"Someone. West or Alice or someone." To be honest, Cat didn't really remember. She just had put the two names together and remembered that his sister had once been here too. "What is your other sister's name?" Hmm? Hmmmm? "I just have brothers. Four, to be exact. And my cousin Olivia who's sort of like a sister on account of how much she looks like me." There was a strong family resemblance, though Olivia definitely had Bunbury in her too.

"Your hands are cold too, sort of. I'm not sure how productive this warming thing will be." Well, his were warmer than hers and she wasn't going to stop him from trying, that was certain. In fact. She leaned his broom against the wall and offered up her other hand. "This one is cold too." Saaad cold hand.

West or Alice or someone. At least those were people who liked Vivi, so it was probably safe to assume that Cat had only heard good things. Or good-ish things. "Sophia. She and Vivi are twins. We call her Fee, though."

"Four brothers," Mo shook his head. He'd always wanted a brother, and for a while, West had been that brother. Days past, he supposed... maybe Cat would share her brothers with him? "Was that crazy at home? I only have the two sisters, plus two other sorta sisters that my mum kind of adopted, but they were never shouting and stealing clothes and things." There was a sort of collected calm to living in the Branxton house, in spite of there being a Vivi.

He chafed her hand again, gladly accepting the second hand between his own. "Maybe I should let you go inside. It's sort of selfish of me to keep you out in the cold."

Cat grinned, "Two of my brothers are twins as well." Wasn't that an interesting coincidence? "Marcello and Lorenzo. They're a few years older than me. Luca and Gianni are older than them." So yep. Lots of brothers. She wasn't bothered with loaning them out, either. "Well, let me just say two things there. I'm not even sure I remember how many broken bones I've had, and I tried to sell them once, but my parents wouldn't let me."

She loved her brothers, she did, but they were occasionally obnoxious. Even so, if she had succeeded in selling them off, she would have missed them eventually.

Her hands were warmer now, definitely. "It's not as if I lack the ability to walk myself." So like, he wasn't forcing her to stay outside or anything. "Maybe in a few minutes. Besides, just because we go inside doesn't mean we have to go straight to our common rooms, right? Riiiightt?

Harvey smiled as Ronnie laughed at him as he joked around a little, he wondered who his next girlfriend would be. Who would he like as much as he had liked Ronnie, Minnie and Ella? Cause to him it seemed he had felt more for these girls than any others. He heard her laugh again when he lifted his chin before she hugged him "Its ok Ronnie Im much better now" he then heard her promise something "Really? You promise?" for some reason he felt he needed that promise, was this cause he still wasn’t ok with what had happened? She gave him a squeeze before she let go, he nodded it was hard letting them go. Harvey had the hardest time letting Ella go, he didn’t know if he had completely let go of her just yet. She then said she knew what it felt like as she had been there, he instantly felt bad "Im sorry about us Ronnie, I was an idiot back then. If I could use a time turner I would stop myself from making that mistake" he said hugging her back. He really saw what an idiot he was though he truly believed that he was in love with Minnie.

So he was better now? The boy better not be lying. But she decided to just trust what he said. "Well good! I'm happy to hear that." she told him with a bright smile. Then she nodded. "Of course I promise, Harvs. I've been in the same spot as you, but eventually you get over it and move on. It may be hard, but trust me. It will happen and you'll find an amazing, perfect girl for you." she said.

Waving a hand, she shook her head. "Don't be sorry, Harvey. It's fine now, as I said I moved on," she said, nodding. "I forgive you. And we're still friends, right? That's what matters most." she continued, smiling at him.

Harvey smiled as she said that she was glad he was better now, with her smile he could see that she was genuinely glad that he was better. He looked at her as she said that she had been in the same spot as him, well he knew that of course cause he was him that did that...right? put her in that position. "I hope you are right Rons, cause yeah this is real hard. But you know me...putting a smile on my face despite it all." he said putting a smile on his face despite the pain he was feeling "Amazing and perfect? hmm I wonder who that could be. Although I think you are amazing and that guy is lucky to have you for a girlfriend. You make sure he knows that" he said to her nodding cause if he didn't know he had to know. Cause Rons was awesome, he wondered now if they would still be together if he hadn't been an idiot and had broken up with her, well the jokes on him now he broke her heart and now his had been broken.

He watched as she waved her hand and shook her head as she blew off his apology he nodded as she said that "Thanks for forgiving me. Yeah of course we are friends! There is no way that we will not be friends. Yes that's what matters most!" he said smiling cause that was always a good thing for him. He was glad that even after everything they had been through they were still friends, maybe that meant that if they could then maybe he and Ella could be friends again too.

She frowned. Poor Harvey, she really felt bad for the guy. But he'd move on eventually... hopefully really soon. Then, an idea popped into her head. "Perhaps I could introduce you to any friends of mine? Someone's bound to like you, mate. You're pretty cute and easy to talk to and fun to be around, y'know." she told him, grinning.

Ronnie flashed a smile. "I'm glad we're still friends, Harvs." she said. She always felt nervous whenever she had a new boyfriend, because of breakups...which would end friendships. And she didn't like that. Thank Merlin Harvey was still one of her best friends, and they didn't feel awkward around each other or anything!

It was a nice day and Orr felt very antsy all of a sudden. So she headed outside to the grounds--thinking that the fresh air would help.

It didn't and she wandered aimlessly along before coming to the corridor to the courtyard. She stopped at one of the little sitting areas between the greenery and columns.

There were no other students around and the peacefulness of the place caused her to get lost in her thoughts

It'd been a while since she - Enya Mayberry - had set foot in Hogwarts, or the ground, blah the entire school. After her year long departure from her studies(returning like she'd not left). She thought the walk around the ground would help her get in touch with the school again, she bet that a lot had happened in the year. It always did, not that she cared. Yeah, same attitude as last year, whatever.

Anyway, Hogwarts, grounds, anyone to annoy and tease?

As he walked back to his Gandr, like he had done every day that month, Asher wondered if all the work would really be worth it. He had already given up a lot of playtime and he knew he still had several more steps to accomplish.

Letting the cool air blow on his face, he closed his eyes and imagined how nice it was going to be when summer came. He would be back on his grandmothers farm, playing quidditch with his cousins.

Harvey looked at her as she said that she would introduce him to her a friend of hers, was she serious? she would do that? but the question was... was he ready for it? Although he did miss having a girl around since he always had a girlfriend, so maybe he was missing it. Wait! Did she just call him cute? "Rons! I didnt know I was cute and besides that sounds too girly! Im a guy!" he said chuckling a bit before looking at her "I didn't know I was all that" he wasn't expecting to hear all that. He decided that he would act all casual about it and not show her that he seemed a bit interested. "Yeah sure..I mean if some of you friends are looking then maybe I could help them out. Not that I need a girl or anything, but I thought it would be just nice of me to help out a friend of yours" he said trying to act all casual. He nodded as she said that she was glad they were still friends "Yeah me too, besides if we weren't friends I would have no one to annoy so that would be pretty bad" he said chuckling as he joked with her. But the truth was that he didn't know where he would be without his friends, probably some lonely corner on the grounds where no one would come looking for him. This made him sad before he put a smile on his face and smiled at Ronnie.



Harvey was walking through the corridor just thinking about something when his eyes suddenly landed on someone that he had not seen in a while. He recognised that person, she was a claw that he had seen around but not for over a year or even two! Didn't she used to hang out with Erin? And where was Erin as well? These two girls were playing hide n seek with their fellow claws or something? He was too busy wondering all this when he didn't realise how he had gotten quite close to the girl that he felt he had to apologise "Oops Im sorry, I guess I wasn't looking where I was going" he said rubbing the back of his neck, though he didn't know why he was nervous again. Old habits died hard he guessed.

Ronnie laughed, rolling her eyes. Oh, Harvey. He was cute though. But not in a way that attracted her or anything...they were only friends. "Oh come on! Girls always think guys are cute. Or handsome. Whichever you prefer." she said, smiling. Now, who to introduce to Harvey... she needed to really think on that one. But she was positive there had to be someone! And who wouldn't love Harvs? He was pretty awesome! "Oh of course you're all that Harvey! Don't ever doubt yourself. Believe me. You're a great person." she then told him, nodding.

The red head smirked at what he said. "That is true," she said with a giggle. "But you rarely annoy me, mate!" she shook her head. Naw, Harvey was an amazing friend and she'd never be annoyed by him!

Erin was on her way back to school since she really felt exhausted about her day out, stretching like she was told to do so.

She was sweating a little when she saw two familiar faces, there were Enya and Aurora. Aw, it seemed like ages since she saw them two.

Might as well just say hi.

So, who to approached first? Knowing Enya's, er, difficult personality, she decided to go to where she is first. "Peek-a-boo!" Just trying to lighten up the mood before the girl changes it. "Hey, come on. I'll introduce to my oldest Hogwarts friend." She motioned to where Aurora was and waved at the other girl. "...Orr!" She called out feeling a huge excitement.

Lost in her thoughts, Orr didn't notice another girl coming and joining her in her activity. It was only when a familiar voice called out to her that she realized that she was joined by her old friend, Erin and another girl. Glad to have a distraction from her heavy thoughts, Orr quickly got up and walked over to the other two.

She hugged Erin, "Hey! How are you doing?" and smiled at the girl whose name she didn't know, "Hi, I'm Orr."

As soon as she reached Orr with Enya trailing behind, she had been hugged. Ah, Erin likes hugging. She also hugged back. She quickly let go to see Aurora's face. It's been a while since she had this, well, chat with her friend. She could sometimes see her from afar, at the common room, mostly with her nose always on the book. And Erin would be busy talking to other kids.

...but now, she's not letting this time go. She needs an extra catching up with Aurora with Enya, of course.

"I'm good. Dementors didn't eat me," she teased remembering her frozen face that day. "Oh hey, this is Enya Mayberry. Enya, this is Orr."

She'd actually been having a good time, well if you included being a loner and having nothing to do a good time, then yeah she was until she heard someone say something. Actually that wasn't what had annoyed her, what did annoy her was the fact THEY HAD WALKED INTO HER! Enya didn't waste anytime in pushing the said person away from her, and hard. She didn't care if they fell, it was just rude walking into HER!

With a deadly glare she looked at the person, her head just getting what was said to her. "Oh yeah, guess you weren't" She really wasn't in a good mood now, "at least you know your faults, one step closer to fixing them" She sneered flicking her hair behind her shoulder and turning away.

They were not worth it.

And then she had ANOTHER person run at her crying, was she just a child magnet today of something!?



At least she knew this person! Miss Erin whatever her last name was, first name was good enough. She was too annoyed with the other guy to think of a horrid nickname for her, that was until she opened her month. Then any respect she had for her just went wayyyy do the well.

"Oh my merlin, are we in a children's story or something" She demanded, what was it with people today!? "Or have you just gone back in time without telling me? Either way count me out thank you very much." She added before she turned the cold shoulder.

Well that was until she was being dragged, well if you call it dragged, towards yet ANOTHER girl. What the!? Pulling away from Erin she shoved her a little, not as much as the other guy. "Whats with you today!?" She demanded ignoring the other girl.

Blah blah talking blah blah bored blah blah more talking and then introductions.

"I don't care what your name is, rule number one of Enya Mayberry: Don't forget my name, Rule two: Don't touch me"

Harvey watched her as she rolled her eyes at him and laughed, he wondered why she laughed when he was telling her something that was true! He listened as she told him that girls always thought that guys were cute "I guess I was thinking handsome is a better word" he said giving a grin, she actually thought that he was handsome? "I..I didn't know you thought that. Makes you wonder who else thinks that" he said to her repeating himself a little as he thought about this and just grinned at this thought without knowing that he was grinning. He listened as she said that he was a great person, he nodded and looked down he knew within himself that he wasn't as great that she thought he was. If he was he would have realised that it was a touchy subject for Ella when he was talking to her mom, he had also written again after their breakup to let her know what had happened so she would know they weren't dating anymore. He wished he was as great as Rons was making him out to be "I will try not to Rons, but you know me! Once a doubter always a doubter" he said to her chuckling as he said that knowing that it was true. He chuckled more as she agreed with him and giggled as she said he rarely annoyed her "Oh is that right now? maybe its time we annoyed you more" he said chuckling as he gave her a wink to tell her that he was joking. He was glad to be hanging out with Rons, he didn't know how they went this long without hanging out. But at least they were hanging out now.



Harvey was suddenly pushed.. no shoved out away from the girl that he had just walked into, he was shoved pretty hard that he had to hold onto something to stop himself from falling but it being a corridor he had nothing to hold onto so onto the floor he went. Man that hurt! He looked up at the girl and he was greeted with a deadly glare! Man if he thought Minnie's glares were hard those were nothing compared to this glare. He stood up slowly dusting himself off as she seemed to be worse about him walking into her, its not like he did it purpose.. geez!! Maybe this girl was naturally like this, he looked at her properly now and changed his mind. Nah she wasn't naturally like this, she was a nice person but was trying to be hard instead of nice. Well he wasn't going to fall for that "No I wasn't and I accept that" see he was still being nice despite her reaction to him walking into her. He nodded as he saw her flick her hair and then turn away "Yeah I will fix them, I promise" he said as she turned away "Give me a chance to apologise? Maybe.. just hang out without walking into you" he said to her thinking she would say yes, or she might say no but he would deal with that if she said no. He then watched as some more people came over, one was Erin. So that's where she was! She was hiding from him!

Erin knew how Enya could be. She could be evil at times, mostly...? All her life? Probably because of her rough past. When Erin had her rebel days, Enya was there. To take advantage of her and make Erin like her. DUH. But Erin look at it in a way that Enya Mayberry made her stronger. Enya taught her how to protect yourself from your emotions and she was grateful for that.

However, because of the long time she hadn't talk to Enya, she almost forgot how she could be at times. She was never good in meeting new people. Let alone new friends.

Erin was the more embarrassed when Enya showed no interest towards Aurora. Aurora was a friend and she didn't want Orr being treated like that. Maybe Enya plus Orr is a no-no.

Erin looked at Enya and pouted with her eyes darting wanting to tell the girl that she was being rude again. "Well then, let's talk later." ...when you're sober. Because whatever comes out of Enya's mouth right now will just make Aurora feel sad.

OH. There was Harvey. She gave a small smile. Just a tad bit since he's also having the wrath of Enya Mayberry. Plus, she's not really comfortable around Harvey lately.

Wait had she just been dismissed? Actually been dismissed by the likes of Erin whatever her last name was? No, this was not right, she can't be right, what? Okay now she was angry, really angry, "What?" She started with looking at Erin - whatever the other girl was called forgotten - and folded her arms, "So you're just going to throw me aside just like that, like I mean nothing? You drag me over her to talk to whatever and then just brush me aside!?" She demanded, she wasn't shouting but she wanted to.

That just left her with the other person who'd walked into her, great.



Turning her back on Erin - she didn't need her - she had only one option of the guy who'd continued to speak to her even after she left, wow clingy much? Blah. With anger still in her eyes she walked towards the other guy with arms folded. She waited for her apology, her foot tapping ever so slightly on the floor, "Well..?" She drooned.

Waiiiit, he wanted to hang out with her like a friend, without walking into her or something? What? Uh... "You really don't want to hang out with me as you say"

Looking at Enya and her reply to Orr's greeting, Orr's smile disappeared.

"Ohhhhkay." she nodded but took a step back. She didn't like the tone or the rudeness of Enya. How on earth could sweet and nice Erin be friends with her?!?! Orr supposed that she would never know.

But her heart grew warm when she heard Erin's response. She turned to leave and nodded in greeting to Harvey who was standing right next to them. But she couldn't help but feel sad for Enya. It seemed to Orr that she really did want Erin's company. And if that was the problem then...

She turned back and headed to Enya and with a lot of bravado that she didn't feel at all, she said, "Do you want to spend time with Erin? I c...could leave you two alone."

Yeah...she could do the right thing but that didn't mean that it didn't hurt like bad.

Harvey watched Enya as she walked towards him with her arms folded and tapped her foot a little on the floor as she seemed to expect her apology from him after he said that h wanted to apologise to her after having walked into her. "Im...Im sorry for walking into you" he said to her before she decided that she was not the kind of person that he would want to hang out with. That made him confused as he looked at her "I don't? why not?" he looked at her wondering why he wouldn't want to hang out with her "Im sure there is nothing wrong with hanging out with you cause you a claw! and all claws are awesome to hang out with" he said nodding cause he knew just how awesome claws were to hang out with.

He then noticed that Erin gave him a small smile and yet seemed a little distant, he wondered why she was. Normally she would be glad to see him but at the moment she seemed distant. Had she heard about why Ella had broken up with him? Was she not pleased with what he had done? But it was an accident, he wasn't expecting a reaction like that, although he should have expected it knowing how Ella was on the subject.

...and now, Enya was shouting. How ever could she teach this girl proper manners? She was wrong in the logic that Enya plus Aurora is a no-no because Enya plus anyone equals X. Enya's rudeness is on the roof and Erin was the more feeling embarrassed that Aurora should suffer from this... because she likes Orr. She likes Enya too but the girl could disappoint her at times.

Keeping a bit calm, 'cause shouting shouldn't be answered with shouting in her vocabulary, "...I said we'll talk later." Erin reminded Enya but her next words rang on Erin, "I'm sorry!" She blurted out with a slightly high pitch because being vulnerable in front of Enya will just make her angrier.

When she was ready to drag Aurora with her, she was a bit surprised that she spoke again. Orr's words enlightened Erin. Enya was being clingy, like she wanted a piece of Erin today and Erin wanted to spend time with her too. But Enya's rudeness is not approved by Erin. Instead, Erin waited for Enya's answer.

Harvey, you should do something.

The Gryffie shrugged and nodded. "Handsome probably is better," she said with a chuckle. "But either way, they'll think you're attractive." she nodded. "And I'm sure lots of girls think that. You're not too bad looking." she told him with a small smile. Yeah, she'd admit it. They were friends and she wasn't afraid to tell him much things. She didn't quite care as much.

She sighed, shaking her head. "Maybe you should try and stop being such a doubter. That could help boost your confidence and keep you smiling a lot more, y'know." she said with a nod. It was true. Doubters tended to doubt themselves, leading to them being sad all the time and not confident in themselves. If Harvey learned not to be so doubtful, maybe he would find a girl more easier that way! You never know!

"Oh, maybe I'll annoy you back then ten times more than you do to me!" she shot back, giggling. Oh, Harvey. He sure was funny, that was for sure!

He returned a greeting smile to this other girl.. Aurora right? nice name.. made him thing of auras, but mostly those space light things that would happen that looked so cool. Man he needed to go see that one day.

Harvey saw that Enya upset which could have been embarrassing Erin so he decided to see if he could calm Enya down a little "Umm maybe you.. maybe we could just hang out a bit.. you know the four of us. That way you" speaking to Enya "Havent come here for nothing and wont feel as if you are being 'brushed aside' and.. we could end up having a good time" which was still possible even despite the way Enya was behaving. He looked between the girls to see if anyone was going to say anything, that was another thing he wondered why was he always surrounded by girls?!



Harvey watched as Ronnie shrugged "Yeah I think so" he chuckled cause that didn't sound as girly to him or made him sound girly. Cause no one wanted to sound girly.. unless you actually were a girl... like Ronnie for instance. "They will?" he didn't know that they probably would or wouldn't, he was just an average guy.. maybe not so good looking but still. Wait! did she just say that he was not bad looking? "I don't know if they do" he said to her "Im not? You sure? You can tell me the truth you know, you don't have to tell me that" he said to her still surprised that he said that, but he guessed since they were friends that she could tell him things like that

He watched as she sighed "I guess I could try that, but you know things happen that make you doubt yourself" he said wondering where all this knowledge was coming from, oh wait she was older than him so he guessed that's where it came from, her being older. "You know it was not so long ago that I was not confident in meeting new people but Im getting the confidence there.. so.. I guess soon I will stop doubting myself and be the fearless Harvey that I used to be!!" he said to her laughing

"Really?" he questioned "Oh I would so love that! Cause then I would annoy you 100times more! That way you would be really annoyed!" he said to her chuckling, man Ronnie was fun to hang out with.

They were all talking to her at once, and she didn't know which one to turn to first. There was Erin trying to make up to her for throwing her aside, pfft, whats her name actually talking to her and Harvey (right?) trying to calm her down. Maybe. She couldn't think for a moment so did the first thing that came to mind, "Everyone shut up!" She cried gripping her wand which was in her pocket.

Finally she could talk, so she turned to whats her name first, Door? Spor? blah. The person who'd just walked over to her, clearly very scared - good. - and offered to go away so she could stay with Erin. Tempting, very tempting that's for sure. Enya eye'd the girl up for a moment before saying, "Why? She's already chosen you, I don't want to break up the love relationship" Bit nice for her liking but blah.

Then she turned to Harvey - who could NOT stop talking - she held up her hand to stop him saying, "You talk to much." And then the topic of all four of them hanging out, oh joy, and from no other than Mr. Talk-a-lot. Didn't he get the hint? "Like hang out all four of us and become best friends and braid each other's hair and tell all our secrets?" She gashed before going back to just glaring at him, "As if, you three go, whatever." folding arms again, "And you," Mr. Talk-a-lot, "Being a claw has nothing to do with it."

Well she might as well reply to Erin - her friend - before she walked off. This was just giving her a headache. Blah. "Still trying to get rid of me still Erin," She'd not missed the 'I'll talk to you later' hurried talk, "Seems you're more like me than you think, throwing away your friends, and look here your friends are willing to hang out with me so why are you trying to get rid of me. Tell me that and I'll gladly go your Royal Highness." She arched her eyebrows and waited for the friendship shattering answer to come.