Sarah matched the girls smile with an even BIGGER one. She liked to smile and she liked it when people smiled too. After all, It uses less muscles to smile than to frown. "My name is Sarah, Sarah Edwards, Second year" Sarah said, Second year was still sounding funny to her lips.

Tay nodded and smiled, "Yeah and it is nice... they adore each other."
Tay smiled, "How are you?" She taked to Arabella for a bit on the train before going to see Damon.

"Hey Ronnie" Jen says greeting her.
"My brother should be around here somewhere....probably at the hufflepuff table..."

Arabella-Marie smiled and said "I am okay just a bit grumpy at the way that we had to get off the train i have never travelled by portkey before, i think that i have hurt my wrist a bit"

"I never travelled by it either." She grimaced and twisted her ring.

"Well," Ronnie began, a little glad to have someone to talk to about this all. "I did break up with someone, actually. But I'm not sad about that. I'm actually happy about it, actually." she said. "But anyways, when the lights flickered on the train ride, it made my cat freak out and start meowing while I was napping which made me wake up. And it made me a little mad...so I was about to go back to napping when the train suddenly stopped, sending me to the floor. And I banged my head." she said, raising a hand to feel the top of her head where the bump still was. Yup. It was getting bigger and it was hurting a lot more. "Which still hurts like hell." she added with a sigh. "And that Portkey ride wasn't much fun either, I puked at the station." she said. And that hadn't been fun at ALL.

Ronnie smiled a little at Kurumi. "Evening." she said back with a nod. She looked at the cookies, wondering if she should take one. She felt so terrible, and eating a cookie seemed like it'd make everything worse. She sighed and decided she wouldn't.


"Hello." Ronnie mumbled back with a sort of smile. Maybe the feast and being with her fellow lions would cheer her up a little. She winced a little as Sarah explained how she had hurt her hands. OUCH. That must of really hurt.

Maxwell nodded. "They do..I want that, you know?" He said knowing what their parents had was special. They truly loved each other.

Arabella-Marie nodded and said "I wonder why the train broke down the way it did and i wonder if we will get our luggage soon" Arabella-Marie was glad that she had her owl in her compartment and managed to get them both to Hogsmeade without too much drama

Tay nodded, "I want that too." She sighed, happily, "I think I might just have it..." She blushed and smiled.
Tay rubbed her neck, "Yeah I wonder too..." She sighed and grimaced.

Now this was a strange twist.

It seemed like a whole bunch of his house was already there when he arrived at the Great Hall and made his way over to the Gryffindor table when he had managed to be one of the first last term. Had he really taken that long to get up from the station to the castle? Well they had had that trouble with the young Huffie and the Slytherin captain and taking care of the injured girl. Now was just a time to calm down from the stress and excitement.
He looked around for any familiar faces including his two fellow leaders and just watching any of the newer ones who appeared to have joined their ranks in the sorting. Kurumi was there already though Selina was still absent.

Gideon frowning slightly wondering where she was. Shaking it off, he figured it was as good a time as any to say hello. "Hello everyone," he greeted still standing as he offered a polite smile. "Welcome!" he added before taking a seat finally.

"Yeah you're right about that part but I kinda have to." This was all a part of her campaign to start taking responsibility for her actions. She had made a stupid bet without thinking and now she would pay the consequences...plus she really wanted to get back at that hat. Grrr.

"Oh a second year!" She hadn't met many of those so far. "So how did you do on the whole Portkey thing?" So far everyone had a different story to tell and one kid even said that people were dying...That couldn't have been true...right...? No one ever really died at this school...right...?

And now there was someone else at the table. Hey it was the nice older boy from the train station then again at the platform! So he was in her house as well...just how many of the older kids that she had run into earlier were in this house? This made her worry even more because then it was very likely that scary bat-girl was in this house. Ignoring this thought she smiled over at the boy. "Hello! So I see you're in this house too."

Arabella-Marie smiled at Tay and said "Well i am never going to travel by portkey again it is too well i can't describe it i just would prefer to travel by other methods"

Taylor laughed and smiled, "How do you have to?" She raised an eyebrow, curious.
"I hope I dont have to travel like that again either." She shuttered and grimaced.

Arabella-Marie smiled and said "Yeah that is good but i guess in the circumstances that happened i am guessing there would have been no other way for us to get to school"

Tay nodded, "Yeah, no other way." She sighed.

Arabella-Marie nodded and said "Yeah anyway i am glad to be at school now even though i hope that the train will be fixed for by the time the term is over"

Tay nodded, "I agree." She sighed and glanced around.

Arabella-Marie smiled and said "Yeah anyway let's hope that this term is going to be an interesting one"

"What portkey did you take by the way" Sarah asked curiously... She had taken the teddy bear


"I think I did okay, compared to others, I only grazed my hands and knees. And you?" Sarah asked the girl.

All along she had been keeping her eye out for her brother who was about to be sorted. Then he sat on the stool and Sarah could not help but laugh as the hat covered his mouth. Sarah held on tight as the hat thought about its verdict. Yet with the loud "Gryffindor" Sarah heaved a sigh of relief... He was in her house after all! The lions had outweighed the claws in her family! Her father was a Ravenclaw, yet her mother was a Gryffindor.

It was really odd being back at Hogwarts. Everything was familiar, and yet so much had changed in the year Thomas had been away. New faces. SO many NEW faces.. and a lot of the old ones were gone. The sixteen year old had always had a tendency to migrate towards the older students. He felt more like one. He had experienced a lot in his short life, and although some of his behaviour was that of an adolescent, he was mature in other ways.

As he wandered into the Great Hall, his gaze swept across some of the first years. They seemed so small. Was he really ever that small? He guessed, because of living where he did, his childhood had been cut short prematurely. ..It was sad in a way.

He took his place at the Gryffindor table, ravenous after the eventful journey and grateful to finally get to Hogwarts. His stomach rumbled loudly. To be warmed by a fire and to fill his stomach would be like heaven on earth.

"Because," She said rather matter-of-factly, "I made a bet and Alexa Cambridge never goes back on her word--never." Her father had told her that it was better to go through with your word because it showed true bravery.

"Wow you really did do better! I heard some people broke their legs and arms!" Making it out with a scratch was rather impressive actually! "Glad you're not hurt, I personally, never want to travel by portkey again." And that was the truth. The bloody thing probably broke her wrist for all she knew...though she would never admit that to anyone. The last thing she needed was people pointing their wands at her trying to make it better and she definitely didn't want to go looking for the healer when there was a whole feast set up.

"Do you know what happened to all the luggage...and the pets?" She needed to know that Felix was alright.

Ariella was feeling very giddy, so happy in fact she skipped all the way over to the Gryffindor table where she spotted her friend Lex. She made her way over to her and plopped down right next to her, noticing she was talking to a few students.

"Hey Lex, your going to have to tell me if leather tastes any good," Ari said giggling as she joked with the newly sorted Gryffinodr, bringing up a bet that had happened earlier on the train. A bet that Lex had lost, "I've never tried hat before..."

"ARI!!!" Lex turned to look at her friend as she plopped down next to her and in case she was wondering, yes Lex would be shouting her name every time she showed up. Why? Because she wanted to, duh.

She laughed when her friend brought up the thing about the hat. "Well after I've tasted it I'll let you know, because as of now, that hat deserves what's coming to it." She had given it a pretty decent warning to place her in Ravenclaw but it hadn't and now when she was dipping it in gravy she would bear no remorse.

Silly hat, then they said it was a smart one. Sigh.

Alice smiled when Landon appeared as well. He AND Melanie were Gryffindors? Oh, yes. There was going to be a party in the Common Room tonight. "DONNIE! You're a lion!" YAY. It really was a good day. If only she hadn't broken her leg.. but that couldn't be avoided, could it? "Before we took the Portkey, I had fallen on the ground and the luggage had fallen on me. It apparently broke my leg." Didn't he remember? "But it's not a big deal." She had to clamp her hand over her mouth to keep herself from laughing when Landon began to squish Melanie's face.

She must have been very pleased about that, Alice thought.

After Melanie removed Landon's hands from her face, she turned her attention back to Alice. "I KNOW. It's so exciting. We're gonna be ROOMMATES." The only bad thing about that was that Melanie could dress her up. In pink stuff. And dresses. EW. She still needed to go through Melanie's trunk and hide some things.. or she would be looking like a girly-girl for the rest of the term.



After turning away from Landon and Melanie, she noticed another person nearby. He was staring at an empty platter of food rather longingly. hmph. He seemed a little lonely to Alice, so she hobbled over to him on her crutches. "HI PERSON," she said, staring at the empty plate in front of him. "Y'know, food isn't going to appear until headmaster Redhead gives her speech." Yikes. She already knew that this Headmaster was going to be a handful. She could tell by the yelling on the train. But maybe that was just because ti was rather chaotic? "Did you see her on the train? She kind of scared me. I think she's going to be a big change from Tatertot."

She just hoped this headmaster could be nickname after food as well.

-------------- For Lexipoo.

Alice looked around for familiar faces once more, when she noticed a tiny blonde head bobbing by Kurumi. The boy seemed to be rather short and talking a mile a minute.. hey, wait, was that Kildare? "KILDAAARREEE." She waved one arm in the air frantically, careful to keep the other around her crutches. Where had he been the whole train ride? She hadn't seen him at all. "Kildare. Where have you been?! None of us could find you." BUT. Now she had found him. "Tag the Second is up in the Common Room. Do you want to see him after dinner?" Their furby seemed very happy to the lioness, even though she had accidentally left him on the train.

Yes, yes, she was a bad parent, we know.

Sarah was shocked about the severity of the injuries. "Oh dear! I hope you were not injured greatly. This portkey journey may not have been good for you, Yet do not say that you never want to go on a portkey, that will be cutting off a lot of experiences for you. Portkeys take you to places that you never imagined going. Last year in History of Magic we took a Portkey to the city of Atlantis. People use portkeys to get to the quidditch world cup." Sarah told the girl.

"I know as much as you about our things, I assume the Ministry, BoG or school will be taking care of it. Hopefully they will feed our pets tonight though" she thought sadly of Angelina and her companions back on the train, wondering where the students were.