Just on her way to the Gryffindor table the blonde heard someone call her name. Looking around she was searching for the face to the voice. Oh my god it was Ariadne. The Slytherin hadnt seen her in ages. Grinning widely Fee approached her friend and plopped down next to her. "Heyyyy Ari", she said .Now this was really nice. Good idea to come to the Lions table.

"Ive been good", she beamed,"just a bit stressed with my sisters.They should have listened to me and gone to Hogwarts."But of course they didnt listen and now they were stuck at Beauxbatons.Well thats what you get for not listening to your older sister."How have you been darling?", the seventh year smiled happily," i havent seen you aroind for ages." Fee couldnt help but chuckle a bit about their first meeting. That had been sooo cute.

Hugging her friend back tightly, the smile didnt fade from the Snake's face.It was so so so amazing to see Ari.She hadnt changed one bit, awww.

Tay nodded, "I figured transfiguration." She smiled, "I adore the D.A.D.A. teacher with her accent and yoga." Taylor laughed then her eyes grew along with her smile, "I can help with that if you wish."
"Bull." She laughed and smiled, "You know that Ravens ae the best." Tay winked at her, giggling.

As much as Kurumi wanted to correct Thomas again for the mispronunciation of her name, she honestly didn't care and it really didn't matter. It was part of what made him him and, well, that was how it should be. Pushing all that aside, Kurumi hugged him just a little more tightly and was completely oblivious to the blush that had taken over his features.

Not that she would have known what that meant anyway. She was completely oblivious to such things.

"Good! Don't go anywhere," she said, her tone somewhat serious. "At least not until I graduate because I'll miss seeing you in the common room." Which was a little unfair considering, but Kurumi rather liked Thomas. She was a little protective of him, especially after having tutored him a bit his first term at the school.

"Lips are sealed," she nodded, finally releasing him from her hug. "I'm good and summer was fantastic...but what about you?! How have you been?!" Kurumi was far more interested in hearing about him than talking about herself right now, obviously.
Kurumi's smile widened just a bit, glad that that other subject had seemingly been dropped. "My plan after Hogwarts is actually to attend university to further my studies in creatures, actually. Specifically dragons though." Which made her think of Professor Williamson again and just how much she missed him. He was in Romania though and that was currently her top choice with universities due to its extensive hatchery program. "You have a pet cat?"

Hopefully one that got along with Walnut if so.
Oh! Another new lion!

Kurumi turned her body slightly so she could face the newly sorted housemate, who she had unfortunately missed the name of due to various conversations, and gave him a warm round of applause. "Welcome to Gryffindor house! I'm Kurumi Hollingberry, one of your prefects."

Finally, in her fourth term as prefect she was getting better at introducing herself this way even if she hated including the prefect bit in her introductions.

Lex couldn't help but notice that the girl was turning red. For a moment she tried thinking back to her previous sentences, wondering if she had said something embarrassing but when nothing in particular came to mind she shrugged it off as nothing but a thing older kids did from time to time...or in this girl's case, most of the time. "You're sooo lucky! I wish my mother could've taught me to bake...in fact I don't think I remember anything she taught me..." and so to change the subject very quickly she giggled at the fact that her father said she had been baking since she could stand. "Neat. My Daddy says I'm been giving trouble since before I could stand." BEAM.

She tilted her head slightly and stared over at Kurumi with curious eyes. It took a while for her to get what the girl was trying to do then set out to assure her. "Oh I really am happy about being sorted into Gryffindor you know; honest." She averted her gaze for a minute wondering if she should tell her but then...so many other people knew or saw it happening so she might as well give her a heads up; compensation for the train climbing."It's just that...I was so sure that I would have gotten into Ravenclaw then when that Lainey woman bet that I wouldn't we made a wager and I lost so now I have to eat the sorting hat." She had to mutter the last part, almost sure that Kurumi would start yelling again then draw Scary Bat-Girl's attention. "But I'm sure you could definitely have been a Ravenclaw!!"


She stared over at the girl in shock. "And what's with the smirk?! It's not funny! Now she has more chances to kill me!"

Emilia sat down at the Gryffindor table, the proper one this time, with a sigh. Things had been such a whirlwind since she moved here from the states and it felt like she could finally take a breath. She did just that and then took a look around her. However it didn't help much, and she put her face in her hands. What was she doing here?

Now that Puffles had decided he's joke was over, Ness was able to relax and not stress over loosing her pygmy puff forever. With Puffles now on her shoulder, she walked into the great hall with a sigh of relief and eyed all the tables, including the staff table. There were quite a lot of new professors there and it was interesting to see their new faces, but there were other things Nessie was more interested in. She eyed her own house table and pouted.

It was packed by now..and the thought of going there involved the idea of getting lots of attention, which usually she wouldn't have minded. Today she was tired though and the last thing she wanted was to deal with was that. She still ahad no option, but maybe it wasn't a bad idea to spear just a few more moments were she was, in peace and quiet.

Her few moments didn't last too long as when she spotted a certain someone, at the Gryffindor table she almost began running full speed ahead at him. She didn't do that though, she knew she'd look silly. Instead she walked in a fairly fast manner till she snuck up behind her best friend.

Smirk.

Renesmee took her two hands and covered Tom's eyes. "Guess who?" she suppressed a giggle, not wanting to give herself completely away.

Kurumi tried to keep her smile genuine, not wanting to venture into such personal conversations with someone she barely knew nor ruin the lighthearted mood that the feast always provided, but it was hard. Lucky. Kurumi had never once considered her relationship with her mother to be anything of that sort...not until the very end. In those last moments...that was the first and only time Kurumi felt lucky to have her mother. That thought, while brilliant in its own right, stung and lingered like a poison in her mind and heart. "It was the only thing my mother taught me," she said softly, the use of past tense stinging just a bit more.

Not to mention that Alexa's use of past tense not going unnoticed and Kurumi gave her a knowing smile. Nothing more needed to be said.

"I don't doubt that," she said with a wink. About the trouble making that is.

Kurumi was about to say something on the matter of Alexa's sorting, but the girl continued to explain more of her reasoning...which actually really had nothing to do with the Sorting itself but with...a bet? Okay, could Kurumi laugh? No, no she couldn't. Alexa looked somewhat ashamed and nervous about losing the bet - how very Gryffindor! - so Kurumi shouldn't look amused...but she did. Just a little. "Well, we can't have you eating that old hat. What would we use to sort future students?!"

And NOW Kurumi giggled just a little because, well, it was sort of amusing.

She did manage to stop when the first year questioned her smirk. "Well, you do have to admit that the whole thing is rather...amusing." What else COULD you do but laugh at how completely insane the day had been. "And I promise, Selina won't kill you. I'll make sure of it." She couldn't have her best friend carted off to Azkaban after all.

Seeing another unfamilar face appear at the table, Kurumi waved her wand at the display of dancing cookies in the air to hopefully catch the girl's attention. She did seem a little....depressed? Unsure? Nervous? All of the above? No matter, opening feasts were supposed to be a time of celebration and Kurumi wanted her lions in good spirits to jump start the term.

"Hello," Kurumi waved, also noting that Nessie had made an appearance at the table and she gave the Hufflepuff Quidditch captain a quick smile as well.

Emilia caught movement out of the corner of her eye and looked up to see a girl waving at her. She cocked her head in slight confusion until she saw some cookies dancing in the air. She couldn't suppress her smile at the sight.

"Hello... that's quite the display you have there," she said with a soft laugh. "Do the cookies dance here often?"

"Um...thank you," Kurumi replied with a slight bow of the head. Charms was not her best subject, but Kurumi had become rather handy with a simple Levitation Charm over the years. "Only at the opening and closing feasts, at least the ones that I bake." Because she was the one to charm them.

"I'm Kurumi, by the way, I don't think we have met before..."

And if they had and Kurumi had forgotten...then she really WAS a failure.

Emi smiled and looked up at the cookies. It truly was amusing, having the cookies dancing. "It reminds me of that one Christmas story... 'sugar plums dancing in their heads' or something?" she said, finding it funny that she couldn't exactly recall the classic story.

"You baked these? That's so cool!" she said. "I try my best in the kitchen, but it is not my best skill," she said, making a face. "Oh! I'm Emilia, I just transferred here..." she said, her voice hardening at her statement. She cleared her throat and pushed her misery away for the moment. "Nice to meet you Kurumi," she said with a smile.

Sarah looked at her new friend her eyes dramatizing it, "maybe... In the crazy world that there is today things like that can happen. After all perhaps only a dark wizard would not like kids going to school to be educated. Yet that is just my opinion. Y'know, just one of my countless theories. As far as I know, the Hogwarts Express had never really been stpped, of course there was an incident in 1993 when dementors entered the train, yet I don't know if it actually stopped. Maybe I shall check the library for some details" Sarah said. Her mind whirring again.


"Well I took the teddy bear. So tell me, how was your summer?" Sarah asked. Her mind was constantly darting from one thought to another that some of the thinks she piped out with were rather out - of topic -random to others, who did not realize that craziness of her thought process.

Sarah detecting something strange in the girls eyes, the girl seemed to be hiding something. Yet as the girl brought forth no further details say let it be. She had to change the girls mind about portkeys, "The city of Atlantis was AWESOME" Sarah said, her eyes shining. "It was underwater, although it used to not be. Merpeople live there now. There are various theories regarding it. The merchiefteness said that it was sunk by a wizard who wanted the mugge out or something like that. You see, before that muggles and wizarding folk lived on the island, yet the one wizard did not like muggles, so he sunk the island." Sarah explained, cutting a long story short.

He sure did, thought Sarah as he fingered her robes and plucked something off. It was lint probably, Sarah did not care if her robes had lint on it, it was people like the charms professor that cared. After all Sarah did dress for herself. Internal beats external anytime. She looked at the staff table (which was crowded) for the charms professor, hoping that she had not come back -yet she had! As well as mean potions mistress. "I see that you do!" said Sarah.

"No, he has been sorted! Look, he is coming over right now. He is another charge of yours!" Sarah said excitedly as she waved at her brother's small figure that was coming towards them. She sllid over a bit to make space for him on the bench.
Turning to Kurumi she said, "can I please have another cookie?"

Sarah nearly burst at laughing at the girls suggestion. "I think I overdramatzed it a bit It is really not so bad! Just grazes really!" She was touched by the girls concern though.
Sarah liked hearing feedback on her theories. The truth was she thought a lot of her theories were outrageous.
"Yeah, maybe the train was enchaned with ancient magic that kept the Board of Governors at bay from getting too involved."

Sarah grinned at Tiffany returned her greeting, "Nice to see you to!"
"I never saw them, just read about it in the Daily Prophet! The rest was all my own thinking... Just a theory you know.."

Lex made a face at her. "Nah, I might have thought that before but now it's definitely Gryffindor for the win. ROOOOAAARRR!!!!!"

Lex raised an eyebrow at Kurumi when she said it was the only thing her mother had taught her. Two things caught her attention in that statement. Firstly the girl was quite old--anything over 11 was so her mother should have taught her a lot more stuff, which led to the second realization; the girl had used the past tense like her. This wasn't her favourite topic so she wasn't going to question it. Instead she returned the smile that Kurumi had given her. Maybe the yeller wasn't so bad afterall. Technically she hadn't been shouting at them anyway...more at everyone else for scaring the animals.

She giggled a bit when Kurumi doubted something she had grown to believe for years. "Well I'm glad you think so. My old teachers use to think I was nothing but trouble...though I have no idea why! It use to get ridiculous, I mean can you believe they punished me for starting a riot??" The nerve of that teacher; if she had given Lex that bloody star sticker instead of the heart one then things could have turned out differently!

The next thing the girl said also made sense. If she did eat the hat then no one else would get sorted. Hmm...that would have been a problem wouldn't it...?

"Okay, you're right--but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna punish the hat." She liked to show things exactly why she wasn't to be messed with and even though she was a proud Lion it still didn't excuse the fact that the hat had disregarded her wishes. "If it was as smart as people said then it would have known to just gimme what I want." Nod.

...

Why was she giggling? Lex was being serious here! She sighed in relief at Kurumi's promise--it was a promise, right....? "Okay....good, because I think I'm too young to die...especially at the hands of a mad woman." Just saying.

Lex's eyes went wide with amazement. So then...it really is under water?? That's so coool! I wish I could have been there! What were the mermaids like?" Now that she knew the place really existed she really wanted to go--even if it meant taking another portkey. Wait... "If it's under water then how did you all visit?? Did you guys like get turned into mermaids or something temporarily??" That would have been even more cool and the wizard he sunk it had a good idea right there; if only Amanda was on that island when he sank it. It sure would have made her a happy 11 year old...

Taylor laughed and smiled, "Oh is that it, squirt?" She hugged her friend and ruffled her hair.

Chewing on her lower lip rather furiously for a few moments, Kurumi couldn't help but reflect on her own mother. Namely her final moments in the hospital, the journal she carried with her now of her mother's thoughts and feelings, and the ritual she had been a part of this summer. Which then made her wonder what sort of experience this first year had. What had caused her to lose her mother at such a young age. An age where she didn't even really seem to remember her. Kurumi was probably passing judgement, but suddenly the girl's behavior sort of...made sense.

"A riot? Why did you start a riot?" Kurumi asked, blinking in surprise. "We actually had an assignment last term for History of Magic where we were told to protest something we believed in. The Headmaster ended up sticking myself and my friends to the floor outside his office." Which had been funny, now that she looked back on it. All of them sort of camping out in front of the stone gargoyles. "Within reason, of course."

Kurumi ended up giggling softly again. "Well, if the hat had listened to me, I wouldn't have been in Gryffindor either. It seems to know what it is doing...sees parts of us we don't know are there. Ignores our requests. Really an incredible piece of magic when you get to thinking about it." Godric Gryffindor...simply brilliant.

Kurumi ceased her giggling long enough to lean in and whisper in Alexa's ear. "Call her mad woman to her face and I might not be able to keep my promise..." Fair warning.
Kurumi's eyes widened and she followed Sarah's gaze. "Oh, look at that," she beamed. Another lion! YAY! Kurumi had a good feeling about this term. A REALLY good feeling and not just because it was going to be her last. Yes, there would be issues within her house - look at everything that had happened TODAY - but she felt a sense of pride among her lions right now. It was a good feeling.

"Of course you can. I think Headmistress Truebridge will be making her speech soon as well, so you can eat properly."

"Oh, you mean The Night Before Christmas, I think," Kurumi nodded. It wasn't a story she had been familiar with growing up, but some of the older students had read it in the Gryffindor common room when she had been a first year. Merlin...that seemed like forever ago while also seeming like just yesterday.

Kurumi nodded...and blushed....mostly blushed though. "I've been baking since before I could stand, or so father says. I visit the kitchens often and bake with the house elves as well. Very accommodating." And as close as family as far as Kurumi was concerned. "Nice to meet you, Emilia and, well, weclome to Hogwarts and Gryffindor! I'm Kurumi."

She hadn't said her name already...had she?!

"That's what the name of it is, thank you!" Emilia said, glad that the girl knew what she was talking about. She hated when she forgot things, even something as simple as that.

"Oh wow, that's impressive," Emi replied. She had been that way about her art and her sports. "That's nice of them to share the kitchens with you. Do they even teach you recipes? Or have you taught them a thing or two?" she asked with a growing smile.

"Thanks... again," she said with a wide smile. It was nice to feel welcomed in the midst of all of the craziness of the past few days. "So, have you been here for all of your years?" she asked, curious. She had already met one transfer, so it was possible others had as well.

Sarah, happy to have an audience continued, "Yeah it is underwater. We had wetsuits on so we were okay. The mermaid we say had blue eyes, white hair and greyish skin and a fearful temper!" Sarah hoped she had gotten her point across, "see, portkeys take you to interesting places! tell me, if I were to tell you that you could visit Atlantis now through a portkey, would yo go - even with a portkey?" Sarah asked the girl


Sarah thanked Kurumi and took another cookie, food or not Sarah was starving. And food kept her occupied during speeches, gave her something to fiddle on. Sarah then had another question, "Kurumi, do you make these cookies magically or the way muggle make them?" There had been a though provoking story in the Plimpy Soup for The Wizarding Soul.

Arabella-Marie smiled and waved back to Ari and mouthed "I am ok Ari" Arabella-Marie winced a bit as she knew that her wrist was more than sprained it was probably broken and she knew that she was never going to travel by portkey again

Finally Hogwarts. They're forced using portkey to go to Hogwarts after something happened with the train. And the dizziness affect from the portkey was still there. Maybe after he eat something the dizziness will gone but he need to wait till the sorting was over and the Headmistress speech before he could eat something.

After making appearance in his house table, Messer walked to the Gryffindor table where his best friend is. He hasn't meet Alice since summer. Wonder how she has been.

Was that Alice? On crutches?

O________o

"Alice? What's that?D-did something happen to you?" She was alright when he met her during the summer.

Oh look, there was Captain Selina...and she was handing out posters? About...her bat? She lost her bat? How? Weird. But Penelope unfortunately hadn't seen it, so she sadly couldn't help her Captain.

But then, she looked at the poster properly and...hm? "It's not 2088 yet," she pointed out. Was he going to be lost in the future? How would you know that your bat would be lost ten years in the future? That was even weirder. Though slightly cool, if you really could predict the future or go to the future or something like that.

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Kurumi smiled and winked THANKS TREYEN! at Penelope, refraining from making a comment about hoping the cookie would prevent her from eating the actual table. Not that Penelope had actually tried that before....not yet at least.

"Glad to hear it," Kurumi chirped. "I don't want anymore of my favorite lions getting hurt." This time she refrained from winking, but just barely. "I'm alright, now at least. Just glad to be in the Great Hall."

Kurumi winked? Penelope thought only guys did that. But apparently Kurumi did too. Cool. And Penelope even smiled a little when the seventh year basically said she was one of her favorite lions. It was nice knowing she was at least someone's favorite. Though, Kurumi was only alright now? "You weren't alright before?" So she HAD gotten hurt?

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And then she noticed Penelope sitting over in the corner by herself. "NELL!" she shouted, trying to wave her arms while still holding on to her crutches. After a while, she gave up and just hobbled over to the girl, being careful not to drag her splint. "Where did you go? I think I lost you after we took the Portkey." Pity. She really did like Penelope. She honestly like anyone who enjoyed food as much as she did. "Are you okay? Is your knee okay?"

Penelope wasn't used to the nickname "Nell," so she didn't realize who Alice was talking to until she came over to her...on crutches. Was her leg not healed? "I went to one of the carriages," she answered. She hadn't gone to the carriages immediately, of course, but eventually she had. And then she'd gotten separated from the people she'd ridden with. She was getting separated a lot today, it seemed. "My knee's fine." She nodded. "How's your leg? Has the Healer not looked at it yet?"

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"Aye we did...a few times." Thankfully none with his father but the incident with hers had certainly been a blast. Insert touch of sarcasm here. She seemed confused about his comment about his wand, obviously not aware of what had happened when he thought he had heard gossip around the tower about it. And here he had ruined her innocence of knowing about his failure.

"Nae...I did," Gideon remarked, trying to think of the best way to put it. "It just got...stolen...in the trouble in Hogsmeade at the end of term. Had to wait until we were back in London to replace it."



Speaking of a certain mentioned witch...

Hearing a familiar voice yelling for the table's attention, Gideon turned to spot the familiar redhead. He gave a sigh of relief and smiled to see her safe and in one piece. The seventh year moving to get up to move closer to Selina but stopping as she continued on about finding Mortimer, offering more fliers for assistance. Great...just great.

"Aye...please find him," he murmered quietly as he sat back down with a frown. Starring at the table for lack of anything else to do. He needed some even small bit of sanity returning to his life.

A few times? "That's cool. What did you two do?" Penelope was curious to know what boyfriends and girlfriends did - besides kiss of course. She didn't have a boyfriend and no one was interested in being hers, but she still wondered. And oh, that stuff that had happened in Hogsmeade. That was sad, having your wand stolen. "I could've given you mine, if you wanted." She was rubbish at magic anyway, so it wouldn't have been much of a loss for her. Gideon probably had needed a wand then more than she did.

Couldn't go back and change it now though, of course.

But even Penelope noticed the change in Gideon's mood when Selina had appeared to hand out those posters. "Something wrong?" Was he worried about the bat too?

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"Is your knee alright?" Anya asked calling down the table. After the portkey, everyone got a bit separated. She had spent the time with James, so she was really hoping that Penne was fine.

And Alice as well.

Suddenly hearing Anya again, this time asking about her knee, Penelope turned to her nodded. "Yeah, it's fine. Just bruised." And it at least wasn't visible now that she had her robes on, which were more than long enough to cover her knees.

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...Right. "Penelope." Sorry. Jake stared at the girl for a second before shrugging and looking away. Um. So. Um.

"How... was your carriage ride?" Was it too obvious that he was searching for any sort of small talk he could?

There we go. Was it really that hard to say? Penelope didn't think so.

Her carriage ride? "It was fine." Y'know, just a normal carriage ride. Nothing really special about it. "How was yours?" Because even she could be polite too right now. Though mostly only because Atticus and Vashti's encouragements to be so still popped up in her head every now and then and made her feel guilty whenever she wasn't.

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When Anya asked if he was all right, all James did was shake his head no. "Not exactly, but I'll manage just fine" he promised her.

He looked at Alice and grinned, but the grin slid off his face when he watched her look away. James looked down sadly and felt tears prick at the corners of his eyes and he sniffled a little. Call him too sensitive, but being so blatantly ignored by someone he considered a good friend hurt.

James shrugged on shoulder at what Penelope said, not rally caring anymore. "I honestly don't care what happens" he muttered bitterly, Alice's actions still stinging him emotionally.

And now something seemed to be bothering James. He didn't care what happened? Penelope thought his tone said otherwise. "What's up with you?" Besides the fact that his arm was hurt and stuff, obviously. She didn't think that was the reason why he suddenly sounded so...upset.

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Whilst chatting happily, Ariadne glimpsed a housemate who seemed more quiet than the others. Waving to the girl, she asked: 'How are you doing? Did you land in Hogsmeade unscathed?' It had been the first time for Ari to travel via Portkey, but she had arrived safe and sound on the platform in Hogsmeade.

Noticing someone wave out of the corner of her eye, Penelope turned in time to see and hear an older girl speak to her. "I'm alright," she replied with a nod. "I didn't get hurt." If that was what the older girl meant. "Did you?" She looked to be alright though, which was good.

Alice saw Anya eyeing the crutches. "It's nothing, you know. I'm actually liking the crutches. They make me taller when I walk, see?" She beamed. They actually did, added a good bit of a foot on her height. So when she walked, she was taller than most of her friends. Not Jake, though, that boy was monstrous. "Oh, did you fix him up, then? That's great." Actually not, it was probably really awkward, seeing as Anya had an ALMOST boyfriend now.

"I'm okay. I really want to get this splint off at the Healer's, but I'm determined to wait until after I get FOOD."

A girl needed her food, you know.
Hmm? Penelope had ridden in the carriage? Had she not gone with Anya and Jake? Huh. Curious. "Oh. Good. Did you get Spot and your luggage?" She liked Penelope's cat. It was a cool cat. "Awesome. I'm glad you're okay." She was. "Yeah, it's okay. I had to ride in a special carriage the Groundskeeper got, so I reached the castle later and by that time, she was already at the Feast." So she could just go see her afterwards.
Alice beamed again when Jake promised her a piggyback ride. He was like.. ten feet tall. So if she got a ride on him, she'd be like TWELVE feet tall. She thought that Jake could do that for a living, you know. Giving short ickle kids scary rides on the monstrous thing that was his body. When Alice became rich and a Queen, like she KNEW she would, she was going to hire Jake as her full-time piggybacker.

"A pony ride? Like.. hmm.. when you get down on all fours and be.. a pony?" She wasn't sure how else to explain it. BUT. She needed one of those, too, yep, she did. She could have one.. right..? AHEM.
Tag was sitting with.. with other people? o-o But two of his best friends were in that compartment. And in full view of JAKE. she figured that was reason enough for Tag to be there. "Oh. Um. Okay.." That was odd. But, whatever, Alice decided to let it go. "So are you okay? You didn't hurt yourself, right?" Kildare couldn't be hurt. tag the Second would be so sad if he was.

The lioness beamed at Tag when he started talking about Tag the Second. That ickle yellow furby was the most adorable thing in the world. She loved it more than her stick. "Yeah. I'll go see the Healer after the Feast is over. I just wanted to come to see all of you and eat and watch Headmaster redhead give her speech." She couldn't exactly miss the Feast. It was one of her favourite parts of the school year.
Breaking a leg was serious? Since when? If she was still breathing, Alice didn't think it was serious at all. Huh. Curious. "I'll try," she said with a smile. "It's nice to meet you, Tiffany, I'm Alice."
Could this boy really sleep through that much? Lucky. Alice wished she could have done that. "Yeah. But I'm going to the healer after the feast is over, so I should be okay." She smiled back at him. His concern was much better than the paranoid fretting of everyone else. It made her feel more relaxed. "Tom. That's a nice name." A nice name to go along with a funky accent. Heh.

"I'm a third year.. but I'm short.." hmph. Four feet eleven inches was not an acceptable height for a thirteen year old girl. Especially not a thirteen year old QUEEN. That's why she rather liked the crutches, they added at least half a foot onto her height. "What year are you in?" And.. now he looked upset. What? Did he say something she wasn't supposed to? "Oh. Well.. I'm sure everyone is glad you're back now.." She beamed at him. He looked like he needed a smile sent his way just then.

Was he hungry? "Me too. I wish we could EAT already." Hey. Little girls needed their food.


After turning away from Tom, she noticed someone else calling her name. she had to look around before she caught sight of him. Her bestie! He was here! "Messer? Is that you?" She resisted the urge to wave her arms in there and call out to Alec at the Hufflepuff table and let him know that she had found Messer. They'd been looking for him on the train, but couldn't find him anywhere. She also felt rather triumphant that it seemed that she had found Messer for Alec did, therefore, she had won.

She HAD won. Right? Whatever.

Uh-oh. He had caught sight of the crutches. "Yeah.. just a little mishap when the train stopped.. and some luggage fell on me. It's.. it's just broken, no big deal." Right? After the Feast, she was gonna go to the Healer and get it fixed up. So it was okay.. right? "Are you alright? Were you hurt on the train?" That would have been bad. If Messer were hurt. She didn't know about Ella. She knew that Melanie and Landon were okay, and that Alec had Anya fix up his scrapes. But not really anything else.
The third year hoped Kurumi was right. The Feast would be over soon.. then she could go to the Healer, yeah? "Thanks, Kurumi. You must have a lot friends, too, y'know. Considering this giant crowd that's swarmed around you." Giggle. And it didn't really help that she was also passing out cookies. It was like shouting, Free cookies and an awesome person up for grabs over here!

Heh.

Kurumi looked happy when Alice told her that Walnut had behaved himself. What? Did he not usually do that? He seemed like a very sweet cat to the lioness. "Well, that's a good thing, right? A happy, good, fina—" she stopped mid-sentence. Kurumi probably didn't want to be reminded that it was her last year. And it already made Alice that her Hogwarts Momma was going to be leaving her, so need to clarify it. "I have a feeling that this one's going to be.. interesting."

Especially with that scary HeadMISTRESS.

Messer raised his eyebrows at Alice's comment. "Of course its me. We haven't meet since the Cafe thingy but you already forgot my handsome face?" Pout. "Did you hit your head also when you landed?" Maybe the healer should check that also when she go to the the hospital wing.

Broken? Did she just say broken? o_____O She did, didn't she?

"You sure? It look not so good from I'm standing right now." How could he's not there when that happened? If he's there Alice wouldn't be on th--that thing. "D-do you want me to go to the healer with you after the feast?" Or give her a piggyback ride or something anything. "I'm alright. But I couldn't say the same for my candies and chocolate though. They're ruin." And now he's hungry and he didn't have anything to eat.

Lex giggled when Taylor ruffled her hair. Not many people did that...though before today not many people would have gotten away with doing that, but that was a matter for another day! "Yup and I can Roar louder if I need to because I'm a LION and PROUD!"



A look of concern grew on Lex's face when Kurumi began gnawing away at her lip. She knew that people usually did that when they were uncomfortable and jumped straight to the conclusion that she had ruined the conversation by making a potential new friend feel uncomfortable. Uhhh...doooo something Lex. Her mind went blank for a moment before it occurred to her that a simply smile might help. She offered one to her and hoped she would feel better. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that you didn't like talking about your mother." Though she should have. You really should think Lex. Do you like talking about your own?! Sigh. "We can talk about something else...what do you like doing?"

Her smile grew wider and more excited as the girl asked her about her little riot. That was a pretty good day...even though she got sent home once they untied the woman. "Oh that! Before I tell you, just remember it was all that woman's fault. Can you believe I got 100% on my spelling test and I asked nicely for the star sticker....she gave me the stupid heart and made the boys tease me about it," They got what was coming to them too, "So the next day before she got to class I had everyone climb unto the desks and break things then when she got there we tied her up--best day EVER!!!!!--Wait, why'd the Headmaster do that?" In all her excitement she nearly never heard that but she did!

So at this school Headmasters went around sticking children to things...? Well the old one anyway; the new one was just scary...

"Hmmm...I guess that's true...and then I wouldn't be a lion and I wouldn't get to run around roaring." Her brows furrowed at the thought of not being able to run around roaring like she did back home. And yes, she did plan to run around roaring eventually.

She became curious when Kurumi leaned in and she did too, freezing when she heard what she had to say. Her eyes went wide as she looked over at her. "Warning received..." And she didn't need to be told that twice!

"Wet suits?!" This all just seemed to get cooler and cooler by the minute! "What class did you say it was again--I have to take it this year!!" She wasn't going to miss out on some other awesome trip that got them to wear wet suits and breath under water....breathing under water without wet suits was impossible...she would know, she tried. "And the mermaid was all strict like?" Hmm, that wouldn't have gone very well. For some reason people with bad tempers didn't like her very much. Such a shame too. She bounced slightly in her seat, "Yeah!! I sure would!!! You can't really hurt yourself in water so it would be fine!"

Ronnie smiled a little. "Hey, Jen." she said. "Oh." she said, glancing over at the Hufflepuff table. "He's a firstie...right?" she asked as she turned her attention back to Jen.

As Ronnie was sitting at the table, she noticed Dylan sit down. She couldn't help but smile. That meant he was in Gryffindor! This cheered her up a bit. She looked over at Dylan and smiled. "Hey, Dill Pickle!" she said. "Congrats on making Gryffindor!"

Ronnie noticed Harvey walk over. She waved over at him to come sit with her. "Harvs! Over here!" she called. YAY. Finally, a close friend was here. She was feeling a little better now.

"Alright." Ronnie said, smiling a little bit. "Thanks." she added with a small nod. That was very nice of Kurumi to say...it felt comforting to have someone to talk to, which was all Ronnie really needed at the moment.

"Yeah, wet suits. It was History of Magic. Despite what everyone says about History of Magic being boring, we had fun last year, we went to Atlantis, had to protest something when we were covering rebellions and revolts". Thinking back to it, the thing she protested for was very silly. "The mermaid wasn't strict, which just were scared of them. She even let us take a souvenier home. I took a golden mirror!" Said Sarah. She was glad that she had convinced Alexa that Portkeys were okay


Sarah clapped - not for the visiting guests (she was yet to make up her mind about them and their motives), but for the student body. Like the quidditch captains, the prefects, and of course the new students that were sitting around her. They added more colour to hogwarts.

James couldn’t believe it yet finally he was at Hogwarts sitting next to his sister at the Gryffindor table. Sarah had lots of friends she seemed, she was talking to so many people. He hoped he would also get a few friends. “Can you please ask the girl with the prefect badge to give me a cookie – I am too shy too”, James whispered in his sister’s ears. She had moved up on the bench to make space for him.
The headmistress got up to speak, and the other students applauded. While the students applauded James looked over the bruises that he had had from the incident on the train. He never had to wash the dirt off, because of the downpour that happened when he was on the boat. He shivered as he remembered it.