So this was it the first year dorm, she couldn't believe how big the place looked though she was glad she seemed to be the first one here because when everyone was here she was sure that it wouldn't look so big, she looked around and saw her trunk next to her bed, this was awesome, she decided to be a bit naughty though and covered up the first name on here's and her sisters trunk, everyone could guess who was who right. Now to wait and see if anyone was going to come and ask her which one she was.

Lucy was back in the dormitory to pick up a book and she noticed the girl whom she had met in Diagon Alley: Angel!.Lucy smiled and she said:" Hello Angel! I'm happy to see you again! These days I have been so busy..I was not able to have a chat with you.
I know you have a sister here at school: one o two? What a luck!
I'm thinking tomorrow is saturday and we have a little free time..What do you think if we do a tour of the castle?..I'm sure there are many secret passages!"

Angel thought about messing about with her friend but decided against it, though how did she know it was her and not Aubrey, this wasn't fair, well never mind she could try again later. "Hello Lucy." Angel smiled. "I know we've all been busy but I agree tomorrow we should go on a tour around the castle." Angel had already started but this place was huge. "I've been thinking there might be some secret passages somewhere as well."

Lucy turned around her and said." I would start to scanning the seventh floor..a few days ago I'm sure I saw an armour that was moving to hide a hole..maybe a shortcut.."
Lucy came out of the dormitory to go to the girls' bathroom and in the hallway she saw a girl who looked like so much Angel.. and thought, "how is it that it's her? I left Angel in the dormitory a little while ago! Maybe she really found a secret passage and she's making me a joke ..
So Lucy quickly came back to the dormitory to see if Angel was still there ..

Angel was totally wondering what was going on, her friend was looking at her funny and she didn't like it. "Everything okay?" Angel suddenly asked, she had no idea what she had done. "Is there something wrong with my hair, or worse still my face?" Angel hoped not because she would scream if it was true.

Lucy said: "Angel, I'm sorry if I was smiling .. but it seems to me that you have dirty mouth chocolate just like me, before to wash my face!"

Angel smiled at Lucy. "Oh!" Angel looked in a little mirror and giggled. "Thanks Lucy, I don't want to go to class with chocolate around my mouth." Angel gave her friend a quick hug and was about to reply when her owl came into the room.

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Angel jumped up and down like crazy. "Lucy, it's arrived, it's finally arrived." Angel smiled as she took the plant from the parcel. "It's my favourite plant, I've had it forever, It normally stays in a special place but Professor Bentley said I can have it brought from home." Angel beamed she loved her head of house dearly.

"Want to have a look?" Angel smiled at Lucy as she put the potted plant down, she couldn't wait for Professor Bentley to see how much love and care had gone into the flower. "Oh and the pictures have arrived as well." Angel beamed now all she needed was one head of house.

It wasn't everyday that she made her way up to Gryffindor Tower, let alone make a pitstop to the girls dormitories, but after stopping for a loo break on the way she figured it might to safe to peak her head in and see how they were going. Make sure that everything was in one piece and that the rooms didn't resemble a candy shop or a laundry room.

Exhaling in sharply at the sight of the darling plant, Seren entered the room, letting the door close behind her.

"Hello girls," she greeted them both, before turning sparkly eyes to Angel. "This is your lily?!" she asked the obvious. It was a darling little specimen and it was no wonder she'd been missing it. "It's beautiful." And so she was happy to help her bum to the girls bed and to take in the sight and smell of the pretty lily. It would be a shame if they sent her away now.

Angel smiled as Professor Bentley came into the room. "Professor, I was just wondering how I should call you, I was thinking of phoning you, but then I realised Hogwarts doesn't have any phones well not what I've seen anyway and my owl has gone to rest so I couldn't use this." Angel was wondering if they had done something wrong and that was why the Professor was here, maybe a surprise inspection or something.

"It's awesome isn't it." Angel beamed. "I've missed it so much, it has a special place at home for me." Angel smiled as the Professor sat down on her bed, she didn't mind though. "I've also got the pictures for you." Angel beamed as she handed over the photo's of the garden.

"I've planted most of them myself with my fathers help of course." Angel beamed. "Though I've looked after them and cared for them." Angel really thought this Professor was amazing and she could stay of course.

Seren chuckled lightly at Angel's revelation. No. No muggle phone networks here... though, didn't Hadley have something like that in her techni--whatever it was called lab? Something like that. "Well I suppose it's good timing on my part." Saved Angel the trouble of sending smoke signals at least, or whatever other means the girl would have tried to get in touch with her.

"It most certainly is,' she agreed, delighted by the specimen. Such a healthy, neat growth... lovely flowers, nice perfume without it being overpowering... it was a wonderful addition to the otherwise bland rooms. Or at least, she thought they were bland. "Oohhh pictures too!" Seren exclaimed, turning her attention to the photographs that ere handed to her. Her blue eyes scanned over the glossy surface, her smile slowly widening at the sight. "It's an impressive garden, and it looks like you've done an excellent job in caring for them for sure." Impressed. She was impressed.

"So how is your garden going at home? Did your mu say everything is okay?" Considering Angel had been so worked up about her mothers ability to care for the plants, she thought it might be nice to ask. See if Angel's nerves were settled or not.

Lucy said: Hello Professor Bentley!..Then she turned to Angel:" your garden is fantastic and also your flower!..I' m not good to take care of plants..I' m better to climb on plants!
But I hope to improve with your help, professor!"

Angel smiled at Professor Bentley, "Oh it's going great. My mother says everything is perfect and judging by the photos she's doing an amazing job, though I wish I was there in case anything goes wrong." Angel didn't know what to make of this place, sometimes people were nice but then other times they were just plain mean and nasty. "I can't wait to help you around the greenhouse to take my mind of things." That was okay right.

"Oh Lucy, I'll teach you if you want." Angel smiled. "I love gardening." Angel had climbed trees before but not for a long time, she didn't think the trees would like it so she had stopped. "I can teach you about different plants if you want?"

Angel was sweet, but Seren doubted very much that the girl had to worry about her garden surviving till the holidays. It looked to be in good hands. "It's beautiful, and I'm sure it'll be fine," she confirmed with a resounding nod. Yep. She was convinced of that fact, now Angel needed to follow suit.

And aaawww... that was sweet, if not at least a little troubling. "It's a shame you missed our activities last year, we worked on topiary's... so there was plenty of climbing to be had then." Not so much now, because climbing flesh-eaters rarely ended well. But still, there was hope for them all. "You'll pick it up quick enough," she encouraged, looking between Lucy and Angel. See. Teamwork at its finest, it was always so nice to see the students support one another.

"And Lucy how have you been? Are you settling in alright?" Seren sent kind smiles the girls way.

Yes Professor, It's going well and I found some nice and cute classmates as Angel .. but I did not think there were so many lessons to be followed!
And turning to Angel Lucy said:" Thank you Angel!"..
I think that the plants and the childrens can be great friends and they can keep each other company !

Angel smiled at Lucy. "Tell you what, next Herbology lesson you can sit with me and I'll work with you." Angel turned to her head of house. "That's if it's okay with you Professor?" Angel really wanted to help out her friend and she thought it would be cool if she was allowed.

Angel smiled as she looked at Professor Bentley. "I'm sure they will be alright." Angel was starting to think maybe this place wasn't as bad as she thought and not everyone was like Kevin and Adi who were both meanies.

"Oh excellent excellent!" she trilled, pleased that Lucy too was keeping up and settling in nicely. It was always the first years that took time to adjust. Hogwarts was very different to everywhere else, Wizarding establishments included. It had its own culture... its own way of doing things. "I'm sure you'll get the hang of it in no time."

Of course, she smiled and nodded in agreement with Angel. "I don't mind at all, you're welcome to work with whomever you like." She was never one to enforce seating plans... it was just so irksome and limiting.

Cinnamon was so happy to be back. Christmas break had been just a roller coaster of emotions for her. So being back her was a great relief to her. Not that the whole break was terrible, she got to spend time with her boyfriend and friends. She did get rid of poison Ivy while she was home. And it looked like emmylou's aunt Rae and her dad were on the way to getting together.

So maybe she was being a little over dramatic. Not all of it was so bad. But she was happy to be back at school she dumped her bag onto her bed. She flopped down on her bed beside her bag. Huh this bed wasn't that bad. In fact she could almost take a nap right here, right now.

AJ practically ran all the way to her common room, and took the stairs to her dorm. She was out of breath, but the running had accomplished what she wanted it to. She felt warm and she was a tad sweaty.

Walking into the dorm, she didn't look around to see who was there. She threw Adi's coat that she was wearing on her bed. That made two of them that she had collected so far. The first year took a quick shower, and then threw herself on her bed. Why did she go and say what she said?

Angel decided that it was time to go back to the common room after spending a lot of time outside, she had showered and felt a bit better even if she was still a little cold, she was about to go and lay on her bed and have a snack when she saw AJ.

"TWINIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Angel screamed and jumped on AJ's bed. "Where you been hiding?" Angel didn't like it when her twin hid from her it made her think her sister was hiding something and in someway her senses were tingling that she was, she also didn't care what her sister said about her bouncing on her bed.

The scream followed up by the jumping on her bed could only be from one person. "Hey Angel." She put a smile on, and hoped that it would fool her sister into thinking that everything was okay because she did not want to talk about it.

"I was just fishing." Of course she left the tiny little detail out about who she had been fishing with, but that wasn't really important. "What have you been up to?" Changing the subject here.

"Fishing in this weather?" Angel giggled. "Come on sis spill the beans!" Angel poked her sister in the side before deciding to tickle her sister, they always did that to each other when they wanted to know something the other didn't want to tell. "I ain't stopping until you tell me what's going on." Angel knew her sister was hiding something and she wasn't going to let her sister get away with it, she wasn't answering her question until AJ told her why she was avoiding her.

"I really was fishing. I made a bet with A... someone and the loser had to jump in the lake." That was the truth after all. Before she could elaborate more Angel started to tickle her. Ugh, why did she insist on doing this? AJ was in no mood to laugh, but it was too late.

"S..St...STOP!" She was laughing too hard, and it was hard to catch her breath. "T...th...that's i..t...it." Tears were rolling down her cheeks and her arms were flailing trying to get Angel off of her. How did she expect to tell her anything when she couldn't get a clear word out? This was torture, and for a moment AJ thought about rolling her sister off the bed.

Angel giggled as she saw her sister was totally off guard again, which made her smile more. "I'm not going to stop until you promise to tell me what's going on between you and Adi!" Angel was sure that was who she was about to say, no point in denying it because they shared the same wave length of had AJ forgot that already.

Angel continued to tickle her sister. "Oh this is so much fun!" Angel giggled as she just watched her sister say that's it but well she had no idea what her sister was on about. "That's what?" Angel playfully rolled her eyes at her sister as she tickled her some more. "Come on twinnie make sence." Angel smirked.

Why did she ALWAYS want to talk about Adi? This was the one time that AJ had absolutely no desire to talk about him at all. "How can I talk to you when you won't stop tickling me?" She managed to take a deep breath and get that sentence out. "Stop for a second," she said between giggles.

Fun? This was not fun. This was borderline torture. Finally she managed to get up and now she was on top of her sister. Tickle, tickle, tickle. "How do you like that?" Was this still fun? AJ was enjoying herself now, but that was only because she was the one in control now. "I said that's it. That's all we did."