Mitchell opened his eyes and was greeted by silly string. Yeah... let's not get any bright ideas with those, 'kay? He sat up slowly. "Hey Cinna." he greeted running a hand through his hair. "How's it going? Have a good summer?" Not that he knew anything about her plans. Or anything. They hadn't really talked much. He wouldn't mind if that changed.

Mackenzie finally made it to the common room, she had stopped by the library and was checking out the new book selection. She had examinations this year and she refused to let her studying slip. She slipped into the back of the room and looked around with a silly grin on her face. She was finally home. But there was still one thing that was weighing on her.. the whole Zander situation had not been resolved before this term. AWKWARD

She stood by the door and just enjoyed seeing the other lions interacting with each other.

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The hot cocoa was halfway gone when Isla said that she was going to change. "But... my...." He started but she was off. He laughed. Of course his hot cocoa loved him just as much as he loved it. I mean, hot cocoa liked to be drunk... drank... sipped right? Right! If not, it would sit there. So Chance was doing it a favor by sipping it so lovingly!

Silly string, string in a can that Chance used to loooooveee playing with as a child, came streaming at him, and Chance's first instinct was to block his cocoa. SAVE THE COCOA!! This was his true love. He made eyes at the people that were spraying the silly string. "Beware! Once my hot cocoa's done... Its on!!!" Chance roared to the silly string war that was going on.

Sighing, he looked down at his hot cocoa and took two more large gulps, finishing it. He put the cup on the table, and shook his head. "Until next time!" he said with a laugh and ran to his dorm to change into his clothes. It didnt take him long and he was back out wearing some red and gold plaid pajama bottoms and a red t shirt. He even had the lion slippers to match.

He raced back to the couch and made it back before Isla made it back. He grabbed a can on silly string and as soon as she sat down, SQUIRRRTTTTTTTT Silly string was sprayed into her hair. "Got ya!!" he yelled and jumped up from the couch.

He saw the girl that was laughing at him and his food mental breakdown at the Feast and he narrowed his eyes at her, a grin playing on his lips. She had smiled at him. Not a bad smile, but for laughing at him at the Feast, it was on!


SQUIIIRTTTTTT!!

A big glob of silly string was sprayed at her and Chance's face lit up. "Aha!!! Got ya!!!" He said, with a wiggle of the eyebrows. "Bring it on!"

Oh my god. Her face! She gasped and then glanced at the food-boy and gave him a laughing smile. ”YOU!” she gasped and sent him a look. She had to laugh and that guy had to know it was on right?

"Its on Coeur? Was it?" She stood there for a moment before quickly grabbing two cans of silly string. She was going to make things FUN and well...interesting.

Now she needed to string someone when they weren't paying attention to her. Or even when they were she didn't care.

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Bay entered the coomonroom and he knew that there would be a party but nothing like this.. "WOW" he thought while looking around watching everyone talking and playing with Silly string. HA, it was so good to be a Gryffindor thats for sure. Spotting his new head of house he made his way over to Professor Flamsteed. "sorry Sir… that I'm late.. I got on a staircase that totally went the wrong way and I had to figure my way back…" he laughed as he ran his hand through his hair.

"This is just amazing! do you mind if I try one of those silly strings?" asking because he has seen them around sure, but he hasn't physically tried them out for himself before. Looking around the room while waiting for the Professor's response he watched some of the other kids play with it.. ughhhhh it just made him want to do it so much more now.

Figure his way back? Airey tried not to look too amused by the prefect's comment...but it was hard. He did manage not to allow a chuckle to escape his lips though. So that was something.

"Not to worry, Mr. Bay," he replied. "Of course you can. No need to even ask, just grab some."

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It was official. Gryffindor was THE BEST HOUSE EVER. Good choice by him AND the hat. Yep. He couldn't think of anywhere else he'd rather be right now, cept for maybe at home and building a fort with Ashley and Avery instead, but.. yeah... this was pretty cool. He couldn't complain much, and so, he didn't.

The welcome home part was nice, and the random attacks was pretty neat too... but there would be time for that soon enough he supposed. He looked down at his plain black school robes, and instantly he was up and out of his seat, eager to change and get ready for war.

"Woooooo!"

He was totes in a mood for silly string fort war, yep. On his way to the stairs though, a couple of people caught his attention...

....

Airey raised both arms in the air and 'woooooooo'd along with the first year as he went scampering on by.

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Jeremiah was one of the last in the room. He liked to hang in the back and observe the other students as they walked to the dorm room. Walking into the Common room the newly crowned sixth year couldn't help but JUMP at the sudden onslaught of rainbow streamers that fell upon his head. "what?" Oh..... Oh no this was another welcoming party like last term, yea? Jeremiah didn't like parties. specially not with a bunch of people he didn't know, or care for. Pulling a bright orange streamer off his head he tossed it on the floor as he caught the end of what Airey was saying. Right dorm.. change.. how about dorm.. sleep? was that a possible option? He wasn't sure about anyone else but he had classes and things to do in the morning already adn he was tired so he was just going to attempt to sneak up to his room. if he could juuuuuuust snake through the crowd unnoticed..

Grinning as Mr. Walker entered, the professor raised an eyebrow at the Gryffindor. "Come on now, Mr. Walker. Don't be such a stick in the mud," he manly!chirped as he stuck a marshmallow on his sticky thingy and stuck it in the fireplace to begin roasting. "It's Friday, Friday...Gotta get down on Friday!"

He did a little wiggle dance where he knelt by the fireplace.

"Or at least have some tea and chat before you go back to your dorm continue to be a stick in the mud."

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"Woah," Sapphire couldn't help saying out loud after witnessing everything that was happening before her. She felt even more excited than before and laughed as streams of rainbow stuff fell over her. She continued to laugh as she removed some of the gunk that landed in her mouth. "Cool."

She turned around when she heard an adult start speaking. Sapphire listened intently, glancing at each place the professor mentioned. "String battle?" she wondered aloud, playing with the rainbow stuff that seemed to be everywhere in the room.

"Silly string battle," he confirmed as he under armed a can towards her. GENTLY under armed it towards her, by the way. It wouldn't hit her in the face or anything if she had poor reflexes

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Hey was supposed to be a party right, now she really thought that she should get the party started

"ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Angel roared like she was an almighty lion, seriously she loved animals not as much as plants but still lions were cool.

"Three Lions on my shirt, the house cup still gleaming, 0 years of pain, never left me dreaming, three lion on my shirt, Gryffindor's are winning." Angel laughed as she made up the silly song, but hey it was a party and she wanted to join in with the craziness. "This is amazing Professor's you are all amazing. I'm so glad to be back." Angel really wished the term had started better though.

"Oh Ben that would be amazing, but I'm not very good at making forts." Angel giggled. "That last one I tried to make it actually caved in on me." Angel looked at her sister. "Isn't that right sis." Angel blushed, did her sister remember the fort her sister had tried to make in the bedroom and how everything caved in.

"Glad to hear it, Miss Valentine," he saluted the girl as she entered, very pleased that she was in better spirits than she had been at the feast only half an hour ago.

Waving and saluting the rest of the students as they entered, it was only then that he remembered his marshmallow that was still roasting over the fire. "SWEET SOLSTICE!" he exclaimed as he pulled it out, only to see that instead of a perfectly brown marshmallow he instead had a flaming black bubbling gob of gross. He thankfully didn't wave it around frantically - he had a bit more sense than that - and blew on it hard to make the flames go out. Eh, if he put extra chocolate on his biscuit that ought to fix the burnt flavor.

"Anyone else want a schmo?" he called over his shoulder at students busy building forts and playing with silly string.

OOC: I will go ahead and open up the rest of the common room threads in the next 48 ish hours.

Isla laughed at the guy. "No worries. Just thought I warned you since there is silly string around and getting that stuff in your mouth is disgusting. Trust me." She said, shaking her head. Definitely not anything good, that was for sure.



Isla shook her head like crazy. She was not going to lose to a couple of boys. "Oh no I'm not. It's on, Phe." She nodded, giving him the 'evil eye'. Not that she actually had one but she definitely managed a look close to having one.



Isla had come down from the girl's dormitories and could swear she had seen Ceo blushing at her. Then again...when wasn't he blushing at her? She smiled to herself and shook the thought off, going back over to where Chance was.



Once Isla had finally gotten back over to the sofa where Chance was, she was hit with silly string into her hair. "Chance!" She called out, laughing. She then grabbed a can of purple silly string and sprayed him back. She watched as he turned to go spray other people and she continued to laugh, falling back onto the sofa. Just then, she realized she needed to make this fort quick. So she took out the instructions and began to work making the sofa fort.

Gwen was loving the lion common room atmosphere so far. And what better way to start the year then with an awesome party? Yep. Her house was officially the coolest.

But now she needed friends in her house. She had Zeke and the head girl didn't really count too much. But a girl friend would be nice. You know so they could converse about girly things. Plus boys got boring sometimes. And Flamsteed was shouting again.

What was he shouting about this time? She made her way over to where the head of house and the large group of people were. "Hey everyone." She gave a little wave letting them know she was here.

Yes! Magic silly string! It was the most brilliant idea to ever escape his lips, he was sure of it, this could make him galleons!

"I think colour changing silly string would be too easy, and a little boring, unless it made PEOPLE change colour..." now that might be worth exploring. "I think though, if it had a mind of its own, it'd be more successful.. it'd be epic." And of course if he had any idea on how to produce such things he would get straight to work, alas, he ought to start with the wizarding basics, yeah?

"You looking forward to classes? What'dyou think you'll be best at?" He figured himself for potions, with all the 'teaching' Emily and Gavin had given him, it had to pay off, right?

A SEVENTH YEAR!!! HAHAHAHAHA!

Zeke grinned, trying his best to keep his internal laughter to himself. He didn't particularly want a detention on the first night. He nodded, to show that he was 'accepting' the dudes response... even if it was the biggest load of dragon dung there ever was. "Uh huh... sure, and then you can tell me told you so... but you won't be here when I'm a seventh year, so I'll let you know via urgent owl if its the case."

And BOOOOOO, no looky! He had so dearly wanted to flick the dudes nose. Meh. Another time. Shrugging, Zeke took a step backward in the direction of the dorms... he had to go change, ready to get this fort building silly string war happening.

...

...






Of course, he changed quickly, and upon his return her threw himself to the floor and army crawled along the backs of sofas and under tables to get to the silly string can stash. HE NEEDED AMMO!!!

Leo almost missed seeing another girl walk in, but thankfully he didn't he thought to himself as he noticed that she seemed a bit lonely. He was enjoying this whole meeting new people thing, and it was kind of cool that he was getting to know people from his own house in the process of this party type thing. So, coming up behind her, he tapped her on the shoulder, a smile on his face.

"Hey, I'm Leo" he introduced.



A faint grin crossed Leonard's lips as he thought of people changing colours due to the silly string they were hit with. It sounded fun, but the coming to life would definitely be cooler. A lot scarier, but definitely cooler.

"Yeah, from what I've heard the classes seem like they'll be pretty epic" the Italian commented with a shrug. "Uh... muggle studies" he joked with a grin at the other boy. If he didn't know the stuff in muggle studies then he didn't know how he'd be able to pass anything else though. "Other than that maybe ancient runes... potions... yeah maybe those two" he commented, thinking about how those were probably the classes with the least amount of magic in them. "What about you?"

Zeke seemed to be enjoying the party, and AJ felt a little guilty that she didn't have the same pep in her step as earlier. It was funny how quickly a mood could change just from hearing a few words.

Not wanting to be a complete party pooper, the second year grabbed some blue silly string and snuck up behind him. Taking the can she sprayed it in the younger lions hair. "Gotcha." You could still tell that something was off with AJ. She gave him a weak smile. With the can still in her hand she turned to the next firstie.



Just as she was done sneaking up on Zeke and spraying him with silly string, she heard her name. "Hey Leo." His excitement level was still really high. Normally AJ would be on the same level as he was, but the words Adi told her was still ringing in her ears.

He too got a weak smile, and a squirt to the chest with silly string. "Enjoying the party?" It was pretty epic for the muggleborns. They were all too familiar with the items that were present. If only AJ could shake this funk.



Not into making forts? Honestly at the moment AJ wasn't either, but she was trying to make the best of her current situation with Adi. The second year hated that after getting on to Angel for acting a certain way, she was acting the same way. Hopefully her fake smile was convincing. She did spray some firsties with silly string. She was no where near her normal active self, but she wasn't in complete mope mode either. "Cool." As Benny went to grab them some blankets, AJ grabbed a hot chocolate and took a sip.

Then her sister joined them, and she would surely notice that something was wrong so AJ tried to put on a big smile while she waited for Angel's answer. AJ had no doubt in her mind that she would want to join them simply because Benny was there.



It looked like her sister was in a much better mood now. Maybe her good mood would be able to rub off on her. Then she was roaring. This was AJ's sort of thing, but she couldn't get any roar to come out of her. She too got a weak smile, and hoped that Angel wouldn't notice her funky mood.

No emotions were present on her face. "I do remember. I can make one for us." AJ just so happened to be good at that sort of thing. "I can take those Benny," she said in reference to the blankets he was holding. "Grab anything you want Angel while I get this going." Like hot chocolate or silly string.

Silly string was flying everywhere. Green blue purple was flying all over te place and Chance's mouth was held up in an enormous smile. He was ducking and weaving between the students. He had been sprayed pretty good by isla but he wasn't about to let that go


SQUIIIRRRTTTT!!!!!!!!

Chance sprayed at isla and missed as she started on her fort. Ducking behind one of the pillows Isla had, chance grabbed the pillow from her hand and stated using it as a shield. Chance sprayed towards Puck and have a wiggly eyebrow. He really needed to make a fort and hide in it.

Running towards the other couch, Chance tried ducking between silly sprays, but he felt the string hit his shoulder and neck. Grabbing a few pillows, he made a decent fort. Slipping inside it, he stuck his hand out of the opening and sprayed. "Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" He roared

Text Cut: Airey

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

"WELCOME HOME, GRYFFINDORS!" he greeted. "Not to worry. This stuff is harmless." He set down all of his cans, save for the one he had been originally holding, and turned to one of the newer Gryffindors (AlwaysSnapesGirl). "It is indeed. Familiar with it?" he asked while handing the boy a can with a lime green lid.



Which reminded him that he ought to make an announcement to, er, sort of organize things. Ish.

"Alright, Gryffindors, listen up! If you want to head to your dorms real quick to change out of uniform and in pajamas you are more than welcome to do so. There are snacks and drinks for those who didn't get their fill at the feast and the area in front of the fireplace has been designated as a 'quiet zone'," he explained, complete with air quotes because he did not expect there to be much quiet in the common room this evening. "There are some handouts over there on the table showing how best to make blanket and sofa forts, so grab a friend and get constructing if you wish and get ready for a silly string battle until we get too exhausted to move or bored with it. You may choose to sleep in your blanket and sofa forts with friends if you wish rather than the dorms. But let me make it ABSOLUTELY clear there is to be NO co-ed sleeping this evening." He had seen MORE than enough of that sort of STUFF this evening.

"Other than that, just kick back and enjoy your first night in the common room !"

And he was now going to get up off his imaginary soap box and make himself a delicious hot schmo before starting construction on his own blanket fort.

David grinned, accepting the silly string can. "'Course. We use it all the time at birthday parties." Well, not ALL the time, technically. And it was mostly for kids parties usually. BUT it was still fun and he was totally up for spraying his fellow housemates with this stuff.

And they were gonna build forts for this???

So awesome. He was definitely up for all that. Quiet zone, pshhhhh.

Text Cut: Isla, Phoenix, Ceo

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Originally Posted by JeshieRAWR

Isla wiped the remaining silly string off of her, struggling with one piece in her hair, but managing to finally get it out. "So how about you stay here, I go get into my awesome cat onesie, and we can build a sofa fort?" She asked, Chance. Without really hearing his answer, she hurried and finished her hot cocoa, and was up starting to walk to the girl's dormitories. She passed by the snack table where Ceo..., Phe and David was. She might as well say hi to him, right? "Hi, Ceo." She waved, blushing as she did. "Oh and hi, Phe and David. Great party, right? And by the way, I'm going to beat you guys at the silly string war. It's on." She gave an evil smirk, then ran up the stairs, changed into her amazing cat onesie and ran back down, taking a seat beside Chance once again. "Let's do this." She said, pulling out the paper with the instructions for the sofa fort.

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SPOILER!!: Ceo, David, Isla

"OR.." Phoenix wasn't about to let pessimism happen. "Maybe the next taste would have been the most disappointing taste you have ever tasted, and I saved you from having to go through that. So really, you should be thanking me." Right? Right. Gloss over the fact he just let food fall out of his mouth and find the good points. That was how to do it. TAKE NOTES.

So long as it kept to his side? Didn't he KNOW that glitter got EVERYWHERE the minute you let one tiny piece out of your sight? Ah well, Phoenix wasn't going to mention that. So far he'd got what he wanted. ^___^ "Black and white's a bit boring isn't it? I could paint magpies on the walls though, like... I dunno... in colourful trees or something." Phoenix liked colour. A lot.

Aaaaaand David was fine with the glitter and paint too, which put an even bigger smile than normal on Phoenix's face. "You guys should tell me what kinda stuff you like, I'll paint it." Like, his walls at home were usually just swirls and shapes and music notes in different colours, but he could adapt so that everyone felt at home.

He was about to pursue the matter further, when he caught sight of Isla... was she... blushing at Ceo..? Interesting. Veeeeeerry interesting. "Hey Isla." He gave a HUGE grin. "You're not going to beat us. You're going to try." And fail. Yep. Sorry.

WAIT A SECOND. SILLY STRING? Phe's eyes widened and he glanced down at his clothes. There was no WAY he was getting silly string on these trousers. He didn't want to damage the leather. So he took a sliiiiight step in the direction of the dorms. "M'gonna get changed, coming, guys?" And then he bounded off to quickly change into something a little more... appropriate.

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SPOILER!!: Phoenix, David, and Isla

Ceorlic sighed and shrugged at both Phen, and David. There was no arguing with them. "Ah cuid uise magic bit tis th' principle o' losing fairn. Tis juist sae depressing ye ken? Usin` magic oan it feels lik' defiling th' fairn efter tis natural state. " He spoke up still wanting to make his point known.

Phen didn't know what he was saying. Black and White wasn't boring. Long before the Maroon, and Gold he would be pridefully wearing out and about was the Black and White he'd wear when he and All his a Brothers were able to afford tickets to the Magpie games. Watching the Keeper, Keefer O'Marius and more recently Alice Fischer. Such beautiful simplicity in those colors. "Aye, tha' THE Quidditch Team. Jimmy Dave." Ceo gave his dorm mate a pat on the Shoulder. "Cuid ah paint th' magpies? " he asked Phoenix with a smile on his face. "A've got a recent team Banner Ah can hang by my bed. So Ye can gang Colorful on th' walls"

Then chaos happened. The Loud House Jimmy Prof. Was loud once more and shot string onto all of them, and declared a battle. Ceorlic was about to move to his dorm to change when he heard an all too familiar voice by now greet him from behind. "I-Isla" he said back to her stammering and blushing at the sight of the Bonny. He stayed frozen in place for a bit, recalling their train ride up together.

Pulling himself back together, Ceorlic too moved from Common Room, to Dorm then back to Common Room completely Changed. He eyed the room again to see who was preparing for war, he had to get his game face o...Was that a Cat Onesie!?!?

Ceo's face was as red as his Pajamas!!

Pshhhh, Isla thought she would beat them? "In your dreams, Isla," he replied, grinning. They were SO gonna win. Obviously.

Ceo didn't wanna use magic to clean the food? Eh, okay. Fair enough. There would be more food later anyway, so he'd be okay.

"You an artist then?" Since Phoenix was talking about painting magpies and trees. Which was cool. David could totally paint too, you know. If you counted stick figures.

AND magpies WERE a Quidditch team - or THE Quidditch team apparently according to Ceo. Either way, David had guessed right, which was awesome. He was awesome. Yep. "Cool." Maybe he could learn more about that sport from Ceo later on.

And now everyone was heading up to change, so of course David went too. Not that he really cared about getting his uniform dirty, but anything would be far more comfortable than robes and a tie and stuff. Especially for a silly string battle.

He changed pretty quickly, tossing his uniform off haphazardly and pulling on a simple shirt and plain pajama bottoms, then ran back down to the common room.

Text Cut: Airey again

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Waving and saluting the rest of the students as they entered, it was only then that he remembered his marshmallow that was still roasting over the fire. "SWEET SOLSTICE!" he exclaimed as he pulled it out, only to see that instead of a perfectly brown marshmallow he instead had a flaming black bubbling gob of gross. He thankfully didn't wave it around frantically - he had a bit more sense than that - and blew on it hard to make the flames go out. Eh, if he put extra chocolate on his biscuit that ought to fix the burnt flavor.

"Anyone else want a schmo?" he called over his shoulder at students busy building forts and playing with silly string.

...Shmo?

"You've watched Toy Story too, Professor?" David knew so many lines from that and other Disney and Pixar movies.....ONLY because his little sister was obsessed with them. Ahem. That was the only reason plus Buzz Lightyear was awesome.

SPOILER!!: David

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Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl

David grinned, accepting the silly string can. "'Course. We use it all the time at birthday parties." Well, not ALL the time, technically. And it was mostly for kids parties usually. BUT it was still fun and he was totally up for spraying his fellow housemates with this stuff.

And they were gonna build forts for this???

So awesome. He was definitely up for all that. Quiet zone, pshhhhh.

...Shmo?

"You've watched Toy Story too, Professor?" David knew so many lines from that and other Disney and Pixar movies.....ONLY because his little sister was obsessed with them. Ahem. That was the only reason plus Buzz Lightyear was awesome.

BIRTHDAY PARTIES. Oh weren't muggles clever.

"Fascinating," he said, practically looming over the young man. "We never used silly string at birthday parties while I worked at NASA...then again it was not the most practical of substances to have around the work area." Because most celebrations were sort of a WOO HOO at the office and then it was back to plugging and chugging.

Airey popped the delicious hot schmo into his mouth, leaving it open for a bit because it was WAY too hot, and panted like a dog briefly before he began to chew and suck out the gooey delight through the holes of the biscuit and out the sides.

"Toy Story?" he questioned, rubbing the back of his neck curiously. "OH! Is that that muggle movie picture story with the cowboy toy and the space one?" He recalled being educated on such things during his trip to Disney World with Kirby and Kirby's niece. "Never seen it."

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Checking his sundial watch and eyes widening at the time, Airey cheated and used his wand to make a quick sofa fort and then dove inside.

"NIGHT NIGHT GRYFFINDORS! Carry on and see you in the morning! Dorm assignments are posted on each room's door if you prefer to sleep there." Unfortunately for the professor, his limbs were too long for the sofa, so his bare feet ended up sticking out the entrance.

OOC: I'm going to go ahead and open up the rest of the common room threads now. You have about 24 hours to wrap up any RPs in here before I move it to the archives.

Thanks for playing and WELCOME TO GRYFFINDOR!

Gwen turned around and looked at at the boy who'd talk to her. He seemed nice enough. And she was going to have to live in the same house as him for at least some time. Might as well try and make some more house friends.

Gwen gave him a smile. "I'm Gwen. You new this year too?" Because he couldn't have been that much older then her.

The Gryffindor was about to say what when-- "SHHHH KEVIN! Someone might hear you!! It's still a secret," looking around to make sure no one was watching them, he turned back around and narrowed his eyes a little. He learned that one from the boy standing right in front of him. Mhm. He was picking up on these things. "...And sort of... Well I gave her the flowers, remember?.." Would he remember? It was kind of hard not to. Zander had sort of made a fool of himself, yet he was too happy on the liquid luck to even think twice about it. "The flowers said stuff... But I don't think she heard over the feast noises, you know?" He couldn't even hide his disappointment on that one. It was sad. She was supposed to know.

Maybe the feast gave her a headache last time and that's why she didn't come to this one? It'd make sense. She just didn't like loud noises, totally respectable. Either way, he had something planned for her so he'd get his time. But right back to the real what he was talking about earlier. "But that doesn't matter because well I-uh-I.. Over the summer I bought some prank stuff... For my older brothers, CB told me I should get them back." he smiled because even though CB told him too, he wanted to do it. So he did. And they had weird beards for days. It was hilarious. "And well.... I have some stuff leftover." This part was kept quiet because no one else could know. Wasn't that like the secret to pranks? Element of surprise or something?

Either way, Zander had a feeling that Kevin would like this stuff, so he nodded his head towards the stairs leading towards the boys dormitories. He didn't want to pull out the prank stuff right here! Flailsteed might not like that and take them away!! Just like Kevin's hat... Had the boy ever gotten that back?

The Gryffindor nodded a bit as he looked around. Was this his idea of "surprisingly well"?? It was utterly chaotic! Which, okay isn't a bad thing in normal scenarios... But you'd think that a welcome party would be more organized so that people could actually meet each other instead of turn on each other will silly string. But then again, it was Flailsteed. Beautiful Bentley would probably be upset with the mess, actually she wouldn't be. Because she was never upset. She was and is and forever will be perfect. Always.

First year, eh? Zander couldn't help but chuckle at the no clue what's-going-on thing, but not because he thought it was funny that the poor kid felt lost. Mostly just because he still kind of felt that way. Even though he was a fourth year now, things were still complicated and weird around here. All the time. His first year was worse though, he didn't know anything. Or anyone. No one ever made an effort to help, or to show him around. That's why he knew 0% of the graduating class last term.

And that's what made him say what he said next, "I could show you around if you'd like?... I mean I-uh- I'm not an expert or anything-" total understatement even, "But I know a few of the places around here pretty well?" Like the treehouse! And the lake!! Those were his favorites.


Zander nodded his head slowly. The feast was really lacking this year ahem Beautiful Bentley ahem. And he had bad experiences with these welcome things in the past. No bite marks yet though, so that was a step up, right? "Yeah me neither," But seeing his friends was nice! He liked that part. Just the new people and the silly string, it was overwhelming. Bed? "Goodnight?" Wasn't it a little early for sleep though?



The fourth year smiled a bit. And nodded too. He was okay if he opened his mouth to talk though right? If he closed it right after? He'd be safe with that? Right? "Yeah... That stuff probably tastes disgusting," so yup closing mouth from now on.

"Yeah, another first year... muggleborn, you?" he ended his sentence awkwardly, not really sure of what else to add as he scratched the back of his neck, offering an awkward grin.

Maybe he'd made a mistake...

But she seemed pretty cool so why not try?

Leo listened to the older boy, and beamed at the offer to show him around. That would be helpful. In fact that would be very, very, very helpful. Especially with the size of Hogwarts, Leonard already had a feeling that he'd get lost a few times just from these first impressions of the school.

"That'd be awesome, thanks" he said in response, beaming at the older lion.

Plus, a treehouse and a lake sounded pretty awesome.

He needed to know where these were!!!