She was just sitting there listening to the conversation flowing around her. While her original reaction had been incredulousness, she was now take a sharp turn toward irritation. Why were THEY having to pay to get into a place they had all rights to be in just because whoever the treasurer for the school was couldn't keep track of the money? Madness is what it was. Bleugh. And Sky didn't blame Daichi one bit for not wanting to pay for someone else. Nope, once she got inside and got her hands on her trunk, she was adopting the same policy. Yep.

Then Captain Montmorency showed up..... and seemed to be mad at aforementioned Duck Boy? The....? She looked questioningly between the two. But then he was offering to pay for everyone. So, that was great. "Thanks." she said as he handed her a coin. Ugh. This was annoying. She slipped the knut into the turnstile and walked in, hoping that was the worst of it.

Turning her knut over in her hand that Dylan had given her she watched as West went through the turnstile. Was this going to be the only time she could go through? She didn't have more knuts! What should she do? Should she go and collect her things? She was sitting there on the floor still when a scent tickled her nose and made her look around for where the smell had come from. It was a nice smelling scent and made her feel kind of funny.

Getting to her feet, she looked around again wondering where the smell had come from and slipped the knut into the slot and pushed the turnstile with her hands and headed for the common room.

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Sonea’s cheeks colored pink when she realized that her behavior had startled the other girl and shifted nervously on her feet. She was really annoyed because she was tired and she had hoped that this year would be wonderful, but it had started so strange with the plastic plates and now this! “I’m sorry” said Sonea hasty and fumbled nervously with her hands in her pocket.

"It's okay. You don't need to be sorry." Christina said to the younger student. She did understand; all of them were exhausted and all of this madness (that most people said it wasn't normal here) had driven them crazy. Yeah? She didn't know how could she survived her first year in Hogwarts.

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Stepping out into the entrance, Dylan didn't cross back over the metal barrier...If his face betrayed the mess that awaited them...Well, good. He needed backup. Odessa backup.

The two of them had always been able to figure things out...and....THIS needed to be dealt with. Squashed. Immediately. LIKE WHOA.

"Okay, guys. LISTEN UP!" The Slytherin Captain raised his voice a bit to grab everyone's attention. "It's not pretty...I'm forewarning you." Money bag in hand, he started handing out tiny bronze coins. "I'm thinking...if you all want to test Odessa's theory...that if we keep one coin on us at all times...we could always ensure access." It was just a thought he'd errantly had...The choice was ultimately up to them, though.

After passing out coins to everyone he'd seen, Dylan stuck the coin bag into his robe pocket and stepped back through the tunnel, wand brandished.

There was WORK to do.

Wait wait wait.. Christina couldn't do anything but just waited for something until they could reach the common room. She was completely tired and all she wanted to do now was a nice sleep so, better if they could solve how to pass this barrier. Barrier? Yeah...

Look! Finally the Slytherin captain was back with the bronze coin. "Thank you." She smiled as he handed him a knut. Slipping the coin, she ushed the turnstile with her hands and headed for the common room. FINALLY...

She was ready for some sleep!

The first year had gotten herself lost already and therefore hadn't arrived at the common rooms at the time that most other people had, but having finally figured that she found the common room she sighed in relief, not being able to wait to finally throw herself down on a bed and just fall asleep before waking up early to find the kitchens tomorrow!

Looking at the turnstiles Kahlan's eyes widened.

Pay?

Why should she have to pay to get into her own common room? This was insanity! Thankfully for her, the girl had felt... weird about the idea of leaving her wallet in her trunk so she did in fact have the knut with her but was grumbling under her breath. This was insanity - sure the school might be having economic troubles but they couldn't charge them for needing to sleep!

He had been seen.

Damn.

Nathan tried to play off his situation as if it happened everyday. He looked up from his position on the ground and smiled at the younger girl. "No its okay, i think i have a nut somewhere in my pocket."

He stood up and after a few seconds, emerged with a nut from his robe pocket. He placed it in the turnstile and, after making sure there was no barrier anymore, walked gracefully as he could through towards the common room.

Ambrose dug in his back pocket as he approached the turnstiles. Pay? Oh well at least he had some money on his person. The rest was stored away. He really wanted get to the common room and continue reading. Talking to people was working out. Not today at least. He was a snake. Snakes didn't need packs like lions. He had himself.

When it was his turn he put the knut in the slot and was granted access to his common room. His home away from home. He moved along lithely into the common room.

The fourth year stood with confusion written all over her face. Did she really have to pay in order to get into her own common room. Like seriously! She happens to have other important stuffs to do with her money. Especially at this crucial age. What a timing to be a broke school.

She eyed the turnstiles for a long time until she reached the conclusion that there really was no way to avoid this paying thing or side-step it. Awesome just awesome. Had she known that she needed money to enter the common room she would've had saved up some money during summer since she had to buy stuff for her lady-tutoring sessions with Lex ,or asked her parents for a raise on her allowance. She was going to ask for now it though it might take some time till her mean owl obeyed.

She and Blue definitely needed to start the business. They were never in need for money more than this. Not a very appealing start for the term.

Finally, Cassia fished a knut out of her bag and tossed it hearing the biiiing it made. She apparently ,was going to get used to this sound.

Marsha had plenty of money on her; that was one thing she wasn't worried about. Her mother hadn't told her anything about having to pay each time she went into the Common Room though, maybe this was some new policy they had reinstated since the days she was a student at Hogwarts herself. In any case, the price seemed to be small and so Marsha dropped the money into the slot without thinking too much about it.

Right, so it seemed that he couldn't enter the Slytherin common room without paying for it. And he had heard about the mess that was inside and needed to help cleaning up. So, despite that he was TOTALLY AGAINST cleaning the place up he knew he needed to be there as a prefect.

Maybe he could just order around...

Knut inside the turnstile, he walked in to the common room.

Theo always had a knut on him now, and it sucked and all but he couldn't do anything about it. Hopefully this was just a one year thing at Hogwarts. But hey, at least this counted as a good excuse to get more pocket money from his parents, yaaaaaay.

He fumbled in his pocket and popped it in the slot.

In? Great. Let's clean, he thought as the hoover was dragging along the floor behind him.

Pay to get into the common room?

It was not like Richard Turner had any financial issues, money was something he had never had a problem about thanks to his family, yet this still was...

...RIDICULOUS.

Now people needed to pay to be able to have access and use their OWN things and to sleep? How...irrational was that? How could the Headmistress do that? Was the school really that...broke? What if there were people who could not afford it everytime? There were lots of questions and to be honest he was tempted to go and ask them all to the headmistress.

*snort*

Messing with his pockets some, he finally managed to find a knut among the other coins and sent it inside the turnstile. He had the urge to kick the thing. Yet avoiding doing so, he walked past and went to the common room.

Paying to get into the common room. It really did suck. His mother would have a heart attack if she heard about this. She was already going on about him not returning to Beauxbatons, so Cle had no idea how she would react to knowing he had to pay to get into his common room. So he wasn't going to tell her. It wasn't as if he hadn't not told her stuff before. He sighed, glancing at the turnstile. Well he really did want to get into the common room, and so he had no choice but to pay. Stuffing his hand into his pocket, where he had some left over coins from the train, and pulled out a knut. he hoped this wasn't going to go on all year. Because it really would suck. Pushing the knut into the turnsile, he walked through and into the common room.

As Tanner stood against the wall and fumbled within her bag for the required pocket change, she wondered if this could be an excuse to get more pocket money from Nate. As long as she promised to not spend it on tricks or anything that could harm others she didn't see a problem.

The eleven year old heard of a time when the students didn't have to pay to get into their common rooms, but since she never lived through the time she figured that it was something made to make this situation sound overly dramatic.

Okay, seriously? Where was her money? She knew she had some kind of currency in here, and Tanner hadn't actually used Muggle currency since she went to Diagon Alley. (she hadn't bought anything since then, but still.) She wasn't about to start dumping things onto the ground (mostly because she did not feel like cleaning it up) but some money had to have fallen to the bottom of the bag at some point right?

The blond continued pawing around in her bag, her hand and wrist being assaulted by the many books that lay inside. Maybe that explains why my shoulder hurts, she thought dryly, thinking of having to carry that thing around on her shoulder all day. So far all she had were several paper cuts from loose papers, bruises from books, and an empty hand.

Her mind flashed to Juliette, Nate's cousin with some weird relation to her. (what was it, step cousin, cousin in law?) She was infuriatingly organized, and never seemed to lose a thing. Like ever. Tanner looked into her desk once (to see if there was anything she could read) and saw everything completely clean. Nothing out of place. In fact, bins lay next to her desk with old papers in them, and everything seemed to be organized in reverse alphabetical order.

Why can't I be like that? The thought almost escaped Tanners mouth, but she held it back. Instead, it just sat in her mind. Nope she didn't much like that thought.

Wait. Metal! She hit something cold with her little finger and quickly closed her hand around it. Finally! This was too much drama, and incredibly embarrassing.

Closing her bag and paying the required money, she thanked every entity she could think of and ran into the common room.

:: Ganymede could here all the whining from the top of the stairs. What now? She thought as her eyes finally caught sight of the turnstiles. She had a knut thankfully, but instead of proceeding, she backed up and started towards the kitchens. ::

Today, she just wanted to disappear. She wanted to hide underneath the large couch by the fireplace in the Common Room.

Josephine wandered towards the Slytherin Common Room with her bag filled of large textbooks. Homework, homework! She had to finish her homework. She was about to dash into the Common Room when she stopped abruptly. Some weird contraption was in her way. What was the word for it again? She cringed her nose and pursed her lips as she racked her brains trying to figure out what the word for this thing was. Aha! Turnstiles. Her eyes widened. She was pretty sure that the turnstiles hadn't been in front of the Common Room last term. Only one knut was necessary to get back into her Common Room. The blonde frowned. She wondered what Hogwarts was planning to do with all this incoming revenue... She found this idea rather suspicious....

Jojo pulled her book bag off her right shoulder and with a loud 'thump' it hit the ground. She winced and rubbed her sore shoulder. The blonde fifteen year old had been carrying that book bag around since her first class that morning and her arm felt incredibly heavy. It was as if she had visited the Muggle doctor and had received three vaccinations in that arm. Sighing, she opened up her bag and fished around in there, looking for a spare knut. There had to be one in there.

After finding only one knut (lucky her), she quickly placed it in the turnstiles, lifted her heavy bag off of the ground, and placed it on her shoulder. She was almost back into her room. The blonde knew that as soon as she was in the Common Room that she would slump into the squishy couch and just let the couch absorb her.

Walking up to the common room Skylic stops I am still not used to this the thinks to herself. Pulling her purse out of her robe she opens it to find some change. After digging threw the first time and not able to find what she is looking for she sits on the floor and dumps her purse over. "AH! there it is! she exclaimed. Picking up the rest of the content of her purse she thinks I really need to clean this out so i do not have to dump it every time i need change.

Looking around she asked "anyone else need in while I am here?

Her family was well off, she had plenty of money on her own as well. She remembered how she came into it as well. One summer she was bored and driving Mum crazy and an old family friend of her Mum's offered to teach her how to make jewelry. She had liked it so much that she begged her Mum to teach her more. She eventually started a business selling handmade jewelry for summers. She wondered if she remembered to pack all her stuff for that. I will have to owl Mum and have her check was the only thing on her mind now.