"I know!" The blonde whined "I had to ride with a bunch of second year 'puffs!" Not that she was housecist or anything of that sort - if that was even a word. But seriously, second year Hufflepuffs - they could be sort of annoying, and the way they stuck to one side of the carriage was mildly insulting. It wasn't as if she was going to bite them or anything "Do you have any idea how excruciatingly long that trip was without you?!"

"Like the year before last, and the year before that too." Cass said with a laugh as she shook her head in amusement "I think the only time I've ever seen you in your robes during the feast was way back in First year!" She exclaimed with another laugh.

"You'd think nearly seven years in this school and I'd be used to this by now." She said with a roll of her eyes as she squirmed around in her seat once more, grimace clear on her face.

She was not a happy snake.

When Kat told her about her vacation in France the girl's smile wavered a bit at the thought of her last visit to her then still sick cousin, and the nasty scar that she got from muggle dueling with the fat boy that lived next door to her "Ohh, France!" The blonde said excitedly "Did you stay in Paris or somewhere else?"

"Awesome!" Cass said with an excited grin, it was nice to have enthusiastic Snakes. They were fun! "You seriously won't regret being sorted into Slytherin! I promise!"

Just as Cass shook her hand, she couldn't help but notice how Juliet's eyes sparkled with enthusiasm for the incoming term, it was awesome really! She wished she could make her eyes do the same. Sadly, they seemed to be an Asian thing since she was pretty sure Kurumi's eyes sparkled too when she was trying to look...adorable?

"Its really nice to meet you Juliet!" The blonde said with a smile, returning the handshake before releasing the girl's hand. At the question, the blonde then gave her a mildly startled look and answered "Uh, yeah, I am. Seventh year...unfortunately." Or maybe fortunately? She wasn't even sure anymore..."What about you? What year are you in?"

"Yes! I am!" She said petulantly - which just looked pretty immature for a seventh year. So yeah, she should probably stop. "I got to see Beezus and the dress her grandmum made her wear, but I didn't run into you all summer!" Beezus and her cat fetcher too, but she wasn't going to mention that, she was still a bit weirded out that someone could train cats to do that.

At the mention of plans, Cass's eyebrows crinkled in confusion for a moment before they brightened up in recognition. "Oh yeah!" She exclaimed with a bright smile "Although, I wouldn't want to get in the way if you guys already had plans and everything." A super slumber party at her house would be pretty awesome though. She could already hear the ruckus that they would predictably be making.

Huh? What's what?


"Oh! I didn't know you could see it!" Cass exclaimed in surprise as she eyed the small patch of skin where she could see a bunch of stars peeking out from beneath her robes "It's a tattoo." She explained with a smile "I got it over the summer." She then pushed back the neckline of her blouse to reveal more of the stars to Erin before covering them up again before anyone else could see "What do you think?"

Addie was extremely excited to be finally back at Hogwarts. And she was in her sixth year. It was crazy how fast time flew when she was having fun. Plus she felt older, she had a tattoo to prove it. Addie was proud of those words forever on her back, stand strong no matter how tall. That was Addie's motto in life considering her four foot four height.

With a smile she made her way to the Slytherin house table excited to be there. She smoothed out her blue skirt with white dots and wished that her robes didn't have to cover it up. Addie was pretty proud of her outfit. It was the perfect back to school outfit. "Hello everyone," she said brightly to the table of Slytherins, nobody in particular though. Glancing up at the Staff table she saw that there was a few more people than normal. She noticed that there was a new headmistress, which was expected since last terms Headmaster had said he was leaving. And there was no more nice COMC and Ancient Runes professors. That meant no more Roro. Addie liked taking care of the baby dragon. She hoped that the new term would be just as amazing as the previous.

Oh, the puppy dog eyes. Theo was aware of that move, but he hadn't yet to use it on non-family members. He was too SHY. But if West got money for it, then it was perfectly necessary! "Good job... We should make a box to put all of our funds in to..." And by the time they were seventh years, they'd have BILLIONS. Theo stroked his imaginary beard as he thought of it.

"Yeah, he was a lame-tard."

Back to the crazy girl, and Theo was kinda glad that she'd moved her attention onto West. And... WHAT? Did he just thump her arm? Theo pressed his eyebrows together.

"Ickle Westie-pie?" The boy SNORTED. Yeah, she deserved that thump. "Yeah.... go away, you're mean." Though, he did feel mean, too. Him and West were turning into a right pair of so-and-so's.

He lowered his voice to give West the deets. "I just wanted to know what they actually did so I picked the first person I saw, who happened to be that nutter..." He paused, to subtly point at Serenity. Anyway... "And she went all mental and like... kissed me on the lips, so I told her to go away and then she got real mad."

And then he had to PAY half of the potion, even though HE didn't even drink it.

Okay. Serenity didn't like boys anymore. They were worse than her brothers. Wair-what- OUCH! What in Merlin's name? Since when was it their job to bully first-years? HUH?! HER ARM HURT. SOMEONE GET THE HEALER. TAKE HER TO ST. MUNGO'S. IT BUUUUURRRRRNNNNEEEDDDDD.

"Well, WEST, I'm telling on you!" she clenched her jaw. She was tired of this. WHY was she sitting here? RIGHT, she was going up to see the head of house and complain or something. Or the headmistress. Cause she was the only one she knew who was, since she was in the big chair. She had no idea which one was the Head of House. Serenity was on the verge of tears, she didn't like being thumped. Oh, and this was always how she got her own brothers into trouble; tears + mummy = punished brothers.


HE WAS CALLING HER A NUTTER? She only took it because she thought she was helping him out. She only drank the tiniest bit. And now look at this. "WELL YOU ASKED ME TO AND I ONLY WANTED TO HELP YOU OUT. NEXT TIME I WON'T BOTHER!" Serenity was tired of it. She had only wanted to help. Next time someone wanted her to try a potion, she was definately allergic to it.

Hmm. Where were the Prefects and teachers when she needed them? Someone shove the kids out of Hogwarts?

OOC: sorry for all the caps-lock and plus the whole tears thing... I'm like "OMG sorry" and Serenity's like "meanies!"

Pssh, this table was just like all the others. Just like the others it had hyper-active students eagerly talking away about their summers and the unforgettable train ride that had ended in nothing but a disaster for her and her wrist. Which reminded her, she needed to keep it out of sight lest someone else bug her to go see the Healer. Obviously if she had the guts to go she would have so they could all just disappear.

Her face lit up as she looked over at a girl that wasn't too far away. She gave her a wide, sheepish smile. "Yeah...I got a bit bored sitting in the same place waiting for a boring speech." Lex shrugged then extended her good hand to the girl. "I'm Alexa and you are?"

She felt that would have been a good start and the girl seemed nice enough so she wanted to try being friends with her...at the moment she didn't have many but she was hoping that would change as the term progressed.

"We could get a goblin-made safe. Then it would eat people's fingers if they tried to steal our booty." West suggested. Galleons were power, right?

A lame-tard. That was a gooder. West made a mental note of that one and nodded decisively.

"You're a liar. We didn't do anything. You tried to call me mean names and you're telling lies about my best friend." West answered steadily. He didn't even care if all of that was true because he knew if he had conviction then it made it right and then the professors would believe them. And besides, it wasn't like anyone had seen and now she was yelling like a crazy.

"And Slytherins don't tattle." Paaause. "On each other." Other houses were fair game.

Because obviously she needed to learn all about how to be a Slytherin, just like he had. West was getting REAL good at it too.

Yes. NUTTER. West nodded at that and then Fishface!stared.

"She KISSED you? ON THE... on the lips?" His expression battled between horror and curiosity. "Did you see a healer? To make sure you didn't get mental nutter germs?"

Paaaause.

THAT was why she was sitting here?

West staared at the nuttergirl.

She wasn't going to kiss his bestie again was she??!?!

Uh…Cassia almost saw herself last year at her first feast, bored and clueless! She had wondered what to do too. Though, she doesn't remember leaving her seat afraid that she'd get squashed by older students. She took a general quick glance at the girl noticing that Cassia was shorter than her last year. Luckily she had grown some centimeters over the summer. Cassia guessed that she now was the same height as the girl. He straightened a bit in a vain attempt to look taller and bigger than the girl. You know she was a second year now!

Ahem..

Cassia nodded at her," I know the feast can be boring sometimes," She admitted a bit apologetically ,"Especially before the food is served," She added glancing at the staff table. When was the headmistress making the speech the kids were hungry! They had just been through an epic turn of events! They ought to eat. Cassia shook her head at the thoughts…she really needs to stop speaking in her head!

Taking the girl's, Alexa's hand in hers Cassia grinned, "Pleasure to meet you Alexa! I'm Cassia." Yay for meeting new friends. "Second year Slytherin," She added just so she won't be mistaken for a first year..no offence but she had enough of the title last year "You are a lioness," She stated glancing at the girl's tie. "So how was your ride?" Cassia asked before remembering the sudden stop of the train and all. "I mean the interrupted trip?" She giggled. "Erm…usually that doesn’t happen you know, the train breaking down and that stuff." She felt suddenly responsible to say this in defense of the train! Not really the train..the school's reputation. New students should see the real perfect
Hogwarts.

Then she noticed that the headmistress had stood to speak and Cassia turned attention to the promised speech. The red-headed woman introduced the governors and the new faces and Cassia participated in the round of applause that greeted the important figures.

Olivia sat at the Slytherin table, year four and no longer one of the little kids!
She was excited to see all the framiliar faces from last year and catch up with them, as well as see which firsties from the train would be sorted into Slytherin. If they were Slytherin, Olivia decided that they were automatically cool and she would be their friend. A girl sitting near to Olivia said hello to everyone "Hi" Olivia waved back, mostly to her but also to everyone else who heard.

THAT. WAS. ENOUGH. "I'm telling on YOU TWO!" Serenity said and stormed off to find someone. A Prefect. Or a Headpupil. Or a teacher. OR the Headmistress. Y'know if she bumped into her?

Lex gave the girl a curious look when she saw her straightening up in her seat. With an eyebrow raised she silently questioned her actions. If she didn't know any better she would have thought she was trying to look taller; Lex did that all the time, even when she knew that the other person was older. Right but seeing as she did know better, or think that she knew better she figured the girl was doing something completely unrelated to that and she was just over thinking things. She seemed to be doing that a lot lately.

"YES!" Lex wouldn't deny it. This feast was the worst feast she had ever been to. Why? Quite simple--there was no food!!! Nothing but some Professors sitting up on some platform thing making nice with each other while she starved. Sigh. Then they wondered why she went looking for trouble fun so often. "I hope she starts soon; not that I'll be listening but it just means we'll be one step closer to getting some food." She was getting kinda hungry and she had shared most of her candy on the train and on the boat ride over. Not that it mattered. She wanted real food now.

Lex smiled at the girl in response to her statement. The normal custom was to return the small compliment but she liked to save that sentence until the end of the conversation. There was no need to waste a compliment; what if the person turned out to be horrible?! Though she was sure this Cassia girl wasn't...but she still wouldn't break her own rule so she moved onto the girl's question. "Yup and proud of it." BEAM. "Oh and the trip wasn't so bad! I made some nice friends and stuff but then it sucked that the train broke down. The bloody thing made us have to travel by portkey and now I've hurt my wrist." But that was all she was willing to say on that matter because, again, she could go without a 'go to the healer' lecture! "But really I didn't mind the interruption all that much...it was kinda fun..." She was hoping a monster was outside but there was no luck in that happening...

Lex saw the girl turn her attention to the Professors then she heard the Headmistress speak. When everyone started clapping she felt she should do the same so she did. Finally.

Ariana looked over when she heard a few kids arguing it seemed, from in her house "Hey what's all the noise for!?" she asked rather sternly, slytherin's weren't very keen on kindness at least THIS slytherin wasn't

West just watched and practised his innocent face.

It was like a super power.

Huh?

He turned to look at a older girl and shrugged. "I think she got put in the wrong house." He woulda said more but then that Red head lady stood up at the staff table.

Speeeech?

That would mean that food would be soon! Eyes on the Staff Table, West listened and bounced a bit in eagerness for the impending Feeeeeeeeeeast.

He even clapped a few times at the end there. Anything else?

"They eat fingers, for REAL?" Orr...... was it all an illusion? Theo immediately thought about Casper getting his fingers eaten cos he so WOULD go snooping. Hmm, he likey'd that idea.

OH yeah. Theo offered a real fist bump to his bestie for totally having his BACK. It was becoming a regular thing for start of term feasts.

He thought of the pee incident. Sigh.

"You can't TELL on us. Besides, they won't believe YOU over us...." Because they were West and Theo. Their cute faces would get them out of any kind of punishment, he was almost 100% sure of it.

SHE WAS A CRIME AGAINST SLYTHERINS.

THEO CASTS YOU OUT.

"Yes, she kissed me on the lips." Theo could've hung his head in shame. "I pushed her away, like... straight away. And then I brushed my whole mouth and face with my toothbrush when I got home." He was very aware of kissing germs. And cooties.

"She just won't leave." He muttered. OH GOSH, Theo had a stalker!

O_o

Theo glanced over at West, but didn't immediately say anything. Instead, he cracked his knuckles and prepared for a battle.

He wasn't worried.

NOOOO. Another girl had come to infiltrate the Slythie table. Theo narrowed his eyes and was feeling rather venomous. "None of your beez-wax." Now shoo.

The noise of annoying girls completely distracted him from the speech. His attention was only averted toward it when everyone started clapping. Yeah, yeah - whatevs.

Yeah! Fistbump!

Cool. Cool.

"Well, there's charms that make the fingers get stuck in there when you pull your hand away." He explained. "Its kind of like the ones on the vaults at Gringotts that suck thieves in through the door. Goblin magic." West knew a lot of things like this on account of his dad.

This KISSING business was perplexing.

"No girls have ever kissed ME." West boasted, pleased about this. "Its why you shouldn't have played with a love potion. Bad idea. I think she's in love with you now."

She ignored the boys but turned to the nice girl. @I was just about to go and find... a teacher or a prefect or something. These two kids are being mean to me!" Serenity hufed. She didn't like Hogwarts anymore. She was leaving. She would go to Beauxbatons. Or a MUGGLE SCHOOL. See? That was how much she didn't like them. She'd rather be at muggle school. And then she could be with muggle friends.

In the middle of her conversation she saw Serenity telling the two that she would tell on them.

It didn't take much to know that the conversation wasn't going well but neither boys seemed to care that she was about to get them in trouble; not that she figured they would--they two were in a whole different category of boys.

Then she saw a girl asking what was wrong and of course the one from the platfrom had an answer to that. She shook her head as she turned to them. "What have you to done this time? After the encounters she had with them she knew they weren't ever innocent. One tried ruining her shirt and the other...he glared at her for speaking the obvious truth. ugh, Boys.

It wasn't long after that he had started speaking to the girl who had joined them at the table, the one who didn't look like a Slytherin. He continued smiling at her when she realised she was speaking to him, waiting for her to reply to him.

His eyebrow raised when she told him about wishing to be a Slytherin. "The hat thought about putting me in Ravenclaw" he nodded. He started to think about it too, he wouldn't mind being a Ravvie but there was just something about the Snake house. "You should have asked it to put you in Slytherin like I did, it might have listened to you" Well, it was truly down to his twins sisters request but he wasn't going to explain all that.

Terry's head shot up to listen to the Headmistress speech, he took it all in, wanting to make a good impression rather than to show himself up on the first day at a new school. Did that mean they could have food then? His tummy rumbled just to emphasise the point. He glanced at the table in a hopeful manner. "Train rides must make everyone hungrier" Seeing as he had consumed a fair amount of Chocolate frogs on the train.

"I'm Terry" he smiled. He couldn't help but stare when she said her surname though. Wow. That was long and very confusing but it sounded really cool! He was glad he didn't have to refer to her by her full name though. "It's good to meet you Anna" he said poiltely.

Oh the joy of not being the youngest in a conversation, Cassia was savoring the feeling. Though the two girls were considered quite the same age but still Cassia ought to feel a bit different. And it's not like she was harassing the girl or anything. A couple pieces of advice and a bit of points of views won't hurt. On the contrary Cassia was giving the girl her valuable experience. So generous she was. Wait..what did Alexa just say, "Um..you know it would be useful to you know listen to what the headmistress would say," She said arching un eyebrow at the girl. Wasn't she curious about her new school's headmistress? Gryffindor's attitude is starting to show. Though Cassia didn't mind that because she considered the lions in the next place of coolness…after the Snakes of course.

Hmm…the pride of the house, Cassia could understand that. "Yes Gryffindor is a cool house," she encouraged "As well," Meaning that it wasn't as cool as Slytherin! Cassia nodded while Alexa talked about the unfortunate incident with the train. "Yeah it really wasn't delightful," She agreed. "But you got to try travelling by a portkey ," She offered trying to show the-not-so-clear and convincing bright side of the situation.

Oh…She found it…..fun!Ahem…it's good Cassia wasn't around people when she freaked out the moment the train broke down. It would have totally caused some laughs and jokes but come on she doesn't like the darkness OKAY! Besides she got a grip on herself when she realized that she wasn't going to die. But it was still a shame Cassia felt that the firstie here seemed to enjoy the entire thing. Urgh..Cassia so needed to control her reactions. "Yeah it was so much fun pffft," Cassia tried to sound indifferent about it.

Cassia creased her eyebrows when Alexa mentioned her hurt wrist, "Oh are you alright?" She asked really concerned. "You think you can handle it…no need to see the….." Cassia swallowed, "Healer.." Cassia wondered if she should tell Alexa about the evil not so nice healer. Or it'd be better to leave it for another time let's not tell the girl about the not so sweet things at the castle.

Ariana shook her head.. "firsties.." "she'll learn soon enough."
then the Speech started.. Ariana listened adn clapped when she should.. then it was over she looked to the other boy

"hey, your act may work on a first year but not me." she said to the second year who was clearly full of himself.. She was here last year adn she saw him, she knew there tricks.. Ariana knew everythinggg... okay maybe not everything but they didnt know that

"Come sit over here." she said to the girl "telling on them wont do any good you might just lose points for being a tattle and a non team member or something, Jusst come sit." she asked her hoping she wouldnt tell, they didnt need to be losing points for pety child things on the first day

"That's kinda creepy......" Theo considered this for a second, then shuddered. "Do you know how to do any? Of the spells?" Or did he know any Goblins? Theo didn't but maybe they could bug a House Elf...... cos they were kinda similar, right?

Theo had given up with the lowering of his voice at this point. The girl could hear them, he didn't CARE.

"I didn't ASK her to kiss me... I wanted to be sick everywhere." Just to put it bluntly. "I know it was stupid, but I thought it was more of a 'be my friend' potion."

He just wanted a friend. OKAY?

Okay, miss sassy... "Oooooh, I'm shivering." Theo added an over-dramatic shudder for extra affect. Yea, the girl looked a bit older than him, but she wasn't THAT old. And she certainly was no prefect.

And a prefect would be the only old!person to tell HIM what to do, thanks.

"Oh no, I wanted to be a Slytherin until I found out he was a Slytherin. Now I want to be at a muggle school or dead." She said non-jokingly. Cause she wasn't joking. These guys were nightmares.

Lex made a face when the girl said it would have helped to listen. She had heard that lecture before...quite a few times actually but never from someone who looked no older than her. Well obviously she was older but she didn't look it so she shouldn't have been giving her some lecture. "Yeah...I know but well haven't you ever felt yourself going brain dead when you were listening to a speech?!" This sentence really got her into her little speech. She opened her eyes wider and started talking in a more animated tone. "Like you could just die except you already have?! It's got to be the worst feeling ever you know and well..." She brought it back down a couple notches. "that's how I feel when I listen to speeches so for the sake of my own sanity I'll just nod when I see everyone nodding and clap when I see everyone clapping." That wasn't such a bad idea...

She nodded enthusiastically when the girl said that Gryffindor was a cool house. Of course she agreed with this so she would ignore the 'as well' that was added. That had no reason to be there seeing as Gryffindor was the cool house, meaning there were no other cool ones! She raised an eyebrow at her. "What makes you think I enjoyed that?! It was horrible and poor Felix nearly got a heart attack! Plus I--" No she wouldn't bring herself into this, "A lot of people got hurt!" Portkeys were officially her least favourite mode of transport.

Lex giggled, glad this girl also thought it was fun. "It was sooo cool, especially when the lights went out and students started screaming--there was even a girl crawling along the floor! I wanted to go looking around but the older kids wouldn't let me." That had put a damper on her plans for adventure. They were just lucky that there really was no monster or they wouldn't have been able to tell her to lay low. Nuh-uh she would have wanted to see!

"Uhh well I don't plan to go to the healer at all so it doesn't matter whether it's okay or not; either way, it still won't be seeing the Hospital Wing." She said with a shrug. She didn't plan to go near that scary woman!!! She leaned closer to the girl and figured she would explain. "I heard that woman's pretty scary..."

"We're not even. You were rude and then you called me a name." West reminded her calmly, very much channelling his sister in tone and demeanour.

It wasn't their fault that the nuttergirl tried to be a bully and came up against the wrong second years.

"Nothing." West gave the Gryffindor a surprised look.

Were all first years so strange or was it just the girl ones? He was SO much more mature than them.

"Yeah. Firsties." West nodded once, firmly. "You saw that we didn't do anything, right?" He gave Ariana an earnest, innocent look. He was just a second year snake, minding his and Theo's business!

"No I don't, its Goblin magic. You get the safe already charmed." West answered, determined to carry on a normal conversation despite girls being weird around them.

"Well that just proves that she's mean, if she didn't want to be your friend, and kissed you even though you didn't want her to, and then got mad and rude about it afterwards." West said comfortingly.

West gave Theo a little nudge with his elbow. Shhhhh. They could totally get the older girl on their side!

...

..............

"At a muggle school? Because Theo doesn't want to kiss you? That's pretty strange. I think you should sit down and stop being rude and stuff. The Headmistress is giving a speech you know. We're supposed to listen and then we get food and nobody likes a tattle-tale or a liar. And nobody will like you if you call them mean names." West had lots of good advice.

He looked up towards the staff table, waiting for the Headmistress to continue and maybe hoping that one of the gooders would come over and fix the nutter girl who didn't know how to be a Slytherin.

"NO. I AM NOT SAD BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO KISS ME. I'M SAD BECAUSE THEO GAVE ME A LOVE POTION AND THEN THOUGHT THAT I'D JUST WANT TO BE HIS FRIEND? HA HE EVEN READ THE BOTTLE? HUH? CAUSE IT'S NOT MY FAULT HE WANTED ME TO HAVE A LOVE POTION. Really, it's his fault, he gave me a love potion and then he was upset because I DID kiss him. How does that work?" Stupid West Odessa.

Ariana just shot him a look and rolled her eyes, crazy these young ones were

"please just come sit!" she instructed the younger one.

"No I didnt see anythign but i heard it.."