So they were going to be okay? She sent the two a quick look as if to say call me if you need anything. Then Olivia smiled warmly as she watched Vivian and Skylar continue down the corridor. Those two... She chuckled and shook her head. Speaking of friends like that, where was Etta, Mel, Luci, or Noelle? Well... Etta or Noelle were probably in the Prefect compartment by now with Ace and... Wait. Vivian was headed to the Prefect compartment AND Skylar was talking about a very important person. In that second, everything made more sense. "Ohh...." she said. She'd have to congratulate her sweets shopping friend later on becoming the New Slytherin Prefect! How exciting!

She glanced down at the younger girl and grinned. Her enthusiasm was just so... SO infectious! Ah the castle... "It is beautiful. More beautiful than words do it justice," said Olivia. It was her favourite place. Though Beauxbatons was perhaps prettier aesthetically in her opinion but Hogwarts was so much more than that... It was majestic and filled with such fond memories and friends that the brunette would easily choose Hogwarts over Beauxbatons any day. "The feast is incredible too. I'm Olivia. Are you a new student coming to Hogwarts?" she asked for she was fairly certain that she hadn't seen the younger girl before.

Just as she was about to open her mouth, a familiar voice cried out. OI? Vi blinked and watched as Derf ran down the corridor after something. Well wasn't this a familiar scene. It reminded her of the first time they met... Back when he was an ickle first year. He wasn't so little anymore. He was going into his third year and... Merlin. She watched as the younger girl darted after the moving chocolate frog (was it? it looked like one but it was hard to recognize it as it kept on moving so quickly). And then the chocolate frog was squished and melting.... "Hey Derf!" she waved to the third year Hufflepuff. "Looks like the chocolate frog was trying to escape..." she smiled. Too bad that it had melted... but such was life at times.

Wow. Whatever reaction he had thought he would get for complimenting her dress, it had not been that. He had expected her to wave it off or at least become embarrassed but her reaction looked like she had been waiting all day for someone to say this. It was a pretty dress even people without fashion sense could see that..aka him... Ok he wasn't TERRIBLE at dressing up because his father had worked years as a stylist in the modeling industry before he started working for the Ministry so he knew a bit, he simple did not care at this age.

So it was a plain black jeans, with a plain green shirt with plain sneakers he was wearing today.

"My name is Dorian, i'm a first year" he said as the train swayed to the left and he stumbled, trying to keep his balance. "Do you mind if i sit here? I don't know where else i can sit" besides the floor if the train swayed again...

Oh, she could already see it! She'd have Des send samples, Papa too, it would be amazing. Of course, at school they usually wore a uniform but Dad said on weekends she could dress however she liked and Philippa was fully planning on being the best dressed person at Hogwarts.

She HAD to be. She was a professional!

"Hi Dorian, my name is Phi-" and her sentence was cut short when the train swayed, clutching onto her seat to not fall off. "- Philippa." She smiled and nodded, crossing her legs as her hand automatically went to her hair. Train movements were not good for it, the cute bun updo she had would soon slip. Philippa patted down some bobby pins and made sure everything was still in order.

"You're allowed to sit anywhere on the train," she said to him with authority, already having given him permission to sit with her nod. She liked that he asked. She thought it was wonderful that he knew he was supposed to ask. Wonderful Dorian! "I'm a first year too. Did your parents go to Hogwarts?"

Not wasting to be told twice, Dorian quickly sat down on the opposite side of the girl before the train would sway again and he'd be embarrassing himself. He then moved closer to the window and looked outside. He was used to landscape like this so it wasn't as breathtaking as his dad had told him. He had found that a lot of what his dad had told him was a bit exaggerated. But no matter, there was still the castle to look forward to. But he sweared, if it wasn't as magnificent looking as his dad had made it out to be he would owl him a dissapointed letter.

"Nice to meet you Philippa" he said, excitement rising in his voice as the girl told that she was a first year as well. He turned away from looking out of the window to look at her. "My dad went" he said, not in the mood to explain that he wasn't his real dad and that his real parents had been muggles cause that would take too much time. "He was a Slytherin Prefect, cool right?" 'cause OBVIOUSLY people needed to know that. "But i hope to be in Ravenclaw" he added as a final thought. "What about you?"

She looked out the window when he did, curious to see if there was something interesting or if he was just looking. Philippa always wanted to know if something interesting was going on. Dad said it made her "inquisitive". Papa said it made her a gossip, but her and Dad have agreed to not listen to Papa sometimes.

... She already missed them.

Philippa perked up. "That is cool! My Papa was a Slytherin, and my Dad was a Ravenclaw," she nodded, eyeing her fingernails as they caught the light. She had a glittery green on today, because she was going to get Slytherin and she knew it. She was more like Papa than Dad. Even Dad admitted it.

"I want to be a Slytherin," she said, and help up her fingers. "But Ravenclaw is okay too. Not the other houses, I'll make the hat put me in Ravenclaw or Slytherin if it tries to put me somewhere else," Philippa said with a slight jut of her chin, haughty and determined. No silly sorting hat would ruin her dreams. No sir.

UGH! SO close!... But not fast enough to evade her brother's sight.. " Yes, Edward?... How may I help you? " , Randa asked as she turned around and entered her brother's compartment. She knew better than to think that he actually wanted her to sit with him... And it wasn't like him to invite anyone to sit with him unless it served some sort of purpose that he he would benefit from somehow... " Whos your friend? ", She added as she pointed to the other Slytherin in the compartment.

Well, here he was again. Once again on the train to Hogwarts and once again leaving his siblings at home. Though, as much as he hoped and wished they were older and here with him... he really couldn't imagine having siblings old enough to be at Hogwarts yet.

So it was just as well they were still two. He had time to wait for the heart attack that would accompany their first train ride. He was pretty sure it would hurt him as much as Gwynfor's cries had as he had walked away from them to get himself sorted or suck as much as saying good bye to Toric yesterday had.

Nope. So not going there.

This was his last year, and he was going to work just as hard this year with his training and his studying. He had a Uni course to get into.

Sighing, he focused on finding his friends instead of daydreaming - after all the train was too busy to not be looking where you were going. Even if he had to look down to see most people... at least it was handy when getting sweets from the kitchens or books from the stacks.

Now... Zara, Henry, Rian, Olly, Daisy, Charlotte, Mel... Where are you???

Emma was SO EXITED. IT WAS FINALLY HAPPENING. The moment she'd waited her WHOLE life for (one of them, she had a LOT of moments to still wait for), her FIRST train ride EVER to Hogwarts. She was SO excited about getting to go to Hogwarts, that she all but rushed away from her parents and brothers except Lulu because she really wanted him to be with her at Hogwarts and it was SAD he wasn't allowed yet and no papa was sad BUT STILL HOGWARTS. There was a LOT of people that she WAS getting to be with again that she hadn't gotten to be with in a LONG long time.

After getting all the candy she wanted with Derf (yay chocolate frog races!) and making sure she had Davie on the train with her, which was HARD since her parents still didn't know about him, the first year was searching for THE COOLEST PERSON EVER to be at Hogwarts. "Sharky, sharky, Charlotte, sharky..." She chanted to herself as she obnoxiously stuck her face into every single compartment window that she could find. Some people got waves when they noticed her, and others got silly faces. Eventually someone directed her to where her favorite person usually sat and she RAN through the train up to the front.

"CHARLOTTE!" Emma threw open the compartment door, all BIG cheesy grins and bright eyes, and almost almost threw herself at Char for hugs until she noticed that there was someone else in there - and music and snacks and reading stuff - so she kindly skipped inside and shut the door. "H!" She waaaaved at the other girl. "Are you Charlotte's friend TOO?" That was her way of saying that YES, she was friends with Char, coolest person here, which made her cool too, so if she wasn't she should be TOTALLY jealous and try to be BOTH their friends cause Emma liked those.

.... And then she hugged Char and sat herself riiiiight beside her. "Whatcha listening to?"

Smiling when she heard a voice Skyler looked up. "Of course you can!" Whew!! At least she was no longer completely alone!! That was a step in the right direction. "I'm Sklyer ... first year." She added, that was probably obvious based off how small she was. Well she may be small in stature but she sure made up for it in personality.

"I'm rather nervous." She added, oh boy ... she was babbling, Skyler tended to do that when nervous, the only person who could usually calm her down was her brother ... .but better to no get caught up in that subject as well.

She laughed softly at her excitement "Thank you" she said beaming as she stepped inside and took a seat putting her small bag beside her on the bench. "I'm Emma, third year Hufflepuff." She could tell she was a first year but didn't want to be rude. She hated sitting alone herself and was grateful for the option to sit with her.

"Oh, there's no need honestly. I was the same though. Are you hoping for a particular house?" The babbling didn't bother her, her and her best friend Aurora were always babbling according to mum.