Everything is happening so fast! One minute she was saying goodbye to her sister before boarding the Hogwarts Express, then she arrived at Hogwarts and was sorted into Hufflepuff. Now she was walking towards the table that was underneath the gold and black banner.

When she arrived at the table, she found a empty area to sit. She wasn't quite ready to introduce herself to the rest of the students, just yet. So she decided just to watch....everything. The curly haired girl kept glancing around from the Sorting,m watching her fellow first years get sorted, the older students greeting their friends, and,of course, towards her new professors. She was curious about which professor taught what course.

Henric watched in anticipation as the sorting hat ceremony began to commence. He was holding a bag of lollipops and pumpkin sweet treats in his hands, hadn't they notice? He was just waiting to hand them out and congratulate his brilliant house new first years. He clapped and cheered louder as more students started to fill in one by one at the front of the table. He stood up and approached the lone first year,"Welcome to Hufflepuff! I'm Henric, your new Hufflepuff prefect, congratulations! Here is a lollipop for you,"he introduced himself as he gave her a lollipop.

Kay was slightly startled when the older boy introduced himself and handed her lollipop."Oh, T-thank you. My Name is Kaylee. Nice to meet you." She replied softly with a tiny smile, hoping her American accent didn't stand out too much

"Can I ask you a few questions?" She wanted to know some things but didn't want to be annoying or take up to much of the prefect's time.

Did he startled her?! Oops sorry. Didn't mean to! He was just excited aright! Way to happy for his own good."Nice to meet you too Kaylee, lovely name." He grinned happily before handing her more pumpkin sweet treats..He nodded,"Of course, ask away, Kaylee! Don't be shy, I'm here to guide you guys through your orientation process in Hogwarts, you'll do great in our house!" he beamed.

He was newly sorted!

Brady made his way to the Hufflepuff table with a big grin his face. The eleven year old looked around for a seat at the table. He didn't really know anyone, some of the face looked familiar to him from shopping at Diagon Alley and seeing them on the train as well. Hey look it was that older kid (Henric), the creepy one from Madame Malkin's. Oh look he has a fancy badge. Oh...poop, he's a Prefect. Bradson made his way over to the older kid. "Hey you! Creepy guy I met during the summer!" Brady called out to him.

The Scottish boy took a seat next to this older kid. He didn't even know his name or unless he forgot his name. It was very rare when this eleven year old couldn't remember anything. He had to remember a lot of stuff because he plays the guitar, the drums, the bass and the harmonica. He needed to know everything and of course he has to know lots of songs. "I see you're a Prefect, so that's pretty important, huh?" He didn't really know what exactly a prefect was but his family would always say the word.

Bradson looked around as he waited for the older creepy kid to answer. As his blue-green eyes scanned the rest of the table they stopped on a girl (Kaylee), he had met her on the train. she had told him her name, what was it. Oh, right! Kaylee. "Hey Kaylee." Brady said smoothly with a little wave.

Carl walked towards the table under the gold and black banner, which he knew from his reading was Hufflepuff - his new House!

Looking up and down the table, he found a small group with students around his age and one older one with a badge. Carl sat down nearby and smiled at them. They were his Housemates, so he guessed he had to introduce himself. "Hello! I am Carl," he said, then after a moment added, "I am a new Hufflepuff." And was the older boy holding a bag of lollipops? He must be a good person.

Brady looked back at the creepy older kid...Prefect. What else was he supposed to call him? He didn't know his name. Brady looked away when he saw a newly sorted Hufflepuff come over to the table. Carl...his name was Carl. THAT WAS THE BEST NAME EVER! That was so much cooler than Bradson. Who would name their kid Bradson? Oh yeah his parents. Dumb adults. "Hey Carrrrl." The Scottish boy added a few more "R's" to that because it was a cool name to say. "Welcome to Hufflepuff, Carl!" Brady grinned. "I'm new too! I'm Brady." Names were important, he put a mental note down of this new kids name.

Finally after what felt like ages it was time for the feast.

Esme hadn't really wanted sweets from the train and she had eaten her sandwiches earlier on in the day, so she was rather hungry. At least she had managed to find her sister and hopefully they wouldn't lose each other again tonight. Probably not, but it was a huge castle. At least they shared a dormitory.

Reaching the Hufflepuff table, she smiled and waved to her fellow Badgers. It was so good to be home again! Esme missed her house and parents already - she even missed stupid River - but it was good to be here.

"Hello, everyone!" she said before taking a seat. She was ready to socialize and eat!

Kaylee smiled when Henric gave her even more treats, but she placed them on the table, she didn't want her appetite to be spoiled. The young girl overheard students talking about the feast that always happens at the begin of the term."Thank you again." she said before asking a question she had on her mind for the last couple of minutes. "Can you tell me all the professors and what they teach?"

While she waited for a response back she notcied a few students around her age come up towards the table,including.. Hey Brady!" Kay smiled when she saw the boy that was nice enough to let her sit down with him on the train. "So you are in Hufflepuff as well?" She said, glad to at least sort of know someone at the table.

The curly haired girl smiled at the other boy who was there as well. "Hello Carl! Nice to meet you! My name is Kaylee!" She said smiling. She waved and smiled at the slightly older girl who came up "Hello! My name is Kaylee" completely forgetting about her nervousness from earlier, the excitement is finally getting to the young Hufflepuff.

Hey it was book shop girl!

"Hey!" The Scottish boy smiled. Did she ever introduce herself to him at the book shop in Diagon Alley? She must have. Brady sat there quietly for a few moments. Her name started with an "E" He knew that! It was a strange name. Well maybe it wasn't very strange but it was strange to him. He hadn't really heard a name like that before.

"You're Esme! Book shop girl!" Bradson wanted to call her book shop girl from this day forward. It would help remember her name a lot easier. Nicknames were good thought! Maybe not all nicknames, he didn't like being called Brad, he felt like it sounded too snobbish and he wasn't about snobbish.

Bradson has given a nickname to the Prefect guy and to Esme. Did she need a unique nickname from him? Train girl wouldn't be that good so he would just have to think of one later on. "I am in Hufflepuff! I take it you are too?" The Scottish boy questioned. So they were allowed to visit other house tables? That was cool. Maybe he would do that or wait until next year to do that so he would be able to get to know some people first.

"I am!" She said happily! "I hope this doesn't sound rude, but are you from Scotland? I am from New York in America, and I wanted to make sure I am getting the accents and cultures right." She really hoped she hadn't offended or annoyed her potential new friend.

Henric smiled,"No problem! Take as many as you want." He nodded and pulled back his bags of treats, seeing that she didn't want anymore. Hmm? Probably she wasn't much of a sweettooth, this one. He glanced at the staff table before returning to face her again," I'm not too sure myself,Kaylee..because every term there's always a change of new professors coming to teach in Hogwarts, our new Headmistress will announced them in her speech soon. We just have to wait and see. But I know for sure our head of house professor will teach us Herbology, you'll like him. He's the one with the banjo." Henric pointed to where he was seated at the staff table.

Henric turned towards the kid that was newly sorted to his house. Oh no...its him! The annoying kid he met over at Madam Malkins. Wait...what did he call him?! He eyed the boy,"Its prefect Henric Nicolei to you, Mr..." Henric forgotten his name. Good thing Kaylee mentioned his name the next second,"Mr. Brady...in this house we address everyone with respect...and yes, I take my prefect duties seriously, if you must know,"he informed him in a tone that he usually did not use unless provoked. He was going to be patient with the boy for now. Henric turned his bright smile upwards once more,"But I must welcome you to Hufflepuff House, here is a pumpkin sweet treats for you, congratulations." He smiled 'cheerily' before turning his attention to more new Hufflepuff first years.

"Hello Carl, is it? Welcome to Hufflepuff! I'm Henric, one of your Hufflepuff prefects, pleasure meeting you too," Henric introduced himself as he hands out more lollipops to the younger boy. "Here take one, its a small gift from me to welcome you to our house! Its a tradition we prefects take seriously."He grinned.

"And you must be Esme! Hello and welcome back! Do you like a a pumpkin sweet treat too? I'm Henric, your new Hufflepuff Prefect for the term." Henric would love to get to know more of his Hufflepuff housemates. He wished to meet all of them before he graduated next term.

And this was part of why Esme really liked being a Hufflepuff; the people were always so friendly and welcoming!

"Hello, Kaylee! Welcome to Hufflepuff! You are going to love it here." At least... a lot of Hufflepuffs loved being placed there. Some hated it though and would rather be anywhere else. "I'm Esme." If she ever needed help getting around, she just needed to ask her or the Prefects and she would get help.

Speaking of Prefects, she smiled at the one who she believed was called Henric "Hello! Thank you. Congratulations on becoming Prefect." She figured he would do just as well as his predecessor - perhaps even better! It was too soon to tell. "I would love to have one. Thank you." See? Hufflepuffs were really sweet!

Book shop girl made her giggle. She was fine with that name since they HAD met there. "Hello, Brady. Welcome to Hufflepuff. It's a wonderful House." She hoped that he would really like it here.

Floating calmly along, the Fat Friar hummed to himself a cheerful tune. It was the feast, something he looked forward to all summer. He couldn't wait to greet the new Hufflepuffs, and other students as well! He hoped this new batch were up to the task of being the best badgers they could be.

He stopped near the new prefect, Henric. "Good evening, Henric! Congratulations on the badge. I know you'll be great." He smiled serenely and glanced at the other students. "Hello everyone! Welcome to Hufflepuff!"

They all looked so cheerful and happy; well, most of them did.

It seemed one of the younger badgers was a trouble maker. He would keep an eye on that.

Heaving a sigh because he couldn't find anyone he could talk to, Noel finally made his way to the puff table. 1) because food 2) other tables clearly had drama going on that he wanted no part in.

Taking a seat next to Henric, the older boy nudged him "All this baby sitting will get boring soon, Nicolei" He commented before looking up as the house ghost appeared. "What are you humming there, Mr Friar?" Noel was interested obviously. Music was everything.

And then he eyed the preteens "Hello everyone, welcome to the puff side!" he greeted them all.

The slytherin table was boring. Her boyfriend wasn't there. And therefore that made it boring. So she needed to go find some fun. Gryffindor table was out of the question. Frankie would be there, and she couldn't go near her brother. So she picked hufflepuff? It was her parents house and she adored her parents. So Puff it was.

The seventh year walked along the table, trying to find someone she knew. She was sure some random people wouldn't want her to randomly join them. Aahh. There was Noel. "Noell. Noeelll." The girl sang as she sat herself down to her friend.

"And just be sad that you're not on the green side...." She mused, teasing the pre-teen hufflepuffs that Noel had been talking to as she had joined him

"Why thank you, how nice of you to say that!" Henric beamed back at her. He was glad to meet Esme. She seemed really nice and acted very much like a Hufflepuff. She didn't look to be shy at all and was friendly towards her fellow housemates. Not bad...not bad at all! Keep up the positive vibes at their table, Esme! "Have some more pumpkin treats too! I have more where that came from, I'm glad you like it. Hope your summer went well too?" Henric asked with a polite tone in his voice.

Then, Henric felt a nudge on his arm. He turned his face to see Noel had settled himself onto a seat beside him. Henric chuckled a little at his comment but shook his head in response while shrugging playfully at him,"I don't mind babysitting if their parents pay good galleons for my services." He joked, of course. "Glad you can make it, do you want a lollipop too?" he smirked, knowing full well he was talking to Noel, a seventh year. Hey, you could never get too old for sweets. "How is your band doing?" He continued asking the older Hufflepuff.

He jumped a little when Fat Friar suddenly popped out from nowhere on top of them. Great dragons, he still couldn't get use to it! He demurely smiled up and greeted their house ghost, "Good evening, Mr.Friar. Thank you..for believing in me, Sir. I won't dissapoint, I promise." Henric really hope he wouldn't break that promise anytime soon.Ehem. The ghost was humming to a tune? Noel was sure quick to catch it. Impressive.

Oh, and who was this? A slytherin came by to say hello? Well mainly to Noel. He smiled and greeted," Hello, glad you can join us. Lollies or pumpkin sweets?" He offered the sweets kindly to the girl.

Norah arrived in the great hall after a good amount of stalling, partly because there was a HAG in the entrance hall, did anybody know? And partly because she wasn't entirely sure if going into this term was the greatest idea. It was a silly thought, of course, because she didn't have much of a choice and Hogwarts was the best thing since Chocolate Frogs, but a little less silly because everybody was GONE. Okay. It was still silly even when everybody was gone, because there probably loads of new baby puffs there waiting to be her new best friend, but the sixth year was all of a sudden feeling very inclined to take a leaf out of Rooney's book and lay on the floor in agony until the feast was over. Okay fine. Maybe just until the food part happened. But she didn't. With her prefect's badge pinned slightly crookedly onto the front of her robes, she marched towards the Hufflepuff table with a ginormous smile that was only slightly forced. It wasn't THAT hard to put a smile on, usually. There was usually something good you could find in any situation, and in this case it was PROFESSOR MOXLEY SITTING IN THE FANCY PANTS HEADMISTRESS SEAT and the fact that Professor Meyers was wearing a poncho. AND even though Professor Culloden wasn't there, there WAS some guy in Professor Dakest's old seat with a very very very very pretty face, which kind of made up for it. At least a little bit. She saluted the staff table in the off chance that anybody was looking, then surveyed the Puff table and took a seat.

Henric seemed to be doing a grand job with all the greetings, so Norah gave him a thumbs up and made a mental note to talk to the three baby firsties he was with (Carl, Brady, Kaylee) before the feast was over. Noel got a smile too, as did a younger student who she was sure she recognized but couldn't quite place (Esmee). Good, good. This was good. Lots of happy new faces, right? Norah kept her smile on, but let her eyes wander instead of making an effort to jump into any conversations. Yoongi was looking awfully harassed. She'd have to go over there at some point. She didn't even want to LOOK at the Ravenclaw table where Sophie Brown was SUPPOSED to be, but WASN'T, but she did anyways on account of a very important need to make sure one Rooney Bronwyn was still alive. What a life. Could they eat now? Professor Moxley's speech was bound to be absolutely fabulous.

Henric, please. The older boy rolled his eyes and leaned in to place his elbows on the table. "You need to be a little more fun, mate" He advised before giving him a look. "No, thank you" See, this is what Noel was talking about. Baby sitting was making Henric like lollipops .. and probably baby rice or something. And then he shrugged. "Currently on hiatus, I guess"

Oh finally another SEVENTH year presence! Noel pretended to cringe when she sang his name but grinned seeing her.

"Really Gracie? Really?" It was bad enough he had issues with his name, but people singing his name? Not good at all. But he was just joshing around. And then he chuckled when she teased the preteens. "Please. What should they be sad about? You at yourself, you are so bored - you came to us!" Check mate, Parker-Paton.

She was right in thinking that this table was better than hers. For now anyway. She just needed to find a new snake to hang out with. But her mother had been right. The badgers didn't roll good. If she hadn't been in Slytherin, she would have liked to be a puff like her mother. But it turned out she was very much like her father. Sytherin through and through.

"Oh hello." Another hufflepuff was talking to her. She didn't know him. Yet. "Hi... I'm Grace..." And I'm the best. "Oh... Lollies please" She wasn't one to give him sweets. She loved sweets.

"Psh. You love my singing voice Noel" Gracie teased, nudging her friend before laughing. She was joking, she wasn't the best singer in the world. Maybe the second though. "No dear. I'm just gracing all you lovely Hufflepuffs with my glorious presence" Because Grace was the best seventh year about.

Abby was sad when she reached the hufflepuff table no Lux and no Adi and she found that she knew hardly any hufflepuffs other than the two mentioned she felt as there were a few people she had got to know well that have now moved into the adult world she wondered what they were all doing

"Players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate...I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, Shake it off, uh, shake it off!" Juno sang and shimmied walking to the Huffie table, "That Taylor Swift...she maybe ancient now...possibly dead even...but she knew her music!" She said to herself. The catchy tune had been stuck in her head since they got to the castle.

Humming the song, she made her way over to her twin sister Esme. She quickly took a seat next to her and continued humming and shimmying until she finished the song in her head. "I can't get this song out of my head Es! Make it stop!" She giggled. She was definitely in better spirits than she was on the train that's for sure! But her sister always knew how to make things better.

Juno looked around the table and smiled and waved, "Hello everyone, I am Juno!" Obviously she didn't have to say Esme was her sister...they were identical.

At this point, Esme was not even slightly put off by the arrival of the House ghosts. She was used to them, and none of them scared her - well the Baron did at times. "Hello there, Fat Friar. I hope you are well." He seemed as jolly as ever. In her opinion Hufflepuff had the best ghost because he was so friendly and accepting of everyone.

Esme continued to smile at Henric. He was as nice as he was handsome. She was glad that she had the chance to meet him and his fellow Prefect since she hadn't had the chance to up until now even if she had seen them in classes. "Thank you," she said as she gladly took one of the pumpkin treats. "I had a very good summer. Did you?" Hopefully he had, because who wanted to have a crappy summer? Esme sure didn't!

As the other Prefect arrived, Esme sent her a smile as well. Her name was Norah. She remembered that from when she had gotten the position last term. "Hello1 Did you have a nice summer?" That seemed to be one of the main questions to ask during feasts, but it was a nice way catch up with people and make friends, so no one really seemed to mind it.

Seeing an older Ravenclaw (Abby) stop by the table, Esme sent her a smile as well. She had seen her and her sisters in classes, though she had never been able to tell them apart. Which sister was this? There were three of them, so it was hard to tell. "Hello. I'm Esme." She noticed that the girl seemed a little sad, and wondered if she should ask what was wrong. Some people didn't like talking about things that upset them and she didn't want to be a bother.

And there was her sister...making an entrance as always.

Esme laughed and applauded her. "I was wondering when you would arrive," she said as soon as her sister sat down. Clearly she hadn't been too far behind, but then they had come in together. At least she was in a much better mood - as was to be expected. But how to get the song out of her head?

"I'm sure we can think of something!"

Juno continued to hum the song. It was just so darn catchy! "Well, I was right behind you...then I got lost in a huge group of people walking into The Great Hall...So I was just like....I'm sure I will find her at the table. Not hard to locate your own face." She smiled and shrugged.

She kept humming and dancing in her seat. "I hope so because this is getting out of control." That darn Taylor Swift!