Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

"Of course you can. I'd be honored to be your friend, Sky. We all will, right guys?," Claudia asked the rest of the group knowing that they would agree.



"Oh yes, I know Alyssa was in Hufflepuff. She would say Huffie this and Huffie that. She even told me that I'd better be in Hufflepuff or she wouldn't talk to me. Yeah right! Like I have a choice! I know that the Sorting Hat decides that. With my chances, I could end up in Slytherin, which would be the first in my family's history, mind you, since they either belonged in Gryffindor or Hufflepuff when they attended Hogwarts. I guess we're going to have to keep our fingers crossed on that. Although my ggpappy did once tell me that the Sorting Hat did take into consideration what house you wanted to belong to, so I may still have a chance of being sorted into Hufflepuff." Claudia told Minnie.

"As for girl time, I have to warn you, that I'm really bad when it comes to that sort of thing. Alyssa was more of the girly one. I tended to hang out with the boys more. So this may be a first for me." she grinned at the girls. "Are you boys okay with me hanging out with your girls? I may end up teaching them things a girl normally wouldn't do," she grinned at them as she winked over at the girls.



"Well I prefer to play Chaser or Beater. I used to play Seeker, but I tended to go after the opposing players than the Snitch, so it was 'suggested'," Claudia indicated raising both her index and middle fingers of both hands and bending them to suggest quotation marks, "that I switch positions. I know Alyssa played Beater was kinda surprised me because she's pretty fast on her Firebolt. But I heard that she really didn't try out during trials. So I guess she was still lucky to play in that position. I think that I'll try out for either Chaser or Beater during try outs. I met Keefer, the Hufflepuff Quidditch captain earlier and he seemed eager for me to try out too. As for being good, I'm sure that there will be others equally good who will be trying out. So I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens." Claudia told Justin."What about you? What position do you play?"she asked him.



"Thanks for including me in. I know that you don't have to but the fact that you want to really makes me happy."Claudia thanked everyone.

Originally Posted by Hermione345

Laura smiled at everyone..'Hi guys..,' she said...'Laura Granger, second year..,' she said shaking hands with everyone..'I was studying in Salem before..,' she added



'Hi..Sky..', she said smiling



Laura returned the hug and said 'Hi Amy..I'll call you Amy..'



'Hi there..,' Laura said

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Minerva smiled at the excitement Ame had shown. She remembered how shy and quiet she thought Ame was when she first got to know her. Minerva smiled thinking of how her friendships had changed throughout the year last year and how much they stayed the same as well. Harvey and Justin were there from the beginning her two very best friends, then Ame came along it took a little time, but now she was Minerva's best girl friend. Then she thought of all her other great friends she hadn't seen most of the summer with everything that happened to her. She couldn't wait to see them, but again she wasn't going to see two of them Ronnie and Alyssa. Minerva looked at the three knew girls. "Cody I think you will like our girl time. We are not like most girls either. When I first came to Hogwarts my two closest friends were boys. Then Ame came along and well I started getting all kinds of friends. So don't worry about us being to girly. Laura, Sky it's really nice to meet you two as well. Feel free to hangout with us whenever you would like. Just like I said to Cody we love having new friends." Minerva had listen to Cody talk about the houses. "Well it doesn't matter which house your in your still are friend. We aren't in the same houses. Well at least Harvey here isn't" she gave him a teasing smile she knew it bothered him a bit. "Justin, Ame, and I are puffs like Alyssa was. Harvey is Ravenclaw. Our friend Rose and Ronnie are Gryffindors, but if you are a puff that would be fantastic. Laura and Sky are you knew this year or where you here last year? There are so many students that I didn't get to meet everyone." Minerva was talking with the group when Harvey hugged Ronnie and Ronnie said that she would miss them. "Aww Ronnie we are going to miss you as well." She got up and hugged Ronnie. "Ronnie this is Claudia, Sky, and Laura we were just talking with them. Claudia is transferring from another school maybe she can give you some advice on making it easier for you." Minerva looked at the girls "This is one of our very close friends Ronnie she has to transfer to another school this year."