Nope – nope she had not been staring at the guy with the fork full of nothing. Sure he had nice looking lips to be crazy seeing as the plates were EMPTY. And now they suddenly weren’t as the Headmistress had given her speech.

But really, she couldn’t keep her laugh in after Professor-what-ever-his-name-is came over and sassed the guy. Oh this was funny. Real funny.

How was hungry-man going to respond when he realized he hadn’t been eating anything and had been dreaming all along. And then whats-his-face had said the his name? "Flamsteed?" She balked and blinked her eyes at him - his name was different. Heck he beat her out on the different name scale by a million.

She liked that speech much more than the other one...it was all RAAAAAAH and Roar and less be good, be kind...be boring.

It was funny, doing the observing instead of most of the talking. He could appreciate this more now that he'd had practice in it. What was even more amusing, between flitting from one conversation to the next and staring at everybody in close proximity... it was finding OTHERS that were being quiet toooooo. Like that dude.

Zeke stared, but smiled politely, giving the dude a nod, "Hiiiiiii." Friendly first year KNIGHT at your service.



He was already ecstatic to have seen THIS MUCH... but then she had to go and say THAT... and now he was wondering why he even bothered sitting in his seat like a good little first year. THERE WAS SO MUCH EXPLORING TO DO!!!... "Really? How many are there? Do you know them all? Can you show me? --- wait, no, never mind, I want to find them myself." Now. As soon as humanly... wizardly... possible.

Of course, there were reasons why he would have to wait, and the cake was pretty much that. "Aaawwwesommeee," he beamed.

But now it was a wait in see, yeah? Had to wait for Mrs Hogwarts Lady to speak and such?.. BLAH BLAH BLAH he wanted cake.



......... HOLY CRICKETS! Professor man dude person remembered his name! "Evening," he returned, copying the mans formality... though he wondered, "Sir Nicholas calls me Sir Zeke, you're welcome to use that too if it works." Cause you know, now that he'd been KNIGHTED or something, yep, had a nice ring to it.

And then there was HIS name... Professor Flam--what? Steeeeed? Professor Airey sounded far easier to remember, or at least, he hoped he remembered. Of course, he SHOULD remember the name of his HEAD OF FRIGGIN HOUSE ZOMG! Head man... this would be so cool. "Thank you, Professor Airey!" he said, trying it on for size, "I'm super excited to be here, I heard Gryffindor was the best House ever." So yeah, being a Gryffindor was going to be so cool.

And just when he thought things couldn't get better Mrs Hogwarts Lady was giving her speech. FINALLY, FOOD BE HERE!........ He didn't much care about anything she said, it sounded like the usual boring stuff, nothing that he need concern himself with. His jaw dropped though, when the food arrived.

IT WAS A HUGE FEAST! ZOMG!

...

...

And if that wasn't enough to keep his mouth gaping open, Professor Airey JUMPED ONTO THE TABLE!!!........ Ahem. Could he do that too? Yes? No? Please? He watched, convinced that this was possibly the best day of his life, or at least second best, or maybe third best... but definitely ONE of the best.

Chivalry. Bravery. Comradery. Yeahhhh... he could handle that.

Fist pumping the air with one hand, and grabbing a leg of chicken with the other, he let out an almighty "ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!" with his Head of House, and his Housemates!

SPOILER!!: Gwen

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Gwen looked over at the sound of her name. Oh look Zeke. The boy who'd kept her from dying in the water. This one was definitely going to be around for a while. "Seems I did."

Insult her? She shook her head. "No. It just told me it remembered my parents but that I wouldn't be in either of their houses. So here I am. It was either this or Slytherin by that comment." She looked at him seriously. "What did it say to you?"

Seems she did. HA! That was such a girly and polite response, hehe. But it was at least some consolation that she hadn't been insulted by the hat too. She was too nice to insult just like that... stupid hat. "You're lucky then," he decided, "and Slytherin wouldn't have been tooooooo bad," but Gryffindor was OBVS the best. Duuhhh.

Zeke shrugged, spooning some mashed potato on his plate. "Basically told be I'm stupid and threatened to put me into Hufflepuff..." not cool. NOT cool.

Was she laughing at him? O______O ?? What. But he didn't even do anything stupid yet!! ...? Raising a confused eyebrow he questioned the laughter without really questioning it outloud, y'know?

The Gryffindor shook his head, he wasn't "down". He was only just thinking. Thinking about why Beautiful Bentley was no where to be found! Where was she gone to? And was she going to come back before the speech? AJ was right the speech was coming soon and that meant food! Would Professor Beautiful Bentley miss the FOOD!?! "I'm not down," he totally wasn't. He just wasn't as happy as she always seemed to be. He was just worried. Worried for his Beautiful Bentley. That's all. Then at AJ's little explanation as to why she was so happy, he tilted his head. "Are you ever in a bad mood?" Because he wouldn't believe it until he saw it.

Watching the girl take a seat, Zander grinned a little. At least he wasn't boring everyone to sleep with the story of his summer. It would have been much more interesting had he been allowed to go to Greece. Ahem. But again, no hard feelings. Sort of. "Well CB is the one that convinced me to do them," he started, there was even a little pink rising up in his cheeks, but hopefully she wouldn't notice that. "So I went to that shop... The one in Diagon Alley... Weasles Wizarding Pranks or something like that." What was it called? Obviously it was his first time in that place, but hopefully it wouldn't be the last because there was so much stuff in there! He only bought a few things because he was saving most of his money for chocolate frogs, but he still got a couple of fun things and had a bit left over too! Maybe he'd give them to Kevin.

Anyways, "I used some dung bombs and this girl Abbi told me about weird beards so I used those once too and then there was this one thing that I put into their drinks to make them burp a lot, but I don't remember what those are called." All in all, it was actually pretty fun being the one pulling the pranks for once. His brother's deserved them too. Then the Gryffindor listened to AJ, who didn't really share too much about her summer other than the sun, which he didn't mind because SUN. "I'd do anything to keep it this warm all year," he admitted. Could they skip winter this year actually because he wasn't really sure how he'd end up reacting to the snow. Being stuck inside for a whole school year was more than enough to scar a kid, y'know? "Did you do anything interesting?" she had said it was fun after all. And then the pet thing, that kind of made him sad. See the whole not being old enough thing was a huge factor, but it was also because he had been planning making a trip with CB so that she could help him, except that didn't really happen. And he didn't want to pick one out without her! "I know," he agreed disappointedly. "Cinna said that I could do a shared custody thing with her cat though, so I guess I have half a pet for now?"


The Gryffindor shook his head grimly. Nothing too eventful. His brothers got yelled at again, but that wasn't really that big of a shocker. Um... He did manage to pull a few pranks that he picked up at that shop in Diagon Alley, what was it called again? But that was hardly anything Lex would see as eventful. And he went to Diagon Alley all by himself a few times!! But other than that, nope. So a shake of the head would suffice. "Oh, what did you do this summer then?" Besides that field trip. She did go on it right?! Because how come every old person got to go, but he couldn't!! He was already fourteen! That was super old too. He could do Greece, he could really!! But ahem, he wasn't going to think about that this again. Because right. Anyways. Big boom? Looking around, he leaned in close and raised a brow, "How would I do that?" Because if she was referring to Kevin's exploding potion and the big-boom-feast, then she'd be glad or disappointed to know that their plans last term didn't go as planed. Sigh.

So wait, she really was headgirl then!? Zander was friends were they friends? with THE headgirl. Woah. That was like SUPER COOL, but Kevin probably thought that it was the worst thing ever and for some reason this thought made him chuckle a bit. "Does that mean you're going to yell at us more now?" and was this when he was supposed to wish her congratulations and stuff? "And congrats on the... the promotion?." Every since the whole saving the bed thing. She was totally a good person to be in charge.


Uhhhhh O____o why was his stomach being so LOUD?! Could it just shut up for another ten minutes because there was no way that it was actually going to take any longer for the food. And the speech. Heh. Yeah. The sortings were almost completely through and everyone was already situated. Why was it taking so long!! And where was Bentley?! Looking around the table in a rather tired manner, the Gryffindor spotted a familiar face out of the corner of his eye.

BUT AH right as he went to say some--


thing, the speech had started. BOOOOOO. So instead he smiled and tried to pay attention to the speech, but it was already starting to bore him. So instead of listening to a word that was being said, he just leaned forward towards Mackenzie with a smile on his face. "Hi," Hopefully she was feeling better than she looked last time he saw her. And he wouldn't bring any of that other stuff up because he was going to be respectful and stuff. It was obvious that speaking about her family brought up weird things for the girl. And he didn't want any crying. Not twice in one day. Especially when it came from girls.



He didn't look back from talking to Mackenzie until mid... Flamsteed speech? Why was he giving a speech? Was it because Professor Bentley was late?! Anyways he seemed to have jump into the speech a little late, but he got all that important stuff. The stuff about Gryffindor being strong and not just a house and the cup and beating Slytherin or something. Which they would do. AGAIN. Ahem. He didn't quite feel the need to roar along, but the Gryffindor did raise his goblet into the air, isn't that what people did at weddings and stuff? After speeches? Either way he really wanted an excuse to take a huge sip of his pumpkin juice.

"Did she just say chorts?!" Because she had heard of those things. And the announcement that there had been some here last term was enough to get her fidgeting with the shorts (the same lacy ones she'd been wearing on the train) she had chosen to wear with the button down and robes instead of the skirt of her uniform.

But before she could continue with that thought, there was a PROFESSOR on the table. Oh for fruit's sake! Now, she was in no way a stick in the mud, but there was a time and place for standing on tables and at a feast when the food has just been served wasn't it. Luckily, he wasn't anywhere near her, but even so, all she could do was sit and watch with her eyes bugged out and her jaw hanging down.

Only when the apparent Head of House started roaring did Heather move again, jumping in her seat. Was it too late to transfer back to Beauxbatons?

"Nope not too nice, I've just realised if I give them two whole warnings and they still don't get the message then it's basically self defence and no one can say anything bad to me when I go crazy on then." Angel said truthfully, a girl had to be able to use self defence otherwise she was in trouble.

Angel then heard what her sister said about avoiding him. "I'm no...well I am...Well I'm not..." Angel was very confused it was a delicate situation. "It's confusing and would take ages to explain." Angel had a lot going on in her little head that was confusing her like crazy.

Angel looked at her sister and started. "If you want one, I've put a couple in my trunk." Angel giggled at the next think. "OH....Someone is in L...O....V...E" Angel smiled at her friend. "You two are right for each other, I knew that last term." Angel then whispered. "Though we can talk about it in the dorm later." Angel said, she wanted to know what had gone on.

Angel looked at her sister. "I don't know what I'm on about, and I don't know." Angel pouted. "I just feel like a huge failure." Angel really wish Professor Bentley was here because well she would have helped her figure things out. "I know that Benny is a great guy and I know my friends are awesome." Angel said truthfully.

O______________o

Did AJ says that she had a sister that would protect her. "Awesome!" Angel beamed as she looked at her sister and gave her a quick hug. "I've always got your back as well sis." Angel said truthfully.

O___________________o

Talking about the Head of House he was announcing he was the new Head of Gryffindor House, oh great, so they had gone from a nice person in Professor Bentley to a crazy dude who always seem to wear suits, she wondered what would happen if she got his suit dirty because boy did he seem attached to them.

Well there was one good thing about everything this term was going to be amazing and crazy because now the Head teacher had given Flamsteed the role of Head of House, who knew what crazy things he would get up to, "I'm glad they made you the Head of Gryffindor House Professor." Angel said after sitting in silence a couple of minute, she'd miss Professor Bentley but she would give Professor Flamsteed a chance.

"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!!" Angel said in her loudest voice, which could be very loud when she wanted to be, she just hoped she hadn't startled anyone with her suddenly craziness, but if the Professor was asking them to roar she would.

Best year. Exactly. ... Phoenix was all smiles today, and his smile grew as Isla complimented his hair. “Thanks. It’s made of stardust and candy floss.” He shook his head a little so his curls bounced and the glitter from his hairspray glinted in the light. People commented on his hair so often that he’d just started making stuff up about it. Stuff like it was made of childhood dreams and rainbow fragments, or it was strands of angel song. Weird stuff, but fun nonetheless.



No problem with dorm mates? “I hope not. I’ve never shared a room before.” Like, ever. In his life. That he could remember... “But at least it’s with people I like.” You know... so far. He hadn’t found any reason not to like them. In fact, he very rarely found any reason not to like anyone, which was handy really, because it meant making friends was pretty easy.

“A treat?” Like... a party? Fooood? MUSIC? Phoenix beamed at the thought of it. And here he’d been thinking that school was for learning, but it seemed like his worries had been for no reason, there were TREATS and FEASTS and FRIENDS and MUSIC and GORGEOUS PEOPLE and probably SNOGS in the near future... Who knew.... maybe this would be even better than going on tour with Rufus.



“Any time, beautiful.” he replied, giving her a big genuine smile and kissing her cheek. She was smiling, which was good, cause he liked it when people he liked were happy. It made HIM happy. As did the fact that she was beautiful... In fact, pretty much everybody in this hall was super hot. Was there something in the water? Whatever it was, Phe liked it.

Ooooh, she met Clara..? “Yeah, she’s great.” Phe grinned a little and pushed aside the thought that maybe it wasn’t a very good thing for Clara and Eden to talk... Not that he’d been dishonest with either of them, he just knew girls sometimes made problems where there weren’t any and he didn’t want anyone to be upset with him. “That’s great! I told you this place wouldn’t be as terrible as you were expecting.” She had FRIENDS already, see? He’d been right.



Oooooooooh another hair comment. Aww yeah. “Thank you, it’s made of the dreams of elven children.” He fluffed it in her direction, sprinkling a few bits of glitter onto his shoulders... There was no way their dorm would be anything but glitter infested this year, and that made Phoenix ridiculously happy. It’d be like being in his own room back at home. Glitter. Everywhere. He doubted even magic could really clear it up.



Phoenix was already getting pretty good at understanding Ceo’s accent. Which made him kinda smug, but he supposed it would also be useful, in case he had to translate for any girls or anything. Not that he was going to have to for long. He was going to make Ceorlic a veritable Casanova. By Christmas, if possible. And it was gonna be awesome. ... And then he refused sherbet for a PASTY? Crazy. But that meant more for Phoenix so he just gave the guy a thumbs up.



“GOOD EVENING TO YOU TOO, PROFESSOR!!” Phoenix yelled back to him, a cheeky grin playing around his lips. Then he shut up for once, and listened to the speech.

YES! Gryffindor WAS the best and FGlamsteed was so RIGHT. Phoenix could not help himself, and joined in with his new head of house...

“ROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!”

...

Oh, also...

“LOVE the outfit, sir!!”

Okay so he didn't really pay attention to the speech, that much was obvious. Plus he was stacking his food on his plate just about now, so the whole the was beyond him. That's when he heard someone mention CHORTS!? Now that was enough to make him pay attention. CHORTS WHERE?!?! But instead of finding a Cold One at the Gryffindor table, he noticed a girl just sitting there mouth ajar. Turning towards her and leaning in a little, "You don't know? The Chorts... Or Cold Ones... Or both? I really don't know the difference," It wasn't like they had spend every lesson in Defence Against the Dark Arts going on about them. Besides he was too busy keeping against the real enemy there: Romanos. Even though he had apologized to her last term, that yearbook superlative sort of resparked some suspicion. "Invaded our school last year," he stated matter-of-factly. Actually it was quite impressive that he was keeping his cool. Third year Zander would have been freaking out too. But fourth year Zander wouldn't. Nope. He was totally cool about it. See. Totally. Ahem.

And then it was his turn to do the shifty glancing at the staff table thing. Ah, just like old times. "See one of the Professors up there got called a Cold One in the yearbook," he was going to casually leave out the part that said 'most likely to return as' bit and also leave out the part where he was on that section as well... Clearly this girl was new so she wouldn't know. "And between you and me-" looking at the girl again "I don't think it's far off with the accusation."

Benny couldn't help but watch as the Astronomy professor seemed to be digesting what all was being told to him over the situations that had transpired since leaving the train. It was a lot so it was understandable the minor silence that took place at times. He tried not to hunker down as the man's gaze turned directly to him after mention of his spell casting, the attention was a tad unnerving. But alas the man's focus turned elsewhere eventually.

He simply nodded as he was thanked for his words, his hurried explaination in defense of Adi that was included in the stories of the others. It wasn't necessarily something he had aimed to be thanked for, more important was the loyalty to his best friend he had shown. The lion very much a Hufflepuff in those regards then a Gryffindor looking for the pride.

"Thank you sir," Benny managed when his actions in defense of AJ were once more brought up. The fourth year remaining silent as the conversation was turned to Alexa though somewhat brightening at what was being said. Perhaps Adi wasn't at risk in the long run after all. Definitantly good news and his gaze passed briefly towards the badger table where his friend was no doubt trying to make up for earlier actions and absence.

Nothing more could be done or said really as the headmistress finally got up to her feet to give her speech. He listened intently as he could but he was more relieved that the evening was actually passing and leading towards a hopefully less stressful tomorrow then her words in truth. The food was an added benefit of course. Benny obediantly clapped when it was over before turning his attention back to Airey, the new Head of House gathering them all to his attention for his own little speech.

"RRROOOAAR!" he gave in echo to the others though perhaps not as outspoken as the professor. Or quill boy for that matter. His eyes falling on Angel and by connection her sister besides her as things settled down and he offered a brief smile before working on serving himself some food.

Abby didnt know why she was upset with Angel but making her way over to where her sister sat and slapped Angel hard in the face but she felt Angel deserved it for being weird with her during the summer

Angel saw Benny's eyes meet her own and she blushed for some reason but she gave Benny a small smile back, she had no idea why whenever she saw Benny her heart kept missing a beat, she was sure if it wasn't for the fact she thought Benny didn't want her to she'd ask him out, but she was controlling the urge.

Angel was too busy looked around at Benny that she didn't notice her sister Abby coming, she turned just in time to see Abby close to her. "Hey Ab..." Angel stopped as Abby slapped her in the face hard, it hurt a bit but she wouldn't cry in front of AJ or Alexa. "HEY!!" Angel glared at her sister. "I'll give you one chance to apologise or I'll do something I'll regret." Angel thought it was only fair to give Abby a chance to apologise for that dreadful behaviour.

Abby stared and said "Me apologise okay i may have slapped you but that was for being weird on me this whole summer but i think you deserved it" Abby didnt care what Angel would do because she was fed up of her sister being weird on her

Angel glared at Abby as she stood up. "Okay, that was one chance to apologise." Angel stared straight at her sister. "Since your my sister and I love you i'll give you a second chance." Angel prayed that her sister would take this second chance to apologise. "I want an apology for that shocking behaviour and I want the apology now." Angel continued to glare at her sister seriously she had no idea what her sister was going on about.

Abby stared and said "I will not say i am sorry Angel cause i think that you deserved that and i really don't care what you do"

Angel glared as she looked at her sister, she had asked twice for an apology, Professor Flamsteed had heard her right, she looked at her sister before grabbing a handful of her sisters hair and yanking on it. "I've asked you twice nicely for an apology, I won't be asking nicely again." Angel just stared into her sisters eyes. "I have no idea what you are on about and I deserve a nice apology for that craziness you have just showed." Angel released her sisters hair and just stared at her, would she get in trouble if she dragged her to the Ravenclaw table?

Abby yelped as Angel grabbed her hair and said "Hey let go of me your hurting me and i think you should know what i am on about but i am sorry please stop hurting me or i will scream out loud"

So the food was all in Chance's head. It was his overly hungry imagination that was getting to him. But oh, he had missed the delicious meals that Hogwarts had to offer, so when the Professor came over and sassed at him, Chance was more than happy to shrug and smile. "Hey Cant blame a guy for wanting some delicious food!" He hadnt gotten a chance to get any food at the food trolley on the train. It was HOURS since he had eaten last. He was a growing boy! He needed food!!

Knowing, he probably looked a mess trying to stuff imaginary food in his mouth, he looked around and saw a girl staring at him. It looked as if she was trying not to laugh. He smiled and shrugged at her as well. "Im hungr--" he started to get out before the Professor roared. Chance's House pride filled his chest and he lifted one of his arms, his robe flying and he screamed at the top of his lungs..


ROOOOOOARRR!!!!

Angel had released Abby's hair a while back, "I have no idea, why you got into a strop and slapped me." Angel said truthfully. "I released your hair ages ago." Angel thought that Ravenclaw was supposed to be smart and wise but her sister didn't seem to be either, how had she been sorted into Ravenclaw.

Abby sighed and said "I have no idea, something has just got me upset and i am really sorry that i took it out on you Angel"

Angel just continued to stare at her sister. "I think I am owed an explanation as to why you lost your senses and decided to slap me really hard." Angel was still totally annoyed, her sister had slapped her for no reason what so ever, "I'm waiting." Angel said impatiently.

Abby stared at Angel and said "Look i can't explain it okay because i have got no idea what upset me in the first place anyway" Abby was totally telling the truth she had no clue what so ever

"Yeah right." Angel rolled her eyes at her sister, since when did someone walk up-to someone else and slap them in the face without knowing what they had do it for, did her sister take her for a dumbo or something? "I think you should go back to the Ravenclaw table." Angel said truthfully. "When you are ready to tell me why you slapped your own sister, then I'll be waiting to talk, until then I don't want to speak to you." Angel didn't like her sister taking her for a fool.

Abby was mad and shouted "You think i am lying when i am actually telling you the truth i have no idea why i am upset and i am really sorry that i hurt you but until i can understand why i hurt you i have nothing else to say" Abby couldnt believe that her sister didnt believe her that she was telling the truth

"So you just randomly decided, that you would leave the Ravenclaw Table and head towards the Gryffindor Table and somewhere between there and here you want me to believe that you decided that your SISTER....your OWN flesh and blood deserved a slap but you can't remember why you suddenly decided to slap me." Angel rolled her eyes, she was furious and she could feel the blood boiling over the inside. "I think it would be best if you left Abby." Angel glared.

Abby stared at her sister and said "No i will not leave you cannot force me Angel and plus im upset cause you accused Ian of kissing me when he didn't and now he is gone away and never going to be back that is why i hit you Angel"

Benny saw the way Angel had blushed when he looked at her, feeling somewhat awkward himself. But for now it was a good awkward and he was glad when she smiled back at him. Leaving her be, he sat quietly eating his fair share of dinner, briefly noticing that the girl that was the third part of the triplets that he had seen over the summer had come to visit. He didn't think anything off it until Abby slapped Angel and he sat up in surprise.

"Woah..." he said, watching carefully to see what developed. For a few moments it was fine and then Angel reacted back when her sister refused to apologize and acted even ruder "Angel..." he warned, knowing she shouldn't stoop to her level.

"I would advise you to go back to your table." Benny said finally speaking up to the two sisters, especially Abby and making his presence known. "The feast will be ending soon anyway and time to depart to each tower." Maybe the smart Ravenclaw would listen to an older student over her sister.