Noelle was lifted effortlessly by this boy. This big boy. This.... He had such a young face though! Noelle wobbled on her feet when she was finally standing. She straightened her skirt and looked up at him. "Nope not hurt." She said, staring at him. She tilted her head. More staring. She was quite oblivious to the fact that her mouth was partly open and she was staring hardcore.

Did he ask her something? About the music room? "Oh right! Yes. I love music! My papa plays the guitar and I heard it. I wanted to see where it was coming from and then I wanted to dance but then you ran into me." She was blabbering but she always got that way when she met someone new..... Okay she was always like that. Over sharing was her thing!

"Wht year are you?" She blurted out before she could stop herself. She was puzzled.

She was not hurt. Thank the makers of chocolate cauldrons! He nodded and grinned some more. "That's good to hear." no yelling at him, then. Yay. But...she was staring. Why was she staring? Did he just somehow grow a pair of antlers or something? "Um..." This made him drop his grin and blink at her.

Then she was back again. Okaaaaaaaay. Kinda weird, but okaaay. "Wow. That's so cool. Heh. Sorry again. So do you know how to the play the guitar too?" Her father might have taught her. Mhm.

SO. That was why she was staring intensely earlier. Owen got it now and he couldn't help but chuckle. Hehehehehe. Like everyone else, she was trying to figure out his age in relation to his size. Add her to the growing list then. "I'm a first year." His grin was back full-on. "I trust you're also one? And by the way, I'm Owen." This time he was the one to offer his hand.

Noelle felt her hair to make sure that it wasn't a tangled mess.... Not that it wasn't half the time anyways. She played too hard for it to actually look nice and neat. Her mum was forever fuzzing with it... Which is probably why she felt the need to reach up and check it, because her mum wasn't here to do it.

"He taught me a little bit! I could never sit still long enough to actually learn more than a few chords." She said and smiled at him. She blushed a bit when she saw that he was putting two and two together about her staring and her question.

"Sorry..." Noelle stammered and looked down. "That was rude of me and mum is always telling me to think before I speak but I don't and now look at me!" Squeak. How embarrassing! "But yes! I'm a first year also! Or a firstie as everyone calls us. I get called ickle a lot." More blabbering.

Noelle smiled at him and offered her hand. "I'm Noelle Grace Summers. Very nice to meet you."

"You should try and play. Owen suggested. They were here already and there were instruments in different sizes so she could probably find one that she was comfortably with. "...if you want. Or resume your dancing." Either way, it was her call. He was just making suggestions. "As for me, I'll just dance." Mhm. The Hufflepuff flexed one arm and placed it behind his head while he stretched the other one in front of him and moved it vertically in a push-pull motion from left to right. His first sample. The Sprinkler Dance Move! Wooot!

He was laughing at himself. Hahaha.

A few more chuckles for himself then he paused. "That's okay. I get that a lot so it's fine." And yes, them ickles. Except for him. He was no ickle. Maybe in heart and mind and soul, but not in body. Internal giggle!snort. "I think that's because you're so small...in a good way. Nice to meet you, Noelle Grace. Or Noelle only? Which do you go with?"

Hehehehe. He was doing the sprinkler.

Noelle decided to join him. She could always practice the guitar later, but she might not always be able to do the sprinkler with a super awesome Owen head. Jumping up and getting beside him, she copied his movements beside him. She joined in on the laughter. Weeee!! Sprinkler!!!

Noelle giggled at them. "Sprinkler! Here try the lawnmower!" she stated as she started to imitate starting a lawnmower. A dance her papa had only been to happy to show her.

They were going to get along just fine. "i may be small but I have enough personality to blow you out of the water!" Another thing her mum waS always telling her. "But I go by either. More so Noelle then anything." Noelle hadn't stopped dancing the whole time they were speaking. She moved on to another dance move. Her papa would be so proud.

This was SO fun. Noelle was even joining him do the Sprinkler. Owen decided she was one of the cool ones. Yep. She was even teaching him the Lawnmower. Wiggling! He could do that.

But before he did, he decided to respond to her first. "You sure do!" They should hang out more, yea? He liked her personality. "Noelle, then. You're in Gryffindor house, aren't you?" At least that was what he thought or remembered from the feast anyway. "I'm in Hufflepuff." BEAM.

And now off to do the lawnmower. It was easy. Just like imitating a lawnmower. Squaaaat! Owen brought his right fist to his right hip, while turning on his knee. Aaaaand left! And this was so cool! How about some Pop and Lock, Noelle?!

Noelle was having a giggle fit beside her new best friend. Yep. He was crowned new bestfriend! Whoever would dance with her in the doorway of a music room with not a lick of embarrassment in their composure, HAD to be her best friend.

They HAD to hang out more. There were no questions asked about it. Noelle continued doing the lawnmower as he said he was in Hufflepuff. "Yes! I love it! How do you like Hufflepuff??" She couldn't remember his face at the Sorting but that's probably because she could barely see over anyone's heads not to mention she was WAY too excited to actually pay attention.

Gasp! Owen was popping and locking it. Instant friendship alright. Noelle giggled some more and started dancing with him again. This time, popping and locking it. She even added a drop into it. Oh yeah! She was badddd! Can't touch this Owen!

Owen was beside himself with enjoyment. He was having so much fun popping-and-locking it with Noelle. She had the moves too. Dancing was such an awesome way to make new friends.

Skidding to his right, Owen moved from doing the Pop and Lock to the Shopping Cart move. That's right. Put it in the shopping cart, shopping cart, shopping cart! And to answer her question, he shifted to moonwalking or tried to.

"It's so good! Oh man.
We've got a garden and pretty Head of House.
So fun, oh yea.
Next to the kitchen we can cook at night.
So cool yep yep everyone's so nice and loyal yea.
Hufflepuffs hallelujah!
Hufflepuffs hallelujah!
Hufflepuffs hallelujah!
'Cause Hufflepuffs gon’ give it to you ~ 'Cause Hufflepuffs gon’ give it to you ~
Saturday night and we in the spot. Don’t believe me just watch."

Uhhuuuuuuh he sang that one. And he was jiving up to those funky dance moves he saw on the television at home.

"You Noelle? How do you like Gryffindor?" Beam!Grin!

Noel relaxed when she hugged him. Okay, they were still going with no awkwardness thing. He was glad.

Smiling, the sixteen year old gave Maggie a squeeze before she stepped away. He nodded at her reply. He understood, he had looked around for others as well but then he had been occupied with telling first years what idiots their parents were for sending them to Hogwarts.

Speaking of idiocy .. "Do you think they are making up for the fiasco last term?" he asked, looking around with her. "Oh it's absolutely brilliant" Noel confirmed before pressing a key on the piano. "I am wondering if they will let us play for others ..." He needed another rave party like last year. And not so secret this time.

And as long as Hogwarts was making up for pushing it too far last term - they might as well give them those parties, yeah?

As he’d assured his uncles that he’d keep up with his guitar practice once at Hogwarts, Sabbath had been wandering around with his guitar in search of a suitable place to keep that promise when he’d heard music wafting down the hall. He followed his ears and entered the room.

Through the cacophony of several kids and their instruments, he spotted Noelle and another friendly-looking chap (Owen), doing some rather interesting dance moves. The moves were particularly comical with one hand behind their heads and the other wavering and outstretched. He could see them giggling together and thought they looked like they were genuinely having a great time. Sabbath liked how Noelle's hair was all mussed and he couldn't help but admire how free-spirited she seemed. He let out a laugh, and pinched the bridge of this nose, still chuckling as he approached them grinning. “Hey, Noelle, great to see you again. You guys look like you’re having a ripping good time”

“Hi mate”, Sabbath smiled, leaned forward and offered to shake the hand of the friendly looking boy, “How are you going? I’m Sabbath”.

“I was actually looking for somewhere to practice my guitar”, Sabbath said, indicating with his thumb to his guitar which was slung over his shoulder. “But, I must say, seeing you two gallivanting here is much more entertaining” he grinned. He was pretty intrigued with the popping and locking, it was so very different to the dance styles and music he had been raised with in his gypsy family.

Beaming wide, Marsha wrapped her arms around Adi’s waist as she was enveloped in a clinging hug. WHEEEEEE. She loved Adi’s hugs, they always made her feel safe and like she was at home even if she wasn’t - though she really was… Hogwarts was her home for more of the year than she was actually at home - and she had so many friends here that it was great fun AND as if that wasn’t all enough, she got to learn and use MAGIC here.

So yup, hugs and Adi and Hogwarts were amazing.

”Not really… Or at least… not yet.” Sha answered, with a big giggling grin. Looking around the room, she could easily picture herself trying to learn to play one of the many instruments that were here; there were guitars and a drm kit and a piano and there looked to be other instruments that she didn’t know the names of but recognised from Aunt Whit talking to her about Orchestras. Huh. Maybe that would be fun. ”Could you teach me to play the piano?” They had a year - FROWN AT THAT THOUGHT - that would be enough time… right?

Noelle GIGGLED when he started doing the shopping cart. She instantly changed her dance moves to the shopping cart but started helping out items in HIS buggy. Then.... He started singing.

Noelle jaw dropped and she stopped dancing for a moment to listen. Utter awesomeness. Yep.. Noelle had chosen her new best friend so well! Giggle!fit was happening again. She was no good at singing so when he asked her how Gryffindor was, she started dancing again. This time, she started doing the Nae Nae and rapping. "Lions we be. Down to the beat. Brave and fierce as can be. Don't mess with us. We will show our tough....." She couldn't think of what to say next to she started whipping it.

Hearing another voice, Noelle turned and continued to whip. She beamed when she saw Sabbath. "Hey!! We are dancing! And this is Owen." Noelle pointed to Owen and pretended to do the fishing line toss and pull. She 'reeled' Owen in.

"Nice to meet ya Nemo." he grabbed his hand firmly and gave him his best handshake, the one his father told him to do. "Oh no this is actually my first year. I transferred here from Durmstrang. I am a third year but technically I'm a newb to all of this." he gestured to the castle. "It is massive man like did you ever get lost around here?" He wanted to hear past experiences. Aahh so the dude was kind of homesick. Colt actually never really experienced homesickness because he moved around being a military kid and all. He never really had a home so he couldn't relate. "What songs can you play on the piano?" he was curious.

The fiasco last term.

Oh yes that was entirely possible.

"They did mess up pretty badly there yeah." A lot of people had retired too so that was another sign of how badly managed last term had been right? Even Truebridge was gone. "At least we didn't....you know, die." Maggie added as an afterthought, subconsciously touching her wand. Yes. That HAD saved her life really. Not the professors or ministry workers. Her own wand.

With a small sigh Maggie went back to looking around the room, even putting on a smile again. Which turned into an excited grin a second later. "Omg they should!!!" She was right next to him again and had grabbed his arm, now beaming up at him. That would be AMAZING. "You should just do it. I'm sure they won't say no." Because like. They would be stupid if they did.

Maybe they could even, you know, have a dance floor and stuff in here.

However terrible Dante thought he was, it was probably nothing compared to how awful Cinna knew she was. Leaning against the piano she watched and listened to Dante as started to play.

Was that a TDK song? Wait she she did know that song.

She shrugged after he was done and he spoke. "Wasn't that terrible." She wanted to try it out, but she didn't want to make Dante go deaf at the same time.

But she was going to do it.

"I wanna give it a try." She took a deep breath, got a set of drumsticks. "Now I'm much better with a pencil or a paint brush I promise." She started beating on the drums and crashing the symbols. Yep this was horrific, sorry D. "I'm just going to stick with a paint brush."

Word around the castle was that there was a music room somewhere on the Fifth Floor.

Even though she was still getting the hang of the moving staircases and trick doors of Hogwarts, Paulina was pretty sure that she was in the right area of the castle. And if not she supposed she could ask for help so long as the person she met seemed friendly and not intimidating.

Eventually the sound of music entered her ears, and she followed it to the room she was looking for. So it WAS true after all. Awesome. She could try to play the piano even though it had been a little while since she had last taken lessons. Maybe she should start up again when she got back to Japan.

Seeing a girl with a flute, Paulina sent her a small smile. "How long have you played for?" Hopefully that wasn't a weird question, but she played flute too so she was curious.

MORE dancing was happening. Noelle was rising up to the challenge and was now rapping! RAPPING. She was good at it, too. Owen paused, chuckling with his hand on his belly. Butterscotch, he was getting tired and hungry but he was still having so much fun.

So he followed her friend when she started whipping it. Then paused to laugh at themselves again. That was when someone approached them. Oh! "Hey there!" Owen said as greeting, pulled his hankie that was tucked on the back of his pants and used it to wipe the sweat on his forehead. As Noelle introduced him, he nodded. "Good to meet you, Sabbath. Owen." Headnod. "Would you like to join us?" As he waited for his response, Owen saw Noelle doing some dance moves he didn't know so he jumped in and joined her...doing some sort of fishing line rotation above his head and puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuull!

Owen and Noelle were really dancing up a storm out there and Sabbath found them very entertaining to watch, but then, Owen suggested that Sabbath come join them! Clearly, it was time for Sabbath to start back peddling! His eyebrows shot up, and he raised his palms in defence. "Err, actually, I really do need to fit in some guitar prac" he stammered, as he started edging towards a nook he'd spotted at the back of the room. "Good to see you again Noelle, and great to meet you too, Owen. Umm, I'll see you guys around later on". Sabbath nearly stumbled in his haste to retreat. Phew, that was a close one! He was many things, but he was quite certain rap artist was not one of them.

A squishy hug from Marsha. What more could Adi ask for. She was one of his favourite persons to hug and right now he didn't want to stop doing it but he feared he might squish her too much as he had almost done at the Puff table on the night of the Start of Term Feast.

You know what else he liked? Those giggles she did. Purposely, he tickled her side lightly so that she could giggle again, keeping one arm around her. And she wanted to learn the piano! So cute! Professor Adi was up for this! "Sure! But you'll have to sit where I'm sitting so that you can get to the keys properly.'' With a grin and another tickle, Adi jumped to his feet so that Marsha could get comfortable. "Hey, turn that frown upside down.'' He didn't know why she was frowning but he thought that it did not suit her face. He sat on the other side of her from he had been earlier, his arm back around her.

"Your fingers should all rest on WHITE keys.'' Adi reached out with his free hand to bring the Lion's right thumb to the key to the left of two black one in the middle of the board. "This is the C note. Your right thumb should always be there.'' So far so good! "The remaining of your right hand's fingers should rest on the keys next to that so they are taking up the D, E, F, G keys. Got that so far?'' The badger didn't want to rush things so that she would fail to understand.

"You too, Colt." The kid seemed nice enough so far. He had a decent handshake and everyone knows that says a lot about a man. Even if he's a boy. "Ahh okay, what house are you?" Always an important question. Nemo was very proud of his house in his later years of being at Hogwarts. In his mind there was no better place for him to be than Gryffindor.

"I used to, the staircases really help with that. But now i can't imagine getting lost at all. Just give it some time, it'll feel natural." Right, piano. The older boy knew some songs. "I can play some Mozart, Beethoven, Coldplay.." So the last one was a little less than traditional but he could play it. Mmhmm.

He smirked to himself and that seemed to be a popular question around hogwarts. I mean people were curious to know which house you are in. "I am in Slytherin. I am a third year but I still feel like I should be a first year." He felt such a newb in this castle. "Yeah the staircases are kind of weird though. I am just used to the stationary kind." I guess he will get used to them moving eventually. It was just a weird concept of staircases moving but then again they were in a magical school.

He raised his eyebrows at the impressment. Man so this dude was a music nerd. No shame in that. "I would like to hear you play a piece if you don't mind." Yeah seriously he wanted to know what this dude could do.

It was still pretty terrible. But Dante was not going to correct her. He just shrugged and got up since she said she wanted to give it a go. He though at least it sounds a bit like the song. But whatever.

"It is all yours" He was was willing to see if she was better than him. Which was not hard. "Well i am an absolute disaster at art. Unless we are talking about stick figures. Then i am awesome at those."

But yeah Dante was not artist. Though art was cool when he was the mood.

Same with anything else really.

Noelle's side hurt from all the laughter. She was about ready to collapse there and giggle on the floor. But she wouldnt... because there was no telling what was on those floors. She laughed as Owen went with her fishing rod and she 'pullllllled' him to her. Laughing, she "reeled' him back out.

Looking at Sabbath as Owen invited him to join he saw him retreat fast. "Sabbath! where are you gooooinnngg?" Major pouting was happening. She wanted to see what Sabbath could do. Maybe the stanky leg. Or dropping it like its hot. hehehe. Dropping it like its hot and Sabbath did not seem to mix. But it would be funny to see him do it! She would even join in!

Noelle went to grab his hand and pull him back over to him but he was already /in/ the music room... and Noelle wasn't brave enough to actually go in and dance in front of everyone so she stayed where she was at.

Turning back to Owen, she shrugged. 'Im thirsty now." she told him as she saw him wipe the sweat off his forehead. "We should go to the kitchens and get something to drink!!" And possibly something to eat... because she had worked up an appetite!

No? Sabbath was not going to join in? Ehhh, why not? Oh! Guitar practice, did he say? Waaaaaaaaaaait. Owen wanted to learn how to play at least one instrument and he thought Sabbath could help him. "Can you teach me how to play sometime?" But Owen didn't know if the other boy had heard him because he was already inside the room and Owen wasn't really yelling.

He faced her epic dance partner and shrugged back. "Me too! Phew." That was some form of exercise. He would probably get fit if he added that regularly in his routine. Unfortunately, eating held a higher priority. "But I've got to go to the common room first. I should change my shirt or something." His mama said so. Plus, he felt icky because he was soaked with sweat. "You should change first too, Noelle." Nod!nod.

"Mhmm," he nodded, playing a few more keys at the piano. He didn't know much about the piano but Hayley was now a pro at keyboards so he may have learned a thing or two. "I was pretty sure I would but yeah, I am glad" Hogwarts had almost got him. ALMOST.

Noel matched her grinned. "Yeah?" Because it would be really really epic if they could do that. He wondered if Moxley would help him with this. Or Professor Space? They were good, fun people - yes, he should talk to them. He kinda wish Toby and Kace were still around - it seemed so weird putting something up without them. "I think I'll go talk to Moxley and Flamsteed about it, you should come with me" He couldn't organize the thing alone if they agreed.