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"AVA!" In her excitement for all the things, Charlotte FORGOT MOMENTARILY about certain events of the previous term. "My COUSIN JUST GOT SORTED INTO SLYTHERIN! AND SOON my BROTHER and my OTHER COUSIN are going to get sorted AS WELL!"

Also, that was hello. Who needed to waste time on actual hellos when there were so many THINGS to think about?

So her dorm mate was paying attention to the sorting because her cousins and brother were going to be sorted? Cool! "Which one is your brother?" Ava asked. "Do you think he's gonna be in Gryffindor too?" Or maybe Ravenclaw like Charlotte's parents?

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Jessie blushed slightly. She found the girl across her seat was very cute. "H-hi..Ava. Thank you.I'm glad to know that the sorting hat put me into this house. "

Jessie smiled shyly. Second year sudent greeted her.That was amazing!

She smiled at Jessie. This girl seemed very happy to be in Gryffindor. Well, who doesn't? They're cooler and better! Hehehe... "You must be. We are absolutely the best!" She bragged. "Is anybody from your family was a Gryffindor too?" Or maybe just like her? The one and only Gryffindor from the Burton house. How cool was that?

SPOILER!!: Genny and Tory!

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Genny ran over to the Gryffindor House Table with her pigtails flying behind her to the cheers of older students. Taking a random seat, she beamed at everyone who'd meet her eyes. "Hi Char! HEY I'M HERE!" She waved her arms over her head unnecessarily drawing attention to herself... and her friend.

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Tory's mind wandered a bit he looked around the great hall finally taking in all its splenders. The colors of Red, Blue, Yellow and Green mixed along with Gold, Bronze, Silver, and Black. The candlelights floating above them giving off a warm glow to the large room.

He kicked his feet a bit under the table his mouth ajar just in awe of this place. Then he recalled something. Something important. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a glass orb glowing red. Yup he was definetly forgetting something.

But there! To his side some girl called to him. He turned with a big grin. "Yeah. I think I saw your sorting. We told that Hat what's what didn't we?!" He extended hid arm to greet the girl. "I'M TORY, WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!"

There were two more new lions... Coolness! Ava also greeted both of them. The girl one seemed like she was a friend of Charlotte. "Hey guys, Welcome to the Lion side!"

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Super secret only the cool kids knew about? "You might say that." He conceded. It was true enough because the dumb older kids were most certainly NOT let in on this for one reason or another. Merlin knew half of them were snitches and the other half might just think it was their right to stop them.

The young Gryffindor looked around before giving her a conspiratory look, a glint of mischief in his eyes. "What'd ya say to a little food fight? One sided, against the Prefects--Head Boy and Head Girl too if you've got a good enough shot, just to teach them a little lesson in treating us younger kids better than they have."

Because no one was rude to his cousin and got away with it. He was small and didn't know magic but that didn't mean he'd just sit back, not when payback could be so much brilliant fun.

Ooooh.... Ava was so curious about Blaise's plan. Carefully she listened to his words and tried not to make any reaction.... Food fight? Them VS the Prefects? Well... This was quite difficult. Henric was one of the prefect who also her best friend... And he was nice, so far. Buuuut the others? Candice was nice too, at least to her. Yoongi? Shrugs. "All prefects?" She asked her fellow.

"Well, it sounds fun." The young lioness said. "It's like uh... a congratulatory act from us to them..." Yeah, she seemed so.

AWKWARD.

Noel could tell something was off. REALLY REALLY off. And this was pure bad timing on his part. He didn't know about her boyfriend, but he had never seen Maggie like this before? Or that forced smile of hers. It bothered him of course but he couldn't really do anything at the moment.

So he had to butt out, "Hi, yes. Um" Pause "Okaaaaaaay ... I am going to go now" the seventeen year old nodded with an awkward smile and turned to leave. Back to preteens then. Sigh.

The moment of hesitation that ran through her expression caused Blaise to pause. She wouldn't turn it down would she? It seemed so unlikely. Finally when she did respond he found himself relaxing. Fun. Yes. That was the operative word--for them anyway.

"Not all. We're not hitting Candice I think and I dunno if Bentley recruited any Puffers to attack theirs but everyone else should be good to go." And there she went making him pause again. Was she not gonna if it wasn't congratulatory?

"Um...not really? A couple of them were being jerks to Bentley so we're showing them what happens when you mess with little people." That was it in a nutshell. "You can do it for congratulations if you WANT though." So long as she did it.

Bentley nodded at Blaise. Operation take down the badged troll faces was under way. NO one messed with the little people and got away with it.

"Unfortunately not, but I'm going to see what I can do once I'm done sorting out the legs of the prefects at our table."

He'd need to stick his head up a few times to see who certain feet belonged to though so that he didn't get the wrong people.

"Keep recruiting. I'm getting back to work.."

The second year crawled on his knees and headed back up the table towards the prefects with his wand clutched between his little fingers.

Now...where were those prefect feet?

Alice turned her head once she heard someone speaking to her. (Blaise) "Oh! Thank you! I'm really excited to be here." She even bounced a little to emphasize her excitement. "Why does it float like that?" Was he writing something?

There was another girl, looked around Alice's age.. She said her name was Ava. "Nice to meet you Ava! I'm Alice!" There were so many new people.. How would she remember all the names?

Some boy (Zeke) smiled and waved her way, so of course she did the best. Her blue eyes, scanning him and all the other older students. She would be like them one day, looking at the younger ones.

Then.. some girl.. Luckily another redhead, but even so.. she hugged Alice.. Alice was shocked.. what would she even say? The girl did say sorry.. "Oh.. well it's okay.. my name's Alice." Her Scottish accent popping out as she smiled.. The girl was older and pretty and what Alice hoped to be.

The newly sorted Slytherin was curious to meet all of his new housemates, and excited to be in the same one with Rula (that was gonna be awesome), but he had the rest of the night to be with them. He only had a little while longer to go and find his cousins and sister.

Naturally, ladies came first. So he sought out Sharky at the Gryffindor table. It was so obvious which house was hers because one, everyone over here seemed to share her level of overt excitement, and two her name was being shouted out left and right.

No surprise, his cousin was popular.

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EVERYONE NEEDED TO SIT DOWN AND BE OUT OF HER WAY SO SHE COULD WATCH THE SORTING!

Charlotte had a LOT of IMPORTANT sortings to watch! TWO cousins, a BUNCHA friends, and most importantly, her BROTHER. OH MAN.

OH MAN this was NERVE WRACKING.

THERE WAS BASTIEN. BASTIEN WAS ON THE SEAT. BASTIEN HAD THE HAT. THE HAT WAS ON BASTIEN!!!!!

....

........

............ SLYTHERIN!?!? Woooo! JUST LIKE UNCLE NICO! Of course it would be WAY better if he had got Ravenclaw or Gryffindor but STILL! AAAAAAAAAAAH!

"YAY GO BAST!" The second year hollered and clapped for her cousin for long enough that she soon had to sit on her hands or else she'd be clapping non stop probably! She sat there on her hands and stamped her feet instead of applauding, unable to sit still for eagerness.

Whew. WHEW. OK. NEXT!!!!!

"Silly old hat thought he was gonna put me in any ol' house.." Not this Toussaint. He had plans. Bast took a seat beside his cousin, and took in the others at he table. Some where actually speaking to her, so he inclined his head at them but otherwise didn't engage. He had a sister to pick a house and a cousin.

But that didn't mean he couldn't talk to her. "Where do you think the others will get sorted?" Or the better question of where did they want to go, because that's all that had mattered with Bastien. "How close are our common rooms? You have to visit mine lots."

"GRYFFINDOR HOOOOOO!!!"

Tenacius breezed down the length of the table, HIGH FIVING anyone and everyone within his short reach. He cant believe it, he was actually here! He was a Gryffindor! His robes have turned red!

Then he heard the unmistakable voice of his childhood bestie "Ugo you're here too! AAAAHH!!" he pumped his bestie's shoulders excitedly. "Ace and Spades together again!" he laughed. He plopped himself onto the nearest seat, hand clasped over his chest as he can feel his heart beating wildly. "Man so that was Sorting! What an experience."

He waved both his hands beaming gleefully at all the Lions around him "Hi everybody hi!!"

Why?

Well THAT was the question now, wasn't it? And Maggie wasn't sure how to explain just why Paige's questions had bothered her so much. She sighed, then rubbed her forehead with her hand for a moment before placing it on top of Zeke's again. "Because..." Before she got the chance to elaborate, he said something else, however. Something that made her look up at him again. "No." Maggie replied without missing a beat. "Just the things she said..." They had made her...well, sad mostly really.

But she didn't really want to get into that right here, right now.

Noel though had apparently caught on to the fact that his appearance WAS in fact bad timing. She gave him a genuine sort of half-smile when he dismissed himself. "I'll come find you later..." Maggie said, though she wasn't sure he'd heard her. Her eyes followed the Hufflepuff for a few seconds after he'd turned around.

"I should...go too." Her voice lacked any sort of indication as to how she felt about that. As did her face when she looked back at Zeke again, it was just blank. Despite her announcement Maggie didn't really move yet though. "I just wanted to say sorry. And..." And what? "...and see how you were doing." She ended up saying. Yes. That.

Sounded good, no?

Ellery was back at Hogwarts and she had made a decision on the train ride over - that she would actually try to be social. Yes, she didn't really like meeting new people, but she WAS good at creating a spectacle, so she had crafted red and gold origami crowns and was wearing one to model it. She had a huge pile in front of her (sort of BRIBING others to come talk to her, yes) and she noticed her dorm mates seated nearby. She wanted to talk to them, but when she opened her mouth, her throat constricted and her tongue got all dry. Why was she so scared?

There was a boy there, too - Slytherin, she had just watched him get sorted. She tried yelling over at him: "I can make you a green one, if you want?" while gesturing at her crown, and was surprised when her voice worked. Why was she so strangely anxious??

Anyway. She slid her lipgloss out of her pocket and smoothed some more on. Fake it til you make it, yeah?

Kaycee flopped into one of the empty seats at the table. It hadn't even been 24 hours and she was already anxious and wanting her mirror. UGH. This school year was going to last FOREVER!

She glanced at the plates hoping by some miracle they'd just skip the speech this year.

No luck.

She looked around the table hoping that at least the students had all filed in. But nope. It was still kind of empty. But hey. Maggie was here. She gave her friend a smiled. And there was Zeke. He got a smile too. She wasn't close enough to hear what they were talking about, but it actually didn't seem good.

Hm. She'd have to find out more about that later.

In the meantime, something else caught her eye. Like... what was that thing at the staff table!? It was creepy AND it seemed to be shouting fortunes.

Did they get a random old lady fortune cookie person? Random.

Genny giggled at the boy's outburst, and shook his arm back. He seemed to be of awe at the castle just as much as she was. "I saw yours, too!" Though she wasn't very focused due to her nerves and bouncing on her feet. Oh they were shaking hands now. With a matching grin, she took his hand in hers and did a vigorous handshake. "You sure shout a lot, don't you?" Hence why she was laughing. Yelling wasn't all bad. Her parents never shouted (not around her anyway) but Genny wasn't one to back down when one did.

"I'm Genny Tate, I guess I will be your yearmate in Hogwarts." Adding him to the list of people she was meeting outside her parents' relations. "What do you think the headmistress will tell us on our first day at school?" Genny thought out loud. "Dad told me not to die."

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SPOILER!!: Genny and Tory!

There were two more new lions... Coolness! Ava also greeted both of them. The girl one seemed like she was a friend of Charlotte. "Hey guys, Welcome to the Lion side!"

Genny's attention snapped to an obviously older girl (though she looked about their age). "Thanks! What's your name?" Collecting friends from older years was not a bad idea. Her mum would've loved the strategic way in which her daughter was meeting people, really.

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"GRYFFINDOR HOOOOOO!!!"He waved both his hands beaming gleefully at all the Lions around him "Hi everybody hi!!"

And because Genny was technically few minutes old Gryffindor, she took it upon herself to greet the newly sorted too. "WOOOOHOOOOO!! Hiii!" She waved back at the curly-haired boy. "Tory and I just got sorted, too!" They should all go explore the common room together. With Sam. Who... must be here somewhere.

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Ellery was back at Hogwarts and she had made a decision on the train ride over - that she would actually try to be social. Yes, she didn't really like meeting new people, but she WAS good at creating a spectacle, so she had crafted red and gold origami crowns and was wearing one to model it. She had a huge pile in front of her (sort of BRIBING others to come talk to her, yes) and she noticed her dorm mates seated nearby. She wanted to talk to them, but when she opened her mouth, her throat constricted and her tongue got all dry. Why was she so scared?

There was a boy there, too - Slytherin, she had just watched him get sorted. She tried yelling over at him: "I can make you a green one, if you want?" while gesturing at her crown, and was surprised when her voice worked. Why was she so strangely anxious??

Anyway. She slid her lipgloss out of her pocket and smoothed some more on. Fake it til you make it, yeah?

Oh. Wow. WOW. Genny's eyes stuck on the pile of origami crowns for about a moment before she tugged on Tory's sleeve. "Let's get one of those." She didn't know what one would make of those (wearing them seemed childish but very appealing). She looked at the owner of said crowns, a little sheepish, wondering whether she was selling or giving them out freely?

Then the girl smacked on some lipgloss and Genny stared a little at the now-shiny mouth. It was puzzling how the older girl was planning on eating with this sticky substance on her mouth. "Are you selling those?" She finally asked smiling.

A PERSON WAS APPROACHING. Ellery glanced at the girl (a first year, good good). "HI! WELCOME TO GRYFFINDOR!" she said, smiling as widely as she could while dead inside. Selling? No, but she entertained the thought for a second.

"No, you can just take one." She handed two over, figuring the boy would want one too. "I'm Ellery Gwenog Borzekowski-Thomas and I'm a second year."

Tory feat still swinging some under the table as Genny talked. "Say thanks" He released their handshack and set his hand on his lap for the time being. (They won't be there for long of course). "I DO SHOUT A LOT" He happily shouted. "It's for all of the awesome songs I know. Do you like Classic Rock n Roll?"
Hmmm no offense meant to her Dad but 'Don't Die' seemed rather Basic. "I think the Headmistress should list off all the different ways we can die here. That way we can find a new one and then cheat death." Yup. Good one Torrance

Waaah! Oh it was Tenacious!! He stopped whatever it was he was doing then and there and stood up at placing one foot up where his but once was planted. He wrapped an arm around Ten's shoulder burst out into Song. "THE PLEASURE IS TO PLAY MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHAT YOU SAY! I DON'T SHARE YOUR GREED THE ONLY CARD I NEED IS THE ACE OF SPADES THE ACE OF SPADES!!" He stopped singing there and happily pat Ten on the shoulder. "Genny this is Ace, he's my best mate." He laughed happily. He hadn't had the chance to see Ace on the Train, and was dingy boat length apart from him before they were lead up to the Castle for their Sorting.

He smiled at the Girl (Ava) who greeted them to Gryffindor. She was nice. "Thanks I'm Tory, WHO the HELL are YOU?"

Oh cool Crowns! "Hey can you make one for me but more like a knights hat or something. I'm not interested in being a King" He nodded to the other unknown girl (Ellery). Taking a seat back down between Genny and Ace. He proceeded to kick his feet again only this time he felt his foot hit into the side of someone (Bentley)....Oops.

Hope was bombarded with hellos from fellow Gryffindors. That's right her FELLOW Gryffindors!! That was so amazing to say!!! "HI EVERYONE. IM HOPE! IM SO GLAD TO BE A GRYFFINDOR!"she called to all who said hi.

When Spence got gryffindor Hope whistled and cheered. As he sat down, Hope hugged him back. She almost gave him a kiss with her excitement but then remembered where she was and pulled back. " you would of been stuck with me anyway. You can't get rid of me that easy." she teased as she sat back down. "Merlin this is so exciting! I just new we would be Gryffindors together! This year is going to be great!" the smile on her face was huge.

A first year Jessie sat down beside Hope. The girl seemed a little shy and usually Hope was too, but her excitement over came her shyness. "Hi! I'm Hope. It's nice to meet you!! I'm so glad we are Gryffindors together." she smiled at the girl. And held out for her to shake.

Just as she was about to get a handshake from Jessie, Arista made her way over bear hugging her. Her babies?? She loved this girls spunk! "We grow up so fast. It's so amazing! Every one is being nice so far! I'm so glad to be a Gryffindor. I know I keep saying it, but I'm just too excited!!! Now we can hang out more!" Arista was surely going to become like a sister to Hope. And Thomas a brother. They were an amazing couple.

She cheered as more firsties were called out as Gryffindors. She didn't know how every one would fit on this table!

SEE!! Trixie knew that Gryffindor was the best house and now she had it confirmed from another student. "Wow!!" Gryffindor had won the House Cup last year. Thank Merlin the sorting hat had put her in this house. "That is so totally cool. Is it true that you get a year's supply of chocolate frogs for earning the most points?" She looked expectantly at the girl.

"Nice to meet you Ava." Trixie beamed back at the girl, she could already tell they were going to be friends.





Trixie had never been one to be nervous about anything, she took everything in her stride but she would be lying if she had said that she wasn't just a little apprehensive about coming to Hogwarts. She'd never had problems making friends but this was a new place and all.

Of course she had absolutely nothing to worry about. Everyone at the Gryffindor table was so nice. So nice in fact, that an older boy was greeting her and asking her to be apart of an initiation.

"Really?" Trixie clapped her hand together in excitement. "What do I have to do?"



Teehee.

Gryffindors were a rowdy lot. It was really quite infectious and Trixie found herself bouncing in her seat and she when she noticed another firstie walking down the table, high fiving people as he went well Trixie immediately held up her hand for one of those high fives.

"HELLO!" She called back to him, giving him an enthusiastic wave.

Having changed into her robes on the train, Sha was happily in her Gryffindor gear as she made her way into the Great Hall with AJ by her side. A wide smile was spread over her lips at the fact she was finally back home - even if she had had to leave her siblings behind at home home - and ready to start learning more advanced magics. As they made their way towards the correct table, the Welsh Lion's eyes searched for her best friend Lance. She had lost him on the train and was happy to see that he was at the table already with two sets next to him.

Perfect.

Slipping her hand into AJ's without thinking, Marsha tugged the brunette after her as she walked quickly towards Lance so that no-one else would steal the seats from them. Smiling at faces she recognised as she moved, she finally managed to PLOP down next to Lance, pulling AJ into the seat next to her. There.

… But she didn’t let go of AJ’s hand as she bumped her shoulder against Lance’s. ”Hey there.” Grinning wide, she got ready to watch the new group of students getting sorted. And obviously she would clap and whoop for all new Gryffindors… maybe she would realise she needed to let go of AJ’s hand then?

Just as he sat his bum down on the bench, he had to double take at the older lion. The one with the COOL name. Yea, that dude was awesome. CHECKIT. He got one of those nods all the older students did to one another.

CLassyyyyy.

He was in attempt of doing a 'bro-nod' back to Zeke, but something kinda sorta totally blocked his vision? Which would've been fine, except notepads and quills were very much his enemy. Definitely too early in the term to be having a brain of mush, but he'd let it slide, seeing as who it belonged to.

"Wait... what?" he leaned closer, lowering his voice, TOTALLY curious. "Did you have a plan or something?"

Because he certainly didn't.

Looking passed Blaise, his gaze met with another person giving him a smile.

Aw yes, smile number THREE!

Being classy was working.

Speaking of more smiles, he got smile number four from another one of the older students he'd seen around. Dang, this was like, a world record or something. He was feeling gooooood tonight. And starving. Definitely starving.

He gave one of those nods that he'd seen Zeke do in return. And a little wave, for extra measure, since she was older.

Super classy.

Respect your elders.

The young lion's legs were just about ready to make him stand up after he'd noticed some pretty awesome looking crowns being given out a little way down the Gryffindor table. Classy people needed crowns, for sure. That was a thing. The kinds and queens had them so... obviously he needed one.

Plus, they were cool.

But just as he was going to stand up, there were people plopping down next to him. Oomph whyyy. "Oh! Hey Marsha. Hey AJ," he grinned at the two of them, slowly settling himself back down and glancing towards the crowns. Nah, he could wait.

"Where'd you go on the train? Totally lost you."

Up up UUUUUP the ghost went. Right up through the middle of the Gryffindor table in his usual ceremonial manner and with en especially proud look upon his semitransparent features. Even his ruff seemed a bit more plump than usual - and that was because it most certainly was. Extra fluff per victorious term.

"GOOD EVENING, GRYFFINDORS!" he trumpeted complete with puffed out chest. "Welcome to our newly sorted, those lucky enough to have been granted the right by the Sorting Hat to join the ranks of the wizarding world's most brave of heart! I am Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington at your service. Resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower."

To conclude, he offered the table a gentleman's bow from the waist. He need not be careful this evening about his head wobbling too much as his ruff was more than sufficient enough to keep it in place.

As she made her way into the great hall, AJ realized this was literally one of the first times she had ever made it to the feast on time... no, scratch that... she was early. It was all thanks to the girl beside her too. Not having any distractions surely played a part in it too, but whatever the reason, here she was. The older lion let Marsha lead her over to her Gryffindor family. Apparently Sha had a certain seat in mind, and AJ was cool with any seating arrangement because there wasn't such a thing as a bad seat at the lion table.

Holding on to Sha's hand, AJ waved and fist bumped her friends as she went by. Look at their newest head boy. "Yoongi!" she hollered over her shoulder. "I see you working that badge." Which in AJ language meant 'congrats'. Oh, and there was their newest prefect, Candice. "Candy cane!" Where did that name come from? Who knew. AJ even surprised herself with her word vomit sometimes. "Guess you gotta be good now, eh?" Better her than AJ. Could you imagine? But, she was happy for her friend because apparently some people actually wanted to be a prefect.

One of her best friends caught her eye. "ARISTA!" She seemed to be in mid conversation, but you couldn't just walk by one of your besties and not holler at her. Before she could greet anymore people, they had reached their destination. AJ looked over at Lance and gave him a warm smile. "Sup, Lance?" The brunette didn't think anything about the hand holding situation because her and Sha were such good friends and they always seemed to be dragging the other places. It felt natural. Besides, she was still taking everything in, and never thought to take her hand back.

Jessie hung up her hand akwardly. Another girl hugged Hope make her can't finished their handshake.

"Nice name,Hope." Jessie laughed happily "I'm sure that you'll always be the hope of Gryffindor! "

Jessie looked around to see happiness surrounded her. When her eyes caught -again- to another student in different table. Slyterins.
This time Jessie tried to gave smiled when Raven landed her eyes to her. Smiling apologically according what happened between them before.

Admittedly, he did find Blaise amusing. He was still young and unburdened by... things. The idea of a one-sided food fight though, actually didn't do much for him. "I'm more of an all-out food fight kinda guy... but, I'm in," he shrugged, sorry but not sorry for sharing his opinion. And somehow he didn't think Candice would appreciate pudding in her hair, or Yoongi mashed potato on his face... as amusing as the idea was. If it were to happen though, he wouldn't object to being the first to break Blaise's conditions. The boys face would look great with a layer of cream.





He was remotely aware of loud first years... and second years, but it was a sound that was easily muted, shoved to the recesses of his mind. It almost amused him too, how the tables had turned, and fairly suddenly. He hated when Maggie avoided eye contact but now he felt he had to do the same... and so his head remained bent, his gaze trained on their interlocked hands. Because, sounded like a good way to start a response to his question, but there was a sinking feeling developing in his core that hoped she had escaping Paige and not him. Maggie's quick 'no' helped though, it did. It eased a part of him which in turn allowed him to breathe more freely.

Again he was on the verge of an answer, but was left waiting.

It was difficult to feel anything but indifference for a person you didn't really know... so when the Puffer announced his departure, Zeke was nothing short of pleased. He wouldn't feel bad for not welcoming the intrusion, not now, not tonight. And maybe now he could find some peace?

....

But no, now she wanted to leave? His eyes found hers and looked for... something, anything, but he couldn't make anything of her response.

Also now he was getting a little annoyed. The confusion was doing his head in, it just wasn't healthy. Had she realised? They'd had two hello's and one goodbye... maybe now a second, and not one kiss or hug or anything really of any significance to show for it. Even if he hadn't 'bothered' her, he couldn't help but feel as if he'd done something wrong somehow.

He was done.

"Right... well find me when you actually want to talk," he said slowly as he got out of his seat. Zeke rest a hand on her shoulder, giving it a gentle squeeze, but that was all he could manage for now. He needed space, apparently more-so than he needed dinner and so his legs carried him back toward the entrance hall. Maybe he'd stop by the training room.



He caught a glimpse of Kaycee as he moved to leave, and though he didn't have any beef with her he just couldn't bring himself to return the smile. Sorry.

And then Tory was belting out their song. "-- IS TO PLAY MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHAT YOU SAY! I DON'T SHARE YOUR GREED THE ONLY CARD I NEED IS THE ACE OF SPADES THE ACE OF SPADES!!" Tenacius headbanged along with him.

"Thanks Ugo!" for spreading his ickle baby name all over Hogwarts, so everybody should know his COOLNESS second name too, like it or not hah! "Great to meet ya Genny! Tenacius at your service." Bows like a questing dwarf. This is gonna be his thing innit?





"Hey we're Gryffindors! Raawwwrrr!!" Lion greets for the girl who gave him an enthusiastic high five back "Im Tenacius, whats you're name??"





And then there was this girl with a whole bunch of paper crowns. "Hey thanks!" the curly top grinned broadly as he held out his hand for one of the crowns. Those are gifts for the new Gryffindors yes?

No?

Between Genny asking if it was being sold and Tory requesting to make it a knight's helmet, Tenacius has this look on his face. "Well if Ugo don’t want it then I do." Hand still outstretched to you missy. "Aint those some kind of welcome gifts for us honored guests?" says the son of the hotelier. He knows his complimentary gifts.




But oh oh oh-- Ghost in the House!! Tenacius sat back startled for a second taking in the sight before him. Then before he knew it he started to poke the ghost with his finger "Cool! Your see-through-y! Hey there Sir Nick of the DMP!" yeah he's totally calling him that because unpronounceable names "I'm Tenacius!"

AAAAAAAH!!! KATY WAS A SLYTHERIN! That was GOOD BECAUSE it meant that BASTIEN could LOOK AFTER HER. Two cousins down, brother and more friends to go! This was the best! Watching sorting was WAY more exciting than doing it yourself, Char decided.

And look it was Genny's turn!!!!

AAAAAAH!!!

Though she HAD been sitting on her hands, Charlotte thrust them up in the air in celebration, totally overwhelmed by the fact that someone fun and awesome like Genny was GOING TO BE IN THE SAME HOUSE AS HER! If she couldn't be a Ravenclaw, and she'd promised Benzi and Zander that she would try doing things right in Gryffindor, then Char was going to be the BEST and PROUDEST Gryffindor around.

She waved both hands at Genny and ROARED in excitement.

"YAAAAY! You're gonna be in a dorm like RIGHT BY MY DORM FOR FOREVER!" Yeah!!! Next dorm over!!

Charlotte turned her attention to Blaise and beamed at him. "Sure am! LOOK, my cousins just got Slytherin! AND GENNY TATE IS MY FRIEND AND SHE IS GRYFFINDOR LIKE US and my brother is getting sorted soon TOO!" SO exciting!

Wait what? Fun later?

"Sure!" Charlotte said immediately, having no need to actually ask what said fun would entail. She was up for it. FUN! YEAH!


"I don't KNOW what house he's going to be in." Really. "He is REALLY smart definitely!" Char stood up and pointed up at the waiting gaaggle of first years.

"That one! That's Callum, my brother! HI CALLUM!" She waved enthusiastically and then beamed at Ava. WASN'T THIS THE BEST? "Do YOU have any friends or family sorting?" Because if not, that was alright, Charlotte didn't mind sharing.


Speaking of family, HERE WAS FAMILY.

"Bast!" Charlotte shrieked excitedly and wrapped her arms around him. "Look, Katy got Slytherin TOO!" She pointed over at the younger blonde Toussaint girl and then sat down and just generally beamed all around at everyone, making sure they saw she was claiming family right here.

"I don't know! I don't know its so exciting I CAN'T EVEN BREATHE!" Not true, she was breathing just fine, but DRAMATICALLY. This was A BIG EXCITING DEAL.

"You have to visit MINE actually because mine is UP in the towers really high aand yours is in the dungeon and there are no fat Gryffindors because you have to walk up a LOT of stairs and you don't want to get fat so you should walk up them and come see me." Obviously, Bast.




"OOOH!" FREE HATS? Char immediately leaned over and took one from her dormmate and put it right on.

"This is my cousin Bastien!" She informed her. JUST so she knew. CHAR's cousin.


"YOUR DAD told ME not to die TOO!" Charlotte chimed in helpfully. And you know what? So far she had NOT died. Things were going WELL.

Okay but it was WAY funner when Nearly Headless Nick's head actually came off. Char was impatient when he started talking and didn't care about the ruff. He talked a lot and there wasn't a single thing she hadn't heard before.

Char watched and held her breath as he bowed but NOPE it stayed ON. HIS HEAD STAYED ON. So she decided to speak up.

"Hey Mr Nearly-Headless Nick! PLEASE show us what you can do with your head, its SO FUNNY!" And the FIRST YEARS NEEDED TO KNOW.

And speaking of first years, Liv was up! Charlotte watched as Olivia Phillips was called and she sat and got the hat on and.... and... GRYFFINDOR!!!

AND ALSO HOLY MOLY! LIV WAS A GRYFFINDOR TOO! THIS WAS AMAZING! Char went ahead and joined RIGHT ON IN on the little victory dance she saw Liv doing.

Maybe Gryffindor would be kind of amazing after all! MAYBE ZANDER ADAIR WAS RIGHT!

Trouble on the train? "Not that I could think of." Hmm... "Oh. But There's a Hag spotted on the train but she went POOF!" She told Yoongi. Other than that there's no trouble at all. "I think I saw her at the entrance." She mean the Hag just in case the Head Boy was wondering what she's talking about. But she saw Dot already on it so she didn't see the point to approach the Hag too.

And he changed the topic to the new Professors. "Yup. Just look at that Professor McDreamy, McSteamy and McVet. Moxley definitely got a good eyes." She's devastated when she know Dakest was leaving but now after seeing all the new Professors, Dakest who?

"I will talk to you later, yeah Yoongi." Blaise told her to move from her seat because of weevles. Well, she hoped they didn't bite him since he sat across to her but maybe there's no weevles on his side, who knows?



She's really thankful that Blaise warned her about the weevles or she might end up with a biting marks here and there the first day she's back to Hogwarts. She didn't want that. Nope.

Did he say food? "I have some chocolate frogs if you want?" She took out some chocolate frogs from her pocket and offered him all of it. She didn't eat chocolate so he could have them. That if he's into chocolate frogs And its her way to say thank you for warning her about that bugs.



"Nice to meet you too, Trixie." She gave the girl a small smile and a nod. What should she do next? She's horrible at this. Talking with people. Then the girl was saying something about her being pretty smart to be a Prefect. "I don't know about the smart part but yes to the pretty part." Cocky much, Messer? The little lioness got a wink.

"Are you the first one in your family who's sorted to Gryffindor?" Was that an appropriate question to ask to a first year?



She just waved her off. "Its fine. Its just too early for me to deal with loud voice." Or too late. She was dealing with Henric earlier on the ttrain ride and that already drained most of energy. "Yes, but I'm not complaining." Nu-uh. The opposite actually, she was pretty happy with the new Professors. Now she has a new reason to get up early for classes because she want to sit on the first row.

"Oh. Cool. And Happy Belated Birthday." Plans? What plans? AAAhhhh.....Tha one. "We'll talk later, yeah?" She couldn't actually plotting something here during the feast where she has to act all prefect-y.

And then she heard a loud squeal. A very LOUD one. Its a sign that Charlotte has arrived at their table. Candice gave the younger lioness a nod. Well, at least she's sitting all the way down so she's kinda safe from all the buzzing.


She saw a familiar face. OH! Its Abby. She wondered where's the other two Valentines? They should be here by now, no? But Abby got a 'Hello' nod from her tho. She didn't really know the girl that well so a nod would do.

And when she was about to ask Abby where's her sisters, one of the Valentines appeared. She gave AJ a stinky eyes when she heard that horrid nickname. Why did everyone liked to call her that? Didn't they know that she HATED that nickname? She didn't even like candy for Merlin's sake! But since its AJ, "Its Prefect Messer to you!" Wink. She has to be good? "Define good?" She still the same Candice Messer, AJ. Just got a new badge that's all.



Candice turned her attention back to the sorting ceremony and saw a few students got sorted to Gryffindor. She saw them walking towards their table. Two of them looked pretty normal not all shouting and stuffs. But the last one was a bit enthusiastic. "Welcome to Gryffindor" She gave the three new sorted Lions a nod. She hoped they hear her since she's sitting on the very bottom of the table.



Candice was still observing more like ogling the Staff table when she spotted a familiar figure walking toward the Lion's table.

"Colt! Over here!" She waved hopefully the Slytherin saw her.



She was wondering where Sir Nicholas was. Usually the ghost already made an appearance by now.

OH! There he's.

"Hello, Sir Nicholas. How are you?"

HE WAS A GRYFFINDOR!!!

"Char!" Callum called again, racing for his big sister. There was adrenaline, there was shock and surprise, there was elation and excitement and everything all at once, and most of all, he was relieved. He had not realized how desperately he wanted to be in Gryffindor with his sister before, but he felt it now, and he wanted nothing more than to wrap her up in the biggest hug he could muster.

Which, clearly, he was going to do as his arms were wide open as he neared her.

"I'm a Gryffindor like you!!!" Could she believe it?!