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Kurumi tried to remove the frown from her face when she was reminded that a certain Care of Magical Creatures' professor would not be returning to Hogwarts this term. She really did owe Professor Saylen so much considering that the woman had fixed her relationship with Walnut - despite the cat thinking that he was now King of the Common Room once more.
Sighing a bit, Kurumi finally made her way to the table and made sure to greet with Headmaster Tate first. "
Good evening," she said addressing anyone at the table that would listen and bowing deeply at the hips. "
I am looking forward to my third term and all the opportunities and knowledge you may provide. Once again, please accept these cookies as a thank you for things to come."
Having completed her simple greeting, Kurumi then handed out a small white box to each professor that contained one house cookie eat -
Slytherin,
Ravenclaw,
Hufflepuff, and
Gryffindor.
She felt like she needed to apologize to Professor Vindictus as she handed him the cookies considering that she was total rubbish when it came to flying...and she bowed especially deeply before him...but found herself too flustered to get a proper word out. "I-I-I hope I can improve in your class this term, Professor Vindictus," she said shyly before scurrying to the side a bit and bowing once more to Headmaster Tate as she continued to move down the line until she was in front of her Head of House and Professor Zookara.
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I hope you had a lovely holiday," she chirped as she set the cookie boxes in front of the two. "
Professor Zookara, thank you once again for all the conversations last term. Things got a bit better over the summer since my father is now working at the Daily Prophet. I got to spend some time away from all the negativity back home." She smiled and returned her hands to her robe's pockets. "
Walnut missed you." Well, at least she was sure the cat would say such if he were around.
Oh more students and more gifts!!! Seren could certainly get used to this. She perked up in her seat as the young Gryffindor placed a small white box in front of her.
"Thank you dear, I look forward to seeing you in my classes, and I hope you enjoy them", she gave the young girl a wink.
Seren peeked into the box, oohh lovely house cookies! She particularly admired the Ravenclaw one.
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mellamaet Cass made her way to the staff table with a small frown on her face. It was true, there were a lot of new professors this term. Three if she counted correctly, and three vacant seats.
She tried not to look at the newly occupied seats, especially the one that used to be Professor Welton's. It still sucked that her favorite professor wasn't coming back anymore...and she even had a nice basket of apples for everyone.
Speaking of the apples...
Cass looked down on the basket of apples that she had been holding to check that nothing had fallen off or was stolen then continued her way up towards the staff table. Normally, she wouldn't be the one who gave gifts to professors during the start of term feast, that would have been Kurumi's job, but with all the stressful events happening around Hogwarts, she thought that teachers could use a break.
Or a delicious apple
Then she set the
basket down on the table and smiled politely
"Good Evening Professors. I'm looking forward to be attending your classes " Addressing all of them, but most specifically the new teachers...she was excited to know how different their teaching style is compared to their predecessors.
And the students kept coming... what on earth had Tate been on about? Eating new professors alive?! they seemed to be making her fat more like it. Still this girl had the right idea, apples... a healthy alternative. Though of course she would still appreciate the cookies... and the flower.
"Good evening", she greeted the young Slytherin.
"I look forward to seeing you... what might your name be dear?" she asked. It would be nice to get to know a few of the students names before classes started.
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Absently observing the interaction between Max and Seren, Josephina simply sat quietly. As it seemed her new acquaintance next to her had also decided to interact with his former professor.
Weird. Must Lachlan and Seren be insistent on calling Vindictus as
Professor? Granted she might have thought of it her very first time seeing him as her colleague, but she was long over that now. They were colleagues and there was really little reason to use that terminology, unless of course students happened to be in the vicinity. But even then... Max was hardly inappropriate to be calling him that as his colleagues.
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Droo "Seren." She said in return.
Oh that was nice, thought Seren as she received a greeting in return from Lafay. Granted it wasn't a particularly warm one... but she would work on that. Yes Seren was on a mission.. task: befriend Hecate Lafay...
Hhhmm she would need to have all her figers and toes crossed and perhaps some Felix Felicis. She smiled to herself as this thought occured to her.
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SilverTiger Back to the distraction that the new professors had made, along with the weirdness that was Max. Thinking students were invading the staff table and such, which definitely happened but rarely did any of the students refer to them as staff in familiar terms. Not to mention, Renée was fairly certain Seren and Lachlan were decidedly not students anymore. Young, yes, compared to Max (not herself, as she refused to acknowledge she was almost only a year away from being thirty.), but not students.
The polite smile she had gotten in response to her question made her feel a little bit embarrassed, if only because the reasoning wasn't obvious. She returned the smile, however. "Renée Bishop. I teach Divination," she answered, before adding, "You just seemed familiar somehow." Obviously, Max had thought so as well, as she couldn't truly believe the deputy headmaster was going senile. That was just impossible in her mind, and she imagined she'd be able to solve that mystery easily if she tried. She wasn't about to pull that on Seren, or Max, though. Respect was better right now.
"Lovely to meet you Renée" said Seren, she had always enjoyed Divination- even if it wasn't her strong suit. Familiar? Come to think of it half the staff table seemed to be familiar... and yes Renée was one of them.
"Perhaps we were students here at the same time?" she asked,
"I had accidently mistaken Fina for her sister Alexandria", she added with a small laugh. Yes that was certainly an interesting meeting in Diagon Ally.
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iamthechosenone Elle was nervous, of course, with this being her first night at Hogwarts. She had met a few people at the Gryffindor table, but decided she wanted to meet her soon-to-be professors. She walked straight forward, to the middle of the table, and stopped a few feet short of it. "Hello, my name is Elle Jackson. I'm in Gryffindor, and this is my first year. I just wanted to be polite, and introduce myself, and hopefully to meet a few of you..." she trailed off. She then curtsied, for some reason unbeknownst to her. Oh, well she thought. Maybe they'll find it charming...
Ahh invading students- she was beggining to see what Max meant by it. Reflecting on her days as a student she probably gave the staff a head ache, not just at the start of term feast... but in general.
She smiled down at the girl.
"Pleased to meet you Miss Jackson, I'm Professor Bentley and I'll be your Herbology teacher." Poor dear she seemed a little overwhelmed.
"I do hope you'll enjoy your time here at Hogwarts", she said sweetly.
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demented_death_eater Now THAT jolted him back to reality and the fact that there were NEW staff members sitting at the table. A sly grin appeared and Vindictus opened his eyes as he turned to Seren. "Forgive me but my mind was elsewhere, Seren," he apologized and propped himself up on one elbow. "You're teaching here now? It seems like yesterday that you graduated!"
Seren smiled- relieved Max's senses had finally found their way back to him.
"Yes, I'm the new Herbology professor", she said grinning broadly, three years ago she would never have thought that she would be teaching, and certainly not teaching at Hogwarts with Vindictus still on staff.
"Oh it's been a while Max, how long is it you've been teaching here now?" she asked curiously,
"You must be some sort of vetran."
Oh yes, if she had any issues, questions or queries, she would certainly be running back to her old Head of House.
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Cassirin "I think feeding students to plants will tie with lighting them on fire. So... let's NOT." And really... why did he keep hiring murdering crazy peoples?
Seren's smile didn't fade,
"Not even in self defence?"
She was joking of course, she would never dream of harming a child in any way shape or form. Not even the troubled ones.