"Hello Lady Helena," Kitty greeted the Grey Lady with a wave and smile as she entered the hallway. "It's great to see you again. How was everything at Hogwarts while we were gone? Are Miffy and Peeves behaving?" She hadn't seen them yet. Maybe now that they were married they wouldn't be causing trouble?

Then directing her attention back to Charlie, (who Kitty found simply adorable) she said, " You're going to love it here, Charlie. Do you have any siblings at Hogwarts?"

Was it just her, or did Katherine turn away right when she was about to take her picture? Huh. Well, if she didn't want her picture taken, Kitty wasn't going to force her. Maybe later she'd give her permission to take a picture.

Kitty turned her attention to the feast and began sipping tea.

Leon had a small smile on his face as Kitty started to speak excitedly. He sat back and let her words flow over him, his grey eyes focused on the dark haired girl as she rambled on for a few moments. "I'm glad to hear that your summer went well " He said with a nod as he titled his head as she spoke about muggles. "I wouldn't assume you would do things any other way. " The 7th year said with a nod. Sure Ravenclaws may be smart and crafty, but at least the prefects wouldn't stoop to any illegal means of doing things..

He hoped at least.

Her question pulled him out of those thoughts though and pushed new ones forward in his brain. How HAD his summer been? "It was informative." It wasn't everyday that one leaned they had a half sister, and he had heard the information from an absent father whose curt and acerbic letter had left him wanting nothing to do with the man whose name he currently bore. Though it had put a drive in him to protect his younger half sister and made him even more grateful for his step father. Who was ironically a cousin of his actual dad.



Leon smiled at the wave back from Cassie and in an effort to distract himself from the thoughts whirling around in his head as well as the gnawing hunger in his stomach he decided to speak to the younger girl.

"How was your Summer? " An innocuous question really, one that seemed commonly passed out at the beginning of term, but at least it was conversation.



Leon tried to hide the small smirk on his face as the little Ravenclaw spoke to him excitedly. He remembered his first feast and how he had been awed when a 7th year had spoken to him. And now he was in the same place.

"I'm Leon, and you are Charlie right? " He asked the small girl. "Are you happy with where the Hat put you? Ravenclaw is the best house there is. " The grey eyed boy had some pride in his voice as he spoke. He loved his house.

"Feel free to ask me any questions, I've been here a long time. " Going on his seventh year in fact..Merlin, where had the time gone?



Ahh there she was. Leon always looked forward to the arrival of the ghosts and today was no different. "Hello Lady Helena, How are you? Did your summer go well? " He asked curiously.

Did ghosts even have summer?

Jacob started as someone began talking to him. He had been caught up in his own mind, still thinking about the differences between the Ilvermorny sorting and the Hogwarts sorting. He made a mental note to go to the library and look up the origins of each... He knew the house origins but not the actual ceremonies' origins... Must figure that out. Anyway, right, someone was talking to him.

"Oh, erm, yeah, hi," he said, blushing just a bit and hoping she didn't realize he hadn't the foggiest what she'd just said. He noticed a gleam of light coming from her robes and glanced down at a shiny object pinned to them. Ah. Prefect badge. So she must be... He racked his brain, trying to remember the names of the prefects he'd been told by someone on the train. Cat? Something like that? He would just wait to hear someone else say it before he dared to call her anything. At least she seemed nice.

And then she whipped a camera out. He ducked instinctively, his mother having been one to subject him and his brother to incessant photo shoots as they grew up. He loathed having his picture taken. Still, he realized that that was probably a strange reaction and raised his head cautiously, the beet red blush spreading further across his face.



Glad for a distraction from the camera hubbub, Jacob straightened his tie and turned as the Grey Lady began to speak. He had begun to get used to the presence of ghosts around the castle last year, but he had almost forgotten over the summer. He tried not to look apprehensive as she settled beside him. "Nice to see you again," he said to her. "I hope you had a good summer." The Grey Lady was one thing. She was nice. The Bloody Baron, on the other hand... Jacob was terrified of a little freaked out by him still, even though the ghost had never done anything to make him feel that way. He just seemed scary, what with all the blood and chains and whatnot.

Hadzters || before the speech bcz awkward xD