Gryffindor.

After the sorting hat said that he belonged to Gryffindor, the fifteen-year-old Korean boy then walked to the Gryffindor table. Weird, huh? He couldn't believe that he ended up with the fellow golden and scarlet lion just like his brother. He thought that he's gonna be in Hufflepuff. But well.... Gryffindor wasn't bad. People here seemed... nice. Yeah.

Jackson then took a seat at the Gryffindor table. Well, he mostly met Hufflepuff students when he's around Diagon Alley and the train. He didn't know anybody here but... Well, time to introduce himself to his fellow housemate? "Nice to join you, guys. I'm Jackson Hwang. Fifth year." He said to everybody (still with his Korean accent).

Looking around there really weren't that many people at the table yet. She had hung out at the Hufflepuff table for a little bit before coming over to her house table and she thought more people would be here.

NEW KID!!

The sixteen year old remembered when she was new here. She really didn't know how she felt about being a Gryffindor at that point but now she loved it so much. She wasn't as brave as most of the other people here were but she was getting there. The blonde waved at the new student. "Hello." Semi-thick southern accent. Not many here in Scotland. Maybe one other. "I'm Emmylou Duchannes, sixth year. Nice to meet you Jackson." the sixteen year old beamed more. She has an uncle Jaxson and he's super awesome and was a Gryffindor.

So...which table again? All the tables literally looked all the same. The only difference was that the students wore different colors for the ties and some other decorative clothes. Gryffindor was red, right?

Natalia got herself to walk over to the noisy table (every table was noisy, to be honest). There didn't seem to be any open spots for another person, but Natalia squeezed herself in between two seats anyway. There, that is how it's done.

Feeling slightly bored and hungry (again), Natalia rested her cheek on her propped up fist, eyeing around and examining all the other Lions.

So bravery, huh? Natalia made a face at that thought. She didn't know she had that kind of trait in her. But if it was up to her parents, they would have definitely liked Ravenclaw better. The house for the smarts - the perfect house for two nerdy sciences like Nat's parents.

Natalia heard a boy introducing himself with a strong accent, one that Nat could tell where it was from. "Are you Korean?" Natalia asked the boy straight off the bat. Direct and blunt, that was how Nat liked things to be done. "Fifth year? I'm in fourth."

The train trip had gone faster than usual, perhaps cause of the drama of the prefect compartment, with the carriage ride following suit. But alas, now they were back in the castle and Benny felt like he was home. Granted he loved his family and the summers spent with them but Hogwarts just had that....feel to it. A place he didn't mind being holed up in for most of the year, as long as his best friends were around with him.

Making his way towards the familiar table, Ben took a look around both as the gathering spot of the lions and at the Great Hall as a whole. Few students had made their way as of yet, the sixth year only reconizing one person at the Gryffindor table with another new face. A glance at the staff table showed most had already arrived with a new face there as well. The lion counted the seats and registered it as DADA.

It seemed Professor Romanos really was gone from their ranks.

He moved to take a seat on one of the benches, figuring to snag a spot for now. Plenty of time to wander during the feast and later on. Speaking of later on, Benny couldn't help but wonder who would be assisting Professor Flamsteed if it wasn't the defense professor. Guess he'd find out later.

Nemo walked up to the Gryffindor table and took a seat. He wished there was a way for him to finish school this year, both the years he had left. He didn't want to be at Hogwarts anymore. He wanted to be with Whyttyr, wherever she was. But this would have to wait and at least Damien was here. Because how could he be expected to deal with the dramatics of teenage life without his best mate?

Hopefully Damien was his normal self and not whatever weird thing was going on with him over the summer. Was there food yet? There needed to be food.

HE WAS HERE PEOPLE, HE WAS OKAY?

And after that VERY confusing two Pucks thing that had gone down in the Prefects compartment, he sort of had a headache. So much confusion. Good thing school feasts involved food, 'cause food was the BEST cure to EVERYTHING. But a feast would be weird if it didn't involve fo--ahem. He was only confusing himself further with these internal monologues. Merlin. You'd think he'd out grow that after third year or something? Wrong.

Anyways. Feast. He was here, okay? Maybe he wasn't exactly the first to the table. But uh, Prefects had to check the train to make sure everyone had gotten off okay. Yeah. That's it. Never mind the fact that it wasn't actually in writing anywhere. And before anyone asked, no he did not get lost on his way up to the castle. There was no need to rush anyways.

As he made his way towards the Gryffindor table, he noticed a few new faces already. This is the part where he went to make introductions, right? Right. And if not here then it'd happen at the Common Room or on the way up, so you know... Adjusting the Prefect badge on his robe, he walked past Emmy giving her a big smile, "Hope you had a great summer, Emmy," before sending a wave over towards Benny who would most likely be joined by his girlfriend, girlfriend's sister, and Adi at some point. He sent a smile towards Nemo as well, knowing very well that the boy was good friends with Damien. Damien who was bound to show up very soon.

But now, for the FRESH FACES (aka the Jackson one and the Natalia one, though he didn't know that yet). He addressed them both at once, "Hi you two, I'm-uh-Zander Adair. Sixth year and um one of your Prefects. Welcome to Gryffindor." Did he pass?

Honourary Gryffindor coming through!

"Hello, everyyyoneee!'' Adi announced his presence as though he really did belong to that House table. "Hey, Jackson! Congrats on being Sorted into Gryffindor!'' Yay for another friend that was in Lion House. The bespectacled Hufflepuff took a seat next to Benny as he waved to Nemo, Zander and another girl (Nat). There was Emmy too and she got a grin. He casually thought of her a Frog Girl... or toad girl. Hehe.

Anywayyy... "Food,'' Adi said to Benny. "I need food.'' Sometimes, unfortunately, Chocolate Frogs were not enough to soothe a growing boy's hunger pangs. LOL.

Natalia turned around to see another unfamiliar face at the Gryffindor table. He stammered a couple times in his speech, but Natalia found that quite amusing and tried to hold down her laughter. Oh, so this was one of the Gryffindor prefects.

"Oh, hello." Natalia let out a soft chuckle. "I'm Natalia, or Nat." What do prefects even do? Do they just walk around and patrol the castle? "And thanks." Natalia could feel her stomach letting out a little growl. She didn't know what to say next to the prefect, or to any of the people around her. Talk about the weather?

"So..." Natalia looked around the table, searching for a topic starter. "Is anybody else as hungry as I am?" She added a hopeful smile to the end of her question, hoping that someone would find it useful.



Before Natalia could pat herself in the back for trying to start a useful conversation, another voice came from behind and startled her, quite frankly.

Natalia thought she would explode if she heard another cheerful voice like that. Who was this guy...couldn't he keep the excitement to himself? Natalia's introverted characteristic was starting to manifest itself.

She eyed the boy from the corner of her peripheral vision and shook her head to herself. Helpless lust for food. Natalia threw a package of chocolate frogs to the boy's direction. Would that ease his madness for a bit? Natalia had had enough of chocolate. She wanted real food. Chicken, perhaps.

So this good mood of hers had continued even as she got off the train and into the carriages. What was is? She couldn't believe that this good mood had lasted this long. She felt that it could last all night, or maybe even all term. Nah that was really pushing it there. But the start of term feast what could be better than food, right?

Her people of course, not like she had a lot of people to begin with. She spotted Emmy. Mmmm where was the boyfriend. "EMMY!!!" Flopping down beside her. "Hi, friend." Ohhh look it was a new person. She remembered when she was a new person. Three terms ago. Yes three terms ago. "Hey, Jackson. I'm Cinnamon." Since he had announced to the table who he was and stuff. Avoiding the whole awkward first meeting thing no wonder why Cinna didn't like meeting new people. Honestly all she really had was Bart and Emmy. but Emmy really didn't count because she was practically family. Her aunt being her step mother and all.

"Hey everyone." Yep she was in a good mood addressing the whole table or the few that were already there. Nemo, Zander, Benny, and Adi Along with a few other people (Nat) She gave them all a small wave. She glanced up at the staff table to see what was going on up there.

It wasn't weird that he introduced himself like that, right? Nope, how people could know him if he didn't start the introduction. He was very opened to know more people though he still couldn't believe that he's not in Kirin anymore. Some of his junior at Kirin always referred him as 'friendly sunbaenim*'

There's a blonde girl waved at him and introduced herself to him. See? "Oh, nice to meet you too, Emmylou noona." He still couldn't eliminate the hyung-noona calling. Maybe he wouldn't eliminate it. Then, there's a girl (Natalia) impulsively asked if he's a Korean. Jackson nodded and smiled at her. "I am, yeah. I'm from Seoul." And since she mentioned that she's fourth year, no need to call her noona. Hehehe. "What's your name?" Then he asked.

Another older student came to him and introduced himself as the prefect. Ooooh! "Oh, thank you." He slightly bowed to Zander. "Nice to meet you too, Zander hyung." It seemed like people here were nice. Kinda reminded him of people back to Kirin. NOOOOOOOOO.... please stop thinking about Kirin, Jackson! His brown eyes spotted a familiar face dressed in Hufflepuff robes. Lately he met so many of Hufflepuff student and still thought that he would be ended up there. He smiled at Adi. "Hi, Adi hyung! Thank you." He said.

Another older student came to the table and introduced herself as... Cinnamon? As cinnamon in spice? He tried not to be shock since his Korean friends also had weird stage names. He smiled and nodded at her. "Nice to meet you, Cinnamon noona." Speaking of food, Jackson did feel hungry too. He didn't really eat much things before he departed from the station. Hope that the food would come sooner.

sunbaenim: senior in general
hyung/hyungnim: boy senior/brother
noona: girl senior/sister.

After the Sorting Hat told the whole school that he belonged in Gryffindor, Yoongi walked to the long table and sat down at the end near the staff table. And now he felt awkward. He didn't know anyone at all. Except for ...was that Jackson? was he in Gryffindor as well? This made him feel a bit better because he now knew at least one person which was better than none. He also seemed to be the social type... he was too but he was hungry and tired to be honest.

"Hello everyone, i'm Yoongi Hyland" yeah that was good enough. Now, where was the food?

Natalia was starting to a feel a little overwhelmed with all the new additions to the table. If only Natalia could zap all the people away and replace them with plates of food...

One of the new additions to the table was a friendly girl (Cinnamonroll)who just waved at everyone at the table. Natalia waved back a little hesitantly.

Natalia noticed the Korean boy using the frequently-used Korean terms to refer his seniors. Even before Jackson confirmed his nationality, Natalia could definitely tell where he was from. "Oh, I'm Natalia, or Nat, whatever you want to call me." Natalia introduced herself for the second time. Maybe she should have announced her name to the whole table like Jackson did. "My best friend is Korean, that's how I could tell, if you were wondering." Natalia decided to add a little explanation, in case Jackson was curious.

Another addition to the table! Ahh, great. Natalia was a bit reluctant to share the little space that she had. But, sharing is caring, Natalia reminded herself as she forced a smile as Yoongi sat down.

"Hi Yoongi," Natalia waved a little lazily, feeling a little weary."I'm Nat." She didn't even bother to say her full first name. He'll figure out soon, later, some day.

Skipping down the gap between the tables, Marsha quickly made her way to the section of the table that Zac had chosen to sit at. Theeyy were booothh in Gryfindor! She celebrated in a sing-songy voice, while she nervously waited to make sure that her OTHER best friend, Lance followed them. Gosh! She didn't want to think about the possibility of him NOT being with them in Gryffindor. No, he would be. Yup.

"That was so coool!" Marsha said to Zac as she plopped down next to him. "Now we just need to wait and see where Lance and Rusty get sorted..." Wylie and Danielle too, though she had only met them briefly she didn't really know them. Yet, anyway. Maybe she would get to know them too.

Even though Lux hadn't wanted summer to end - and in fact wished it was still here now - she was going to attend the feast. Because food and friends were always nice, and she loved talking to people.

It was just she would have preferred it if she was still home.

Making her way to the Gryffindor table, Lux waved and smiled at everyone. It was nice to see familiar faces and some new ones as well. Emmy was there and she had to admit that she was happy to see her, but wasn't sure how things were now so maybe it was best not to start a conversation and see how things go. Everything was awkward between them and had been for a while.

Not sure, she sent the Lion a small smile and a "Hello." She did the same thing for Cinna. Everyone else got a wave as she took a seat. "Hello, guys!!" She wanted to talk to everyone!!!

This was one of the few times that AJ arrived to something early-ish. If she was being honest with herself it all had to do with consuming food. That was a sure fire way to get her to something on time. Or at the very least it would get her there in a reasonable time frame. Her eyes scanned the table and she actually didn't recognize that many faces. A look to the left and then to the right confirmed that she indeed was at the correct table. Hmm... small pox?

Anywho, two of her favorite people were there. Benny and Adi both got warm smiles. She would soon be plopping herself down by them, but first she needed to introduce herself. A slightly older dude was introducing himself as Yoongi and he had a pretty cool sounding voice. "Wicked accent. I'm AJ." The person that was the most fun at the table, but the boy would find that out soon enough.

Zander was there too. Holla! Was it a prefect thing to always be early because Adi was the same way. AJ made her way over to her second favorite prefect and held out her fist for a bump. She knew how much Zander enjoyed them. "I can't wait to assemble the troops." Yeah, he wasn't getting out of that one. Ahem.

Moving on...

Emmy, Nemo and Cinnamon were all familiar faces and got waves. Maybe there wasn't so many new faces after all. She was operating on an empty stomach and that is always a recipe for disaster.

OMG....

A firstie.

AJ zoned in on the girl (Marsha), and she was smiling so hard that her cheeks hurt. "Hiii... I'm AJ. Welcome to the best house ever." Like ever, ever. Why was she so pumped? Because she was back at Hogwarts and food would be arriving any minute. Life just didn't get any better than that. "How are you liking Hogwarts so far? It's pretty impressive, huh?" Just wait until the new girl actually got to explore the castle. Oh, AJ could show her around, she could. Adventure buddies!

Yellow caught her eye, and AJ was happy to see that the robes belonged to Lux. AJ actually owed a lot to the older girl. She was one of the few people that were there for her when her whole world flipped upside down. "Hey, Lux!" An extra beamy smile for you. "Did you have a good summer?" The fourth year was pretty sure Lux spent a lot of time with Bay, and that meant that Lux's summer was awesome. Only a few years from now AJ would be in the same shoes as the older hufflepuff.

What a time to be alive! Or dead really, as it was in the ghost's case.

Electing to arrive in his usual flair, Sir Nicholas appeared through the centre of the table with a loud, "Hello! Welcome to Gryffindor!"

A greeting primarily meant for those newly sorted students, the house ghost quickly added to his words with an elaborate flourish of his translucent arms.

"And absolutely splendid to see all these returning faces as well. Good evening and welcome back, Gryffindors."

The sixth year clapped when another Gryffindor got sorted. Emmylou beamed at the other new student (Yoongi). WOOO HOOO GRYFFINDORS! She waved at him and introduced herself. "Hi! I'm Emmylou Duchannes." Semi-thick southern accent and all. "Welcome to Gryffindor! Yoongi." The blonde really hoped that she said the name right. Her accent probably made it sound like she was saying it wrong.

Emmylou nodded and beamed brightly at the new student (Jackson). It was always nice to meet new people. "Noooona? Is that good?" She didn't know what that meant. She only knew English and French and she only knew French because her grandmother was born somewhere near Paris. She wasn't sure where. Emmylou still gave the new student a confused look. She hoped it wasn't mean of her to do that.

Looking around she heard her best friend/cousin/sister (CINNA) yelling out her name. Her dark blue eyes scanned the Great Hall and then the Gryffindor house table. "CIIIINNNNNNA!!" Emmylou beamed and hugged her tightly. "Friend? Just a friend? Really? After all these year? Is that all I am to you? A FRIEND?!" She sounded pretty serious but she was totally joking right now.

The sixth year lioness beamed at their prefect (Zander). Who also made her break her arm last term but it was just an accident. Zander didn't mean to do it and Emmylou knew that but her arm still broke and it still hurt really, really bad. "My summer was alright." Lets just put it this way it could have been better. "How was your summer, sir Prefect?" What do Prefects do during the summer? Prefecting stuff?

THERE WAS HER NEW FRIEND! Well she was knew that he was her housemate (Benny) but she never really talked to him until the end of last term when she was hanging out with Adi. "Hi Benny!" She beamed. "How was your summer? Good I hope." Or great or amazing. Just as along and he had fun and didn't sit around and do nothing all day long that was good. The she saw AJ wave. She knew of her or well that she had triplets. Not her but her mom did and two of them were here and one in...Ravenclaw? She wasn't sure. She really hadn't talked to any of them but she talk to Angel once. "Hi AJ." She said waving back.

Emmylou beamed and started jumping up and down when Nearly Headless Nick came out!! This was so exciting. She had questions to ask him but she wasn't sure if this was a good time to asked them. "Hello Sir Nicholas." The sixth year beamed. "How was you summer?" She really wanted to know what it was like being a ghost but yeah she wasn't going to asked that.

Somewhere between getting off the carriages and entering the Great Hall, he had lost his girlfriend. No doubt she was catching up on gossip with Ruby or one of her other friends.

Michael didn't mind, they had all year together. So he headed towards the Gryffindor table. He spotted a couple of people he remembered from when he had been here last but most of the people at the table, he didn't know. Coming back to Hogwarts after a two year stint at Durmstrang felt a little weird.

He waved to those at the table before taking a seat. It may have felt weird to be back but it also felt good.

GRYFFINDOR!!!!

Chance was a fan. Always a fan of gryffindors. He cheered on as new Gryffies made their way to the table. This was his second to last year to enjoy this. The feast. Chance nudged his way in between the students and sat down. As much as he liked the new Gryffies, he need food more.

He was low on money so he wasn't able to get snacks on the train. His mouth watered for the food Hogwarts made. He interned at WHiM this summer and it had been amazing but he ate what his mum had cooked, and she wasn't the best cook in the world. LOVE YOU MOM! The elves though, oh goodness, their food.. Was amazing.

Come on speech start. Chance was hungry food food!

Emmylou greeted him, using the nickname he still hadn't shaken, and probably never would. "Hey," he returned, thinking on his summer and how bubbly she seemed. "It was pretty great," he admitted, offering a weak smile. The field trip....the quidditch camp...him finally really being back on the broom and in the game...or fending off crazy creatures. It was pretty interesting and fast paced. "How was yours?" he asked to be fair to her. She like him had appeared to have survived OWLs.

Zander got a wave back when the prefect made his appearance at the table. They had already seen each other on the train and it seemed like he was busy being prefecty with the new and returning students. There would be plenty of time for the boys to catch up, especially if they were still rooming together in the 6th year dorm.

Ah, there was the bestie making his rounds. Benny had no clue how Adi did it, bouncing from table to table during the course of the feast. At least for now the Hufflepuff was seated beside him as was proper and enjoyable. He couldn't help chuckling at his mention food. "Sorry...got nothing." The big breakfast before the train had been his last real meal and there were no real snacks in his possession at the moment. "You'll just need to wait a little while longer." But hey...a younger unfamiliar Gryffindor offered the boy chocolate frogs.

"Hey," Ben returned as Cinna joined the table, the area seemingly filled with all the sixth year lions. Did Gryffindors...flock? Or was it just sixth years in general since Lux made an appearance, marking two badgers from the year at the table as well. "Hi," he greeted the redhead.

Hey, there was another familiar face. Maybe AJ had some food for her boyfriend as surely she of all people besides him understood his empty pit. Benny gave her one of his nicer smiles and left her to her fluttering. Almost seemed like she was following Adi's footsteps and being a social butterfly this evening. No matter...a certain Gryffindor Ghost had made his appearance as well. "Good evening, Sir Nicholas."

Slowly Evie made her way to the Gryffindor table. The thing was swarming with older children. deep breath "Okay, Evie. You can do this." She walked down the table slowly and sank down not paying attention to who she was sitting near and not really caring. This was real, she was a witch, she was now at a school to teach her all about it. She pinched herself again, probably for the hundredth time and a huge grin began to spread across her face.

Adi had hardly gotten the word 'Food' out of his mouth when he noticed a sudden movement and something whizzing in his direction. Startled, he automatically swept both of his hand up and caught... a set of Chocolate Froggies! If his reflexes from endless cricket hadn't been so good, he would have been smacked in the face but oh, gosh! This was so cool! His own stash that he had carried in his pocket was now gone because he had passed them out earlier to his Huffleuffs. "Hey! Thanks! How did you know these were my favourites?'' Adi called to the girl (Nat). He didn't think he had met her before.

The Puffer helped himself to a Froggie. Nom nom. Froggies were delicious. Yesh, they were? "Frog for a Dragon? Or does the Dragon want sours? Though I would have to disappoint you because I did not bring any for you this year.'' Hehe. Lies. "I'll see how longer I can hold off,'' he said in reply to the food. In the meanwhile, he would make use of the delicious chocolate. Oh, hey! It was AJ. Two years together and Adi still brightened even more every time he saw her. He watched her greet everyone at the table. Alright, people. It was his turn now, yeah? Give him back his AJ! LOL.

Adi grinned at Jackson. There was that Korean word again... or it sounded like that, anyway. Just to be on the safe side, he decided not to try to pronounce it this time lest he butchered it like he had done on the Train. "Too bad you missed out on the best House ever." Adi pointed to his House robes. Anywayyy... "You have to teach me to get those pronunciations right, Jackson."

Looooooky! So many Gryffindors, yo! HellllllloooOOOoo, the guy called Yoongi, Cinna, Chance, Lion dude (Michael) and firstie girls (Marsha and Evie)! a grin each for you lot. And there was Sir Nick tooooo! "Good evening, Sir Nick!" Adi waved at the ghost. Oh, Merlin! He had called the man Nick! "Sir NickOLAS, I meant.'' Hehe.

Zander wasn’t really sure why the girl was chuckling, but um he chuckled a bit too in return? You know… In case he actually did say something funny? Actually, no he was pretty sure he didn’t. Merlin, meeting people was always a very, very strange thing. ”Nat,” he only repeated it once out loud, but fifty million times in his head. He wasn’t going to forget it. NOPE. ”Merlin, I’m starving!” Okay he liked this one. ”The Headmistress likes to take her time.” She was like the queen. The queen who took away Prefect badges and was totally intimidating and everything.

Then he turned to Jackson and gave him a weird look. Hyung??? What was a Hyung? ”Uh, no.. I’m Zander… My name’s just Zander? Who’s hee-uh-ung?” Mispronouncing the whole way through by the way. Oops? Zander Adair not Zander Hyung. Where did this guy come up with that anyways? Was HIS name Hyung?

Merlin. All this meeting new people stuff was kind of exhausting? So when Zander saw the next batch of new faces, he just gave them all warm smiles. They had plenty of time for introductions. Like in the Common Room. No worries, this wasn’t entirely his duty, right? Right. But otherwise he decided to stick with the people he actually knew, like Emmylou. ”Only alright?” This was probably Zander’s best summer yet to be quite honest. He hung out with the likes of Kevin, Puck, Sophie’s Tobes AND Sophie Brown. Then on top of that there was a field trip he was actually old enough to go on. And well anyways, ”My summer was alright too, just glad to have gotten the school year done with, y’know?” Except they were back now so that was kind of… Yeah.

See, wasn’t wrong was he? Where there was a Benny, there was usually an Adi. Not that the Gryffindor minded or anything, Adi was great. Somehow the guy always had energy. And the patience to jump around from table to table whilst not being all grumbly about food things. Ahem. Except Zander wasn’t being all grumbly this time around because this was a good day. So far. Hopefully Gryffindor wouldn’t lose any points off the bat this time around. Zander was going to keep in check. MHM. Especially because he knew he was already on the radar after everything last year. No more detentions for this kid NOPE.

And then when there was an Adi there was normally an AJ, so that one wasn’t surprising either. Except AJ was actually a Gryffindor so it wouldn’t have been surprising either way and you know what? Never mind. Merlin. He opted to give her a wave too, but before he knew it she was making his way over. Ah, fist bump? They were still doing that then? Zander returned of course and he was making an improvement with it too. See his fist bump was ALMOST professional level now, or well… At least he didn’t hesitate AS much, okay? Baby steps. And then she brought it up. Merlin, the sixth year had REALLY been hoping that she forgot about that. ”Erm yeah… About your plan… We’ve got to talk about that,” later. Talk about that later. Or never. Either one. But there was just a SLIGHT issue with the whole take-a-bunch-of-first-year-minions-into-the-forbidden-forrest-to-retrieve-a-unicorn-for-AJ thing.

And soon enough everyone else was trickling in too. Which meant a wave to Cinna—who he still felt very awkward about—and a smile at Lux and Chance. Sir Nicholas got a grand smile. ”Hello, Sir!” Always a load of fun he was.

Red and gold! Red and gold!

Lance trotted down towards the Gryffindor table with the largest and proudest beam on his face that he could conjure up. Although, it kinda sorta felt like the train all over again; a few faces he knew in a swarm of faces he didn't know. He took up the opportunity to sit near the faces he DID know and to sit down quickly before he looked like a doofus just standing there next to the table. Man, he was on a roooooll today.

"Marsha! How cool is THIS?" he grinned to the redhead. He MAY have giggled, maybe, but he soon became semi-distracted with who he was sitting nearby. Lots of unfamiliar people... except that one boy whose name he didn't remember already, and...

"Hello!" he waved to the girl he met on the train (Evie). She was pretty cool for letting them sit in her compartment. Like, totally cool. Did they know what else was totally cool? A ghost just floated up THROUGH the TABLE. Through it. Because it was a ghost.

This time, he totally meant to be openly staring.