He nodded and grinned. "It's kind of unfortunate being so far away from the now," he mused. Kennedy wouldn't like to be far if he ever had newborn siblings, but that was a thought that wouldn't come true. Ever.

"Oh, totally," he said, nodding his head fast as if that was the most honest and interesting thing ever. "It was wicked loud too with people cheering and stuff." He couldn't even listen to the people around him then.

"It's nice to meet you, Mordred," Kennedy said. He had to admit it, that was a cool name.

He took another sip on his goblet and FROZE. What was going on...

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Kennedy was glad to not be at the end of that. And he was also glad that he wasn't sitting near her or else his ears would have popped. But, that was amazing.

Aurora made him a proud boyfriend.

Even if they weren't too happy with each other at the moment.

Kennedy turned his head toward the stern voice and found it belonged to Sierra. He looked her and then back to Aurora. They seem to have this in check. He was tired. He wanted to eat. And he wanted to sleep. So, he would leave this up to the other prefect. Kennedy already had done enough and he had a tremendous headache and was beginning to see spots.

Yeah, they could handle this, right?

Kennedy sighed and crossed his arms on the table, placing his head over them.

"I'm sure she's doing alright." Cass said with false cheeriness "It's Fee, what could go wrong?" Hopefully, she didn't just jinx her friend with that statement.

The girl then frowned as her face scrunched up in concentration. Daichi, Daichi, Daichi... The name rang a bell - a really loud bell - that's for sure, but she just couldn't remember where she had heard it! "A bit." she simply said with a smile and a shrug, her mind still trying to recall where she had heard his name before, but all she could remember was a vague conversation with a friend a couple of terms back.

What was so funny? It was true! The couches in the common room could only fit so many people at once! "If that's the case, you'd better be ready to give up your favorite spot in the common room to one of the new kids." She said with a small laugh, if he had one of course "You'll be graduating this term, right?"

At the look on his face, Cass stuck out her tongue at him childishly and petulantly said "I get really full, really fast, ok?" Don't judge. "Besides, not everyone has an appetite as large as yours, Jonathan." She joked as she rolled her eyes at him.

At the mention of the food that the house elves were preparing right now, the blonde took on a glazed expression on her face and she smiled dreamily "There's just something about Hogwarts food that makes it so hard to resist." Unless of course you were sick, or really really, at-the-brink-of-bursting kind of full. Then she shook her head "Nah, I'm sure I'd be fine once the food gets here." After all, it didn't look like they would be serving the food anytime soon yet,

"Well, no, just Lafay actually." She admitted with a laugh "Although, I see a bunch of new professors, and I'm not sure if they're 'crazy' or not." Thank Merlin this girl hadn't been here when the Ministry profesors were around a few terms back! Now those teachers were the epitome of crazy. "I guess it really just depends on your definition of crazy."

Losing house points?

Who in the name of Salazar Slytherin was losing house points this early?!

Turning around to ind the source of the outbursts, Cass found Aurora and Sierra both addressing the table, threatening to harm anyone who would lose them a single point.

Perfect.

"Bad enough we had to lose the house cup, but we just had to lose it to the puffs." Cass said with a frown as she crossed her arms over her chest and frowned. No one had better misbehave this year. Bragging rights was a most painful thing to lose - much less to the duffers. Ugh.

Then, as if the table hadn't been chaotic enough, a house elf had suddenly jumped onto their table, grinning happily with something in it's little hands.

Blink. Blink.

House elf?! What was a house elf doing here?

and it wanted to play catch with them...peachy.

"Hey there little elf." Cass said as calmly as she could as she smiled at the baby house elf "Would you pretty, pretty please get off the table?" She pleaded as she clasped her hands together "Pleaaaaaaaaaasee?"

Zhenya fanned her face with her hand and took some deep breaths. She had to bring her knees up to her chest to breathe properly but whatever she felt soon passed. He just mustn't touch her again... or she would probably faint or something. Honestly, WHAT WAS HAPPENING?

And why was he now offering her pumpkin juice? "Er... I'm okay thanks G-Gary," she said, feeling the blood start rushing back up again. She took her glass of water and drank some huge mouth fulls to get her pale skin colour back. Yes, please, no more red!

She looked down at her feet. Her shoelace was still not tied up! She laughed slightly to herself. The shoelaces HE stepped on and tripped her over from. She pulled her knee back up to tie it but decided not to. She would do it before she left the Feast.

"I used to..." she said quietly, unsure of what she meant. She did know him very well, she knew his favourite Quidditch team, his family life, his best friend... But she didn't know why he was acting like this recently...

...

Yes she did. Wayne. His father. He was changing him. Deliberately.

What? That just irritated her even more. But she knew he was trying to help. "I will if he does." she said in a rather forceful voice.

Why did people have to be so LOUD? Aurora had the. Worst. Headache. Ever. And people were shouting and throwin things and... Now there was an ELF?!?

Aurora raised an eyebrow. This kid was in Slytherin..? Hmm. He needed training. "Being proud of yourself is good, yes." she started, a smirk playing at the corners of her mouth. "But publicly insulting people can make you look like the bad guy. You should be more subtle about it so you can get out of things if people try and use it against you." she added in a conspiratorial whisper. Okay. She liked this kid. He was enthusiastic and that was always good!

Good. Sierra was here. Aurora wanted to say something to her about the fact that she'd been doing her job but she thought that might do more harm than good. "Throwing cake. First years. Stopped now." she muttered, realising she was still stood up. She put her hand to her forehead in salute-style and nodded at Sierra, knowing that she was more than capable of getting people to behave. Just because it was through fear didn't mean it wasn't working. Then Aurora rested her head in her hands and closed her eyes. She just wanted to get out of the hall and go back to the comfort and safety of the common room...

Strike that. She didn't want to go to the common room... Kennedy and Jonathan were both in Slytherin and she wasn't sure Kennedy knew that...

Eek.

Couldn't she just go home? Hogwarts seemed different this year... Or that might be to do with the fact she wasn't joining in with the overly excited lower school anymore. No. She couldn't go home. She had to stay and MAKE SURE they win the cups.

Well the sorting was interesting. She was very fond of her new house Slytherin. She glanced at some people and spotted people she already new. Hopefully she would stay out of there way. Getting in her seat as comfy as possible she listened to the prefect. Hmm. He seemed kind. And very curly haired. She took some pumpkin juice and sipped on it. It was pretty disgusting and she wanted to just spit it out but she didn't because that would be just rude.

She was now bored and all the food was quite...unfamiliar. With the chicken and the drinks there weren't so nice but thats what people from England drank and ate. Hmph. She normally didn't eat besides lollies and German sausages. And oh no! Did she not remember her lollies? That would be bad!

She could honestly say that this was probably the biggest commotion that she had seen in the Slytherin table since someone's hair had turned to chocolate...and she was enjoying every minute of it.

Then, noticing someone sit on the vacant spot across from her, Cass teared her eyes from the chaos that had been caused by points-losing first years and turned to look at the familiar looking person in front of her.

"Hey, Liesel, right?" She asked with a friendly smile, remembering the girl's name from this morning "Welcome to Slytherin."

Tessa liked Hogwarts so far. It was loud, as of yet, and she and Eric had both been sorted into Slytherin. Unfortunately Ralph also was in Slytherin, but Tessa figured she'd just have to deal with that. She was giddy with the joy of being away from her parents. For once in her life, the smile showed on her face. Food and people. A good combination when Tessa was happy.

She didn't want to drink the pumpkin juice?

Okay. He failed again. Twice.

Maybe he could pull a prank to her, NOW. But he would try again, later The blonde guy still felt hungry. Then he noticed that the house elf at the table.

A HOUSE ELF?

Gary never liked house elf. Ever. Except if that creature brought something to eat. HE WAS VERY HUNGRY! He decided to stay cool and calm. Those were his middle name. Cool and Calm. Realized that Zhenya didn't feel good, he decided not to talk to her again. Maybe talking with him would make her became worse.

Then he noticed Aurora, speaking about House point lost and yelling to the firsties who made chaos, threw cake to others. But the blonde guy enjoyed it. He felt a little bit entertaining to see that. But they stopped it. Huh, there's no more entertainment.

The blonde guy still waited for the food. "How long that we need to wait for the food? I'm hungry now!" He murmured.

Eric felt good, he'd been sorted into Slytherin with Tessa. Ralph was in Slytherin too! Yay! Unfortunately, Tessa didn't seem too happy about that. Eric swore he saw Tessa frown when Ralph got sorted. Ah well it didn't matter.

"Tessa," Eric said when he finally found her, "Can I sit by you?"

Man look at all that food, It doesn't matter what she would reply with, all Eric cared about right now was jumping out of his shyness shell and chow down.

"No," she said sarcastically. Would Eric pick up on sarcasm? She had no idea. In any case, it was time for food. Tessa tried to eat real dinner foods, instead of waiting around for dessert to come. She saved a lot of space, though. "How'd'you like it?" she asked. "Hogwarts, I mean. Oh, and I meant to ask... what houses were your parents sorted into?" She licked some sweet potatoes off her lips and turned her new wand over in her fingers.

WHAT?!? NO?!?wait a minute.... oh, it was sarcasm... Eric HATED sarcasm. He wasn't mad at Tessa or anything but it just annoyed him.

Eric kept on standing not because he didn't want to, but because he had just been asked a very awkward question. It was an embarrassing thing to say actually. Most people laughed about it. But he hated lying more than sarcasm so he decided to answer truthfully.

"Uhh, m-my mum's was in Slytherin but my father was in Gryffindor." " I know... It's a weird combination....."

He hoped she wouldn't laugh...

Zhenya pulled out a small square piece of parchment. She pulled out a muggle pen her brother had got her and wrote a very quick letter to Raven.

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Raven,
I'm at the Feast and I don't see you here. Maybe by the time I get up to the dorms I'll see you, but if not then I hope you're well. I was upset I didn't see you during Summer but I know you are sick and I want you to be healthy again. I hope you got to see your family. Thank you for the present.
From Zhenya

Her lip trembled a bit. She bit it to stop herself from crying, and she put the pen and the parchment back in her pocket to send when she got up tomorrow. She would go straight to the Owlery and send it to her.

She drank the rest of her Goblet of water and put it on the table. But she was still thirsty! She Looked around to see how she could get more, but there was nothing there. That was odd! Hurry up house elves.

But then her goblet was full again! She had never known Hogwarts did that. "WOW" she said to herself. She had never finished a drink before, obviously. This was amazing. She gulped the entire goblet of water down and put it back on the table and watched inside it, eagerly waiting for it to fill up again. It did!

Then he spoke again. Well, it wasn't to her, but he still spoke. Ahh, it was dreamy. She almost dribbled some of her drink! "I don't know, hopefully we won't have to wait too much longer. I just want pumpkin," she said laughing.

He was bored.. He was bored!

Gerald Alexander Rush was very bored! He couldn't do anything, even tried to pull a prank to someone, or the Prefects would eye him? Sigh.. Life was too boring! He need to give a color to it! What should he do, now?

Food. YES! He need food! He need something to eat! But not sweets.

"Good, I hope the house elves won't be long to give us food! Don't they know that the students here were starving? We already had a long journey, right?" the blonde guy murmured. Then he noticed that Zhenya wrote something in a parchment.

"What's that?" He asked. Maybe annoyed her could entertain himself.

[QUOTE=ocelot;11027145][COLOR="YellowGreen"]Elle thought of it as sushi. Still didn't make it any better. As she listened to him talk her face fell at the tone in his voice and his obvious discomfort with the subject. "Aw man I'm sorry." She lightly placed a hand on his shoulder. Then thinking about her own family, "Ah well my Dad's a riot and we just moved to an apartment in Liverpool last year. My Mom, who's a witch, used to teach kids when we lived in Sussex and she left 3 years ago." It wasn't so bad talking about her family, really. It just wasn't that interesting. [B]"So we packed up and traveled around for a while, then settled down in Liverpool and adopted a cat.

He pit his hand on top of hers for a second, it was cool and smooth then he removed it incase she wanted to take her hand away. "It's ok. My brother is awesome. I finally gettin travel some and I'm here now." His pale blue eyes danced with amusement thinking about her and her dad's adventures, especially with his cooking. And they have a cat. "With threat yoyour dad sounds and cooks I bet it was something else! Kyrian and I have a cat too. I found it when it was a kitten. Now he rules the house." He picked up a red Bertie Botts bean and tossed it up in the air trying to catch it in his mouth with no luck it hit right in the dang eye. "Gawd!" He heard his southern twang appear and he placed an identical bean on her plate. "Heh oops. That's what I get for playing around. This should be some sort of berry or cinnamon."

"I snuck into the kitchens once. You know they have the same set up down there as we do here? I think they would just be doing final touch ups," she said, hoping that was what it was. Her stomach let out a rumble again and she covered her stomach to attempt to cover it up. Good one, Zhenya, she thought.

Oh, she just wanted to kick herself. All she wanted to do was look at him. He looked so calm, it was nice. Most the people around her were going crazy! She herself was tired, hungry and sad so she wasn't exactly crazy.

"Oh... it's a letter," she said. He probably wouldn't care about a silly letter, she thought. She just wanted Raven to get there to tell her to snap out of it. But she couldn't!

Chelsea turned to see another girl sitting beside her, who by the looks of it seemed kind of down. "Hi, I don't think I've seen you around before. I'm Chelsea. Third year snake," she smiled. The blonde was feeling social and that was her plan this year anyway. To just do whatever and enjoy life. Well classes too.

Louise walking up to the house table, she was a bit shy, she was told that this table had bad people in in, but she sat down anyway "hi everyone how were your summers" she smiled at them

Oh. It was just a letter. The blonde guy didn't want to ask more about that. It sounded private, and he didn't want to disturb her privacy. Gary didn't know why he really enjoyed to have a conversation with her. Because usually he was cold, and not like to talk much to girls. Most girls are annoying, noisy, sloppy, and sometimes they talk about something that was not very important such as pimples, hair, etc.

But she was different..

EH?

Stop thinking about that, Gary Rush! Keep calm and cool, okay?!

"Wake me up when the food comes." Said him short. Then he crossed his arm at the table and put his head there. He was sooooo tired and hungry and bored too. If he had a timeturner, he wanted to fast-forward this moment, make the food come soon and the feast will be over soon to.

She was really hungry.

She was felt like she was starving in fact. She normally ate and when she was hungry there was something that she could eat. Most of the time they were candy but she didn't have them. This sucked. In her mind she couldn't live without candy because then she would get extremely bored and not live up to her expectations. But she would have to live with that.

"Hey! Yes it is!" she turned to someone who was close by/ Sh remembered her from the platform. Her name was Kat? Cass? Something like that. "Thank you! Hopefully we win all the cups this year!" she said with a sweet smile. "It's Cass or Kat right?"

Yeah, she had a point. It's Fee after all. What could possibly go wrong. Fee was the most optimistic Slytherin Jonathan knows and it's not likely for her to be all sad and depressed. Quite frankly, Jonathan has never once seen Fee mad... to him that is. "I guess you're right" he sighed. Still, he wished that anytime soon, Fee would just completely barge in on the door and throw some glitter on their faces. That'd be the most epic entrance and comeback to Hogwarts ever. But... one can only wish for it though.

More sigh...

Gasp, Daichi is actually one of the most active lower years Jonathan has ever seen. He likes to talk to a lot of people. Cass doesn't seem to know him that much as he do, so he just left the Daichi subject there...

Jonathan's eyes widened when Cass suggested something that he doesn't want to do, which is to give up his favorite seat in the common room. He shook his head and the thought just made him shrugged. No. It's his favorite seat, he doesn't want to give it up yet even though he'll be graduating. "I love my seat at the common room" he nodded trying to remember how time flies by so fast and now he'll be graduating and leave Hogwarts for good. Sad reality but true. He smirked at Cass, "how about you?" If there is one thing Jonathan knows about the Slytherin's common room is that each student likes to have their own sitting place. It's like when they first came to Hogwarts, they already called dibs on a certain couch. "What if someone takes your comfortable couch?" he gave out a small laugh.

Nod. Nod.

Girls have different appetites than guys and it's understandable. Well, some girls could really REALLY eat a lot but not gain a single pound on the weighing scale but some refuses to eat as to the reason not to gain. "I eat a lot" he admits. "Ironic because i can never cook" which is what he always wants to do... cook. "I think it's really nice" he said as his eyes followed her, "to get full really fast" Jonathan nodded. He would like to have that too but he never get full too quickly.

There's just something about Hogwarts food that makes it so hard to resist.

That's really true. Jonathan smiled as he listened to her. However, when the elves had a boycott of some sort last 2 terms ago, Jonathan barely ate at the great hall. He would just let his mother owl him something to eat. He's just hoping that never happens AGAIN this term. Jonathan is OCD, so the fact that he can see dirt on the plates makes him nauseated and loses all his appetite even though when he cleaned it.

"Definitely there's this ingredient they out that makes everything just sumptuous" he said looking at the empty plates and unused utensils. All he could think of right now is food. He wants to eat.... sooooo when do they start eating?????

Mordred narrowed his eyes in disbelief. “You used to?” Well, what does he know about these things anyway? “Either way the two of you need to talk. But for now, just wait it out until you’re cool enough to think.” He himself tends to regret the words that come out of his mouth when he’s mad. With Aurora’s temper, things will really fall apart between them. “Good thing he’s got prefect duties to keep his mind off of your..er, drama.” He continued. “And, I believe you’ve got your OWLs coming up. That should keep you busy too.” He said as he spun around to see if the Headmaster will start his speech. His stomach’s screaming for food now.

Just when he was about to complain about how slow the evening was, he spotted a little creature on their table. First, the hyperactive first years, and now…an elf? He stared at it and rolled his eyes.





And just when Mordred thought that the shouting subsided, their other prefect stood up and addressed the Slytherin population.

Great. He held his head with both hands, and rested his elbows on the table shutting his eyes tightly. The thumping headache wasn't helping at all.

"Hey, I'll just go stay at the back of the hall." he addressed it to Aurora then stood up. He might just skip the feast and go to bed.

The 16-year-old smiled as she laughed "Hopefully. It really sucked that we lost last year - and to the Hufflepuffs, no less." Oh yes, the snakes were back with a vengeance.

"It's Cass actually." she answered with a smile "Thanks for remembering." Then noticing the look on her face, the blonde girl laughed as she said "You look like you could use some food or something." Well, yeah, everyone at the table did. After all, who wasn't looking forward to the delicious meal that the house elves had prepared?

"Of course I'm right." She simply answered cheekily as she smirked at him. Then she gestured to his friend and said "Maybe you can introduce us someday, it would be nice to be in good terms with more Slytherins." After all, like Jonathan said earlier, the more the merrier, right?

Cass laughed as she shook his head, of course he wouldn't give up that seat, not until he has to anyway. When the question was thrown back at her, the blonde laughed and shook her head "Of course not." She answered with a roll of her eyes "My seat, besides, I still have one last term after this one - no way I'm giving up on that couch now." and it was a lovely couch indeed, right next to the awesome green fire and everything.

The blonde then chuckled "I don't think a lot of us know how to cook either." She said as she glanced around the boisterous table "Most of us were been born with a silver spoons in our mouths." Then she glanced at him "It's ironic though, but maybe a bit fitting too, how you can't cook, and yet your girlfriend just happens to be the best baker Hogwarts has ever seen." She commented, thinking about Kurumi's ever awesome cookies.

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Well the sorting was interesting. She was very fond of her new house Slytherin. She glanced at some people and spotted people she already new. Hopefully she would stay out of there way. Getting in her seat as comfy as possible she listened to the prefect. Hmm. He seemed kind. And very curly haired. She took some pumpkin juice and sipped on it. It was pretty disgusting and she wanted to just spit it out but she didn't because that would be just rude.

She was now bored and all the food was quite...unfamiliar. With the chicken and the drinks there weren't so nice but thats what people from England drank and ate. Hmph. She normally didn't eat besides lollies and German sausages. And oh no! Did she not remember her lollies? That would be bad!

She looked over at a girl she just noticed at the table,"Hello." She said with a smile to the girl.

Need to talk. Need to talk. Need to talk. People kept saying thr but every time they tried one of them would get angry and it would turn into an argument. "But when I'm cool enough to think I don't want to talk..." she said, resting the palm of her hand on her forehead... Ugh. Her hands weren't cold enough to relieve the pain of this headache. She downed the water in her goblet and let it refill... She just wanted something cold... Removing her wand, she pointed it at the goblet and muttered a freezing spell. Well that didn't work. She was apparently too stressed and tired to achieve the concentration it took for her to perform charms... It was a bit colder though... She lifted the goblet and rested her head on it.

"I don't want to think about my OWLs..." she trailed off. She hated reading and writing... Dyslexia made exams hell. No matter how mild the dyslexia or how much extra time was allowed... And she wasn't feel too confident about the practicals either. "I don't really want to think of anything right now."

Aurora looked up at Mordred as he stood... "Don't leave me..." Because she'd look pathetic sat here alone with a goblet on her forehead. "Have you got a headache too..?" she asked, twirling her wand in her hand and wondering how much trouble she'd get in for silencio-ing the first years... Probably too much. She returned her wand to her sleeve...

Toddles was going to stop at the yellow table because they seemed like nice studensies, the one had played catch with him earlier, but he still hadn't had a green kid play with him and he had heard the meanie blue 'P' girl say something about a chocolate cauldron, whatever what was.

Toddles would explore, yes he would--oh and the Shiney would come with him.

Taking a running jump, the baby House Elf landed on the green table again and looked around. "Will someone play catch with Toddles yet?!?" He was pouting, but he still threw the shiney orb at them. If they didn't catch it they would get hit in the face like the good passer at the red table. That was funny, Toddle thought.