:: Ganymede nodded, then added.. "Just whatever you do, you didn't get any of that advice from me." She said this with such a deep serious tone, it gave herself chills. The last thing she would want would be hexed or cursed or anything from Professor Scabbyknees.

"We need some ice cream to help this situation." Ganymede looked around for some, but couldn't see any. Instead she spotted something else, "Ah look, cinnamon bread with raisins. This will be perfect." She grabbed two slices and placed one on Lex's plate.

"Eat and be Merry. You have work ahead of you." Ganymede smiled at her and hoped that her advice would work with her situation. ::

Lex shook her head. That could have been a great plan and it could have worked brilliantly if she wasn't sure that the boys--especially West--were trying their hardest to make sure that she lost house points. They would have said they opposite of what she said then it would end up being two against one; she didn't like those odds.

That wouldn't work and I don't think I wanna lie to the Professor. She scribbled then handed the paper to her. Oh wait! She took it back and scribbled again. It's a bad idea and he'll know that we're lying then things will get even worse. There, she handed her the paper again.

Now normally Lex wouldn't care about getting in trouble in fact it was fun at her old school but not here!! NOT when there was a scary bat-girl in her house that would have beaten her to a pulp for making them lose so many house points. That and she was through losing points.

Oh but then she had to answer that last question so she took the paper again. Hmm..let's see, he could get even more angry then throw me in a dungeon for the rest of my life! She didn't care that she was over exaggerating at the moment because she had to get her point across. Jeez, did all snakes think like that?!

Sigh. Apparently they did. She shook her head at the older one. If anything she should have been the smart one trying to put the charm back or something instead of sipping away at her pumpkin juice and expecting Lex to be quiet and lie.

Juliet smiled at what she said. Never regret? Being Slytherin was something she grew up with. It was like one of those memories that your father keeps on telling you over and over again. And well, she was already expecting a green and silver uniform the moment she got to Hogwarts. Looking at Cass she nodded "The whole family are Slytherin" she muttered. And that part where the sorting hat just had to say blood is thicker than water on her. It felt like it was in the genes why she is here. Juliet loves being a Slytherin. Cunning, ambitious. Who's not like that? "I will" she said in her happiest tone.

SEVENTH YEAR?!?!?!?!

Juliet pouted a bit. Not that she's disappointed. Sure she is happy that she's talking to a senior already. One that can really help her or maybe teach her the things around here. But part of her did wish that she's in the same year level as her. She's pretty and had nice hair and she had that sweet smile. Honestly she looks younger than her age. "Unfortunately?" she began to show a smile "...That's awesome. You'll be graduating soon" technically that's the reason why most people don't like being in the seventh year.

What about you? What year are you in?

Juliet wrinkled her nose as she looked at her "Fourth year" she was 3 years behind than Cass. "...unfortunately" she added with a grin on her lips.

:: Ganymede made a tight face when she read the latest note. She wondered if she should kick Lex off the table for the time being til the whole thing smoothed over. Ganymede never had detention in a dungeon before. She preferred the quicker methods of punishment that lasted a minute and let her get back on her way. Being locked up would make her crazy and probably actually be a deterrent to her unfortunate behavior. No, that wasn't going to happen.

"Lex, This is going to sound mean. But, you have to understand. If you are going to be getting in any trouble and you know that you will get caught.... make sure I am like... across the school when this happens. Ok? I don't want to be in any cold dungeon unless I am making my way to the Slytherin Common rooms." She scooted a few inches away from Lex subconsciously. "You can sit here til the end of the Feast, but take that Gryffindor brain of yours and try to think of a solution. Maybe I can talk to the other students, any of them in Slytherin?" She asked. If there were any Slytherins in trouble, she hoped they would be easier to convince. ::

Ariana shook her head at the odd snake "your smart but you have a lot to learn firstie." she said to her

Ariana was tired.. TIREDDDDD of this girls whining.. even through paper. she drew her wand and made sure professor meany man pants wasnt watching and casted "Silencio" on her quietly before slipping her wand away "there, now Shut up and eat!"

Lex watched her make a face at her after reading the last thing she wrote and made her own face at the girl. She took the paper and scribbled again. Don't give me that look, it's not like you'll be getting in any trouble no matter what! Technically she had to most to lose because she was at the snake table were they would all pick up for each other and leave her hanging.

She watched her place some cinnamon bread on her plate and scowled down at it. The gesture was a nice one and though the words were a bit screwy she could see that the girl was trying to make her feel better but now every time she looked at the food her stomach wrenched. She sighed then pushed the plate away. Thanks, but I'm not hungry anymore... She scrobbled. In fact she felt sick...

Lex's eyes went wide when the girl told her what she did. She grabbed for the paper so fast that she hit her hurt her wrist, wincing a bit she straightened the paper then scribbled. What makes you think I'd get caught when I'm going around having fun? This is only a little set back you have nothing to worry about but fine...I won't include you in the fun. She could stay down in her dungeon commonroom and be bored if she wanted Lex to stay away when she was having her fun. It was all the same to her.

Lex tried squealing in delight and was even more pleased when no sound came out! She threw her arm around the girl, being careful not to hurt her wrist again and gave her a little squeeze then took to the paper once more:

THANK YOU!!!

:: Ganymede snarled a little at the note, then Ariana casted that spell.

"Well, if I knew how to do that stupid spell, I would have done it." Ganymede grumbled. But she too was relieved.

"Ok, are the problems solved? Will you eat now Lex?" ::

Ariana tensed up and made a disapproving face upon the hug "your welcome." she then took the pencil from the girl and wrote on her paper NO TOUCHY!

Lex nodded with a wide smile. For the first time in her life she was happy that she couldn't talk. It was a bit of a shock to her to actually like not having the ability to talk but very understandable.

Oh.

She looked over at the food, weird...even now that she couldn't talk she wasn't feeling so good. Maybe it really was all the candy then the portkey trouble. I'm beginning to think me not having an appetite had nothing to do with em being in trouble. I feel sick. But she would never admit that it was the candy because candy was pure gold. Must have been the bloody portkeys.

Meh, she was just happy she wouldn't be in trouble!

Lex read the paper then gave an inaudible laugh! She would have cared but not now, not when she was so happy to be on the safe side again. Then for a moment she began babbling silently, enjoying the sweet silence.

You got it!. She finally scribbled back.

Looking up from the food that had now suddenly appeared before them, Cass found herself looking at the Slytherin House Ghost's bloody glory. Which should probably gross her out, but didn't.

"Good evening Sir, uh..Lord, uh.." Wait, how did she even address the Baron all these years? She couldn't even remember "Good evening Bloody Baron." She finally settled "How is your evening so far?"

"That sounds absolutely fab!" The seventh year said with a grin "Although, the Eiffel tower is sort of a downer - all covered with muggle graffiti and what not." Ugh, muggles.

"Did you try on of the many quaint cafes around the tower?" She asked "I heard they have absolutely delicious croissants!" Speaking of, she was totally craving for chocolate filled croissants...

"Bubbly doesn't even begin to describe!" She exclaimed, sending a very Slytherin-ish glare towards the Badger table "They were absolutely annoying! Till a few hours ago, I didn't know it was possible to sound perky and yet terrified at the same time!"

Apparently it was.

Cass took a spoonful of the mashed potatoes covered in gravy into her mouth and swallowed before answering "True enough." The girl said with a nod and a grin thrown at her best friend's direction "Besides, It's not like its in the official rules or anything..." Although, it was still fun to do. You know, wearing formal school robes to the start and end of term feasts - and all the other feasts in between.

"I remember!" Cass said with a grin, recalling her days as a small, still slightly mean, and timid first year "Merlin! That seems like forever ago!" She said with a smile before taking another spoonful of the deliciousness that is mashed potatoes.

"Oh, a family of Slytherins, huh?" She said with an understanding nod "I totally get what you mean. My mum was in Slytherin too when she was in Hogwarts - I figured the "Black" part of my blood had more influence over what house I would be in." She joked with a roll of her eyes, not that she ever wanted to be placed anywhere else of course "Speaking of which, what's your surname by the way?" She asked with a curious smile.

"Exactly." Cass said with a rueful grin "I'm not exactly thrilled at the thought of leaving Hogwarts." She admitted with a small shake of her head. "Ooh, Fourth year." The girl said with a mischievous grin "The year where all the Hogwarts drama starts." She said with a laugh "Where did you go to before transferring?"

Tired of waiting over at her own table, Elliot meandered over to the snake table. She didn't spot Hannah. Well, there were a lot of blondes...she scanned the heads, but sighed impatiently.

"HANNAH LOCKWOOD!" she called out, hoping one blonde head would turn in her direction at the sound of her name...

SIGH.

Elliot wanted to talk to her!

Rolling her eyes at all of the different colors at her table. The SLYTHERIN table should consist of SLYTHERIN. She could almost look past some of the other houses but Hufflepuff was NEVER acceptable. Gryffindor wasn't far behind them in her opinion. There seemed to be a swarm of them. She couldn't blame them though. Everybody should want to be this awesome! She would think that the people who were noble enough to get sorted into this house would know, but obviously that wasn't the case. Atleast it wasn't as bad as last year.

Hannah was just getting up to find a better spot when she heard her name being called. She knew without having to look who it was. She smiled at the sound of her best friends voice. She spotted Elliot and walked toward her. "Well, well, well...Elliot Morganzo! What brings you to the noble table of Slytherin?" she said jokingly. Elliot was always welcome obviously.

"Oh" she said blankley "Well your allowed to sit here". The Slytherin girl turned back to her plate and took a sip of pumpkin juice.

She also said hello to the Bloody Barron. "Hello Barron" she said.

Logan could have hugged the other boy when the potatoes were offered to him. But... that would be weird and creepy, definitely weird and creepy. Instead, he settled for a simple "thanks," before starting to eat the potatoes from the bowl.

Yeah, these were his now.

"I'm okay. Just hungry." Really really hungry. As if on cue, his stomach gave out a loud growl right as he took the offered seat.[/COLOR]

Sierra actually perked up when she heard the chains rattling behind her. Of course they weren't real chain. After five full years of being exposed to the Bloody Baron, she knew they were only ghostly chains. She actually turned toward him with a grin on her face. Ahh, the Bloody Baron. A Slytherin who always seemed just as moody as she did. It comforted her in a way. "Good to see you," she said to him as he passed by.

...and just as the ghost passed her by, Sierra's head was turned in a way that gave her a full view of one of the Slytherins raising their wand and casting on another student. She frowned. Wasn't this the same group who got themselves into trouble earlier?

Really? REALLY?! A table full of professors and the Headmistress was just yards away, and one of the Slytherins decides to draw their wand and cast on somebody? "You're seriously drawing your wand and casting while they," she said, gesturing toward the staff table, "are just footsteps away?" What was the deal with the students on this end of the table? "Are you trying to land us in third place again? Or worse, ...dead last."

The other girl was a Gryffindor. If she wanted to get herself into trouble, so be it, but the Slytherins just couldn't go down for the Gryffindors.

When Lex saw another girl getting annoyed she figured it was because of the charm cast but really she didn't care because with the charm back on she wouldn't have to lose 50 points--and neither would they! She was going to let it go but then the girl started making a fuss.

She shook her head at the girl frantically before drawing for the piece of paper and scribbling as fast as she could; hopefully it was still legible.

She was saving you from losing points. Prof. Scabior put on a silencing charm and if anyone but him takes it off then the person who took it off, the girly who's supposed to be watching us and I would lose 50 points each.

Then she handed the note to the girl.

Serenity grabbed her paper and scribbled, She's just helping, we got into trouble with a Professor, Serenity didn't actually know his name, then continued to write, he gave us and the Slytherin idiots silencing charms an took some points off her, but someone took her charm off, she was lucky the professor didn't find out. So the kid was just helping out Serenity finished. That had taken up masses of her paper. And... wait Lex had beaten her to it. Oh well.

And then she saw the kid's 'P' badge. Serenity wanted one. She was like a magpie, drawn to shiny things. Coincidentally, she supported the Montrose Magpies quidditch team. But anyway, even if she was a Prefect, she better not tell the Professor... She did 't want them to lose any housepoints did she? Lex had already lost some.

It was pretty lucky the kid had re-charmed Lex, other wise she'd lose 55 points instead of 5, an on her first day as well! Serenity felt kind of bad considering it had been completely Serenity and Theo's fault this had started. Wait, no, just THEO'S.

This night owl should've realized that people would notice not having seen her in the dorm. But, she couldn't do anything about that now. She would just have to make sure she spent more of her sleepless nights in the dungeons. Which should be easier now that she knew the castle better. "Well yeah, I only transferred in last term, then spent most of the time trying to get know the castle better," Emmanuelle explained. "I should be in the dorms more this term, though." That is, if she could sleep...

As for how she felt, well.... "Couldn't be happier to be honest. I mean, it'll be nice to not have be here or there at a certain time. And I haven't really been at this school long enough to grow attached to it anything." Nope, she had left behind the school she had been attached to already. And the friends as well. "But maybe that will change during the term," she added with a shrug, realizing how harsh that had sounded.

:: Ganymede as usual, was being nebby and listened to the Slytherin Prefect scold Lex and some other Slytherin who appeared to also have the spell on her.

"You know what, if we stop talking about it then they won't find out." She explained to the older Prefect.

She also gestured to the notes the silenced students (Serenity and Lex) were writing, "Destroy those before someone figures it out." Ganymede made a crumpling motion with her hands. "Burn them or eat them or something."

Ganymede was so over the whole ordeal. ::

Asher walked into the great hall. He kept looking around for Adeline. He hadn't seen her during the train ride. In fact he'd lost her on the platform not once but twice. It seem that the were pretty much inseparable over the summer. Actually they had spend the summer together, she even stayed at his family's house in Italy. They had gotten pretty close over the summer. So close than near the end of their break he had even asked her to be his girlfriend.

She said yes. of course.

But now he'd lost her. He had a feeling that once she got on the train that she seen her friends, and was eager to hang out with them. It had been nearly a year since she was at Hogwarts.

Asher walked over the familiar green table where he sat down with his fellow Slytherins. Knowing that Adeline was sitting at the Hufflepuff table. He would go over that way after the new headmistess had her speech. He wanted to talk to Alec, Lyssie, and Ella too. He still owned Ella ice cream for the bet over the Tutshill/harpies match. He was never betting on a match again.

He looked around at his fellow Slytherins, Kennedy was HEAD BOY. He seen Dylan had made his way back into the spot of Captain as he as a fill-in for most of last term. Thanks to him Asher found himself on the team again. And this term he'd tryout again. As he continued to look down the table he seen house elves. He shrugged where was the food. Oh look even the Slytherins resident house ghost was present at the feast.

Ariella decided that if she wanted to meet more students and make new friends she was going to have to actually leave the Ravenclaw table to do it. She slowly started gravitating towards the Slytherin Table, partially because she had met very few students form that house, and absolutly none of them had been first years like herself. Strolling down the aisle she wondered if anyone was willing to have a conversation with her...

:: Ganymede was desperate to get the night to move along. Maybe a change of subject was in order. A Ravenclaw girl came walking over.

"Hey, can you talk?" Ganymede asked the first year.

She reconsidered her approach, "I mean, hey what's your name. I'm Ganymede." ::

Elliot smirked...and sat down in the nearest chair. She conveniently found one that had another empty seat next to it..so...yeah. Now they could BOTH sit..

"Oh...nothing much, really. No one important or anything..." she shot back sarcastically. But her eyes were lit up.

Hannah Lockwood...ah. it was nice to see her again. "How was the rest of your summer, then? Anymore arguments with your parents?" Because she wanted to know..

and she had to tell Hannah about Presley. She knew her best friend didn't really like her...but Elliot thought Presley as one of her CLOSEST friends...maybe even second to Hannah. Or Jayden. Whatever. Hannah would just have to...deal with it.

...


There were House Elves at the Staff Table. Lainey wasn't "Staff" so she didn't feel obligated to stay and share a table with them. Plus she had things to do and stuff. Oh, and there was a mysterious pink flower there? She didn't want it pollinating in her breathable air.

But those ELVES were FOLLOWING her. Some might even view it as CHASING. So basically, Lainey RAN from them with a battle cry on her lips, "BAAARRRRRRRBEEEEQUUUUEEEEEEEEEE!" She might have gotten away from them, too, but she only managed one lap around the Slytherin table before she decided she was too old for this. That trunk she was carrying was heavy.

So time to ditch the trunk.

Then re-start the merry chase with those Soon-To-Be-BBQ'd-Elves.

"I need to see WEST ODESSA, anyone that has information about a missing beater's bat named MORTIMER, and some House Elf Repellant. STAT."

Well and the easiest thing to do was to simply put his hand up and wave his little piece of paper at Lainey like a flag of surrender.

Except he didn't surrender a single indication that he knew what she was on about with this bat or repellent.