be tomorrow. And Vickers seemed to neither argue it or question it. Which was just fine by Ellie.

Also fine by Ellie, sticking with the subject of Quidditch. And even better, her future in Quidditch. "Not talked to, exactly. I have gotten recruitment letters, though," she beamed proudly. FOUR of them! THREE of which were from her top favorite teams in the whole world.

"I am very happy," Ellie grinned at Gwen. Thrilled. Elated. Excited. Also, incredibly annoyed that it wasn't tomorrow already. But knowing that tomorrow would be tomorrow was exciting. She was less than 24 hours away from seeing her boyfriend again. Less than 24 hours away from her life actually being completely perfect.

Yet Gwen sounded like that was a bad thing. But Ellie easily shrugged that off.

What she couldn't so easily shrug off, was the girl staring at her after Tate finished his speech. The Captain smiled back at her and...turned her attention to that roll she was slowly eating.

THEN she heard an all too familiar name from where Vickers and Stella were seated. And that young Alyssa girl, it seemed. ...Wasn't she at the wrong table?

Whatever. They were talking about her boyfriend. And Ellie was keenly interested. "What about Treyen?" she called to them, smiling. Could she join? Could she talk about him, too? Could she brag about him? Could they talk about how excited she was about seeing him in less than 24 hours?

Damon smiled, "Thank you, mon amour." He smiled as he stood up, kissing her forehead before walking to his house table.

Taylor let him kiss her forehead, "See you later, mi corazon." She waited until he reached his table to pout a little.

She could get away with it?

Gwen raised an eyebrow at Elliot. Surely she wasn’t serious about it… The fourth year finally grinned, since it obviously was just a joke and the younger Ravenclaw wasn’t serious about it. Since the next topic of conversation was what plans they had for the summer, Gwen couldn’t help but grin. She really couldn’t wait to leave! This was going to be the best summer holiday! But… what was she going to do there? ‘I’m not sure…’ Of course, visiting famous places, tasting the typical food of the country and so on… but Gwen wasn’t sure what exactly she would be doing. ‘But my friend probably came up with a long list of everything we could see there’ Yep. Ariadne had most likely done her research. Even though Gwen was the Ravenclaw there, she preferred visiting places without having planed everything from the beginning. It made the trip more interesting, in her opinion.

‘So you said you’ve visited Beauxbatons?’, the fourth year inquired. She wanted to know what Elliot thought of that school. Gwendolyn was about to go on talking, but the room went silent. She drew her attention to the staff table in time to catch the Headmaster’s speech from the beginning. No… Tate couldn’t leave… there were already the seventh years she wouldn’t be seeing again next term… not the Headmaster too! Gwen glimpsed back at Erin to see what the girl’s reaction to this was.


Gwen simply gave a small nod to the younger Ravenclaw, since she actually didn’t know that Taylor had been on the team… ‘You must really like Quidditch’, the fourth year pointed out. Well, she admired the people who were doing well at this sport, and who actually seemed to enjoy it. Truth be told, Gwen started liking it, though she had no idea if she was any good at playing. Maybe she’ll give it a try next term? Maybe? Maybe not?

Hmm. Plans for the summer… ‘I’ll be going to France for a couple of weeks, and other than that… I’m not sure yet. I’m still making plans with my friends. We haven’t actually decided yet…’, she started saying. ‘How about you… Anything interesting planned?’, Gwendolyn asked the girl before drawing her attention at the other Ravenclaws who just arrived at the table.


Gwen actually admired Ellie for being in such a good mood. She did seem very happy, unlike most of the seventh year who were getting kind of upset. Come to think about it, the younger students seemed to be taking this graduation a lot worse than the ones who were actually leaving. That thought nearly made Gwen want to roll her eyes, but she managed to control herself. ‘Well… good luck at… whatever you will be doing after Hogwarts’ Well, since she didn’t know if the Captain was going to start a career in Quidditch or not, Gwen wasn’t sure how else she should have ended that sentence.

Having said that, the fourth year drew her attention at the staff table, just in time to catch the beginning of the Headmaster’s speech. She remained silent for a moment, processing the new pieces of information… It was sad that the seventh years were leaving… now Tate too?

Taylor smiled, "Yeah, it is really fun and it helps that I have two friends on the team." She shrugged and giggled. Tay knew that Gwen wasnt on the team, because, of course, Taylor never saw her at practice before... duh. "So what do you think of quidditch? Are you going to try out next year or are you not very into it?" Her eyes grew as well as her smile at the mention of France, "Really? France? Nice! I am going there too since I go every summer. My mother came from France and my grandmere lives there... I am going to go with my brother and some friends though since Mother cant this year." Tay sighed a little, "But I am going to Italy, Egypt, and Norris Lake as well and perhaps Spain and Greece if my mother is up for it by then..."

Nigel was still surprised he was meeting a new person at the end of term feast.

He was thinking about Professor Williamson and Headmaster Tate leaving. It was only his first year and so much stuff has happened.

"I'm good. Just shocked that Headmaster Tate and Professor Williamson is leaving."

He took another bite of his pizza thinking about what to drink.

Ameliah grinned. "I'm excited for summer, you remember my friend I was talking about? Eimear? She's staying with us over the summer!" she said happily. She had really missed her half-Veela friend.

Ameliah rubbed the back of her neck. "I dunno... they don't... exactly... like me there." In France, she was a strange girl who wore skinny jeans and black t-shirts and converse, not exactly France material.

Ameliah looked down at the table. Resitst. Resist. Resist. Resist. Resist. Resist. Resist- She chanced a look up at Harvey and his hypnotic blue eyes that saw into her soul, "Gah, fine!" Ameliah blushed, but tried to cover it with her hand.

Taylor sighed, "Okay." She watched as Harvey helped her get Amleiah back. Tay would of dnaced in joy and hugged Harvey as well as shower his cheeks in kisses if it wasnt for being at the table as well as it being weird... so she just smiled and sent Harvey a 'thank you' look and then smiled at Ameliah.

Ameliah shrugged, "I'll still go with you if ya really want me there, I'd just have to get Eimear to... France me a bit," she laughed as she glanced at her untidy hair and outfit (neon green shorts and a tank top with a spray-painted cupcake). Yeah, Trench would have a job!

Tay shrugged, "It is up to you. A lot of friends will be there and perhaps Puck." She sighed and grimaced. Taylor hated her uncle but oh well... "Like I said before, I invited Harvey..."

Puck? AND Harvey? Hehe. "I think I'll go. 'Bout time for a visit to April anyway!" It'd been a while since Ameliah saw Ashes' mom. Maybe she could visit Thorin too!

Taylor giggled, "Okay!" She smiled and hugged her.

The others she was speaking with were momentarily forgotten as the boy approached her. "That's an odd name. Did your parents not like you much?" she asked with a giggle. She was JOKING of course. "Addy Kennedy. Nice to meet ya!" she said as she took his hand in hers and gave it a hearty shake.

"Yeaaaah it's my first term here and all. Not sure how I feel about it, really. Not much of a people person... or so my dad says. How long you been here?"


Her attention was once again stolen as the Headmaster gave his... going away speech? Bummer. Not that she knew him or anything, but she knew her cousin had thought very highly of him. And other professors were leaving... that was normal though, yeah? Whatever...

"Where are you from by the way?" Because HELLO he was not a Briton.

"Jack of all trades, then, eh? I could never ride a horse...sounds too...i don't know, dangerous..." she said with widened eyes. AND ARCHERY?! Who was this girl?! "Archery? Hmph. I thought only boys did that...." but wasn't that very muggle like? What was the point if you had a wand? ALl of these thoughts sprinted through her mind....but she didn't voice them aloud. Nope.

"Yeah, my parents wanted me to chose where I would go. Beauxbatons was..." she stuttered, trying to find the right word to describe the other European school. "Pretty....uppity..." she finally uttered with a sigh. "I mean, trust me, I consider myself pretty uppity...living in a manor my entire life, having house elves and maids...thats how Beaxbatons is all the time. I dunno', I liked it there..." and sometimes she regretted not going there...it seemed that Hogwarts was getting pretty loose with the filth they let in. "But Hogwarts felt like home. Like I belonged here. And both my parents went here...my sister Dani, though, starts at Beauxbatons next year, though." Elliot rolled her eyes. "I don't think she's going to fit in...at all." Dani was too nice for those people.

She, too, grew quiet and listened to Tate. OH NO. "Whaaaat? He's leaving??" she asked, her mouth gaped open. She couldn't bleive it!

Taylor shrugged, "Dad always wanted us to be well-rounded." She sighed and grimaced, "Horse-back riding is fun... it isnt too dangerous. "Nope, not only boys." Tay giggled, "Some girls do archery as well."

Quality Quidditch Supplies? Yea, he would love that. "Or maybe I'll see you in the Quidditch magazine." Tehee.

"COOL!" That mean more chance of him seeing the Ravenclaw Captain in the Quidditch magazine in the future. And he also could still be Ellie supporter. Treyen is obviously her number one fan so he could be number 2, right? "Good luck with your future team and Ellie, don't kill me yeah?" he said before he gave the older girl a peck on the cheek.