Alice sat.

And looked at the vague note from Dora that explained absolutely NOTHING about what she was doing there, in the Headmistress' seating area.

And waited. And sat some more.

The note said enough.

She just needed her bestie HERE. Dora came in not a moment after, and immediately sunk into the seat beside Alice. "You gotta pay to get into your common room?" Her head turned enough so that she could see Alice proper, and she sort of let her eyes say everything else she was thinking.

Yeah.

After walking up to her common room entrance and seeing the new development the fourth year had some questions.

"Yeah. But I'm not. I still haven't gone in. I'd rather sleep in the corridor. Does the Room of Requirement work?" Alice assumed Dora had to pay, too, and her look told her enough. So was that what they were doing here, then? Interrogating the Headmistress about what she was planning on doing? Because this was nuts.

She approved.

Questions were being formed. They remained there, right on the tip of her tongue, ready for rapid firing. Bring the Bunz on, Alice was PREPARED.

So having had put a system together for the Puffers who couldn't pay their way into the Common Room. Oakey left the Kitchen with Renesmee who had really wanted to see The Headmistress about this whole payment thing.
He also had a separate reason for seeing her, but he'll save it for after Renesmee talks to to Truebridge.

He looked ahead and to his surprise saw two others already sitting on the pink couches. So the Headmistress gets to keep her fancy pink furniture but we have to pay to enter the Common Rooms. There better not be a fee to see her now too.

The other two were the Gryffindor Captain, and a Ravenclaw Girl he had not yet fully met. Although he was positive her name was Isabella, or something close to that, or whatever. "Hey" Oakey said sitting down on the couch. His voice was straining already from trying to grab all the puffer's attention down at the kitchen.

Anastasia had barely had a chance to sit down in her office and eat her delivered, well-cooked, and tasty catered meal before she was alerted to the presence of students out of bed in the corridors.

The stone gargoyles informed her that they were waiting for her, in fact, and that several of them were her precious student leaders. Guess that meant she had to go see what she wanted. The redhead sighed and placed her cloth napkin atop her still warm plate. She begrudgingly trotted down to her seating area and crossed her arms as she emerged.

"Yessssss?" What was the issue now, children?

Thank goodness for Oakey. Seriously otherwise the possibility of Ness screeching would have been much higher because that's what she did when she freaked out, got mad...really whenever she was confused with her emotions. She couldn't do that anymore though, she needed to take charge and deal with things better and of course that was easier with a friend than alone.

Pink. Pink bright coloured sofas were what met Nessie's eyes as they reached the Headmistresses office. So apparently broke school's could keep pink coloured unessecary furniture, but make their kid's pay an entrance fee to get inside their common rooms. Tooooottaaly fair....not.

Caalm though, she needed to stay calm. Breathe in and then one out. This would all be fine.

Both Alice and the Ravenclaw with her each got nods. Next Nessie followed Oakey and plonked on the couch only to get up again at the sight of her Headmistress. She bit her lip looked to see if the others wanted to talk first and decided it was best to just blurt things out, before a change of mind. "Sorry to bother you, Headmistress and I don't mean any offence..." Because politeness was still important. "I ..we just decided to come here because this whole paying thing to get inside our common rooms, it's not really fair on us. I mean I get that for some reason the school's all changed now, but it's just most of us are kids Professor...we can't pay." It wasn't about the money for Ness though, she was more concerned about the fairness of it, thus she itched to comment on the couches but knew that wasn't a good idea.

So um..Truebridge wouldn't get mad at them for being here about this, yeah? Merlin, this whole thing. Deep breathes, deep breathes, that's what she needed.

"We can try it out after this if you like," It had to be clean and free of some charge system she hoped. If not then maybe they could just stay in HERE for a while since this couch was kinda nice. She wondered if the headmistress cleaned this herself or not.

Dora didn't say anything back, but she did acknowledge him and his friend with a wave. They were probably here for the same reason... maybe more noble since they were Hufflepuffs and all.

She didn't really care though, so long as they were going to help and not hinder her and Alice.

Her eyes settled on the headmistress when she arrived, but Dora didn't move from her seat or say anything since the Hufflepuff was speaking. But when Ness was doooooone, she followed up with her say without missing a beat. "It's not fair to us. I don't have any knuts on me, so even if I wanted to pay and get into my common room, I couldn't. Why do we have to pay in the first place? I get that Hogwarts is bankrupt, but why do WE the students have to pay just to get into our common room? Why every single time? Why not just once? Is there not another way so we don't have to carry all those knuts around?"

"Do we have to pay for other things as well? And can we cook our own meals cause the meal tonight was subpar, and I'd rather just cook my own meals if allowed." She'd also cook for her friends too, that kind of went without saying. "Is this how Hogwarts plans on getting it's money back? By charging students with no source of income for room and board?" She was genuinely curious as these were things she need to KNOW before she went about writing letters and planing how to make this term work under these circumstances.

There were a few more questions she had, but she saved them all and waited to see if Alice or head boy Oakey (she saw that badge) had some they wanted to ask the headmistress.

Alice had more questions to add on to Dora's. "I don't mind paying either," she started, acknowledging Oakey and Ness with a nod of her head and then redirecting her attention back to Truebridge, "but I haven't got any knuts on me as well. Can I just live in the corridor anyway? Dora and I stayed out there last night, used the second floor bathroom when we needed it and all, slept on our trunks and stuff." And it was so uncomfortable, but she didn't have the money, and borrowing wasn't necessary when she was perfectly capable of handling things by herself.

She could handle it.

"And even if we did get in, I heard from some of my housemates that the CR's still a mess. So what's the point, anyway? Could we try the Room of Requirement, maybe?" Or did Hogwarts bankruptcy affect that, too? "And I know that Hogwarts is cutting back and we should be trying to help 'cause it's our school and all, but it's not our fault that it's broke, right? Isn't there another way to earn things back than having us pay for every little thing we do around the castle? Fundraising, maybe, or donations or something?"

The could all help with THAT. Just not paying for dormitories that were filthy anyway?

Oakey sat and listened to The Three Girls Express their opinion on the whole Money-Grubbing Hogwarts Situation. His eyebrows raised when he heard that Gryffindors and Ravenclaws who couldn't pay just slept outside and around the school. He moved his gaze over to the Headmistress who he was sure was not going to like hearing that students were out of their common rooms past curfew.

He had heard that Slytherins, or more specifically Dylan had paid for each of the snakes to get into the common room once already. He himself put out a jar saved up knuts and sickles from over the years for those who couldn't pay on their own. Oakey finally sat up himself and chimed in "I agree that it's not fair." he said bluntly. "and I also think Alice has a point as well, Why not just do another large function like the Library Auction from last year? That was a big success wasn't it?" How did all of that money just vanish? His Grandmother spent half his university savings to win him the vial of liquid luck that rested around his neck still unused.

Now he had some disagreeing to do to. "It really isn't that difficult to clean the Common Rooms." He turned back to Alice. "Just use Scourgify a lot on the dusty surfaces. The Musty smell goes right out if you open the windows as well. If you all have the same issue as ours does I mean." He was going to see Mr.Firth about getting Firewood to the Common Room. So the walk was the only large amount of work he'd have to do to help clean it up.

To him it sounded like the Lions and Eagles needed to pool their money together, and not sleep outside.

Mmmkay, so everyone here CLEARLY didn't look happy to be here, and Bunz wasn't happy to be here, so... why were they all here then? The redhead's blue eyes darted from one student to the next as they all spoke... and what came out of their mouths? NOTHING BUT COMPLAINING. You would THINK that they would have taken her speech at the start of term to heart. BUT NOOOOOOO. Here they all were, WHINING about LIFE not being FAIR.

Anastasia waited until everyone had said their piece... so far... and then she cleared her throat important. She sincerely hoped they had all come to this little tête-à-tête hungry, because they were ABOUT TO GET SERVEDDDD.

SPOILER!!: THE HEAD GIRL GOES FIRST

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Thank goodness for Oakey. Seriously otherwise the possibility of Ness screeching would have been much higher because that's what she did when she freaked out, got mad...really whenever she was confused with her emotions. She couldn't do that anymore though, she needed to take charge and deal with things better and of course that was easier with a friend than alone.

Pink. Pink bright coloured sofas were what met Nessie's eyes as they reached the Headmistresses office. So apparently broke school's could keep pink coloured unessecary furniture, but make their kid's pay an entrance fee to get inside their common rooms. Tooooottaaly fair....not.

Caalm though, she needed to stay calm. Breathe in and then one out. This would all be fine.

Both Alice and the Ravenclaw with her each got nods. Next Nessie followed Oakey and plonked on the couch only to get up again at the sight of her Headmistress. She bit her lip looked to see if the others wanted to talk first and decided it was best to just blurt things out, before a change of mind. "Sorry to bother you, Headmistress and I don't mean any offence..." Because politeness was still important. "I ..we just decided to come here because this whole paying thing to get inside our common rooms, it's not really fair on us. I mean I get that for some reason the school's all changed now, but it's just most of us are kids Professor...we can't pay." It wasn't about the money for Ness though, she was more concerned about the fairness of it, thus she itched to comment on the couches but knew that wasn't a good idea.

So um..Truebridge wouldn't get mad at them for being here about this, yeah? Merlin, this whole thing. Deep breathes, deep breathes, that's what she needed.

Oh Annie KNEW this wasn't going to be pretty when the child started off with 'sorry' and 'no offense.' That almost guarantEED that she was going to be offended by whatever came tumbling out of her mouth next. And sure enough, she sure was.

"Excuse me, Miss Dixon, but maybe you can clarify something for me before we go any further here." Arms still crossed, Annie held up one finger impatiently. "How is this flat fee, which appears across all FOUR common rooms, unfair? Did we not pay for those beds for you? Did we not provide bedding for you? Did we not supply seating and a common area for you all to study and bond in?

"These things cost MONEY, Miss Dixon, to keep up and to purchase in the first place. Money that we as an institution no longer have. Are you children? Yes. But does that mean you should not be expected to chip in? No. Does that exclude you from shouldering a portion of the responsibility for the school that also serves as your home away from home? No. I do not think you would be addressing your parents this same way if they started charging you rent, Miss Dixon, and frankly, I do not take kindly to this line of whining. ESPECIALLY from the Head Girl who should be backing the staff who chose her as a leader, not attacking them."

SPOILER!!: BIG WHINER #2

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"We can try it out after this if you like," It had to be clean and free of some charge system she hoped. If not then maybe they could just stay in HERE for a while since this couch was kinda nice. She wondered if the headmistress cleaned this herself or not.

Dora didn't say anything back, but she did acknowledge him and his friend with a wave. They were probably here for the same reason... maybe more noble since they were Hufflepuffs and all.

She didn't really care though, so long as they were going to help and not hinder her and Alice.

Her eyes settled on the headmistress when she arrived, but Dora didn't move from her seat or say anything since the Hufflepuff was speaking. But when Ness was doooooone, she followed up with her say without missing a beat. "It's not fair to us. I don't have any knuts on me, so even if I wanted to pay and get into my common room, I couldn't. Why do we have to pay in the first place? I get that Hogwarts is bankrupt, but why do WE the students have to pay just to get into our common room? Why every single time? Why not just once? Is there not another way so we don't have to carry all those knuts around?"

"Do we have to pay for other things as well? And can we cook our own meals cause the meal tonight was subpar, and I'd rather just cook my own meals if allowed." She'd also cook for her friends too, that kind of went without saying. "Is this how Hogwarts plans on getting it's money back? By charging students with no source of income for room and board?" She was genuinely curious as these were things she need to KNOW before she went about writing letters and planing how to make this term work under these circumstances.

There were a few more questions she had, but she saved them all and waited to see if Alice or head boy Oakey (she saw that badge) had some they wanted to ask the headmistress.

With that, which Anastasia had amazingly been to deliver without hardly raising her voice at all, the redhead whirled on the second whiner. The biggest whiner of them all. Miroslaaaava.

"Did you try paying with any other type of coin, Miss Miroslava?" And Annie had to bite her tongue then to keep from throwing some flippant insult the girl's way. Something about being mis-sorted into the oh-so-intelligent house of Ravenclaw was just itching to get out of her mouth, but the redhead held it back. For now.

"If you had actually tried to pay your entrance fee, as so many of your fellow students did, you might realize that the turnstiles automatically adjust themselves to accept any form of coin, and then allow you admittance for as many entrances as the coin is worth. For example, one galleon into the turnstile would allow to walk into your common room FOUR HUNDRED and NINETY-THREE different times."

She miiiiiiight have raised her voice a liiiiiittle bit then, but overall, the Headmistress was still proud of the patience she was exhibiting here. She let out a short snort-sigh as the questions just continued coming.

"I believe that answers the rest of your financial questions, Miss Miroslava, and as I already addressed the issue of fairness with Miss Dixon, I do not think it is necessary to respond to your childish protests of 'why me.' WHY HOGWARTS is what you should be asking, young lady, not WHY ME. At least you still HAVE a school to attend and an excellent teaching staff to learn from. We're all in this boat together. Do you think WE, the staff, like not having the basic supplies we need to teach our lessons? Do you think WE like not knowing from one week to the next whether or not we'll be PAID?!!!"

All right, all right, now the frustration was coming out some. She took a short breath. "The castle and the kitchens are open to all who feel it is necessary to supplement their nutritious, already provided meals with extra junk, should our few remaining house elves permit their entry. As for our plans to save Hogwarts---" She cut herself off and snapped a furious, extremely judgmental glare down the length of the girl's body.

"I would hardly say you have no source of income. And I will not be discussing the stability of the school's financial future with you any further, Miroslava, so have your parents --- YOUR source of income --- owl me if they insist."

SPOILER!!: MEAN SOUR LEMON JK AND OL' OAKEY

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Alice had more questions to add on to Dora's. "I don't mind paying either," she started, acknowledging Oakey and Ness with a nod of her head and then redirecting her attention back to Truebridge, "but I haven't got any knuts on me as well. Can I just live in the corridor anyway? Dora and I stayed out there last night, used the second floor bathroom when we needed it and all, slept on our trunks and stuff." And it was so uncomfortable, but she didn't have the money, and borrowing wasn't necessary when she was perfectly capable of handling things by herself.

She could handle it.

"And even if we did get in, I heard from some of my housemates that the CR's still a mess. So what's the point, anyway? Could we try the Room of Requirement, maybe?" Or did Hogwarts bankruptcy affect that, too? "And I know that Hogwarts is cutting back and we should be trying to help 'cause it's our school and all, but it's not our fault that it's broke, right? Isn't there another way to earn things back than having us pay for every little thing we do around the castle? Fundraising, maybe, or donations or something?"

The could all help with THAT. Just not paying for dormitories that were filthy anyway?

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Oakey sat and listened to The Three Girls Express their opinion on the whole Money-Grubbing Hogwarts Situation. His eyebrows raised when he heard that Gryffindors and Ravenclaws who couldn't pay just slept outside and around the school. He moved his gaze over to the Headmistress who he was sure was not going to like hearing that students were out of their common rooms past curfew.

He had heard that Slytherins, or more specifically Dylan had paid for each of the snakes to get into the common room once already. He himself put out a jar saved up knuts and sickles from over the years for those who couldn't pay on their own. Oakey finally sat up himself and chimed in "I agree that it's not fair." he said bluntly. "and I also think Alice has a point as well, Why not just do another large function like the Library Auction from last year? That was a big success wasn't it?" How did all of that money just vanish? His Grandmother spent half his university savings to win him the vial of liquid luck that rested around his neck still unused.

Now he had some disagreeing to do to. "It really isn't that difficult to clean the Common Rooms." He turned back to Alice. "Just use Scourgify a lot on the dusty surfaces. The Musty smell goes right out if you open the windows as well. If you all have the same issue as ours does I mean." He was going to see Mr.Firth about getting Firewood to the Common Room. So the walk was the only large amount of work he'd have to do to help clean it up.

To him it sounded like the Lions and Eagles needed to pool their money together, and not sleep outside.

"You do NOT have my permission to be out of bounds after curfew and you may NOT abuse the Room of Pay--- Requirement by turning it into an extra dormitory!!!!!!" bellowed the Headmistress who had most definitely lost her cool. Unfair? They wanted to talk unfair? HOW WAS IT FAIR TO BE OUTNUMBERED BY WHINY BRATS IN HER OWN OFFICE SPACE??! HUH?

She inhaled through flared nostrils when the Head Boy, at least, had the sense to jump in and inform the Gryffindor that she herself was very capable of cleaning her own space. "Thank you," the redhead growled toward him, not at all sounding grateful in the moment. But really, oddly, Gunter was acting like the only one here who had a grasp of the situation. Geez.

"It's called cleaning up after yourself, first of all, and second of all," she rolled her eyes heavenward and then returned them to glaring at the four students. "Who says Hogwarts and the Board of Governors do not already HAVE plans to raise funds for the school? We are NOT having another auction, because right now I do not believe we have enough faith and support in the school to host such an event, but REST ASSURED, CHILDREN, that the responsible adults running this school are WORKING on a variety of solutions. PAYMENT CENTERS are only a portion of our plans." And they should be grateful that it wasn't something worse. Yet.

She forced herself to take another breath. Blood pressure, Anastasia, remember your blood pressure. "If you have any more questions, Miss Fischer, I'd suggest taking them up directly with your grandfather. He is on the Board of Governors, is he not?" She wasn't the ONLY PERSON involved in this giant mess.

"As for the rest of you," her eyes once again flicked around the group, "Do me a favor and go directly to your Heads of House FIRST next time, instead of coming to me with your complaints. While I of COURSE am willing to listen to constructive criticism of how I run this school," that was a bald-faced lie, "and any other ideas you MIGHT have for improving conditions, I do NOT take well to WHINERS, BRATS, and STUDENT LEADERS WHO FAIL TO LEAD."

With that rather insulting finish still ringing in the air, the furious redhead turned on her Louboutin heels and disappeared behind her stone gargoyles, most definitely not coming down again for the rest of the night. Maybe even the rest of the week. She was that upset right then.

.... PAY to get into her common room, and clean it? Dora just gave him a LOOK.

Really Head Boy? Really.

Sigh.

Hufflepuffs.



The thing about the Headmistress when she got this mad, was that she sorta started turning the color of her hair. Not all of her, just her face, but it was enough to fascinate Dora for all of a moment before all of the fiery anger was being directed at her.

There wasn't really much room for her to say anything back, though that didn't stop Dora from THINKING responses, like how come the sign didn't say the machine took other coins? That would have been so helpful. She supposed it was still good to know now, with the term not yet started properly.

And then she went on and on.

......

... and on.

Why Hogwarts? Heh. No, he Headmistress had it right the first way around, but Dora didn't say anything though cause she was patiently waiting for Truebridge to finish ranting on. She wasn't going to her head of house, what good would she do her?

When the speech was finally over, Dora prepared to speak, even sat up, but then the Headmistress was leaving all in a huff like what THEY had to say wasn't important. She deflated back against the couch and turned her head over to Alice. "It takes galleons." Pause. "Why HOGWARTS." Amused pause. "We don't have parents as a source of income, I don't think she knows." And Dora would have told her that, if she stuck around to hear what they had to say.

"I always have points. What did you think, that I'd just start tossing questions at people without thinking about what exactly I was going to say first?" Alice hissed under her breath so no one but the Head Boy could her, looking at him in disbelief (but lolol, that was exactly what she had done. Who needed anything but impulse, anyway? We r Gryffies.)

And now he was arguing with her about Common Rooms. She didn't KNOW how bad it was because she hadn't gone in there, hadn't he been listening? Were his ears blocked up or something? Alice shot him another irritated look and proceeded to ignore every single word that came out of his mouth from that moment on and focus all her attention on the Headmistress, because the Head Boy was an absolute imbecile as far as she was concerned.

She did have a grandfather, and she.. maybe would owl him. Maybe. If he wouldn't tell gran about things, which he totally would. But how exactly was she FAILING to LEAD? It wasn't even her job to lead. Her job was QUIDDITCHING and SCHEDULING and BLOWING A WHISTLE and THROWING QUAFFLES AT JAKE KELLER. Honestly. If anyone was doing a bad job of leading, it was Oakey Gunter, and Alice shot him a million more annoyed glances during the course of the Headmistress' rant.

She remained unfazed, though- wasn't like a Bunz the color of a tomato was SCARY- and turned back to Dora after the redhead had stomped away in her pretty little heels. "It does. New information. We can use galleons and sickles too. We can't live in the corridor or the RoR. The Board is maybe possibly raising funds. And we can get into the Kitchen." So this actually WAS a productive evening, see?

Alice tugged Dora off the couch and out of the seating area, waving a bit at Nessie and shooting Oakey another look. "Let's bounce. We've got things to do."

"Pity, I was looking forward to sharing floor space with you." Cause it would have been fun. But this trip was needed to get all this information and pass it along to their housemates and friends. Which was pretty much all the other houses.

She surrendered her arm to Alice and raised up off the couch. "Have fun cleaning your common room Hufflepuffs." They got the briefest of waves before Alice had pulled her out of the waiting area and into the corridor to Merlin knows where. She had a small idea.

Oakey looked down at Alice only for a moment and missed about half of what she said before Truebridge blew up. Oakey's eyes went wide and did not blink once....well okay once, and when she thanked him. Even if it sounded like there was no gratitude in it.
Once the Headmistress walked off he spoke to Renesmee not facing her though, his eyes still very much wide. He didn't even see Alice or the Ravenclaw girl leave, but felt shivers down his spine like he was being given the evil eye every two seconds. "Galleons count as 493 entrances." Oakey said to her awkwardly. He wasn't even sure how the Head Girl took this. The Headmistress did just call them failures, and they only just started.

"We'll just stick with the system we've got now. I'll even carry around a second jar and put myself out there in case anyone needs a knut" Oakey continued the awkward conversation with the wall. One Galleon or one sickle really wasn't that big a deal. Plus Oakey could take his jar back.

Maybe he should blink now his eyes were getting watery.

.................................................. ............Stare.

Stare. Stare. Stare. Stare.

Renesmee didn't dare open her mouth, she couldn't even if she had wanted to. Never in her life had she been lectured like that before...not even by her mother. It was a shock to her, alright? But then, it could have been worse. At least the Headmistress wasn't screaming at them...or...nevermind because she did that too.

Those words stung, stung worse than a bee even worse than a wasp..whatever that was meant to mean.

So still she stood, even as the others left and Oakey began talking to her. A minute later she finally opened her mouth. "Did..did..did you hear what she said?" She almost choked on her words and no her eyes were NOT watery like Oakeys...she was fine...even if she wasn't entirely sure why he's were watery her's were not...she refused to admit they were.

Was she allowed to screech now? Because it was her first day with this badge and so far NOTHING went right. "Block your ears." He deserved at least a warning.

*SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!!!*

There, much bettter.

Oakey finally decided it was time to blink again. He had to snap back into reality to check if Renesmee was even responding to his words that he spoke to the wall in front of him.

Instead he got a second Redhead screaming her face off right next to him. He did not have enough time to cover his ears as Renesmee cut loose. He lunged forward and covered the Head Girls Mouth. "Renesmee!" He yelled trying to outdo the loud ringing in his ears now. "Are you mad! Truebridge is still up in her office!" The loud Ringing in his ears was not leaving him. Oakey uncovered Renemsee's mouth and moved his fingers into his ears to try and rid them of the noise, picking at them.

Who needs a Caterwauling Charm, when Hogwarts has two On-Edge-Red-Heads?

What!?!? Great now he can't even hear himself think

NO! She tried to push his arm away from her mouth. He was meant to block his ears, she needed to scream. Did he not get that? That's how she let out her confusion, it's not like she screeched for hours and hours only a few seconds.

She gave him a slight look then frowned deeply. To her it felt like she had failed Truebridge, even if that wasn't really the case. Clearly Truebridge was going through a lot with the whole school changing and maybe it wasn't entirely right to complain like they had.

"Sorry." She mumbled quietly and looked at her feet. "Maybe we should go back to our common room. Maybe get someleadingskills." She didn't really mean that in a bad way even if it did come out wrong. What she just wanted was improvement and not to disappoint people, though both of those weren't easy.

Being a new student and all, he really wanted to meet the headmistress and he did like her speech it was one of the best ones he had heard since he was at Salem and that was ages ago. Being a transfer from Durmstrang and all. He liked it here so far, it's just that he kept getting lost but that was totally normal for any new person including the first years but the Hufflepuff students were very helpful but he still seemed to get lost.

Nashville had heard somethings about the headmistress, he heard little whispers saying that she was mean but who cares she a ginger! She can say whatever the heck she want because gingers were born to be these amazing leaders and so it just came natural to her to lead and stuff. No he was NOT a teachers pet, but the Astronomy teacher seem pretty awesome and he wouldn't mind being friends with him outside of school...when he graduates next term.

Nashville took a seat on the pink couch, he knew his mother would love this couch, she would dream of these kinds of couches or just anything pink, girls really loved pink but he always thought purple was a much better color because it represents ROYALITY and he just loved the thoughts of kings and queens and princes and princesses...yeah he was a weird boy. Nashville picked up one of the fashion magazines and began to read it. It would pass the time.

After the fiasco of the last student visit, Anastasia had remained up in her pink quarters for nearly a week straight. She had everything she needed up there, except for her family, and when she eventually did emerge from her office, it was only to escape to her house in Hogsmeade for the weekend.

She was returning back to the school for the start of the regular work week when she spotted SOMEBODY already out there, loitering by her statues. Well well well, and who might this Hufflepuff be?

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Being a new student and all, he really wanted to meet the headmistress and he did like her speech it was one of the best ones he had heard since he was at Salem and that was ages ago. Being a transfer from Durmstrang and all. He liked it here so far, it's just that he kept getting lost but that was totally normal for any new person including the first years but the Hufflepuff students were very helpful but he still seemed to get lost.

Nashville had heard somethings about the headmistress, he heard little whispers saying that she was mean but who cares she a ginger! She can say whatever the heck she want because gingers were born to be these amazing leaders and so it just came natural to her to lead and stuff. No he was NOT a teachers pet, but the Astronomy teacher seem pretty awesome and he wouldn't mind being friends with him outside of school...when he graduates next term.

Nashville took a seat on the pink couch, he knew his mother would love this couch, she would dream of these kinds of couches or just anything pink, girls really loved pink but he always thought purple was a much better color because it represents ROYALITY and he just loved the thoughts of kings and queens and princes and princesses...yeah he was a weird boy. Nashville picked up one of the fashion magazines and began to read it. It would pass the time.

"Can I help you?" the redhead barked as she neared the seating area.

Nashville looked up from the fashion magazine. It was her! The headmistress. Nashville set the magazine back to where it had been originally. Nashville stood up and smiled. A confused look plastered his face when she barked at him. What was this? Had he done something wrong? "'Ello...I...er...just wanted to....meet you because I am new and all..." The Brazilian didn't want to say the wrong thing without really trying to because she must have been mad about something and it of course had to deal with Hufflepuff's. "I'm Nashville Cash." Always had to tell people his name and it was proper to do...his mum always said it was the right thing to do.

Hmmmmm the boy was smiling. It was a wide smile too, a really, really wide smile. That was suspicious. What was there to smile about here? HmMM? Why did he need to smile? Was there something on her face? Something making her look funny? DID SHE LOOK LIKE SHE WAS SMILING?!

Anastasia caught herself before she said this aloud and forced herself to take a deep breath. Deeeeep breaths, Bunzinator, the boy just said he was new. Maybe he needed help finding something. Even if he was a Hufflepuff, and should be good at finding. It was her job to help the students, yes, that was all.

"Nashville," she repeated flatly, forcing a smile on her face too and holding out her hand. "What an unusual name." Not to mention his last name was cash. What was up with that? Huh? She tried not to be suspicious of the strapping new kid.

Nashville shrugged and took the smile off of his tan face. He had heard a bit in the common room about what had gone on here and he didn't really care about it but he knew that he should have a heart and care about it a little because it wasn't just happening to the Hufflepuff's but to the other three houses as well so it was all fair.

Nashville cleared his throat before saying, "I transferred here from Durmstrang, Miss." he didn't really like Durmstrang but what he did like about it was all of the love for Quidditch and everyone loved it so much and it made him very happy. But he had friends here and no one was calling him weird.

Nash nodded. That was his name. He thought that she might have acted differently towards his name but no and that made him feel...normal. "Yes it is, sometimes I wish I didn't have an odd name but I have come to really like it." Nashville extended his hand out for her to shake. "It's nice to meet you, Miss Headmistress." Nashville smiled softly. It was nice to meet her, no really it was, people were so mean at judging people and to be honest she seemed nice.

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Nashville shrugged and took the smile off of his tan face. He had heard a bit in the common room about what had gone on here and he didn't really care about it but he knew that he should have a heart and care about it a little because it wasn't just happening to the Hufflepuff's but to the other three houses as well so it was all fair.

Nashville cleared his throat before saying, "I transferred here from Durmstrang, Miss." he didn't really like Durmstrang but what he did like about it was all of the love for Quidditch and everyone loved it so much and it made him very happy. But he had friends here and no one was calling him weird.

Nash nodded. That was his name. He thought that she might have acted differently towards his name but no and that made him feel...normal. "Yes it is, sometimes I wish I didn't have an odd name but I have come to really like it." Nashville extended his hand out for her to shake. "It's nice to meet you, Miss Headmistress." Nashville smiled softly. It was nice to meet her, no really it was, people were so mean at judging people and to be honest she seemed nice.

Transfer from Durmstrang. Hmm. She could grill him more on that but she didn't, not now, not out in her waiting area. Instead the redhead nodded and shook his hand daintily. "Well Nashville, I hope you are settling into the castle all right, despite our various... problems." Cough cash issues cough pun intended.

"Would you care to come up for a cup of tea?" Just being polite, now that she was a little less suspicious of Mr. Cash.

Nashville smiled softly. He loved this school minus it's flaws that it's been having this term but everyone that he has talked to said he should have came here last year when it was REALLY Hogwarts, like how it suppose to be but he was to busy being bullied/hated on at Durmstrang. But he got through it and he was fine with it now because he has friends here and he loves them all. "I am settling very well, I'm sorry to hear that you guys have been having money problems." Nope! He was not allowed to say Cash. That was his surname.

"That sounds nice, I've never had tea before, Miss." Tea sounded nice. He had never had tea before.