IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SEPTEMBER.

A fierce expression riding over his usually smooth features, Tomas slumped down against one of the walls and covered his face. Ugh. He'd just been slammed by a wall of water that had wooshed through one of the open windows in the corridor below and to put it lightly, he was soaked. His first worry of course, was his hair. It didn't naturally style itself in such a perfect way. No. It took at least half and hour in the morning, if not more, and then regular touch ups throughout the day. But now... Now it was hanging limply across his forehead, screaming to everyone that he was an unwashed fashion-sponge.

Running a hand through the damp locks clinging to his brow, the brunette sighed. There were probably more important things to worry about... Like his robes. How good quality were they meant to be? Because he really didn't need them shrinking on him. Not at the beginning of the year at least. That would be so embarrassing.

Letting his body relax, he slid all the way down to the sideboard thing that sat at the bottom of the wall. It was alright here. Not as if there was a breeze. Maybe they realised that not every freaking corridor needed all their windows open. Relaxing against the stone, Tomas pulled off his outer robe and folded it beside him. It wasn't as if he was going to need it any time soon.

Ariella had gotten bored in the library and decided to go exploring and give those nasty moving stairs a second try and ended up on the....what was it...sixth floor maybe. She walked, or perhaps it was trotted, down the corridor, not really taking notice to anything. In fact, she had been so content with her trot that she barely had enough time to screech to stop so she wouldn't skip over the pair of legs that were laying in her path...

That would have been disasterous. Ari found out that the legs belonged to an older boy who seemed to be sleeping. Upon taking a few step closer to him she noticed that he was soaking wet as well... She leaned over she she was right infront of his face and asked quite loudly, Oi! What are you doing here?"

HE WAS UNDER ATTACK!! SWEET DEAR BABY MERLIN, HE WAS UNDER ATTACK!

Grey orbs snapped open as Tomas desperately threw himself upon his wand. However, this would of been successful if he hadn't previously been taking his outer robe off. Due to the material still rapped around his lower arms, the fifteen year old found himself in... A jam. AHH. He was going to die. Here, in the sixth floor corridor, with his hands rapped around his body... WEEELL, at least he was cocooned. There could be worse ways to go. Screwing his eyes shut, Tomas braced himself for the on-coming attack, ready for... almost anything.

But it never came.

Brow furrowing in obvious confusion, he cautiously opened one eye and swiveled his body around to face the intruder. Oh. He felt silly instantly. But the feeling was soon washed away as the embarrassment set it. "Whaddya think you're doing?!" He exclaimed, trying his utmost to look respectable and a little composed, but it WAS hard trying to achieve these whilst you were tied up in your own clothes. Underneath his fuming exterior however, was an incredibly confused fifteen year old. This girl was.. Was TINY. How on earth did she have such a massive voice. She must have something with her. Or be using a volume spell. Yeah. That had to be it.

"AH!" Ariella cried out as the boy jolted awake and took a few surprised steps back. The boy flung his arms around which only resulted in him becoming tangled up with himself. Ari giggled as he stut his eyes and waited for her to attack, which could be arranged...

Once he opened his eyes and found the first year standing there he seemed to relax, "Well I was exploring this hallway until your feet got in the way, they almost tripped me," She said glaring down at the legs that lay on the ground infront of her, "But I asked you first!" Ariella complained as she crossed her arms and gave the boy a pointed look, waiting for him to answer her question.

What was this place? Sixth floor? Peering at his hand drawn map that he'd copied from Hogwarts, A History, Edmund noted that there was a boys bathroom on this floor. Handy to know. "But what else is this floor for?" He muttered aloud, wondering why Transfiguration wasn't just moved to another floor.

Dylan was on one of his explorations tours of Hogwarts, he had no idea what this floor was all he knew was that it was long with places to explore. As he walked along he saw an older boy looking at something in his hand while muttering something, he was now curious as to what was in his hand that seemed to be so important that he was like looking at it really hard. So Dylan snuck in behind him trying to peek at what was in his hand, but the boy being being older than him he was taller too so it was hard to get a good look.

Sensing someone trying to see his map, Ed looked at this new person questioningly, but lowered the paper so he could see it. "It's just a map. Are you okay?" It was a strange way of being curious.

Dylan hadn't realised that the boy had noticed him until the map was actually in his face, this made him look up at the boy as he said something to him. Was he ok? of course he was ok.. but this boy didn't seem to be if he was asking him that question "Yeah I am ok.. I was curious as to what you were so interested in cause I never seen anyone look hard at something like that. Now I know its a map I see why" yup he did cause there it was the map! "Not so curious anymore" he chuckled a little

Was he really looking at the map that hard? He'd just been concentrating and trying to work out why transfiguration had a whole floor to itself. He still couldn't work it out. Looking down at the young kid, Ed nodded, smiling. "Yeah, just trying to work this place out." He gestured towards the corridor with his forehead and then realised. Manners! "I'm Edmund. Edmund Clay. Nice to meet you." He eyed him curiously, waiting for a name from the kid.

Dylan looked down the corridor as he gestured towards it, he had to agree that it was fun to explore the castle and he nodded. Yeah and a map was needed for that, although Dylan liked to do it without one even though he carried one with him all the time just in case he got lost from his exploration. Oh! he was introducing himself now? "Yeah.. nice to meet you too.. Edmund.. I'm Dylan Jacobs .. or DJ if you prefer" he chuckled "So what were you looking for?" he asked Edmund

DJ? Couldn't he just call him Dyl? Well, he'd call the kid what he asked to be called. Even if he thought of a guy spinning decks when he said his name. "Nothing in particular. Just exploring." He was, though he eyed the newly mentally nicknamed short stack and wondered if he'd have some insight into Ed's niggling query. "I'm just wondering why Transfiguration has its own floor with only a boy's bathroom to accompany."

Dylan grinned hard "So am I! I was exploring this floor too!" he chuckled as he listened to Edmund who was questioning something about the floor. "Oh! yeah I guess that is something to wonder" he said starting to wonder why that was "'Maaayybbee the only have the bathroom so that if someone.... well a boy accidentally transfigured his face or something then he would have a place to hide?" he wondered too hoping that would not happen to him when it came to the class "Or if he transfigured something else and needed to hide anyways" yeah that sounded right.. right?

"Oh, firstie?" The kid looked small and innocent enough to be a firstie. Incredulation appeared at the explanation he'd come up with. He was certainly imaginative! "But then why wouldn't this be a girl's bathroom? They worry more about their appearance than we do." Surely it made better sense to stay in the room and let the teacher sort out the bad magic.

Dylan nodded as he asked if he was a firstie, was this guy one of those that had a problem with firsties he hoped not as he questioned why it wouldn't be a girl's bathroom. Mmm he had a point there they did care more about their looks and things than boys "Umm good point.. cause when they run they don't stop until they get to their common room... maybe?" he said cause that was a hard thing to answer, but he managed it right? well he hoped it made sense at least.

Noticing the kid's expression, Ed grinned. "Don't worry. It's my first year here too." Most people relaxed when he told them that, though he didn't know why they got all tensed up in the first place. Hm. He burst out laughing at the next piece of genius to escape the kid's mouth. "You're pretty sharp, DJ, I like you a lot."

Dylan looked surprised now, that now explained why Edmund was looking at his map when exploring the castle "You transferred? From where?" he asked cause he hadnt met many transfer students yet and was now curious. But at least he and Edmund were having fun exploring the castle for the first time. Just then Edmund burst out laughing at his comment on why the girls bathroom was not on this floor, Dylan too couldn't help but laugh as well. "Er thanks? Yeah I guess I am! " he said smiling "Well I guess it would be hard not to like me" he chuckled trying to look a little proud of himself.

"Durmstrang." He replied, shrugging. It was just one of those things that he'd repeated constantly now. Oh, this kid was cocky! Ed really couldn't help but like him. He was pretty confident for an 11 year old. "It's a good thing, trust me." Yup, the girls would LOVE that he was a self-confident joker.

Dylan nodded "Ah cool! what was it like there?" he asked wondering if it was different to Hogwarts or if it was different in terms of rules and things. What Ed said next made him smile "Yeah I guess it is, cause it wouldn't be fun hanging out with people that wouldn't like me." yeah it would be horrible "What you exploring next now that we have found out why the boy's bathroom is here, or do we have to figure out something else too?" he asked chuckling cause this was fun exploring the castle asking questions as to why the layout was like this.

"It was..." How did he explain that? "It was like a school. And it was cold. Like, ALL the time." Did that explain it well enough? Probably not. "Yeah, that'd suck." He pulled a face, but then laughed. "Well, nothing in particular, I just saw this empty-ish corridor and wondered if there was a hidden room or something." It was a good assumption since it was a magic school, right?

Dylan listened as Edmund tried to answer his question about how Durumstrang was, he nodded. Well that was true a school is a school how to describe that. "Cold? as in snow, cold? so like you could have snow fights all the time?" cause that was like totally awesome to be able to have snowfights all the time! Glad that Edmund agreed it would suck, Dylan laughed too upon seeing his face but he wouldn't say that of course. Cue wide eyes at the mention of a secret room, looking down the corridor Dylan could see why Edmund thought this "Yeah there could be.. I mean this whole corridor and not much in the whole corridor does make you think" there just had to be secret room in this big corridor.

"Yep, as in snow for four months cold." He grinned, nodding once more at his mention of snowfights. "Oh yeah, some of the more awesome teachers used to take us outside and if we got an answer right, we'd throw a snowball at them, but if we were wrong, they threw it at us." Ah, good memories. Plus it was great motivation to get questions right!

He looked down the corridor with DJ and nodded as he kid finally understood what he meant. "Yeah, so I was searching. Best way is to see if there's any colour change in the wall, or if it reacts to touch." But he wasn't going to go walking down the corridor touching the walls by himself, he'd look stupid.

Dylan smiled as he talked about snow and snowfights "Wow! that is awesome! I would love to just get out there and throw one at the professor! That is an awesome game, I wonder if a professor here would allow us to do that" he wondered out loud and wondered who would allow them to throw snowballs at them. "Though I wouldn't want one thrown at me, though I have had many thrown at me and its not as much fun as hitting someone" yeah it was more fun being on the attack rather than on the defence!

He nodded as Edmund explained how he could find a secret room "Thats all you have to do? thats easy!" he said as he proceeded to touch the wall "So what would happen if it reacted to my touch? would it move or shake or something?" cause a moving and shaking wall sounded like an awesome kind of wall to him. That would be good entertainment a wall to move and shake as you watched it and laughed at it.

Nodding, Ed agreed with short stack. "It's good fun, and the not wanting to get one returned is the incentive. And if too many people got the answers right, he'd choose the person who got the answer wrong most and we used them for target practice instead." Oh yeah, it'd been fun pelting his friends with snowballs and being able to smirk at them afterwards because he knew they couldn't retaliate.

"Most of the time." Sometimes rooms had a special way of people getting into them. "Um, I don't know. Some might move, some might shake, some might melt away, some might even turn into a door." It was just unpredictable, like magic! YAY!

Dylan smiled more and more as Edmund talked about the snowball fights! "Oh well I would be sure not to get too many wrong! We should get the professors here to start that! Questions and snowball fights go well together! " he said smiling as he imagined himself pelting someone with snowballs and of course the poor professor feels left out so he needs to be pelted too! Oh it would be just so much fun if they did it!

He nodded as Edmund said it was easy most of the time, ooo so that meant there was a hard way? "So what would be a not so easy way then?" he asked him wondering if a dragon or troll or something would make it harder. Edmund then told him how the walls revealed their secrets "Cool! Well let's give it a go then, see of some walls do that! Then we go see what's inside the room if we find one! " oh he just loved the idea of finding a secret room! What he might find inside the room, probably awesome stuff since it was in a secret room!