James was tired of trying to find Zoe. She could find him. Yup. Now for some sleep. He walked into the common room only to find what seemed to be a giant party. What on earth....

James tried to sneak his way past everyone but instead grabbed a cookie. Mmmm chocolate...

Bambi Fleming had not anticipated... that.

There she had been at the feast - feast! let's take a moment to appreciate the awesomeness that is an OPENING FEAST! - minding her own business and generally just calmly people watching when said people started... well. She'd thought Americans were the crazy ones, but the Brits here do give her dramatic Salem gang a run for their money.

She'd stayed quiet of course. She'd luckily sat on the other side of the table so she wasn't in the way. No use in getting into arguments when she literally knew nothing about anyone. Oh, table! Ravenclaw! She was in Ravenclaw! Her parents had been right. She should send them an owl and tell them.

All too soon, it had been over and she'd quietly marched up - and up and up and up - to the Ravenclaw tower, mentally noting that just walking around this castle was going to be a regular exercise. Good. She hated getting up early in the morning anyways. More climbing stairs, less running! Bambi was definitely up for that.

She was looking forward to getting to know the girls in her dormitory and was about to do just that when- SLUMBER PARTY. Laughing with delight, the seventeen year old hurried after the rest of the girls until she found the seventh year dorm and quickly changed into her PJs. She took a moment to marvel at the silvery view outside her window before she was rushing back down to join the party, taking the stairs two at a time.

Grabbing a cookie with a napkin, she sat down cross legged and watched everyone, smiling at those who noticed her and waving with her free hand as her other was being used to eat with as few crumbs as possible. She silently tried to remember all the names being tossed around and promptly gave up. It was no use.

At the next truth or dare, she spoke up. "Hi! I'll, er, take the truth!" she grinned, and smiled apologetically at the house elf still twirling with the brunette. "Although your cookies look delicious, Mr Schmoop," she nodded. She couldn't eat six cookies though. Her face would break out, and with all her freckles it would just look absolutely horrid.

Right, prettiest person... Other than her? They were all a pretty bunch to be perfectly honest, but the her eyes landed on a small blonde child and it was a no brainer. "I think you are definitely the prettiest girl in the room," she smiled warmly, waving towards the cute little girl who's name she was pretty sure was Kate.

Right, now her. "TRUTH OR DARE ANYONE? Also, hello, I'm Bambi." Grin. Wave. Wink. Repeat.

Truth: Tell us about something you probably shouldn't have done during the summer.
Dare: Attempt to yodel!

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"You're welcome, my dear. And do go see Healer Murdoch if you're not feeling back to normal tomorrow." It was important to be in tip top condition for the start of lessons in the morning. The professors were sure to put their dry brains through the ringer.

Clara mustered up a smile and nodded. She appreciated the thought, however ... her 'normal' wasn't exactly an improvement on her current condition. Another thing she should probably do something about, but that was a job for a different time. "I will," she said, "don't worry." The healer wasn't her favourite person, but she could certainly do her job, and Clara wasn't stupid - she knew to go if she needed to.

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"I'm glad to hear it. I was worried about you Clara." Leo said. He watched as Clara went over to talk to Gabriel about something. He knew there was something going on there even if he wasn't sure what. It involved young love and feelings though he imagined.

Hey, look, Clara did have a heart after all.

Her smile widened, touched at the thought that anyone was worried about her. Eden didn't count as they were best friends - best friends were supposed to care. Of course, that didn't mean she took Eden for granted. She loved that goofball more than anything, but ... yeah, it was nice that people worried about her.

Although ..... it may have something to do with her passing out, rather than them just worrying about her in general. With a inwardly sigh, she gave both Professor Kitridge and Professor Tanner a wave and headed elsewhere.

SPOILER!!: Eden

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Out of the corner of her eye, she could totally see Gabe and Clara...and Gabe...she was watching him. Very very very CLOSELY. Just because he had handled the situation down there all right-didn't mean she trusted him. And definitely not with Clara. She shot her friend a look and glared at Gabe for a second more before turning back to her own business.

Clara was her business, of course, but Eden was not....one to run in, FINGER-GUNS A-BLAZING.

While most of Clara's focus was on Gabe and what he was saying, it wasn't the entirely on him.

Out of the corner of her eye, she could see the best friend ..... and she did not look happy. At all. She was, in true Eden style, glaring at Gabe with an unjustifiable amount on dislike, which was something that Clara had never truly understood. Gabe wasn't by any means the most pleasant person in the world, but ... he wasn't as bad as she made him out to be. At least, not to her.

Clara shook her head a tiny bit, mouthed 'I'm fine', and turned back to Gabe.

SPOILER!!: Gabriel

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Well, good. That was....."Good."

Messing with his fingers, Gabe fell silent; his mind moving very quickly through a plethora of things. After a few moments of floundering, they settled on something very uncomfortable and specific...and he colored visibly. Well, more than he already had....anyway.

The urge to headdesk was strong.

ALSO looking anywhere but in her direction, especially now, he shrugged. Or tried to. Forced casualness = fail. "It's being....handled....You shouldn't feel...stressed, or anything."

Wow. Gabriel never ceased to surprise her.

..... "I actually thought you were going to tell me off. You know, for trying to help." As Professor Kitridge had pointed out, there were better ways to handle the situation than to resort to magic, but ... she'd panicked, and panicked people make rash decisions. A large part of her didn't regret the decision, though ... she hated to think of what would have happened to Gabe had she not stepped in. Those guys had been ... pretty rough.

She cleared her throat then looked up at him. "I'm fine, Gabriel," she whispered.

An outright lie.

For a moment she turned her attention away from him, looking to the people that were actively joining in with the Truth or Dare game. Something she probably wouldn't do ... not unless there was a truth/dare that suited her. She was doubtful. Clara was definitely not going to yodel or speak of things she regretted from the summer as they were private. Not to be discussed in front of her fellow 'claws, many of whom were strangers to her.

Toddles walks into the commons room. Toddles wants to sees what's goings on. Toddles was lookings for Schmoops yes he was. Toddles is curious little elf. Yes he is. Toddles sees party. Bigy party. Toddles comes into rooms with butterbeer and pumpkin juice. Toddles goes to Schmoop and says, "Toddles has drinks Schmoop. Toddles brings besties drinks. Yes he does." he movies his little feetsies to the table and puts them on the table. Toddles wants to knows what games they are playings. Yes Toddles does.

James watched the girls as they played truth and date and smirked. Wait...he wasn't the most handsome in the room? UNACCEPTABLE! Hmph. He bit into his cookie and stared at the two girls playing.

"I'll play." He pushed off the wall and walked toward the small group and sat on a sleeping bag. "Dare." James laughed and gave a shrug. Might as well liven the group up. He cleared his threat and tried his best to yodel "Aydo Odlya, Yodelya Delyo" he repeated a couple times before breaking out into laughter.

Truth: What do you want to do when you leave here?
Dare: Sing I'm a little tea pot with all the hand motions

As Kate waited to see who would take her truth or dare, she looked around the room to see that Corrigan had joined them. CORRIGAN! Kate had quickly made friends with the girl and smiled when she noticed she was finally at the party. "Hey, Corrigan!" Kate smiled. "Come play truth or dare!" She gestured for her friend to join them. She didn't notice anything one way or the other about the girl's pajamas. Kate was Corrigan's friend, because Corrigan was Corrigan. Kate didn't choose friends based on clothes and really didn't think to judge them.



Kate laughed along. She was amazed at how professors were the type to laugh about something with her. She had kind of thought they might all be like Severus Snape, who Kate had read about in some book somewhere. "Maybe not," she said, but she wasn't going to venture up to a large group of them anytime soon to find out. She wondered if the professor yelling at the Slytherins at the feast was still with them in their common room. She might even be their Head of House. She nodded and then turned back to the party, just like the professor suggested.



...and boy was Kate glad she turned around when she did. One of the older girls was accepting her dare, which was awesome! The dares were always much more fun! Kate then watched a scene unfold before her eyes. Schmoop had been a trooper and joined right in with the slow dancing. Kate watched them dance until Schmoop had to get back to his cookies, and then she turned to the older girl with a big grin. "That was awesome!" she said with excitement. "You did great, too, Schmoop!"



Kate nodded in full agreement. "Oh, yeah. Definitely. The train was pretty uneventful, but them two girls fell into the lake, and I think the Great Hall turned into a war zone in the end," she said. Wait. This girl looked familiar from somewhere, and it wasn't just from in here or the Great Hall. "Were you...were you one of the girls in the lake?" Kate remembered trying to help them, but they ended up getting back in the boat in the end.

Kate nodded again. "I can't wait for tomorrow to come, so I can see the castle in the sunlight!" she answered. She was kind of nervous about classes starting, but she thought she'd do well, too. "I've only been here for a few hours, but I'm so happy to have been sorted into Ravenclaw. It's the house I was hoping for." She still couldn't believe it!



Kate was thinking about lots of things...tomorrow morning, classes starting, the s'mores. She was listening to the game, but she hadn't been expecting to hear her name, especially as an answer to a question about the prettiest girl in the room. "Me?" she asked in disbelief. She didn't think there was another Kate, and the girl seemed to be referring to her. "Thank you." She smiled at the girl. That was really nice of her, and it made Kate feel really special, especially sitting with all the other pretty girls! "I think you're really pretty, too."



...WHAT WAS THAT?!

Kate turned her head toward the sound and figured out some boy had been yodeling. Kate laughed along. That was probably the best dare yet!

Paloma stared from afar as she ate the cookies, the marshmallows and the chocolate bars all....separately. She was not so much into s'mores lately. Too many people knew each other, others played Truth and Dare with the professors, and even James had joined the fun by yodeling. She kept the snort to herself as it was bad to laugh at a friend. Suddenly, his challenges seemed too...tempting. She wanted to yell out what she'll do the next year, or sing and dance that little rhyme-song.

Perhaps maybe some other time.

Well, that had been quite the yodel! She made a mental note to never have an activity in which people were learning said skill. It was... well... unique.

Tiara figured she may as well join in. After all, if you're going to come up with a game, you should be willing to play it, right? She moved closer to the group and interjected. "I'll do it!" This was going to be extremely embarrassing, but hopefully they'd loved her for it. That was the idea, anyways. Didn't teens like it when you made a fool of yourself? "Forgive the singing, dears. I'm not a professional by any means."

And she wasn't entirely sure she knew all the motions, either, but she'd try her best. "I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle," she bent her arm into a crook and placed it on her hip, "here is my spout." Her other arm extended out in front of her, bending her hand into a spout. "When I get all steamed up, hear me shout. TIP," she began to bend, "me over and pour me out!" She finished the song with a flourish, bending so the spout almost touched the ground. Then, she made a mock bow to all the applause she should be getting.

Another house elf! With butterbeer! Butterbeer was one of Bambi's biggest weaknesses. She hated and loved it simultaneously. Scrambling up from where she'd sat down, the blonde went over to the house elf apparently known as Toddles and grabbed a bottle. "Thank you Mr. Toddles!" she grinned as she sipped a little of the drink and looked between the two house elves.

"You want to come join our game like Mr. Schmoop did?" she asked, and beckoned him over to the group where she retook her spot by everyone.



Bambi laughed out loud as a guy accepted her dare - a guy who seemed to be about her age! hurrah! - and literally began yodelling his heart out. Delighted, the blonde clapped enthusiastically when his performance ended. "I think you might want to add yodelling to your list of optional careers," she laughed and winked at him. That had been amazing.



Bambi beamed. "Yes, you!" the blonde laughed, green eyes twinkling as she watched the younger girl smile. She nodded when she thanked her, and couldn't help but chuckle as she was returned the compliment. Duh, of course she was.

"Thank you very much," Bambi winked, "Kate, right?" After this little conversation, Bambi most definitely needed to remember this cutie pie's name, and she wanted to make sure she wasn't memorising the wrong one.



Bambi's eyes roamed over the common room during a lull in the conversation. It was very beautiful, she had to give them that. All wonderfully rich blues and bronzes, it was like a fairytale castle. Actually, exactly like a fairytale castle because technically speaking that's more or less what Hogwarts is. Hmm.

She continued to stare at the walls when she suddenly spotted a girl sitting just outside of the crowd. Hmm. She seemed to be Bambi's age, so why was she sitting there all by herself? Perhaps she was new as well? Bambi tried to catch the girl's eyes with a smile.



The next scene was something Bambi did not think she'd EVER get to live through. After the Yodeling Guy had finished, he'd shot out a dare that she'd thought no one would do because that truth was so simple literally anyone could answer it without being embarrassed. So when Professor Tanner stood, Bambi's eyes widened. And then she picked the dare. THE DARE.

The Arithmancy professor WAS DOING THE I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT. WITH THE DANCE MOVES AND ALL. She stared, frozen, at the dancing professor before collapsing in a hysterical fit of giggles. She didn't know her all that well, obviously, but any adult doing the little teapot dance was FUNNY AS NUGGETS. HOLY COW. MERLIN.

Trying desperately to catch her breath when the Professor finished, Bambi clapped for her as enthusiastically as she had for Yodeling Guy. "Professor I think you may have missed your calling!" she laughed, forgetting herself for a moment and then fervently hoping the the professor's good spirits would continue after she'd finished dancing. She didn't want to make a bad impression on her first night!

James looked up as he stopped yodeling to spot Paloma standing there eating. He frowned slightly as he saw her snort at his antics but stayed off against the wall. Interesting. He gave a slight wave and smile hoping she would come over and not be such a stranger. Maybe something was wrong? Should he ask?



James watched as a blonde girl near him seemed delighted that he had yodeled. Twas an...interesting response. Did she wink at him? "Something tells me that may not lead me very far." He laughed at her and gave her a grin. Hmm...she must be knew because he didn't remember her....



James' attention turned to the professor who said she would join in. Well she was grown up so did that mean...YES!!!! SHE WAS GOING TO DO THE DARE!!! Oh this was going to be good. He turned over onto his stomach and propped his head up on his hands to watch her do the arm movements and everything. He covered his mouth to stop himself from chuckling at the professor because...well grades and all...

It wasn't until he saw the girl across from him burst out in a fit of laughter that his own composure broke and he burst out into laughter himself. As the professor finished he looked up and started clapping as she bowed. "Bravo!" Did anyone get a picture of that?!

Toddles bows to mistress yes Toddles does. Toddles likes mistress. Mistress is kinds to lil Toddles. Mistress asks things of Toddles. Toddles joins game? Toddles likes games. "Toddles likes games." Toddled curious about game. Yes Toddles was.

Well good, she was getting a bit of applause after all, from two students in fact. "Well I certainly hope not!" she chuckled in response to Bambi, knowing full well that she had done nothing of the sort. "But I'm glad you both enjoyed watching me make a fool of myself." At least someone had!

"Alright, everyone. Grab your last s'mores, cookies, hot chocolate, and whatever else the elves have brought up. Time for bed!" They definitely needed to be well rested for their first lessons tomorrow.

Paloma continued staring around, looking for people she could talk to, or just take a glance to. This, this of being alone this year wasn't exactly so pleasant. She missed Jun a lot, and she missed talking to so many people, that of course weren't in the same house as her and some misunderstandings had happened with them. Drama, always drama. Theatre wasn't like that for her.

A few too many giggles came when Professor Tanner sang and danced to the rhyme. What a dare!

That's when she saw a girl smiling at her. She waved at her and smiled back. Maybe they could talk to her some time once at the dorms, so she started to memorize her face, and that long blonde hair.

When she spotted the wave coming from James, she stood up and walked over to stand next to him. "That Yodel was Yooddllamazing." She said, slightly hitting him on his arm as she raised her voice for a yodeling pitch, but then she sighed... "It's our last year, James..." She whispered, looking around the place as she drank her pumpkin juice.

Just then...

Sigh...

But the chocolate. The s'mores! Carbohydrates she wasn't allowed to eat at this time of night had been consumed! How was she going to get some sleep? Uh uh? She showed a pouty fishy face and nodded. "Guess it is time for bed." She whispered, looking back at James and smiling. "See ya tomorrow for lessons, big guy." And with that...she went off to her dorms, and actually meet who'd be her dormmate.

Abby drank up the last of the hot chocolate that she had in her hand and the cookies as well and nodded to the proffesor and "Good night everyone" Abby made her way up to her dorm wondering who her dormmates were and whether she was going to get any sleep at all

Wait, wait, wait... The professor was taking on a dare?! That was so awesome! Kate loved a professor that would be strict when she needed to but a joy to be around all the same. She grinned in anticipation and watched the professor sing and dance. When she was done, Kate clapped lightly at the bow. Kate was really glad Tanner was one of the professors assigned to the Ravenclaws! It made little eleven-year-olds feel not so frightened about going away to school.



"You're welcome," Kate answered. Nodding, she added, "Yeah, I'm Kate. Kate Addison." Wow! She hadn't really expected to be called the prettiest girl in the room, especially by an older girl. She couldn't wait to write home and tell her mom about that one!



Seconds later, the party had come to a close. Kate thought they'd be sleeping here, but even she had to admit that she was ready for her bed. Her new bed, since this was her first night in it and all. She finished off her snacks and put them away. "Thanks for the party," she told Tanner and Kittridge. "Goodnight, everybody."

She motioned for Corrigan and Janelle to join her in leaving if they wanted to. After all, they were new dormmates!