"And what is wrong with that? Not just the ladies have their beauty sleep, we need ours too. This flawlessnes of a face I have doesn't grow by itself." He flashed a grin at the first year."Besides I was just closing my eyes, kid. See...I have study notes." PROOF! Heheh.

"What were you doing screaming earlier?"he asked, raising his eyebrow.

Was there anything about Olly in his notes? It'd been hours of nothing but seeing words on a page, in all honesty he couldn't remember everyone the quill had taken notice of. "I'm not all that sure. It doesn't always take names if there's a whole bunch of people to record. Wish I'd brought another set with me, could'a had it making notes on you now." But Blaise didn't make a habit of taking more than one quill and notepad with him because if something happened they could ALL get damaged then he'd have no more. Scary thought.

"My roommate was talking in his sleep last night, showed him the notes this morning and he nearly died." It had been so funny that Blaise didn't bother telling him the quill made up most of it. That would ruin the joke running around his dorm that morning.

As for how he was liking Gryffindor, well, "It's everything I imagined it would be and I love it! We have a really neat Common Room--'m sure yours is nice too but I've never seen it so I can only vouch for mine. I like our Head of House too AND I finally get to say I'm a lion." The notepad floating above his head now only served to taunt him. He wasn't used to unrecorded conversations anymore but right now his quill was on hold.

It was an odd feeling. "What about you? You didn't know what house you wanted when I last asked. D'you like Slytherin?" He bet it was nice but obviously not as nice as Gryffindor.

Adelynn felt the same way about the castle and it's grounds. The place was overwhelming at times but still so exciting. "I do have to say though, I am very impressed that Hogwarts has a treehouse." she said with a laugh. Her old wizarding school would never have thought of that.

Adelynn nodded to Colts views on being alone sometimes. She perked up at the mention of Ravenclaw. "Ravenclaw, indeed! I love it, I honestly can't see myself being in any other house." She smiled, and tried to remember what house he was in. She was pretty sure he said something about Slytherin at the feast. "What about you? How's your house?"

"Me too. I mean you wouldn't think a wizarding school would have a treehouse. This seems so elementary school ish but then again we do have 11 year olds." He remembered when he was 11 which wasn't too long ago, he still had kid tendencies. Infact he still does. He was glad she was proud to be in Ravenclaw. "Yeah I actually know someone in Ravenclaw, her name is Kate Addison. Do you know her?" He was just curious is all. Then he heard her mention his house. "Oh yeah I am in Slytherin. I thought it fits me well. I actually asked the hat to put me into Slytherin and he took my choice into account." He was quite relieved to say the least.

He now was beginning to climb the tree house. "I am actually loving the view of this place." He began going up the ladders and reached the top. He waited for her to catch up. "So tell me your story." he joked with her. "You a transfer or you always been here?"

Huff. Have him call her a kid one more time and see what Noelle did.

Noelle cocked an eyebrow at him and slide over to him. 'Kid? DO you have a habit of calling people younger than you kids?" She gave him a LOOK. Because really. She was ELEVEN now. Not kid. five year olds were kids. She.... SHE WAS NOT.

SO there.

Humph.

Flipping her hair, she grinned at him again. 'Im Free! From classes that is. I dont know how people go to them ALL DAY LONG!" because gosh gollie gee. 'And I have to do it for the next 7 years??" She leaned against the tree house wall. 'Cooped up in a classroom or castle? I just... no i cannnnt!"

Adelynn gave a bit of a laugh. "Yeah, it's uhh pretty childish but I mean it's alright I guess." She said trying to sound cool. She was totally into the whole Treehouse thing.

At the mention of Kate, Adelynn smiled. "Yeah, she's my room mate! She's so lovely." Kate had been the first person she met while on the train and they not only ended up in the same house, but in the same dormitory. Friendship goals achieved. "Why do you ask? Are you two close?" Despite sharing a dorm, they hadn't gotten around to boy talk yet. And well, Adelynn was a curious soul.

"Slytherin! Today must be my lucky day because I hadn't met a Slytherin until now." She said with a smile. "I heard you guys have the coolest underground view of the lake? Tell me, have you seen any underwater creatures?" She always loved learning knew things about the other houses and had a special interest in magical creatures.

Adelynn followed Colts lead up the ladder, and reached the top. The view was pretty cool, but she enjoyed the breeze more than anything. When told to tell Colt her story, she looked at him and gave a little laugh. "Well let's see. My mum is a French fanatic so she sent me to Beauxbatons for my first two years of magical education. It's a great school, really, but it just wasn't for me." She said, looking out into the distance. "I spent most of my free time there studying other schools and Hogwarts seemed like the perfect place for me. It took some convincing but finally my parents agreed on letting me come here to start my third year and well so far I've loved every minute of it!" she turned her head to Colt. "So what's your story?" she teased back.

Aldous was on one of his tours. He managed to visit almost all of the places in the school save for a few. And that was just not acceptable, totally his fault for not organizing his time in a better manner. What a shame. That was not the way to act if he planned to be the greatest wizard of all times. Totally not. So he was fixing the situation and today's stop was the treehouse.

The kid walked up there and stood fascinated as he looked up. Then the ladder dangled. COOL! He climbed up and sat down with his legs-crossed. Nice view they got here. From his pocket he pulled out a handkerchief in which he had cookies wrapped in there. Thanks to the house elves he was never out of cookies. He lay the handkerchief down in front of him and wrapped his arms around himself from the cold breeze. Good thing he thought to add an extra layer under his jacket.

Even with the temperatures dropping slightly over the past week or so, that would never stop Reagan from enjoying NATURE. Today's daily dose of said NATURE came in the form of the treehouse, which she'd planned to climb and then make herself comfortable in. She'd even brought along her satchel, packed with a thermos full of tea, a mug, a tin of biscuits, as well as her notebooks.

...and a fuzzy blanket.

Of course, Rea hadn't planned on running into one of her First Year friends, Aldous! That seemed silly now, actually. It was a treehouse. Kids did enjoy them. So...technically, it made all the sense for the younger years to come out and have adventures here.

"Hey, you," she casually greeted as she walked up beside him. Would he want to join her?

Not that this was not fun, gazing out and enjoying the view of the grounds. It was! But it would have been more fun if he had pleasant company. Which now that he thought of it made him wonder why didn't he ask one of his few friends to come and join him. Maybe because he was not that used to having friends but he saw how friends were to each other, asking each others favors and stuff and he liked it and planned to follow the examples he'd been seeing. Mhm.

So Aldous sat there munching on the delicious cookies with hopes for the future. Then he heard someone climbing up. Which immediately made him wonder about the rules in such case, does he leave? Or stay? Did it depend on the person?

Out of curiosity, he leaned forwards and poked his head to see who it was. LOOK! HIS REAGAN! The little eagle couldn't help but SMILE at the older nice girl. She never seemed to care that he was a firstie and was always helping him and others. She was perfect. he loved her!

"Hey, Rea!" He greeted her back enthusiastically almost knocking over his cookies. Calm yourself down, he thought. "Want a cookie?" He offered.

Ugh. Reagan could literally gush over the cuteness of her little Ravenclaw buddy. Look at that precious face! Mhm, at some point, she'd claimed him as her own...and would protect him from all the horrors of the world; or more immediately, of Hogwarts. NOT that Hogwarts contained horrors, per say.

It was Reagan's firm belief, STILL, that the acromantula attack (from the previous year) had been a vast misunderstanding. The acromantula were sentient beings. They understood feelings and speech. In her opinion, that whole unpleasantness could've been amended with patience and compassion. She was SURE of it. Alas...

"No, thank you, Aldous." For butter reasons, but she offered a loving smile, instead. "Would you like to join me? I was going to lay a blanket out and have some tea..." Teeeaaaa, she'd always try to tempt people with tea.

Now that Aldous had company, it got him thinking if his hair was messy? Did he have cookie crumbs on his face? He better not! And just to be sure he took the chance of when Rea wasn't looking and quickly smoothed down his hair and wiped his mouth with his sleeve. Not the most hygienic solution but that was what he could think of right now.

Oh, and she did not like cookies or something, the Ravenclaw noted that. Might needed it in the future. Was it maybe because they didn't look so pretty after spending some time jammed in the handkerchief? He knew he should get a tiny box for them or something.

Did she just say tea? She carried tea around! She might as well be carrying happiness and offering it to people. His eyes may or may not have started glowing looking at her in fascination. But wait! WasSheAskingHimOutOnADate? His daddy used to invite ladies to have tea with him or coffee.

Aldous' tiny cheeks reddened a little by the thought. Stupid, of course not. And why hasn't he said anything yet? "Y-yes, I love tea!" He told her pushing himself off of the floor a bit too excitedly, almost falling out of the treehouse and breaking his neck in the process. ALMOST . "Do you want help setting up ... things?" And a blanket was involved. This was NOT a date, he reminded himself.

SPOILER!!: Adelynn!

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Adelynn gave a bit of a laugh. "Yeah, it's uhh pretty childish but I mean it's alright I guess." She said trying to sound cool. She was totally into the whole Treehouse thing.

At the mention of Kate, Adelynn smiled. "Yeah, she's my room mate! She's so lovely." Kate had been the first person she met while on the train and they not only ended up in the same house, but in the same dormitory. Friendship goals achieved. "Why do you ask? Are you two close?" Despite sharing a dorm, they hadn't gotten around to boy talk yet. And well, Adelynn was a curious soul.

"Slytherin! Today must be my lucky day because I hadn't met a Slytherin until now." She said with a smile. "I heard you guys have the coolest underground view of the lake? Tell me, have you seen any underwater creatures?" She always loved learning knew things about the other houses and had a special interest in magical creatures.

Adelynn followed Colts lead up the ladder, and reached the top. The view was pretty cool, but she enjoyed the breeze more than anything. When told to tell Colt her story, she looked at him and gave a little laugh. "Well let's see. My mum is a French fanatic so she sent me to Beauxbatons for my first two years of magical education. It's a great school, really, but it just wasn't for me." She said, looking out into the distance. "I spent most of my free time there studying other schools and Hogwarts seemed like the perfect place for me. It took some convincing but finally my parents agreed on letting me come here to start my third year and well so far I've loved every minute of it!" she turned her head to Colt. "So what's your story?" she teased back.

"It's just alright?" he asked her in disbelief. "This treehouse is amazing. I mean it beats mine back at home." he said still in awe at exploring this place. "Come on you gotta admit it is cool." he smirked. Ah so Kate was Adelyn's roommate. That was good to know. He snickered at her question. Are they close? He cleared his throat and replied, "Well kind of right now." I mean he just told Anna he had a crush on her and she did as well. So he didn't know if he should tell Adelynn but he was guessing they were close. "Wait I am your first Slytherin to meet? I highly doubt that." he joked with her. There were so many other Slytherins in Hogwarts he found it hard to believe. Ah so she heard the details of their common room. "Oh yeah we do have a nice view of the lake. It is kind of cool to see it underground wise. Oh well you can see the squid from our common room but I haven't see it yet." he shrugged. "I will eventually see it though I am determined." Probably once he sees it he will be starring at in awe. "I like our common room because it kind of like an eery feeling ya know?" He didn't really know how to explain it other than eery.

The little slytherin began to hear about Adelyn's life a little bit. So she was french? That was cool to know. "That was like me with Durmstrang. It just wasn't for me. Even though I moved I was kind of glad I did.." Now she wanted to hear his story? He laughed and began with, "Well I was born in New York City, so I can visit the United States when I want." He loved that aspect of just going to New York City and getting real pizza and bagels. He also loved exploring the city and such too. "Then when I was five I moved to Europe for my mom's job and I went to Durmstrang and I stayed there for a bit. Now I am here in Scotland for my mom's job that forced her to move. She promised me we would stay here till I graduate though. I guess you can say I am kind of like a military brat just moving around a lot. Also my dad is head of a military school." He added in. He took a minute for to let it all sink in.

"Sorry,Ki-..."He stopped himself."Noelle." He grinned. "It is kind of my habit, I guess." Remembering names was one of the things he was not very good at, but faces yes.

Henric laughed,"Yeah you're right...I had the same thinking too. But my dad told me once you get older...you'll be wishing to go back to school again coz' you don't have to worry about paying bills and such. I think he just probably missing the canteen schoolbreaks. Hmm.. its not that bad, 7 years to polish up your magic skills before you go on to the real world.You're still in first year,wait til' you get into your fourth or fifth, Noelle...expectations will be higher." *spooky hands* Scary, thinking about the future, wasn't it?

Speaking of scary.

"Oh yeah, Halloween is coming soon...are you planning to dress up for it?" Henric asked her.

Jet truly liked this area of the school. Being a natural outdoor person, she appreciated the fact there was plenty of space to be outside at Hogwarts.

The fifth year calmly walked towards the treehouse and looked up to admire it. She took a deep breath and it felt like every cell of her body enjoyed the fresh autumn air.

Dante had the ball in hand and guessed he was ready for this homework. He was sure they were suppose to be doing the banishing charm. He though as he made his way to the Treehouse and hoping his partner was there.

"Jet, you want to start banishing this ball or look at a treehouse the whole time?"

Dante looked up at where she was looking at and only saw a normal..magically tree-house and a tree. He liked being outdoors just not much into nature

Shrug

Hearing her partner's comment, Jet blew more air through her nose in a almost-laugh and turned around to look at him. "Let's start." She replied, giving him an amused look that carried a hint of unimpressiveness.

Holding her wand, Jet got ready to catch the ball with the other hand. "Ready when you are."

Merlin no witty banter, no eye rolling. All she looked was massively unimpressed. Well that was new. All Dante could do was shrug.

"Well if you are ready then i'm not at fault if this hits you"

Dante said as he threw the ball at her.

Look alive, Jet

Once again the almost-laugh was there, but nothing that would get her unfocused. They were there to get their homework done, so she would get to it. This time a tiny smirk could be seen in her lips as she waited for the ball to come her way.

When he threw the ball at her, she was a little surprised because she was expecting him to use magic. Jet did catch the ball anyway and gave him a confused look. "We're supposed to banish it, no?" And with that, she pointed her wand at the foam ball in her hand. "Depulso." The fifth year watched the ball go towards Dante and then took a few steps back to increase the level of difficulty.

"Too bad," Olly said. Anything about him would have made Blaise's notes much more exciting, obviously. But the thing about his roommate talking in his sleep did sound pretty funny. Olly laughed. "Does it really just write down everything that happens around you?" Even when he was sleeping? That was cool. "If it happens while you're seeping, how do you know if it's the truth?"

Olly was glad that Blaise was so excited about his house. "My sister's a Gryffindor," he commented. Blaise probably already knew that, though. If they were both Gryffindors he probably at least knew of Ellery - it was hard not to - but he might not know that she was Olly's sister. "I don't like being in a different house." He did not like it one bit. Being separated from Ellery was not something he was used to, and he had no intention of getting used to it. It was not fun.

What can Dante say, sometimes the old muggle way was good. Though if he was feeling lazy. Then of course magic would be used. He got his wand out as he through it because you can never trust slytherins. Especially when you are one.

"Well i know fourth years are suppose to banish it."

Not helpful for her at least he thought so. Unless she was a fourth year. Then Dante should be paying more attention to people. He pointed his wand at the ball sailing back at him and with a sweep of his wand.

"Depulso...So how have you been Jet?"

And right back to her with the ball and why not have a friendly chat in the middle of a game of banishing catch.

Basically.

"I know." She commented on what he said about fourth years. Jet also knew what she was supposed to do - which was the same -, so she kept working on it. Banishing the ball towards Dante until they had enough.

When he sent the ball her way, she reacher her hand out and waited for it to get to her. "Not bad. My plants and Morticia are fine. You?" She asked as she finally closed her grip on the foam ball. This exercise was so simple it was borderline boring, though Jet shouldn't let that get to her. She took a deep breath and pointed her wand at the ball on the palm of her hand. "Depulso." The fifth year said, trying to now test different speeds. That would make the homework a little more interesting. And so the ball made its way back to Dante.

Well look at her remembering what spell her year was suppose to be learning. Dante would clap for her expect for the fact he had a ball sailing back at him.

"Depulso"

There now this was just becoming routine or how you say going through the motions. "Morticia, now that is a name and Nothing to complain about with me. I have been keeping myself busy. You know 'forgetting' to tell first years where the trick steps are on the moving staircases and kicking them off the spot you wanted on the sofa in the common room"

Plus all the school work and hanging out with friends. But those two things were amusing as well. It was true.

Noelle made a face. Really?? She didn't want to think of the next seven years, more so the next 14. Sigh. Where did life go?? She was growing up too fast.

Oh!! But Halloween!!

"I will be the princess." Of Hogwarts, since Cinna had already taken the queen title. But she leaves this year so next year SHE WILL RULE THE SCHOOL.

"What about you?"

"I guess you can say that." He'd never really thought about it before, it always just happened...you know? "I mean, I don't let it write while I'm sleeping cause it might wander off looking for a story so I let it rest when I'm sleeping and in some classes where I can't afford to get the notes wrong." And Charms where he stopped attending because his quill wasn't allowed AND because his wand sucked at magic and strived to make him look bad at least once a day. The struggle was as real as it got.

"I've met your sister." Blaise informed him, suddenly remembering the really loud girl from the Gryffindor party. "How come she thinks being loud is the only way to make an impression and have people like you?" Olly wasn't loud...not that he knew of anyway but his sister was another case entirely.

"You should make your sister a Slytherin. She might like it and you'll like it too." Then they wouldn't have to be a part anymore which OBVIOUSLY bothered his friend.

Olly just nodded thoughtfully, listening as Blaise spoke. He supposed that did make sense. He didn't really now how a quill like that worked, having never used one himself. It did seem handy to be able to have something take notes so you didn't have to do that yourself. Who cared if they were a little wrong? At least you hadn't had to do them. That would be Olly's opinion, at least.

It was unsurprising that Blaise had met Ellery, they were in the same year and house after all. He tried to decipher the tone of voice his friend used when describing her. Was he trying to say that being loud was a bad thing. Was Blaise insulting Ellery. He decided probably not, mostly because he liked Blaise and thought he was a good person. And Olly didn't want to have to get mad at him for saying something negative about Ellery. Because he definitely would. Get mad, that is.

He just shrugged. How was he supposed to explain Ellery. "That's just...Ellery." She had a big personality. "She likes to be the center of attention." Most of the time, anyway. He'd never really thought about why, because it didn't really matter. It might have come a little bit from being a triplet. Since there were three of them, they always had to compete for attention. But they never competed with each other, not intentionally at least. Maybe Blaise should be asking Ellery these questions.

Again with the saying Ellery should be Slytherin. It had never crossed Olly's mind before being brought up by professor Flamsteed. "Or I could become a Gryffindor," he said. It made more sense to him. Why did Blaise immediately suggest Ellery becoming a Slytherin. Was he trying to get rid of her? He tried not to let his expression become too suspicious, because he was still assuming the best and giving his friend the benefit of the doubt.