Yeah, it was getting boring. Nothing interesting was happening here. Dante didn't know what he was expecting but people passing by like that seemed like the only thing that happened here and ever will. Not all corridors were boring but this one clearly was. Period.

He was about to start walking and continue prying observing compartments when he decided to give it a couple more minutes.That's when the little kid approached him, or well, nodded and stuff since this was a corridor and the kid was clearly passing.

Before replying, Dante took his time looking at the kid just examining. Wasn't that nice but not quite rude, either. "'Sup?" He finally said replying to the kid. And despite Dante not being the social or company-appreciating type he did think that this kid passing was a chance he could take advantage of it.

"D'you know where things get interesting here?" Or was the kid new, too?

Awkward passing be awkward... and he still didn't get what was with this dude and the loitering-in-halls-cause-I'm-too-cool-for-school look was all about. What even? Nevertheless, chest puffed out and with what he deemed to be swag, Zeke continued to approach and passes the dude. Yep. Nothing to see here, just a second year changing into uniform.

But the 'cool' dude had questions?

Where did things get interesting?

Zeke stopped dead in his tracks, turned a bit, and took to leaning against a compartment wall-bit. "Weeeelllll..." he started, "that all depends." It really truly did. Soon many options as far as interesting was concerned.

"See, you can either do what normal people do, and just find a compartment with people their own age-isn and then y'know, hang out... which can be interesting, OR..." and this is where things got REALLY interesting, "you do something yourself. Fireworks in the corridor are fun, or you could go about scaring first years with magic." Cause magic, they could do that here, did he know? Wasn't that interesting enough?

"But why go to where it's interesting? Why not make interesting go to you?" And yes, that was a legit question.

Despite the fact that he had ridden this train several-okaymorethanjustseveral-times already, this one felt different. He felt older for one, and not just older. Like really, REALLY older. Fifth year. That meant OWLs. And looking at career pathways. And thinking about the future. And actually paying attention in Ancient Runes. And Merlin, he was one of the other kids now. Fourth year was always the weird inbetween limbo stage, honestly. You weren't young enough to be considered one of the little ones... But you weren't old enough to be considered as one of the big ones.

But now, here he was. Fully old and big 'n stuff. Not to mention the heavy badge filled with all the responsibility that he was wearing rather bashfully on his robes. Oh Merlin. It was going to be a big year, indeed.

Anyways, what he really wanted to do was go buy some chocolate frogs from the candy trolly. So naturally he had to step out into the corridor to do some of that. This Gryffindor was on a mission to acquire some chocolate. And somehow, starting from the very front of the train was going to make this mission kind of difficult. Or very difficult.

Nicole smiled back and put Diamond down onto the ground next to her. He was starting to get heavy in her arms. She was glad he did not run away from her. It would be a nightmare for her to look for her cat in the crowded platform when the train looked like it was about to leave soon. She straightened up again as Diamond pawed at her shoes and replied, "It's great to meet you too, Kate."

She felt this question coming before she heard it. After all, it was common for people to be curious. "Nah, I don't mind. I was homeschooled for my first year," Nicole said, shrugging. It was nothing personal. She enjoyed her studies at home, but was excited for her future years of learning at Hogwarts. Ooh, Ravenclaw. It had been a couple of minutes only and the second year already found similarities between the two girls. They both wanted to be in Ravenclaw and had a parent who was in the house before. "No, I don't. I'm getting sorted this evening like you!" she said with a grin. She could not believe her sorting was this close. She would wake up the next morning in her dorm room with other second year girls. The excitement was hard to contain. "I hope to sorted into Ravenclaw too. My father was when he was at Hogwarts. Yeah, Gryffindor is cool too," Nicole paused, then added, "though I personally think Hufflepuff would not be too bad either." Hufflepuff, the house for friendly and patient people. Adi even said it is the best house!

She looked up at Kate as she spoke. "Hmm? Oh, yes, we should." She was too focused on thinking about the houses that she did not notice her surroundings. "I would love to, thank you," she said. Her prediction about having to sit alone turned out to be wrong. "Come on, Diamond," Nicole ushered the cat into the train, then followed him and Kate on.

And now here they were, in the train corridor. There were students moving from one compartment to another. Nicole thought that two little girls staying in a corner of the corridor for too long would probably get flattened by any older student, so she led the way down the corridor, looking for an empty compartment they could occupy. "Wouldn't it be great if we were both sorted into Ravenclaw?" she said to Kate. They could probably hang out together and help each other in the castle, even though they were in different years.

Noel's brow rose - this boy looked so nervous. Why?

"Noel" he introduced himself, taking the boy's hand and shaking it. "Suree. I don't mind - as long as none of us smells" he added with a grin.

It was so weird making awkward small talk with people.

So THIS was the person Silas was looking for. This small person who just launched himself on Silas. Wow. Oh OH.

"The queue is INSANE. I have walked by it thrice and it keeps on growing" He had no intention of actually getting in the line because no.

"Hello little Archie" he greeted the small boy, because he really was ridiculously small. Or maybe he just seemed small to Noel because Noel was so tall - and getting taller each term.

Back to the gloomy girl. Leaning back on the glass window behind him, Noel grinned hearing her: "It does give you a little mysterious touch, doesn't it?" he added. Brooding, serious - all part of her allure or something.

Family, yes. Noel gave her a smile before nodding. "Yeah, I get that. Once it actually sinks in, being back and all - it sucks being away from them"

All was going perfectly well till something hit her on the head. Excuse YOU person, who now Abbi could see was indeed Cinna. There was two ways to go about with this. 1. She could give Cinna a good go for throwing that --whatever it was. 2. She could make a joke out of it and not let anything ruin her day. Remember this was going to be HER year so why not make fun of everything? Yes? Yes. Thank you.

"Seems to me I'm your winner. Thank you for the flowers." A beam was given. Would Cinna understand what she meant though? Cause you know usually they'd throw flowers after a show and well Cinna threw something? Maybe it was a little lame, but hey a lot better than getting all Ms. Attitude with Cinna.

A curtsy and bow was given. "I'm so touched, thank you everyone." She fake-sniffled and wiped her eyes.

She would totally own the acting industry one day. Abbi the Actress. It sounded great!

Wow it was noisy here on the train. Just like last year had been. It felt right being back. Brushing her long hair back from her face with the back of her hand Hady stepped onto the train confidently a small smirk in place on her young face.

Slowly her eyes scanned the area corridor around her for some faces of anyone she might already know. Not seeing anyone right away however she tugged her trunk along behind her as she pushed herself forward checking for an empty compartment to call her own...well at least until someone joined her or she found someone she knew from last year.

Daisy was sorta stuck in one spot. She had been trying to get around some older kids for a few minutes now, but they seemed deep in conversation about flowers. Daisy didn’t see any flowers so she wasn’t quite sure what they were talking about. Then again, she was sorta eavesdropping. Not that she was trying to, but it was hard not to listen when you were stuck next to someone on a train; even a train as noisy as this one.

She shifted the satchel on her shoulder, turning the toes of her purple tennis shoes so they pointed together and sighed. She couldn’t believe she was wishing her older brother had stuck around to help her get situated on the train, but she was kidding herself is she thought Isador would do that for her. Nope, she was left to find a place to sit by herself, if she could ever get past the bigger kids.
And then Daisy saw her chance. Someone, close to her size was trudging along pulling her trunk (Isador had loaded Daisy’s onto the baggage car before he disappeared with his friends). As the girl passed, Daisy slipped into line behind her and shuffled past the older kids.

Shuffling silently down the corridor Hady let out a relieved breath when she reached the baggage car. She pushed her trunk into place making sure it didn't topple over or well even more importantly, it didn't make anyone else's trunk topple! Cause that would have been bad.

With that done the small girl straightened herself up once more, running a hand over her clothes to smooth out any crinkles that may have been made when she moved her trunk. Turning around on her heel she reached into the pocket of her oversized hoodie that she had taken from Jaxon before she left for school earlier that morning. As her hand touched the fine fur of the head of a young calico she was rewarded with a soft contented purr which made Hady smile only slightly.

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And then Daisy saw her chance. Someone, close to her size was trudging along pulling her trunk (Isador had loaded Daisy’s onto the baggage car before he disappeared with his friends). As the girl passed, Daisy slipped into line behind her and shuffled past the older kids.

It was then that she spotted the younger girl whom had been behind her though was now in front of her since she had turned. Nodding her head slightly at the other girl in a small welcome she went to move around her to find an empty compartment.

Daisy watched the girl haul her trunk to the baggage area, wondering why she hadn’t just loaded her trunk from the outside of the train. Wouldn’t it have been much easier? At least there was less people to navigate around and from what she had observed while Isador was handling her trunk, people around to help load them into the compartment. Oh well, maybe people like to do things the hard way around here. She was new and was trying very hard not to be judgmental. She saved her judgmentalness for her brothers.

She moseyed past the girl then paused as she entered another train car. This one looked rather packed too. Seriously, how many kids went to this school? She had never bothered to ask either of her brothers that and was now regretting the lack of information. She turned to look back at the girl who was done loading her trunk. The girl nodded in acknowledgement to Daisy, then moved past her. Daisy watched her go wondering if she should follow her. So fair, she’d been helpful.

Once she was on the train, Kate paused and waited for Nicole to join her. When the other girl did, Kate let her lead the way, since she really didn't know what else to do. Standing around or just randomly walking down the corridor were the only two ideas Kate had. Maybe being a little older, Nicole would figure out a place for them to go. "You know, I bet we're closer in age than we think," she said. "We might have even been born the same year. I'll be twelve next month, but since I have a late birthday, I had to wait an extra year to start Hogwarts."

Ohh, so Nicole was homeschooled? Kate wanted to ask why, but she didn't want to push the subject too much. She didn't want to seem nosey. "Well, I'm glad we're going to school together now," she decided to say. She smiled widely in excitement when the subject of being sorted was once again brought up. "I'd like to be in Ravenclaw first, then Gryffindor, then Hufflepuff, and I guess Slytherin as a last resort. I don't think I'd make a very good Slytherin." Kate was a goal-setter and an achiever, but not really to the point where Slytherin would be her best overall fit.

"Well, good luck this evening," Kate said, realizing they were both getting sorted. "Hopefully I'll see you at the Ravenclaw house table." Ohh, this was going to be so exciting! Kate was literally bouncing on the inside. She wanted to run down the corridor to try and get out some of her energy, but of course she didn't. "I think it'd be awesome if we were both sorted into Ravenclaw." If they were, Kate thought she and Nicole would make pretty good friends.

And all of a sudden, there she was. It was no surprise that Soph had just seemed to appear out of nowhere; even though Toby had been looking for her he was pretty distracted AND a generally unobservant person to boot. But Toby had a moment to catch a flash of something yellow and shiny in her hand before she hugged him; a hug which he very gratefully accepted and returned.

At first, he was a little confused about what she was talking about, but Toby could see that Soph was showing him the something-yellow-and-shiny, which... was apparently his. The Hufflepuff blinked and looked at it, only a tad confused, before it finally registered what the badge said. As soon as he processed it, he gave a snort of laughter and plucked it from the palm of her hand.

"It's brilliant," Toby said decisively, holding it closer to his face to take a proper look and then up at the badge Soph wore (which, of course, he'd not registered before). "Of course, I'm 'Head Nerd #1' because I'm older, and absolutely not because you think I'm the bigger nerd, right?" As he spoke, Toby got to work fastening the badge to his shirt, fixing his hoodie so it sort of half-concealed it. "They're awesome. Quite the creative Ravenclaw, aren't you?" Grin. Griiiiin for Miss Sophie Brown.

Archie wrapped his arms round Silas' neck, and briefly buried his face into Silas' shirt to nuzzle his shoulder, momentarily forgetting in his excitement that he was now on the train, and not on holiday with Kalla and Ivan. Oops.

He was SUPER happy to see his friend, okay?

"Hi Heather, Noel," Archie greeted in turn, bouncing a little on Si's back as he did so. "Nice to meet you." Though, he soon pouted at Noel. "I'm not little," he added indignantly, "I'm a second year now." And he'd grown since last year - his robes from last term were at least two inches short now, despite his mother buying them big to start with. Admittedly he was still one of the youngest in his year though.

"I vote we head away from the food trolley...it was hard enough getting me through that crowd, not alone four of us." Did someone want to lead the way? He wasn't going to relinquish the piggyback-slash-hugging Si that was going on right now.

White noise. That's all it was. While the panic attack had been adverted, Gabriel's hands still shook slightly and he couldn't bring himself to look up and meet anyone's eyes...

How was he meant to lead anyone? Just having the badge was making him a nervous wreck.....MORE of a nervous wreck than usual......

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.....and he wasn't alone for long. He knew that voice. No. Not right now. Please. Not after everything over the summer. He couldn't do this right now....No.

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....but then he heard CB. Relief rushed straight through Gabriel, but also some mild panic. NO. This wasn't what it looked like. and he shakily looked up at her. She had that inquisitive look on her face like she didn't quite know what was going on...but also that she was drawing some assumptions. Maybe not about him...but.......

He glanced at Clara, flushed, glanced back at CB, flushed harder...and hastily got to his feet (nearly face planting from wobbly knees).

"I'm.....I'm fine." No, Gabriel was MOST certainly NOT fine...but......Well, if he'd been looking for inspiration....The Prefect compartment was better than this. Yes. It was.

"I'm......just gonna....." GESTURE.

With that, he turned the door handle again and proceeded inside.

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugs. She was GLAD he returned it and didn't just accept the hug - that would've sent off all the warning signs in her head that he was really not okay. But all seemed well - or, at least, Tobes was trying his best to be optimistic and make sure he would be okay - and even better, he LAUGHED when he saw the badge. An ACTUAL snort of laughter, not a forced one, it seemed, and a grin spread wide across Sophie's face to match his.

"Just thought you deserved a badge. And, as your faithful companion, I made one for myself, too. I cycled through a few possible labels, but this one seemed the most suiting." Since, even though they were cool and knew it, they were still nerds. Cool nerds. The best kind of nerds, thus the Sophie-declared HEADS OF THE NERDS.

Smiling broadly as he put the badge on his hoodie, she gave a nod of approval. "Looks sharp on you. Fitting. And you'll always be number one in my heart, Tobes." She kindly avoided mentioning that she DID think he was a bigger nerd, too, though. Hehehehe.

Quite the creative Ravenclaw? Pffft. "Naaaawwwww," she gave a modest wave of her hand. "Just wanted to have some fun. Distract. From stuff." Eh hem. He knew what she meant by that, surely, and her grin had turned a little more forced, but after just a moment of potential awkwardness, she took his hand in hers and peeked up and down the corridor. "Did you see anyone for us to sit with? Or... didja wanna find one for just us? Or are you hungry? We could get food, if you're hungry." What would best distract HIM from the thoughts plaguing him?

*His arms loaded with all the sweets, Noah's arms were starting to get sore. He needed to find a place to sit and soon. The floor was starting to look a liitle too comfortable but he would never reduce himself to sitting on the floor like... Well like a tired house elf. These were the moments he wished his father would have let him bring an elf to school.
A girl ahead of him was walking very slowly and it was starting to annoy him. The train was already full of slow moving people and this girl was moving extra slow by people watching by the look of it. He tried to move around the girl but ended up tripping on his shoelaces and fell right into her.*
"Whoa watch out!"
*As he toppled to the floor all his sweets went flying in the air and then came crashing back down on his head. Thankfully most of it was wrapped but a few cauldron cakes were not and landed on the floor ruined. One ended up falling right on Noah's head sticking to it like an absurd looking hat.*
"Really? Well this is just perfect..."

"You've said so before," Toby replied with a nod, looking down and checking out the cool new shiny he now owned, pinned to his chest. "I think this is the best one I could wish for."

The sixth year looked up and quirked his eyebrows upwards next, no doubt a habit he'd picked up from one of his parents (though he still couldn't exactly control only one eyebrow at a time, being that his eyebrows weren't enchanted, so it was up with both of them). Because of her comment about him always being her number one; not because that surprised him but because he could totally tell that she WAS in fact calling him the biggest nerd. "Convenient. You'll always be my number one, too." Could she tell? Could she see he was calling her a giant nerd as well? He hoped so.

Distract. From stuff. Mhmm. They both had things and stuff that merited distractions after all, and Toby was quite determined to provide such distraction whilst pretending to be totally unaware that Soph was trying to do the exact same thing for him. He gave her hand an automatic squeeze.

"I... can't remember who I've seen so far," he responded, after thinking about it for a moment or two and casting his gaze back down the train. And it was true; Toby was pretty sure he HAD seen familiar faces on his way down here, and quite a lot too, but now he just... didn't remember. Oops. "Lets just find any compartment. I can wait a while before eating. Bet it's packed down there at the moment."

A part of Dante did wonder whether him seeking out information from an ickle was a good idea or not but the boy's face was inviting to be talked to. Somehow. It probably was that kid's made eye contact with people as he passed and all. Did he do that all the time? What a young soul, he was bound to get sick of people soon if he was to continue. Or not. Dante knew a couple of people who quite enjoyed the company and ... other similar things.

And the answer wasn't bad. "I'll pass on the first one," He said with a shrug of his shoulder. Mainly because he wasn't quite sure how to mix and hang in here.

But the second part of the answer lit Dante's interest. "Are you one? A firstie." He looked like one but he wouldn't be mentioning the scaring part if he was, right? And the fireworks part DID sound interesting. The sixteen years old was seriously considering it now.

"I would, but I'm new here and just wanted to get sense of how things work," He answered. Did it make sense? It did in the older boy's plotting head.

There that was better. Now that her trunk was stowed away and it was just her and Hagan it'd be much easier to find someone she knew. Her eyes swept the area again only to land once more on the girl that had been following her just in time to see a boy collide into her sending her snacks everywhere!

Hady frowned slightly shaking her head a little. Letting out a small huff of air she walked over to the two first years (Daisy and Noah). "Hey, are you both okay?" She asked holding her hand out to help either of them to their feet.

Daisy had just made up her mind to continue on and try and find a seat, preferably one near a window when she heard someone yell. She turned around just in time to have someone smack into her. She toppled back against corridor wall as sweats rained down around her. “Ouch!” she had smacked her elbow pretty good. She tried to stand up only to find her auburn hair was sticking to the wall, curtesy of one of the boy’s unwrapped cauldron cakes. “Really? Well, that’s just perf-“ she echoed the boy trying to yank her hair out of the gummy mess.
And of course, it was at this moment that Daisy would be approached for the very first time by another student. “Thanks,” she told the girl who she had been following. She took the proffered hand and stood up, only to have the caldron cake yank her head back towards the floor. “Song of a banshee,” she said yanking again at her hair which was starting to hurt. “What is this stuff made of? Dragon Glue?!”

She finally managed to pull it loose (leaving quite a few strands behind in the process. She tried smooth her hair back, but failed miserably. It was now a proper frizzy and sticky mess. At least she wasn’t wearing a cauldron cake hat like the boy on the floor below her. The amount of sweets surrounding him looked like he had bought out the entire trolley cart. “Don’t you know you’re going to ruin your super?” she asked, leaning down to snag a licorice wand while he wasn’t looking. It was, after all the least he could do for her after making her loose a hearty helping of hair.

She just couldn't bare it anymore, the compartment that she was in with her friends, her boyfriend and Lux was just way too awkward for her. After her and Lux had had a fight over the summer while in the Quidditch shop in Diagon Alley she just couldn't handle being around Lux. There was a time when Emmylou called Lux her best friend but even Lux had over stepped her boundaries when she asked why the two of them hadn't talked. There were some things that Emmylou wasn't couldn't talk about to Lux that she could talk about to Cinnamon because Lux just didn't understand what it was like. Lux has the perfect family and both her parents love her so much. Emmy just didn't have that, her father loves her with all his heart but her mother was another story that she just didn't want to get into at the moment because then she would start crying and she wasn't one to cry.

After walking out of the compartment the blonde fifth year thought it would be a great idea to get some fresh air in the corridor, she didn't know if Kace or Cinnamon would follow her and if they did then she wouldn't mind but now with herself out of the compartment all of them could go back to being friends with Lux. She just felt like she was dragging her friends down since her fight with Lux. She didn't tell Kace or Cinnamon what was said but that wasn't their business and if they wanted to know she would tell them. She knew what was going on right now in the compartment, Lux would probably be talking about how much she misses Bay. Well that's what you get when you date a seventh year at the time you were only a fourth year.

The Gryffindor lioness walked long the corridor slowly getting away from the compartment she was just in. She didn't know where she was going but she didn't care. Just as long as she was far away from the awkwardness that was in the compartment.

After the gang were talking about how great there summer went, Savannah had to step out and get some fresh air, she couldn't handle how things were going for her now. Recently over break, her parents gotten into a major fight and gotten divorce, it was expected seeing how they always fought but she didn't expectit to hit her so hard. The only one who knew what she was going through was Sophia, and that was because her mother died in a car crash when she was eleven years old. She knew that Tyler and her boyfriend Tobias comforted as much as possible, but they didn't understand. She needed to get away for awhile, and her boyfriend and best friends being understanding let her go, which was one thing she simply needed.


Walking out of the compartment she shot a weak smile at them before she walked down the train corridor not really knowing where she was going to go. She honestly didn't care where she went as long as she was alone to collect her thoughts for awhile, that's all she needed was some time to herself, time to get over what happened over the holidays. She didn't want to bring her friends down or boyfriend, so she did the only thing possible, she left to collect her thoughts. Although the thing she was glad about that her brothers were seventh years or or graduated so she didn't have to worry about being separated from them. Although she seen them like every holidays she was still glad that she got to see them, she wished they were here to comfort her, Keegan was but he was busy. Her feet guiding her Savannah walked through the train corridor.


Grabbing a chocolate frog from her pocket of her jacket, Savannah ate it slowly starting to fill a little bit better. Seeing a girl who was walking with what seemed to be in a daze, Savannah couldn't help but not to wonder if she looked that way. "Um...sorry to intrude, but are you ok?"Savannah asked her softly but curiously. The girl looked a little bit older than her, probably a fifth year she was willing to guess.

*Trying to regathering up his stash of sweets he waved off the older student. It was nice of them to check on him but he didn't really care.*
"Just fine, thanks."

*Seeing the girl glued to the train with sugar made his laugh a little. It was pretty funny after all. Pulling the cake off his own head he chucked it down the corridor. He would have to find Emma and get cleaned up. The stuck girls next comment made him burst out laughing.*
"Spoil it? Gee thanks, I'll be careful to not eat too much."
*Grabbing up the rest of his sweets he headed off to try and find his sister.*

Ha! Direct hit. You know because she wasn't really aiming for her head or anything. But she did. So ha. Well now what? She was prepared for anything now you know just in case. Okay so she wasn't going to have a go at her?

Yeah, a winner of most annoying person ever. "Flowers? What flowers?" Why would she give her flowers? Ohhh she got it now. Ha. Funny. Not. Abbi was beaming at her. Well that was new. Maybe just maybe she was less annoying than last term. But she wasn't going to tell her that.

Cinna smirked at the bowing and curtsying. Yes, bow to the queen. "The vote was probably rigged if you won." That act though. She almost laughed out loud over it, but covered her mouth and faked a cough. Eye roll big time. What a drama Llama. Eh. Yes still annoying.

Both the boy and girl in front of her looked quite hilarious! There was snacks and such everywhere including in there hair. Stifling a small laugh by clearing her throat Hady managed to keep a straight face as Daisy finally got her hair free from the wall and rose to her feet. "Frosting and cream can be horrible in your hair but it's an easy fix really." She explained as she pulled her wand from her robes.

"Scorgify" Hady stated clearly pointing her wand at Daisy the mess on her robes and in her hair quickly disappearing. With another quiet saying of the spell she managed to clean up the mess from where they stood her eyes shifting to Noah as he was leaving. "You know I could help you clean up if you want!" She called after him with a shake of her head. Didn't he know he was getting that stuff everywhere?

As Hady had been helping the younger girl her cat had leapt from her arms and onto the floor where he was currently licking up whatever still was stuck there.